worlds strangest laws
World's Strangest Laws
Laws are meant to maintain the perfect functioning of society. There are certain laws in the world that will leave you exasperated and bemused.
- In Denmark, you must put on the headlights of a car, while driving so that other drivers can differentiate a moving car from a parked one.
- Singapore wishes to maintain cleanliness and hygiene; and laws are enforced for the same. Chewing and sale of bubblegum is completely banned. People are also punished, if they fail to flush toilets.
- Drinking and driving is illegal in most countries in the world. In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished with death.
- In Mohave County, Arizona, if anyone is caught stealing a soap; as a punishment, he will have to wash himself with the same soap until it is completely used up.
- In California, it is illegal to set up a mouse trap, if you do not have a hunting license.
- In Florida, it is illegal for single, widowed or divorced women to parachute on Sunday afternoon.
- In Nebraska, there is a very strange law. If a child burps during a church service, his/her parents are arrested.
- In the state of Oklahoma, people may be fined, arrested or even jailed for making faces at a dog.
- No Pennsylvanian man can purchase alcohol, without having a written consent from his wife.
- It is an act of high treason to stick a postage stamp bearing the British monarch, upside down. It is illegal to even die in the Houses of Parliament of UK.
- In Switzerland, washing a car or hanging clothes for drying on Sunday is illegal. Besides, mowing lawn on Sunday is, also a punishable act, as it creates a lot of noise and disturbs people. Flushing toilet after 10 p.m. in an apartment, in Switzerland, is also illegal.
- You need a painting license and government permission to repaint your house in Sweden. If you fail to do that, you could be penalized.
- In the states of Minnesota and Virginia, parking an elephant on the main street is illegal.
- In New York, the penalty for jumping off a building is death.
- In the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, a person is not supposed to water his lawn, while it's raining. Who would do that, is a tough question to answer.
- In California, it is illegal to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool.
- You can be penalized if caught slurping soup in public in New Jersey.
- It is illegal to carry an ice-cream cone in your pocket in Lexington, Kentucky.
- You cannot drag a dead horse down Yonge street, Toronto, on Sunday.
- In Kentucky, you cannot carry a concealed weapon that is more than 6ft long. Whereas, in Germany, even a pillow is considered as a weapon.
- In Germany, it is illegal to stop on an autobahn (expressway). It is also illegal to run out of gas on an autobahn.
- No electronic games are found in Greece, as they are completely banned.
- Being poor is against the law in Saudi Arabia. If any man is found not earning fair amount of money, he can be imprisoned.
- In Turkey, it is illegal for a man above 80 yrs to become a pilot.
- Now, the unbeatable: In Chicago, it is illegal for anyone to eat in a place that is on fire.