Mad Legality

Had to share this (and btw I updated my last paragraph below with thoughts on a homeless man).

Ten stupidest laws are named!!! These are the stupidest laws, according to percentage share of public vote as per an article in www.telegraph.co.uk

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 ridiculous foreign laws :
*foreign if you're in Britain

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%)
    

Go figure!!! And Here's Even More Dumb Laws.