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Posted (sic) in (stupid non-US laws, crazy laws, absurd) on June-5-2008 (0) Comments  Read More

world_flags.jpgThe following are some of the mostabsurd laws"> absurd laws (non-U.S. silly laws) I have found to date, check em out for a good chuckle.

  1. Bolivia, In Santa Cruz it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.
  2. In Canada Any debt higher than 25 cents cannot be paid in pennies. In Toronto, it is illegal to ride a streetcar on a Sunday if you have been eating garlic
  3. In China - A form of population control? Do not stop for pedestrians, just run em over, there are too many people in China anyway…
    • Drivers who stop at pedestrian crossings may receive a fine or a warning under Article 40 of the Beijing Traffic Laws
    • In China - yep, they have 2 that made the list, In order to go to college you must be “intelligent”.
  4. Denmark - It is illegal to start a car if there is anyone under it.
    • Denmark - The don’t make the horse feel inferior law - If a car is overtaking a horse-drawn carriage and the horse becomes agitated, the driver must pull over and if necessary cover the car from the horse’s view.
  5. Finland - Considering its cheaper for air than a ticket, this may be a good thing, unless you are in a hurry. Finnish police do not issue tickets for illegal parking – they just let down the person’s tires. Maybe you can carry an air compressor in the trunk and park anywhere you like.
  6. France - It is illegal to call a pig Napoleonfr.jpg
    • They may also be a bit paranoid when it comes to alien invasions!
    • It is illegal to sell dolls with alien faces – they must have human faces.

    • It is illegal to land a flying saucer in a vineyard.
  7. Germany - A pillow is regarded as a “passive weapon”.de.jpg
  8. United Kingdom - that darn dress code - It is illegal for Members of Parliament to enter the House of Commons in full armour.
    • This is brilliant - It is illegal to drive a car without sitting in the front seat
    • I wonder how this came about, the police helmet I mean, A pregnant woman can legally urinate anywhereuk.jpg including in a policeman’s helmet.
    • In Liverpool it is illegal for a woman to be topless in public unless she is employed in an exotic fish shop.
  9. Greece - drivers, watch your hygiene - A driver’s license can be revoked if the person appears poorly dressed or unwashed
  10. Guinea - It is illegal to call a baby “Monica”
  11. Iceland - A place for quacks or quacked medicine - Anyone is allowed to practice medicine in Iceland provided they display the word Scottulaejnir meaning “Quack doctor”
  12. Iran - Iranian law suggests that sex play between animals is not recommended – especially when it involves a lioness
    • It is forbidden to eat snakes on a Sunday
  13. Israel - I guess nose picking may upset the lord. It is illegal to pick one’s nose on the Sabbath
    • I hope you can find matching socks in the dark - No person is allowed to dress or undress with the light switched on.
  14. Japan - Purple a happy color? It is illegal to wear purple unless you are in mourning.
  15. Madagascar - Pregnant women may not wear hats
  16. Malaysia - Oh, I gotta wonder about this one, at least the word “used” is not mentioned. It is illegal for restaurant owners to substitute a table napkin with toilet paper.
  17. Paraguay - Dueling is legal providing both combatants are blood donors, followed by this gem… A man who catches his wife with someone else in bed is legally permitted to kill his wife and her lover providing he acts immediately.
  18. Peru - those sexy female alpacas keep getting young men in trouble… with the law - Unmarried young men are not permitted to keep female alpacas in their apartments.
  19. Russia - It is illegal to drive a dirty car
  20. Qatar - Just plain shit out of luck here - If an unmarried woman falls pregnant she is banned from using hospitals or calling for any medical assistance. Her only options are to do without healthcare or leave the country
  21. Saudi Arabia - Who would have thunk it… it this region of “sexual equalitty” It is illegal for women to appear in public without a male relative or guardian present.
    • Women are not allowed to drive cars
    • It is illegal for male doctors to examine women and female doctors to examine men.
    • A woman can divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee.
  22. Singapore - The toilet flushing police are near, watch out - Failure to flush a public toilet is punishable by a fine or a prison sentence if caught during random checks by special police.
    • If you are caught dropping litter more than 3 times, the penalty is to clean the streets on Sundays wearing a bib saying “I am a litterer”. This will then be broadcast on the local news.
  23. Turkey - The just in case law - All drivers must carry a hygienic body bag suitable for carrying a body up to 18st 12lbs (120 kilos). Failure to do so will result in a fine and possible a 6 month jail sentence.
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Posted (sic) in (crazy laws) on May-22-2008 (0) Comments  Read More

Gotta wonder if this is for real, and if it is, what do you do on the off days?

In Philippines, cars whose license plates end with a 1 or 2 are not allowed on the roads on Monday, 3 or 4 on Tuesday, 5 or 6 on Wednesday, 7 or 8 on Thursday, and 9 or 0 on Friday from 7:00 AM onwards to keep roads free of traffic jams.

Hey, it’s a hell of a way to cut down on not only traffic jams but many other driving offenses. Think about all the DUI / DWI’s it would prevent…  A drunk fool may forget what day it is and choose to walk instead.

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Posted (sic) in (crazy laws, absurd) on May-22-2008 (0) Comments  Read More

This is classic, and I bet it is very real, can you imagine?

In South Korea, traffic policemen are required to report all bribes that they receive from motorists.

hmmm, I wonder if anyone ever has. I bet that law is good all around the planet. Mexico comes to mind quickly.

“yes, sir… I am reporting that an American named Mr. Smith paid me 100 U.S. dollars to let him go, here is the evidence(100 dollar bill), please return it when finished with fingerprinting or DNA”

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Posted (sic) in (stupid non-US laws, crazy laws, absurd) on April-25-2008 (0) Comments  Read More

Laws and ordinances you really must wonder about. Wonder why any lawmaker would even waste the ink to write this much less the tax dollars to get it pushed through.

  • In Alberta it seems that It is illegal for a man to drink with a woman in an Edmonton beer parlor.
  • Throwing snowballs in Calgary, where there is lots of snow is against the law. I wonder if anyone ever tried to enforce this law.
  • Bicycle riders are caught in a catch 22, see by law both hands must be on the handlebars at ALL times, but, you must signal with your arm to turn… hmmm…. Edmonton
  • In Canada, Kids tie them laces in double knots because it is illegal for a teen to walk down main street with their shoes untied.
  • In Saskatoon, It is illegal to try and catch fish with your hands
  • In Toronto There will be no sawing of wood on the street
  • It Toronto, it is against the law to wash your car in the street
  • Windsor, no playing of a musical instrument in a park
  • and in Winnipeg, No hitting the ground with metal objects
  • In Winnipeg, make sure your blinds are down if dressing because you may be in some trouble if you forgot.

Here are some more… it just gets stranger for some Canadian lawmakers. I wonder what the punishment may even be for eating ice cream or having a broadband internet connection.

Does that meen the phone companies in Ontario are all breaking the law by installing broadband lines.

  1. In Nova Scotia a person is not allowed to water their grass when it’s raining. Not like someone would do this, but it’s against the law in Nova Scotia!
  2. In Cobourg, Ontario if you have a water trough in your front yard, it must be filled by 5:00am!
  3. In Guelph, Ontario, the city is classified as a no pee zone!
  4. In Toronto, Ontario, where I lived, it’s illegal to drag a dead horse down Younge St on a Sunday!
  5. In Montreal, Ontario you are not allowed to wash your car in the street or park your car in a way that it blocks your own driveway!
  6. In Ottawa, Ontario you are not allowed to eat ice cream on Bank St on a Sunday!
  7. In Beaconsfield, Canada it’s considered an offense to have more than two colours on your house; and you are not allowed to own a log cabin!
  8. In Uxbridge, Ontario it’s illegal to have an internet connection faster than 56k!
  9. In Kanata, Ontario, believe this, it’s illegal to have a clothes line in your back yard!
  10. Finally, in Oshawa, Ontario it’s illegal to climb trees!

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Posted (sic) in (Liquor laws, Lawmakers, crazy laws) on March-26-2008 (2) Comments  Read More


Every state in the US probably has a few silly beer laws that make little sense to most people. Many of them are outdated or brought about by giant companies like Budweiser or religious reasons… No beer or wine on Christmas in Michigan? I Michigan politicians feel Jesus preferred apple cider to red wine on his birthdays. It really does upsets me when politicians feel that THEIR holidays should be observed in THEIR way, especially, when its a religious holiday…. remember, America is all about Freedom of Religion.. right? Well if its the case, why is drinking a glass of wine on Christmas a criminal offense if you are not even a Christian? hmmm… Well if it wasn’t for hypocrites, we would have no politicians at all.. bust people on ethics violations in the morning and bang hookers at night. Seems about right, hey back to silly beer laws.

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Michigan has repealed most of its silly laws, but every Yuletide it turns into a Grinch. It’s against the law to serve alcohol on Christmas Day, even in restaurants serving holiday buffets. And silliness persists at the local level.

Anyway, here is a small summary of some US beer laws that some micro brewers and beer lovers have issues with.

Ask the members of Georgians for World Class Beer. They’ve been lobbying state legislators to repeal a 1935 law prohibiting the sale of beer having more than six percent alcohol. This archaic definition of “beer” keeps Belgian dubbels and tripels, German doppelbocks, and American barleywines off the store shelves.

A bill that would have repealed the six-percent limit was defeated once again last year. Opponents of repeal carried the day with the age-old argument: extra-strength beers would end up in the hands of teenagers looking for a quick buzz. Never mind that a high-schooler’s beer of choice is more likely to be Molson Ice than Paulaner Salvator.

Georgia’s strong-beer prohibition is nothing compared to Utah’s 3.2-percent limit on draft beer, which earned the state worldwide notoriety during the Winter Olympics. If you’ve had a pint of bitter in a British pub or a mug of Czech lager in a Prague beer hall, you know it’s possible to brew great beer with a relatively low alcohol content. But that isn’t the point: Utah’s 3.2 law prevents that state’s craft brewers from turning out a wide range of styles.

Until recently, florida-stupid-laws/" title="silly and dumb laws florida state">Florida, the state that invented Spring Break, had one of the nation’s silliest beer laws. Passed in 1965, it required containers to be one of four sizes: eight, 12, 24, or 32 ounces. The law, a by-product of a long-forgotten spat between Anheuser-Busch and Miller Brewing, posed no problem for the brewing giants. But craft brewers that preferred 22-ounce “bombers,” and European brewers using metric-sized bottles, were out of luck.

Lawmakers not only dictate what beers you can drink, but where and when you can buy them. Many states ban the sale of beer in grocery stores. Oklahoma goes one step further, forcing its citizens to go to state liquor stores to buy beer stronger than 3.2 percent. In Connecticut, beer can’t be sold after 8 pm, bringing to mind Yogi Berra’s line, “It gets late out early.” And Sunday remains a hit-or-miss proposition for traveling beer lovers; archaic blue laws ban package sales, and, in some states, force bars to close.

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Posted (sic) in (crazy laws, absurd) on March-24-2008 (0) Comments  Read More

the-queen.jpgThis list is a bit old, but its still really funny from telegraph.co.uk.

Now my fave is the one about dying in Parliament. I wonder how you would enforce that since if you died, you most likely can not be jailed or fined.

Maybe they are trying to curb people being plain bored to death while listening to the politicians.

Ten stupidest laws are named - These are the stupidest laws, according to percentage share of public vote.

Most ridiculous British laws:

1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27%)
2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down (7%)
3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (6%)
4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day (5%)
5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter (4%)
6. In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman’s helmet (4%)
7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the King, and the tail of the Queen (3.5%)
8. It is illegal not to tell the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing (3%)
9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour
10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow (2%)

Most lame laws elsewhere:

1. In Ohio, it is illegal to get a fish drunk (9%)
2. In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation (8%)
3. In Bahrain, a male doctor can only examine the genitals of a woman in the reflection of a mirror (7%)
4. In Switzerland, a man may not relieve himself standing up after 10pm (6%)
5. In Alabama, it is illegal to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle (6%)
6. In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on a Sunday could be jailed (6%)
7. In Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth (6%)
8. In Milan, it is a legal requirement to smile at all times, except funerals or hospital visits (5%)
9. In Japan, there is no age of consent (5%)
10. In France, it is illegal to name a pig Napoleon (4%)

 

It also seems that during this survey, nearly half of those surveyed admitted to breaking the ban on eating mince pies on Christmas Day, which dates back to the 17th century and was originally designed to outlaw gluttony during the rule of the Puritan Oliver Crowmell.  Now thats a lot of law breakers in the UK.

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Cop flips on kids for skating downtown in Hot Springs Arkansas. Jarad Graham, Drew Irwin, Skylar Nalls, Matt McCormack, Robbie Brindley, & Casey Canterbury get arrested.

I love to bring you these stories, let me guess…..the cop jumped him because he was “disorderly”, refusing to dive to the concrete when the officer ordered him to. WTF America, when are we going to stop and smell the roses that the Government, and specifically the Policing forces of the US are fucked. Who on Earth can justify the way the cop grabs the other “child” after he cant catch the other kid. They are brutal, out of hand, and truly believe they are untouchable. THE POLICE! We are not an anti-government site, nor have any public persuasion to one party or another. But we call bullshit when we see it. Take a look for yourself, and we encourage you to fallow up on the numbers below to complain about police brutality.

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Posted (sic) in (Lawmakers, Corrupt Laws, police, crazy laws, absurd) on March-20-2008 (0) Comments  Read More

Jefferson eyes bong-sale ban Wednesday, March 19, 2008

We’ve included this informational video for those of you who need to learn about the horrors of Marijuana, and how to spot illegal paraphernalia.

JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP — Local bong sales could go up in smoke beginning with a council discussion tonight.

The council agenda includes a sample drug-paraphernalia ordinance outlawing a long list of “all equipment, products and materials of any kind” that could be used for “introducing into the human body a controlled dangerous substance.”

The law echoes state statute. However, while the state law limits having the paraphernalia in the context of possession or distribution of drugs, the Jefferson ordinance to be discussed could outlaw the sale of anything in the township that could be construed as paraphernalia in the township without a connection to having or selling controlled substances.

Jefferson police Lt. Eric Wilsusen said Jefferson police are looking to limit the sale of potential drug tools and apparatus in two particular Route 15 gas stations. The Getty and Exxon stations recently sold what could be used as drug paraphernalia, particularly implements such as glass pipes and other filtration systems that could be used to smoke marijuana.

Getty voluntarily removed the targeted merchandise from the store, but the counter of the Exxon store still is covered with multiple pipes and other paraphernalia that could be used to smoke marijuana.

Wilsusen said the ordinance suggested by the police to the council is an attempt to avoid a drug problem, or even “nip it in the bud,” by banning the items for sale within the community.

“Obviously, this concerns us,” Wilsusen said. “I guess you can claim if you’re selling these things that people are smoking tobacco out of them, but we all know what it’s used for.”

Mayor Russell Felter and Township Attorney Lawrence Cohen could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Wilsusen said the Jefferson council is using an East Rutherford ordinance passed in 1984 as a template for the Jefferson law.

East Rutherford police say the law has gone unchallenged and apparently has worked as it was intended. Deputy Chief Larry Minda said he considers their ordinance a success over the last two decades, especially considering the development that has sprung up with the sports complex in the borough.

“It actually works well … the foresight was there,” Minda said.

East Rutherford also has ordinances limiting the sale of spray paint to combat graffiti, and cracking down on public cigarette smoking by juveniles, Minda said. Like those, the local drug paraphernalia law sets the atmosphere for the town and curbs problems before they happen, he said.

“I think it serves as an example and a barometer … and it’s worked out very well,” Minda said.

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey’s spokeswoman said she had not heard of the East Rutherford or Jefferson ordinances covering the sale of drug paraphernalia. Executive Director Deborah Jacobs said state law already addresses the issues clearly.

“I haven’t heard from other municipalities passing ordinances like this,” she said. “I would assume it’s because state law covers this.”

Current legal precedents indicate that pipes and other smoking devices sold at the Exxon and other places are legal, if their potential use for controlled substances is not advertised or otherwise specifically known by the seller. This was partially determined in such cases as the 1980 U.S. District Court decision Knoedler vs. Township of Roxbury. In the case, the owner of a shop called Nature’s Head successfully defended his rights to sell potentially unlawful drug paraphernalia.

However, the judges’ opinion also said the spirit of the ordinance was well-founded, but it simply outlawed too many items that might have legal uses, such as various pipes that could also be used for tobacco.

“The ordinance is aimed at a legitimate target, the sale of paraphernalia utilized in connection with illegal drugs, but its impact is too broad,” wrote Judge H. Lee Sarokin. “It is a cannon where an arrow is more appropriate.”

Still, that kind of determination does not seem realistic to many people, said Wilsusen.

“The last I checked, there aren’t too many people hand-rolling their cigarettes anymore … let alone smoking tobacco out of 5-foot bongs,” Wilsusen said.

However, the situation could resolve itself before council even gets to vote on a potential ordinance.

The unnamed manager of the Jefferson Exxon said he wants to avoid the stigma of carrying items that might run afoul of the law and said he likely will send them back with the wholesaler later this week.

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Posted (sic) in (California Law, Corrupt Laws, US law, skits, crazy laws, absurd) on March-20-2008 (1) Comment  Read More

Now this my friends, is some funny shite! It’s sad that the US Government goes unchecked for so long that we end up making animations about how they are screwing the American Public, for entertainment. Here, screw me, then I’ll make a funny movie about it so you can get a laugh!

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Posted (sic) in (California Law, Corrupt Laws, US law, police, crazy laws, absurd) on March-20-2008 (0) Comments  Read More

Some Silly Laws in good old California as told to by a fairly smart dude! Let’s take a little trip down taxpayer lane and see what our good hard earned cash is spent on by the government. Basicaly as I see it, they make up new laws so that they have plenty of justification for paying themselves $200,000 a year. No new law making, no jobs for lawmakers! Due you really think that there are laws that just “slipped the mind” of lawmakers over the past 200 years. NO, THEY KEEP SPENDING OUR MONEY, TO HAVE JOBS!

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