Other What are the coolest laws in your country

[Little gasmask]

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I come from Kazakhstan and we have this cool law that if for example a holiday (7th may 4 example) happened to be a Saturday or Sunday we can take the next working day off as a extra holiday it's so cool This week we get to skip 3 days of school


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[AlbaGuBrath]

I don't know about "cool" laws, but we have some pretty wacky ones that don't make any sense... One that's coming to mind right now is that it's illegal to drive without shoes in my state. And in Louisiana, I think there's a law against tying an alligator to a fire hydrant. I want to know the story behind that one... (x

 

[The Confusion]

The po-po can come get me if they think I'm doing shady things on property I don't own. It's not really my country, but I find it funny to make jokes about the cops coming to get you if you wait outside of a store for a friend.

 

[adrian_]

Bylaw states that no more than three.


Thats it.


What is no more than three?


Who knows.


(Canada you beautiful drunk baby girl. Well done on the confusing law.)

 

[GenericHenchman]

It's technically not illegal to purchase an anti-tank gun here in the States. Can't remember if I'm up-to-date on that though.

 

[The Confusion]

It's technically not illegal to purchase an anti-tank gun here in the States. Can't remember if I'm up-to-date on that though.

And a tank.

 

[GenericHenchman]

[QUOTE="The Confusion]And a tank.

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Yeah.


So long as it isn't an assault rifle.


You can buy siege weaponry, handguns galore, a minigun (YES, one of those!) But no assault rifles.


...I'm actually sorta divided on the gun issue. Because on the one hand....


*screen goes black, then fades back in again.*


...and that's why these things are far more complex than they seem, thus making it difficult to paint these issues with broad strokes.

 

[AlbaGuBrath]

I think I read somewhere that it's illegal to drive a tank through the streets of London. I don't know if that's still the case, though.

 

[Tronethiel]

Yeah.
So long as it isn't an assault rifle.


You can buy siege weaponry, handguns galore, a minigun (YES, one of those!) But no assault rifles.


...I'm actually sorta divided on the gun issue. Because on the one hand....


*screen goes black, then fades back in again.*


...and that's why these things are far more complex than they seem, thus making it difficult to paint these issues with broad strokes.

Bravo.

 

[Barca]

Hmm... I knew a few interesting ones... I know in Alaska its illegal to push a moose out of a moving plane. And here's an interesting one from my home state (Texas)


"If two trains pass on parallel tracks, both must stop and neither can go until the other has gone."

 

[AlbaGuBrath]

"If two trains pass on parallel tracks, both must stop and neither can go until the other has gone."

This is brilliant.... (x

 

[Barca]

Apparently it was a case that some politician didn't like the law, so he fiddled with it until it made no sense. As far as I'm aware it doesn't get enacted very often.

 

[AlbaGuBrath]

I think that's the case with most really bizarre laws. Thank goodness... (x

 

[GenericHenchman]

Apparently it was a case that some politician didn't like the law, so he fiddled with it until it made no sense. As far as I'm aware it doesn't get enacted very often.

Which one? The one about the train?


Or the one about the moose? Because "not very often" means AT least more than once. There is no amount of context (or alcohol) that could explain pushing a moose out of an airplane the FIRST time it happened.

 

[Barca]

The one about the train. I have no idea about the moose one.

 

[Hellfire]

In Indiana i heard we are allowed free flamethrowers under the correct curcimstance. Of course we are also allowed to buy them

 

[eclipsa]

It's not cool but there's a state somewhere in the US (Michigan maybe, I don't remember) that it's illegal to have an ice cream cone in your back pocket.


because someone would do that


edit: it's Georgia and only applies on Sunday

 

[Elaraal]

Alright, so this isn't a law - rather it's a lack of a law - but we have no legislation against cold weapons. You can walk around with a freaking claymore right under a policeman's nose and he can't say anything to you. I've actually seen some people do it and I'm considering buying a fine sword myself because come on, that's metal as fuck.

 

[Hellfire]

Alright, so this isn't a law - rather it's a lack of a law - but we have no legislation against cold weapons. You can walk around with a freaking claymore right under a policeman's nose and he can't say anything to you. I've actually seen some people do it and I'm considering buying a fine sword myself because come on, that's metal as fuck.

I'm moving to your country.

 

[eclipsa]

In Arkansas you can get fined for pronouncing it right.

 

[Elaraal]

I'm moving to your country.

Good luck, it's our immigration policy that only those who can say: "Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrh Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč" without stuttering can move here. Yes, that's an actual sentence, not random gibberish. It means something like "A stupid wolf which had eaten a lot of mash proudly ran away from the mists of Brdy (that's a place) through Smrk Mountain into a doe's district Krč." Because vowels are for the weak.

 

[Hellfire]

Good luck, it's our immigration policy that only those who can say: "Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrh Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč" without stuttering can move here. Yes, that's an actual sentence, not random gibberish. It means something like "A stupid wolf which had eaten a lot of mash proudly ran away from the mists of Brdy (that's a place) through Smrk Mountain into a doe's district Krč." Because vowels are for the weak.

Challenge accepted

 

[AlbaGuBrath]

@Elaraal - Wow! Why is that? I'm guessing to make sure people are proficient in the language? Why that particular sentence?

 

[Elaraal]

Challenge accepted

Here, have a pronunciation guide:


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@AlbaGuBrath


Haha, that's not actually true, I was just poking fun at the fact that my language is notoriously ridiculous, which is one of reasons why nobody wants to live there. Aside from many words being nigh-unpronounceable, it also has a really complex morphology. It's a big problem for foreigners because people don't really speak English aside from some basic phrases and so they inevitably end up really isolated and/or miserable. I chose that sentence randomly because it's long, although I know even longer sentences that have no vowels.

 

[AlbaGuBrath]

Ahhhh, okay... Well, either way, that's pretty interesting. (x