Recently the UK researchers browsed the various legislations in search of the most ludicrous laws. The results were submitted to polling. Here we present the list of laws which the UK citizens found most amusing. The laws were arranged in two categories: the exclusively UK, and the international laws:

TOP 10 FUNNY UK LAWS

1) Illegal for anyone to die in the Houses of Parliament.

2) Placing a post stamp having the Queen’s or the King’s image upside down is considered as treason.

3) Women in Liverpool are prohibited to be topless in public, except those who work as clerks in the tropical fish stores.

4) Illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas. (Introduced by Oliver Cromwell, 17c.)

5) In Scotland, it’s illegal to refuse anybody who will knock at your door and will ask to use your toilet.

6) In UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself wherever she likes, including a policeman’s helmet.

7) If there will be found a dead whale on the British shores, its head will automatically belong to the King, and its tail- to the Queen.

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.

9) Illegal to enter Houses of Parliament wearing armour.

10) Legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls of York, if you will see him wearing a bow and arrows.

TOP 10 FUNNY INTERNATIONAL LAWS

1) Ohio: Illegal to get a fish drunk

2) Indonesia: the penalty for masturbation is decapitation.

3)Bahrain: Legal for a male doctor to look at the genitals of a female patient only in the reflection of a mirror.

4) Switzerland: Men are not allowed to relieve themselves in a standing position after 10pm.

5) Alabama: Illegal to drive a vehicle being blindfolded.

6) Florida: Unmarried women can’t jump with a parachute on Sunday.

7) Vermont: Women must have written consent from their husbands to wear false teeth.

8) Milan: Legally binding to smile all times, except on funerals and hospital visits.

9) Japan: There is no age of consent.

10) France: Illegal to name your pig “Napoleon”.

Source:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7081038.stm