Laws (here & elsewhere) that make you ask "what they were thinking?"

[Bad_azz]

Apparently- but I haven't checked this out

"Stupid law : Indonesia Law: In Indonesia the penalty for masturbation is decapitation." How would anyone know??
http://http://www.stupid-laws.net/S...-penalty-for-masturbation-is-decapitation.htm

Then there is the Thai law that forbids you from leaving the house without your knickers on. Do they have knicker police???


It is illegal to die in the Britain Houses of Parliament.-is it really????
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/02/27/strange-but-true-25-world-most-ludicrous-laws.html

"Stupid law : Indonesia Law: No woman is allowed to be taller than her husband - if necessary she must chop off a section of her legs". JEEPERS... I best get a divorce or lose my legs

http://www.stupid-laws.net/Stupid-L...No-woman-is-allowed-to-be-taller-than-her.htm


​Anyone?

 

[OomBen]

Sodomy is banned in the US Military.
http://www.ucmj.us/sub-chapter-10-punitive-articles/925-article-125-sodomy

(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration , however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.

(b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

When I was in basic training they brought this up in a class that was going over military law. They described sodomy as sex in any position other than missionary. One of the guys asked if another position was ok, so apparently they told us that even doggy style is sodomy even though your bits are in the "natural" places.

 

[Nimbus]

Decapitation doesn't exist in Indonesia as an official penalty, not in KUHP nor KHI. That website can't be right.

 

[Puspawarna]

Decapitation doesn't exist in Indonesia as an official penalty, not in KUHP nor KHI. That website can't be right.

But with the words "masturbation" and "decapitation" in the same sentence, I definitely feel a Gilbert & Sullivan-style song coming on.

 

[Nimbus]

But with the words "masturbation" and "decapitation" in the same sentence, I definitely feel a Gilbert & Sullivan-style song coming on.

We can add fornication and defenestration to this song...

 

[Puspawarna]

♫ ♫ ♫
The price for masturbation is a quick decapitation
Whereas simple fornication might incite defenestration
If you love your genitalia
And your body's full regalia
Expect the expectation that a celibate sensation
Preserves your situation
Except with some frustration
Yes frustration, much frustration
♫ ♫ ♫

 

[Bad_azz]

But with the words "masturbation" and "decapitation" in the same sentence, I definitely feel a Gilbert & Sullivan-style song coming on.

What came to mind for me were the words "head" & "sever"...

 

[atlantis]

Decapitation doesn't exist in Indonesia as an official penalty, not in KUHP nor KHI. That website can't be right.

Ditto. The three laws that the website grants to Indonesia are simply not existing here, nor they have ever existed here. This is just BS.

 

[Anglian]

In England you are allowed on a main road to wee on the rear wheels of your vehicle, don't think I would try it on Oxford street

 

[Jaime C]

♫ ♫ ♫
The price for masturbation is a quick decapitation
Whereas simple fornication might incite defenestration
If you love your genitalia
And your body's full regalia
Expect the expectation that a celibate sensation
Preserves your situation
Except with some frustration
Yes frustration, much frustration
♫ ♫ ♫

Ah, I love me some Gilbert and Sullivan! Mental green brick.

 

[Macedonian]

Wow i laughed at the one which says "A woman must not be taller then her man"
Im sure there is no indonesian lady taller than 2 meters ? or 6.6ft lol

 

[fastpitch17]

What strikes me funny is that Indonesia frowns seriously on any type of even being close to nudity but it seems OK and socially acceptable to stop along the side of the road in full view of passing traffic to stand or squat to pee with little to nothing being hid.

 

[Bad_azz]

I figured they would be BS ... or out-moded laws that have been changed.
Some of the UK ones on the sites are real though and linger from days of old.

 

[fastpitch17]

In Iowa, USA it is still on the books that when you leave prison you are given some cash, a horse, and a gun. Fortunately. not followed. Hopefully since I read that in a newspaper there it has been tossed out.

 

[Nimbus]

What strikes me funny is that Indonesia frowns seriously on any type of even being close to nudity but it seems OK and socially acceptable to stop along the side of the road in full view of passing traffic to stand or squat to pee with little to nothing being hid.

Well, if you gotta go you gotta go...

 

[fastpitch17]

Well, if you gotta go you gotta go...

I agree but it's funny how one is ostisized for nudity but accepted for showing all for natures call. I know, Muslims are just supposed to look away but really, that in not my experience at all.

 

[HappyMan]

Well, if you gotta go you gotta go...

Wife and I once found we were standing in a puddle of pee in KFC, in Changchun (China). The toddler's parents had helped him pull down his pants to pee on the restaurant floor. It was winter, too cold to go out and pee on the sidewalk.

 

[Nimbus]

Wife and I once found we were standing in a puddle of pee in KFC, in Changchun (China). The toddler's parents had helped him pull down his pants to pee on the restaurant floor. It was winter, too cold to go out and pee on the sidewalk.

The KFC didn't have a toilet? If it didn't, then I can sorta understand their logic. Why risk freezing their precious (and only) son's wee wee out in the cold?

 

[HappyMan]

The KFC didn't have a toilet? If it didn't, then I can sorta understand their logic. Why risk freezing their precious (and only) son's wee wee out in the cold?

I believe it did. Not sure its really a factor, though. That wasn't the only time I saw children weeing on the floor. I think the logic is "better on your floor than on my kid's clothes". Out of doors... Changchun has long winters and everything freezes to the sidewalks. Someone told me she felt sorry for Dorthy, if her yellow and brown brick road was anything like ours.

 

[Smallworld]

​Anyone?

I read somewhere that there is a law in York (UK) which allows to kill any Scottish who have got bow and arrows (and probably is in a shooting distance from York's walls). Here is a confirmation:

These are the stupidest laws, according to percentage share of public vote.

Most ridiculous British laws:

1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27%)

2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down (7%)

3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (6%)

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4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day (5%)
5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter (4%)
6. In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet (4%)
7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the King, and the tail of the Queen (3.5%)
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 (3%)
9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour
10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow (2%)
Most ridiculous foreign laws:
1. In Ohio, it is illegal to get a fish drunk (9%)
2. In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation (8%)
3. In Bahrain, a male doctor can only examine the genitals of a woman in the reflection of a mirror (7%)
4. In Switzerland, a man may not relieve himself standing up after 10pm (6%)
5. In Alabama, it is illegal to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle (6%)
6. In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on a Sunday could be jailed (6%)
7. In Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth (6%)
8. In Milan, it is a legal requirement to smile at all times, except funerals or hospital visits (5%)
9. In Japan, there is no age of consent (5%)
10. In France, it is illegal to name a pig Napoleon (4%)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1568475/Ten-stupidest-laws-are-named.html