Wacky Laws and By-laws of the world

All over the world you will find that the peeps in charge love to impose some very strange and often out-of-date laws. These are genuine* examples collected by our legal expert Alan McBeal.

• In the UK, you can be fined up to ten grand for impersonating a milkman.
• Anyone using a cockney accent in Manchester, without the correct permit may be imprisoned for up to five years.
• In Wales, your sheep are entitled to half of all your possessions if you split up.
• Time Travel is illegal in Dorset.
  
• In Texas, it is illegal to marry your cousin if closer blood relations are still available.
• In France it is illegal to murder somebody without their express written permission.
• The North Korean age of consent is forty-four.
• In Vatican city it is against the law to kill the pope.
• It is illegal to import ducks into Sweden.
• International law states it is illegal to say monkeys are rubbish.
• All men in Ireland must complete four years of national service. They can choose between joining a boyband, touring with riverdance or becoming a tramp.

*may not be genuine. have you not got how this works yet??