In Battle of Bad Laws, Will US or UK Prevail?
A newspaper in the U.K. has thrown down the glove in an international challenge over the relative ridiculousness of specific British and American laws.
Topping the list in the U.K., the Telegraph contends, is a law forbidding deaths in the Houses of Parliament, closely following by a legal prohibition against placing a postage stamp depicting a British monarch upside-down on an envelope.
“What do you think is the most absurd and unnecessary piece of legislation in Britain?” the Telegraph asks readers. “In your experience, how does Britain compare in this area to other countries such as the United States, which is renowned for its own legal idiosyncrasies?”
An earlier ABAJournal.com post about the world’s 25 oddest laws, as compiled by the London Times, may offer some ideas. As it notes, it is, for example, illegal in France to name a pig Napoleon. Meanwhile, the state of Florida has reportedly prohibited unmarried women from parachuting on Sundays.
