Stupid laws

More television executives with too much time on their hands. (From the BBC)

Apparently, it is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament. What happens if you do is unclear, although it's more than likely you'll be let off with a warning the first time, and only get a custodial sentence if you're a really unlucky Buddhist who happens to die in the Houses of Parliament several times.

And even then you'll probably just get an ASBO.

Another laws states:

It is illegal for a woman to be topless in Liverpool except as a clerk in a tropical fish store

Which means there are currently several sets of journalists, probably from the Sun / Daily Star / Sport / Mail on Sunday travelling in convoy up to Liverpool looking for posh fish shops to photograph their accompanying page three models.

Eating mince pies on Christmas Day is illegal

bought in under Cromwell. If he hadn't been wasting his time bringing in stupid laws like that, we could now well be sitting in the promised land of a republican utopia.

It is illegal to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle in Alabama

Which, logically, means in the other 49 states, it's completely acceptable.

In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation

Whereas here, it just makes you go blind

But most worrying, and something I didn't know when I was living north of the border

If someone knocks on your door in Scotland and requires the use of your toilet, you are required to let them enter

Try that in the Gorbals on a Saturday night, let me know how you get on.