{"id":4215,"date":"2011-08-30T15:09:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T23:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funcage.com\/blog\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2025-08-23T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:01:01","slug":"10-weirdest-foreign-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funcage.com\/blog\/10-weirdest-foreign-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Weirdest Foreign Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Westerners, it may never occur to us that some of our laws seem strange by the standards of foreign countries.\u00a0 For example, Californians may not shoot animals (except whales) from moving vehicles, Montana prohibits tearing phone books in half, Oklahomans may not molest vehicles, and men wearing strapless gowns can be arrested in Florida (sorry, Miami Beach).\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t stop us from proclaiming the laws of foreign countries to be strange and even disturbing.\u00a0 Here are just a few from around the world that are bound to leave you scratching your head.<\/p>\n

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  1. Dead on arrival.\u00a0 Taxi cabs in the UK are prohibited from carrying corpses (whether they are attended by a living counterpart or not).\u00a0 Rabid dogs are also banned from cab rides, raising the question of just how many rabid dogs have tried to hail a cab. Also illegal on the taxi front: flagging down a cab if you\u2019ve contracted the plague.<\/li>\n
  2. To pee or not to pee.\u00a0 Looks like it\u2019s bad news for Portuguese fisherman: the country prohibits peeing in the ocean.\u00a0 Drunken beach-bonfire attendees should also take note.<\/li>\n
  3. God Save the Queen (and the postal service)!\u00a0 In England, it is illegal to place a postage stamp bearing an image of the Queen upside down on a letter.\u00a0 But as long as you don\u2019t include a return address, you\u2019ll probably be okay.
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  4. Hey, Lady!\u00a0 You just know there\u2019s got to be a crazy, drunken story behind the law from Cannes, France that prohibits wearing a Jerry Lewis mask in public.\u00a0 My money is on the ensemble cast of some quirky indie film, along with a few bottles of J\u00e4germeister and a crate full of promotional Jerry Lewis masks.\u00a0 Yeah, work that one out.
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  5. Oui, oui, oui, all the way home.\u00a0 In France it is illegal to name a pig Napoleon.\u00a0 But what if it\u2019s wearing a Jerry Lewis mask?
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  6. No thunder from down under.\u00a0 If you live in (or visit) Victoria, Australia, you may have to put your hot pants on the back burner over the weekend: on Sundays it is illegal to sport pink hot pants after midday.\u00a0 No word on whether or not it is legal to shake your groove thing, hot pants or no.<\/li>\n
  7. Move your left leg\u2026no, the other left!\u00a0 In Bahrain, a male doctor may only examine a woman\u2019s genitalia by way of a mirror.\u00a0 In other news, male gynecologists in Bahrain keep a lot of mirrors in their bedroom.<\/li>\n
  8. Spit it out.\u00a0 In Singapore, it is apparently against the law to chew gum, which is probably how they won the \u201cWorld\u2019s Worst Breath\u201d competition (fish porridge plus poor dental care equals five extra feet of personal space bubble).
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  9. Just say no.\u00a0 In Sweden, like many other countries of the world, it is illegal to engage the services of a prostitute.\u00a0 This is an unfortunate blow (no pun intended) for prostitution, which IS legal in Sweden.<\/li>\n
  10. They may be called America\u2019s hat, but they apparently don\u2019t hold the brains. \u00a0If you ever see Sasquatch (aka Bigfoot) in British Colombia, you\u2019d best keep your finger off the trigger.\u00a0 It is illegal to kill this mythical man-beast.\u00a0 Yes, they really went to the trouble of creating a law.
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    About the author: Sarah Danielson writes for Borghese Legal, a Las Vegas Trademark Attorney<\/a> with a focus on intellectual property and transactional law.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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