In Colombia, there are laws against two men riding motorcycles together on regular pay days because there are so many robberies in many major cities, including Cartagena. Motor Taxis have to take the day off unless they are carrying women.
In Singapore, it was illegal to chew or import gum, and you are guilty until proven innocent in many if not all legal instances. You can now buy therapeutic gums in pharmacies, but will still get busted for discarding it on the street. It's also illegal to criticise the Prime Minister Emeritus Lee Kuan Yu
In Laussane, Switzerland, or perhaps in it's surrounding Canton of Vaud, in the worlds oldest Democracy by many measures, they allegedly passed a law making it illegal for Women to do laundry during the lunch hours when their children are home from school, so that they will feed their children instead of doing the wash.
In Los Angeles, California, there are places where no parking goes into effect at 9pm on Saturday and Sunday nights, and there are businesses that make their money exclusively off the tow fees, not running it in addition to a garage or normal tow truck operation.
It is also illegal to play ball games on the beaches of LA.
In Washington DC, it is illegal to build a building taller than the Capitol Dome. Likewise in Paris with the
Arc de Triumphe.
At a Hotel called The Bodhi Serene in Chng Mai, Thailand, there is a sign banning Durian, a tasty but remarkably smelly fruit that is popular from Asia to Belize.
In Thailand, it's illegal to speak ill of the King and Royal Family. It's called 'Leisee Majiste'. There is a guy supposedly in jail for being drunk and peeing on a photo of the king. He was spotted by closed circuit TV... he's been in two years as I type this.
In China you can only have one child, with rare exception. Supposedly it has prevented 200 million births to date.
Foreigners have to pay by the pay to stay in Bhutan.. last I heard it was 250USD per day.
Sodomy was illegal in many US states until 2003 (The definition includes but was not limited to, how shall we say it, back door sex.) when it was finally ruled a right by the US Supreme Court. Many other nations still have enforceable laws on the books. So have at it in the US!
In Cardiff Wales, UK, it's an extra pound to get in a cab on Sunday. Never mind that maybe half the cab drivers I saw seem to celebrate their holy day on Friday, the law is only 20 years old I was told, not 50 or more like most religious laws.
If you leave a bag on a Train on the Great Western Railway of England, they put it in baggage storage and charge you 11 pounds for the first day and 7.50 for every day after.. kind of a pain in the ass if you looose something inexpensive but sentimental.. it goes to a corporate run pawn shop.. entitlement is so English, as well as not getting anything extra for the tons of money you pay for everything there.. oh you want soy sauce.. that's extra!
In Thailand, it's illegal to speak ill of the King and Royal Family. It's called 'Leisee Majiste'. There is a guy supposedly in jail for being drunk and peeing on a photo of the king. He was spotted by closed circuit TV... he's been in two years as I type this.
In China you can only have one child, with rare exception. Supposedly it has prevented 200 million births to date.
Foreigners have to pay by the pay to stay in Bhutan.. last I heard it was 250USD per day.
Sodomy was illegal in many US states until 2003 (The definition includes but was not limited to, how shall we say it, back door sex.) when it was finally ruled a right by the US Supreme Court. Many other nations still have enforceable laws on the books. So have at it in the US!
In Cardiff Wales, UK, it's an extra pound to get in a cab on Sunday. Never mind that maybe half the cab drivers I saw seem to celebrate their holy day on Friday, the law is only 20 years old I was told, not 50 or more like most religious laws.
If you leave a bag on a Train on the Great Western Railway of England, they put it in baggage storage and charge you 11 pounds for the first day and 7.50 for every day after.. kind of a pain in the ass if you looose something inexpensive but sentimental.. it goes to a corporate run pawn shop.. entitlement is so English, as well as not getting anything extra for the tons of money you pay for everything there.. oh you want soy sauce.. that's extra!
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