How about the weirdest laws on the globe, courtesy of International Business Times:
1. In Samoa, it’s considered a crime to forget your wife’s birthday. well, i see nothing weird about that…
2. In Paraguay, pistol dueling is legal as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
3. In Australia, only licensed electricians may change a light bulb — failing to do so can result in a $10 fine. So all you Chicago union-bashers can just stfu!
4. In the United Kingdom, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants – even, if she so requests, in a policeman’s helmet. Yet it is illegal for a lady to eat chocolates in public transportation. and they know this how?
5. In France, it is against the law to sell dolls that do not have human faces. ???
6. In Singapore, walking around your home nude can result in a $2,000 fine if caught or three months in prison. And it’s illegal to chew gum. the gum part i already knew, but what if you chew gum at home in the nude?
7. In Italy, anyone considered “obese” is forbidden from wearing polyester. While in Capri, a ban on “noisy footwear” means you can get arrested for wearing flip flops. i really can’t argue with the first part…although i’d also tack on corduroy
8. In Switzerland, clothes may not be hung to dry and you cannot wash your car on a Sunday. It is also considered an offense to mow your lawn on a Sunday, because it causes too much noise. sounds like they have a pretty stiff homeowners association
I always hated these “laws”, because most of them are either completely false, exaggerated/misconstrued, or at least not enforced whatsoever. Imagine if they were all completely real… I’d be looking them up constantly, as they’re quite perplexing.
Well of course they’re not enforced. We have lots of silly laws like this in the US (the one about stopping at all intersections and waving a lantern when you’re in an automobile comes to mind) because they were passed during a time when they might have made sense, but yet 150 years later, they’re still on the books because our elected officials can’t even agree on removing them.