{"id":235,"date":"2014-01-15T23:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T23:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missrebeccaalice.wordpress.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2016-07-18T08:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T07:38:04","slug":"strangelaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/01\/15\/strangelaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissing in public can land you a fine&#8230; and other strange laws!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Strange laws really are everywhere. \u00a0It\u00a0would appear that it isn&#8217;t just England that has some rather bizarre laws such as; it is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament and\u00a0it is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2804\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2.jpg\"><img src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20300%20300'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load size-medium wp-image-2804\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Strange Laws From Around The World\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2.jpg 1080w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2804\" src=\"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Strange Laws From Around The World\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/peace-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Strange Laws From Around The World<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here are just a sample of some of the strange laws from around the globe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Austria if you are caught kissing on a train, not only are you given a fine but you can also be kicked off the train by the conductor &#8211; this rule also applies to anyone deemed to be eating smelly food!\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many of you are probably already aware of the attempt to keep Singapore&#8217;s streets clean, by imposing a ban on chewing gum (since 1992). \u00a0Should you be caught chewing or selling guy you can\u00a0face fines of up to \u00a3370.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you are a single, widowed or divorced woman in California who likes the idea of sky-diving, Sunday is not the day for you to participate! Parachute jumping and sky diving could see you land with a hefty fine!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kissing someone in a moving vehicle in Eboli, (just south of Naples, Italy) can see you end up with a \u00a3415 &#8211; quite excessive you may think, but apparently many honeymooners have been caught out! \u00a0<\/span>As someone who has visited Capri in Italy, I was aware of this slightly strange law &#8211; there has been a ban imposed on &#8220;noisy footwear&#8221; and this has seen a couple be arrested for wearing noisy flip flops &#8211; it apparently &#8220;protects public security&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Don&#8217;t visit Eraclea in Italy if you fancy building a sand castle or collecting a few sea shells, this could land you a fine anywhere between \u00a320 and \u00a3250.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The people of Spades, Indiana have a slightly unconventional way of opening tins of mackerel and corned beef &#8211; they shoot them open &#8211; but this can land them with a three month prison visit!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Everyone loves a good Christmas Market and Ice Skating session at Christmas, but if next year you are heading off to Frankfurt remember that there is a 50mph speed limit on the ice, and any one that goes above that will be punished.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are so many weird and wonderful (and quite ridiculous) laws all over the world, this is just a snapshot of a few of them!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you know of any slightly strange laws? What weird laws would you impose or eradicate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rebecca x<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#janlawblogpost<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange laws really are everywhere. \u00a0It\u00a0would appear that it isn&#8217;t just England that has some rather bizarre laws such as; it is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament and\u00a0it is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down. Here are just a sample of some of the strange laws from around the globe: In Austria if you are caught kissing on a train, not only are you given a fine but you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,26,1],"tags":[18,37,19,33,113,59],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"default","automationSources":{"useContentSentences":true,"useSocialTemplates":true,"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"includedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}