>Yahoo News has published a list of the ten most ridiculous British laws:
1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.
2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down.
3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.
4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day.
5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter.
6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman’s helmet.
7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen.
8. It is illegal to avoid telling the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing.
9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour.
10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.
Someday I will try to find the ten most ridiculous laws in the United States.
God save the Queen.
Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
UPDATE: Peter Kirk at Gentle Wisdom has sent me a link to the BBC which presents an updated list of these laws.
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Dr. Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament 
>I was going to refer you to more detail on this at this BBC page, which originally included several examples from the USA as well. But I note that the BBC page now has this note:This is an amended version of an earlier story which included several examples of laws from the survey which we have been unable to verify, and these have been removed.But your list of laws seems to include these unverifiable, and so probably apocryphal, ones – apparently numbers 3, 5 and 10, others have been “amended”. I can find no reference to the original survey at the UKTV website. So, don’t believe everything you read on the Internet, even about us crazy Brits.
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>Peter,It is good to hear from you again. Of course we can’t believe everything we read in the Internet but those laws were so crazy that I posted them so that we could have a good laugh, not at you Brits, but at those who were clever enough the device such ridiculous “apocryphal” laws.I know that here in the good USA we also have some crazy laws in our books. That says a lot about some of our lawmakers.Claude Mariottini
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