Britain has some amazing archaic laws that are still in the statute.
In Britain It is illegal to fire your cannon within 300 yards of a dwelling (which is fair enough when you think about it) Nobody wants a cannonball taking their living room out at 3 in the morning.
Neither can you ride a horse drunk, or handle a salmon 'under suspicious circumstances' So, you better watch it if you're a mac-wearing fish fetishist.
Here's a few more:
- Place a postage stamp depicting the queen upside down on a letter
- Use obscene language in a library
- Drink tea after 10 p.m. or before 7 a.m. (don't tell Mrs Doyle)
- Move a dead body across county lines without a coffin
Also...
The British Crown has legal ownership of...
- All swans throughout the realm
- Football (soccer) pitches and cricket grounds anywhere in Britain
- Any whale found on British shores
- Non-photographic depictions of a royal palace or residence
According to The New York Times there is a team of people working tirelessly in the bowels of some law library in London, ploughing through volumes of huge dusty books to try and update and delete those laws.
