what is the stupidest laws you know?

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The Stupidest Laws

We are supposed to Archery on Sundays else we can be arrested. All English males over the age 14 are to carry out 2 or so hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy.

Offering payment with over 21pence of coppers {2 and 1p} is deemed as illegal tender.

You can knock at anyones house for a glass of water. {Despite water rates}.

No cows may be driven down the roadway between 10 AM and 7 PM unless there is prior approval from the Commissioner of Police.

All land must be left to the eldest son.

Divorces are outlawed.

London Hackney Carriages (taxis/cabs) must carry a bale of hay and a sack of oats.

Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks (enacted by Edward VI).

Though it is illegal to produce, store, sell and trade absinth (special alcohol), it is legal to consume it. {Switzerland one}

Not letting homosexuals have the same rights as a hetrasexual couple.

The stupidest law, is having to see and listen to Bush run this great nation.

Bush SUCKS

The long post wasn't really necessary, but I'm guilty of violating most of those laws. I'm from Alabama, I live in Mississippi, and I dated a truck driver for two years.

Uh-oh.

But I liked the one about fornication without being married. That was good. As far as the "unnatural sex," how do you define "unnatural?"

How about this one. California PC 596.5. Misdemeanor elephant abuse. Here's the text of the law.

596.5. It shall be a misdemeanor for any owner or manager of an

elephant to engage in abusive behavior towards the elephant, which

behavior shall include the discipline of the elephant by any of the

following methods:

(a) Deprivation of food, water, or rest.

(b) Use of electricity.

(c) Physical punishment resulting in damage, scarring, or breakage

of skin.

(d) Insertion of any instrument into any bodily orifice.

(e) Use of martingales.

(f) Use of block and tackle.

first of all-was the long post above necessary?????- ok to the stupid laws-1 if you rear-end another driver who has neither a licence tax insurance or mot-he can still sue you!!-and 2 the law that says if some little toerags have a go at you in the street and you retaliate you stand to be arrested.

The fornication and witchcraft laws still on the Virginia books.

In Mexico, in some cities they don't allow federal employees (like people who receives the local payments and stuff) to wear jeans.

The drug laws. We spend nine times the amount on prisons than we do on education. What have the drug laws accomplished? Besides costing us billions not much. We have to find a better answer because the one we have just isn't working.

There are literally thousands of arcane inane laws on the books...

How about the law against smoking marijuana as a stupid law..