State Funerals and Mince Pies
The BBC News website today has a story on the most ludicrous laws in the UK. The story refers to laws supposedly prohibiting dying in the House of Parliament, the right for a pregnant woman to relieve herself anywhere she sees fit, and (my favourite) the prohibition of eating mince pies on Christmas Day. I can see the prohibiting of eating mince pies on Christmas Day causing a few problems in terms of enforcement. The story notes that many of the laws referred to may now be obsolete although they have never been repealed. Although these are just a few examples of strange UK laws, it would be surprising if even stranger ones would not exist elsewhere in the world.
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