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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: It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27%) It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down (7%) In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (6%) Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day (5%) In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter (4%) In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet (4%) 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%) It is illegal not to tell the tax man anything you do not want ...