Outrageous, right? But true. As reported by UPI: Police in Australia have set what they describe as “very generous limits” for an upcoming auto race [The Bathurst 1000] The limit? … no more than a case of beer a day for adults. Holy shiznit. You know Aussie’s like their beer…
Power corrupts, and absolute power … So maybe Italian mayors don’t have “absolute” power, but they recently obtained additional authority to enact new laws. Here are a few of them, as reported by Reuters: In Eraclea, near Venice, building sandcastles is now illegal In Capri, it is illegal to leave…
Though it certainly wouldn’t be the case, I guess not many legislators are eager to appear to be in favor of sodomy, flag-burning, cohabitation, or unmarried couples having sex. That’s probably why, per the Virginian-Pilot: The state code [still] declares it illegal for unmarried couples to have sex. Cohabitation, sodomy…
These laws are from the Code of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana: Sec. 19-12. Silly String sales restrictions. … (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell any silly string, or its equivalent as defined herein, within three hundred (300) feet of any parade route within the parish on any…
It’s true. Starting in July, Dutch folks will not be allowed to smoke cigarettes in bars, restaurants and cafes, including in the coffee shops famous for selling soft drugs. But, and this is a big “but,” smoking marijuana or hashish will still be legal! You can read more in this…
… party balloons! The California Senate passed a bill banning helium-filled, metallic party balloons. Why? Per the AP, Utility company officials blame fly-away balloons for shorting out power lines and causing hundreds of blackouts in recent years. Don’t worry yet, kids. It still has to make it through the state…
In addition to a few previously noted wacky British laws, as reported in The Daily Mirror, here are a few more that are still on the books: A law enacted by George I states that: “The severest penaltys will be suffered by any commoner who doth permit his animal to…
Perhaps that’s the reason Tennessee House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower did what he did. As reported in the Nashville Scene: Tennessee is the only state in nation with a law preventing sex-change recipients from retroactively revising the sex designation on their birth certificates to correspond with their new gender identity.…
They can run for president. Of the United States. No shit. All you have to do is pay a $1,000 fee and you’re on the ballot. That’s just what Keith Russell Judd, a felon who is locked up in federal prison until 2013, did.
Per a report in Reuters India: Singapore bans sex between men and any man found to have committed an act of “gross indecency” with another man could be jailed for up to two years. There is no legislation on sex between women. Okay, so this authoritarian country would allow a…