Did you think you were a perfectly respectable, law-abiding person? Well be careful – breaking the law is easier than you think.For instance, imagine you have just finished the grocery shopping at your local (English) supermarket and are on your way home on the bus. That big bar of Fruit and Nut in your shopping bag is calling out to you and you finally succumb, breaking off a hefty chunk. Immediately you have fallen foul of the law: in England, it is illegal for a woman to eat chocolate on a public conveyance.
Or maybe you are a dairy farmer in Scotland and after a night out at the local hostelry you come across one of your herd ambling down the road, having wandered away from the rest. You lurch over to Esmerelda and drunkenly try to coerce her back into the field. Don’t be surprised when a police car screeches to a halt beside you: in Scotland it is is illegal to be a drunk in charge of a cow.
Here are some other random laws:
In Florida it is illegal for a man to be seen in public wearing any kind of strapless gown.
Liverpool law says no woman shall be topless in public, unless she is as an assistant in a tropical fish store.
In France it is illegal to name your pig “Napoleon”.
English law dictates that no-one should stand within a hundred yards of the reigning monarch without socks on.
In New York it is against the law to throw a ball at someone's head for fun.
In Alabama it is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
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