Bizarre Laws Across the Globe

Ever wondered why you can't have a sleeping donkey in your bathtub after 7pm in Oklahoma? Or why handling salmon "suspiciously" could get you in trouble with British authorities? Our hilarious deep dive into the world's strangest laws will leave you equal parts baffled and amused.

Hannah and I uncover bizarre regulations from around the globe that make you wonder what chaotic circumstances led to their creation. From Milan's legal requirement to smile at all times to Poland's playground ban on Winnie the Pooh for being "inappropriately dressed," these head-scratching laws showcase humanity at its most peculiar.

The episode reveals fascinating cultural insights through these odd legal restrictions. Discover why France allows marriage to deceased individuals (it's surprisingly touching), why Singapore takes chewing gum so seriously (two years imprisonment for a second offense!), and why Tibet requires government permission for reincarnation. We explore both historical oddities like London's 1839 ban on carrying planks along pavements, and modern restrictions including Japan's regulation of waistlines to combat obesity.

Our father-daughter dynamic adds an extra layer of comedy as Hannah reacts to these laws in real-time – from questioning the specifics of "suspicious salmon" handling to contemplating what constitutes a "chaotic eel slapping event" that led to its prohibition. We even assess which laws we might have unwittingly broken!

Subscribe now for more fascinating conversations that bridge generational perspectives. Have a weird law from your country to share? Contact us through our social media – we'd love to feature it in a future episode!

Transcript

Episode Introduction

Speaker 1 0:00

Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me, davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world, Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades or you could choose one by contacting us via email, instagram, facebook or TikTok links in bio.

Setting Up 'Crazy Laws' Theme

Speaker 2 0:24

Hello and welcome to another episode of Bonus Dad, bonus Daughter. Today we're talking about what Crazy laws.

Speaker 1 0:30

Yep, crazy laws, crazy laws, crazy laws. And this is a blind react for you Blind, react for me. Because Hannah genuinely doesn't read a lot of these beforehand, so I'll write the script and a lot of it is blind react anyway, because she never actually reads the script that I've written.

Speaker 2 0:47

I feel like it creates a better podcast.

Speaker 1 0:49

It does, it does genuinely do. But I thought what I would do is that I would message you, didn't I? And I said I'm going to put it in but don't read it. And you went.

Speaker 2 0:56

OK, no problem. No problem, won't be doing that.

Speaker 1 1:00

Because what I've done for this episode is I have looked up a number of weird laws across the world and I want you to just I just want to talk about it globally. I want to see your genuine reaction when I read what these weird laws are can we also assess whether we've ever broken these laws?

Speaker 2 1:19

yes, is that, are we allowed to do that legally? Well, what do we need? To speak to our lawyers?

Speaker 1 1:25

well, what I've done is I've done the actual law, I've done why that law was put in place, because some of these did actually make me laugh okay, and I've also then put what the penalty would be if that law was broken. Dude, okay, so I've done a little bit of digging on this one maybe we shouldn't say that we've done this, then well, they're around the world, so they'll only be. They'll be quite.

Speaker 2 1:49

Oh okay, yeah, so I could say I've done this in the uk but I haven't done it in.

Speaker 1 1:52

Yeah, there are a couple of uk there are a couple of uk laws on here though oh, no exactly but one of them. If you have done this, but if you have broken this particular law, then that's amazing okay, okay, I am, yeah, I'm ready.

Speaker 2 2:08

Do you want to do a life update first?

Speaker 1 2:09

yeah, let's do a quick life update. I mean, obviously this is going to be, this will be coming out a couple of weeks after we've actually happened because I've just had a birthday, haven't you have?

Speaker 2 2:19

yeah, I have just had a birthday. We talked about well for our listeners three weeks ago yeah, it's only been a week for us, so yeah, but I had an.

Speaker 1 2:26

Well, it was mentioned because I said I was gonna get some dj decks, didn't I? Yes, you did, yeah, yes, and I have got them. I have got them. I haven't had a chance to even take them out of the box yet. Oh, that's sad, because they are. Uh, you've been working away. It's been an incredibly busy week. It's been a nuts week, but what was funny was I was just telling hannah this morning. I was looking at them before I came out and I suddenly thought to myself yeah, I've got the decks, I have music, but I don't have any speakers to play them on.

Speaker 2 2:56

Because my original thought was at the moment they're literally all in your headphones. You're just like jamming in the living room and I'm like what is he?

Speaker 1 3:02

no, I haven't even taken that out of the box yet. No, but I feel like that would have happened. That would have happened, just you and your headphones, and mum's like yeah, well, the most silent activity for her. Because I was going to use my PA, yeah, but then obviously my PA is a big old jalopy with a, so I'm going to have to buy myself some little mini speakers to have upstairs.

Speaker 2 3:23

It's cute though.

Speaker 1 3:24

Yes, this is very cute. Have you done anything, Hannah?

Speaker 2 3:27

In the last week.

Speaker 1 3:28

In the last week.

Speaker 2 3:30

I had a CT scan.

Speaker 1 3:31

You did. Yeah, how did that go?

Speaker 2 3:34

Do you know what Out of? All of the diagnostic tests I've done. It's ranked my second least, like you know, least rubbish, as in the least most rubbish thing was an mri. Ct is just one above that. The only reason I would say ct is just one above an mri is because an mri, I don't know. I got to listen to music and then I got the like you know the song. It's very, very hot in the in the uh disabled community, the song that I can't remember what it's called Da-da-da.

Speaker 2 4:07

When I'm into you, hello, oh yeah, yeah, I know the song.

Speaker 1 4:11

It sounds like an MRI machine.

Speaker 2 4:12

A CT scan unfortunately doesn't sound like that and the contrast that they put into you via cannula. I'm not a massive fan of needles because of you.

Speaker 1 4:19

No, because of needles, because of me, sorry about that, because of needles Because of you.

Speaker 2 4:23

So they did have to put a cannula in me this time and put some contrast which made my body feel very weird. It gave me like this massive hot flush, but then I was fine. I was a bit nauseous yesterday, but it's cool, it's cool.

Speaker 1 4:35

Okay, yeah, good.

Speaker 2 4:36

Yeah, colonoscopy next Saturday though enjoy that one. I'm going to enjoy that internal inspection yeah, enjoy that one.

Speaker 1 4:44

Yeah, I've never. I've never experienced that bobby dazzler, thankfully, yeah, I'll let you know.

Speaker 2 4:49

I'll let you know how it goes.

Speaker 1 4:51

Yeah, that's yeah, that's not.

Speaker 2 4:53

I've had one down the throat yeah, yeah, I had one down the throat.

Speaker 1 4:56

Luckily I don't think I've got to have that done yeah just the bum the actual pictures were quite fascinating, though, when you saw the inside of what? Your stomach actually looks like.

Speaker 2 5:04

If they say to me do you want to see inside my bum? I am going to say no, it's not something that is even remotely curious to me. I'm just like nah, nah, bro, you're okay, keep my bum pictures to yourself, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 5:21

Oh, there was one other thing. I just wanted to say. What's that? I haven't said thank you yet to you for the money you gave me for my birthday oh, you're welcome.

Speaker 2 5:28

I was actually going to say to you did you receive it? Because I had to ask what your bank account was. I was like, do you even have your own bank account?

Speaker 1 5:35

yeah, I do, but there's not really a lot in there. Well, there is now the only money I have in there is when I want to buy something and I take money out of the other account to put into that account. So it's separate, so that I can then save up to buy what.

Speaker 2 5:49

I want oh, it's your pocket money account.

Speaker 1 5:50

Genuinely, it's my pocket money account.

Speaker 2 5:52

That's so cute.

Speaker 1 5:53

Yeah, bills and everything comes out of the other account, but that one is my little pocket money account.

Speaker 2 5:57

Love it.

Speaker 1 5:57

So I now have £172.38 in that account. Thank you, lovely for your tattoo.

Speaker 2 6:02

For my tattoo, I'm nearly there, almost there. How much has your tattoo been quoted?

Speaker 1 6:07

I haven't actually asked yet, eek, I was waiting until I got a little bit more money, and then I bought a new one.

Speaker 2 6:13

My guess would be 250 or 310.

Speaker 1 6:15

That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 2 6:16

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 6:24

I'm nearly there, cool.

Speaker 2 6:25

I'm nearly there, so yeah, laws.

Speaker 1 6:28

Laws Shall we start off the episode. I have quite a few here, okay.

Speaker 2 6:33

Shall I keep timekeeping.

Speaker 1 6:35

Whether, yeah, keep timekeeping, because we won't go through all of them. Okay, we'll just see how we go.

Speaker 2 6:40

I was just testing that I could still see the time.

Speaker 1 6:41

Yeah, you can still see the time.

Speaker 2 6:42

Just yeah.

Speaker 1 6:44

Well, I need to change the time on here. Actually, this is still on British wintertime, so it looks like there's an hour behind. Oh my God.

Speaker 2 6:51

GMT is what you're looking for. That's the one, not BST.

Speaker 1 6:54

BST GMT. Why do we still do that?

Speaker 2 7:02

Why do we still do that? I know it's for the farmers it was originally yes. But now farmers have something called light on their tractors. So I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 7:16

It is quite dark as well when the kids come out of school, if it's for the hours.

Speaker 2 7:20

Who cares?

Speaker 1 7:22

Hannah.

Speaker 2 7:23

It's 3pm when they get out. That was the best time of our lives and we didn't even know it. We had six weeks, for I'm going on a rant now. Okay, here we go we had six weeks of summer break. We only did nine till three rather than nine till five. We had it easy.

Speaker 1 7:38

You don't know what you've got until it's gone Until it's gone. I know I used to whinge like Mary Hell when I was a kid about going to school. Yeah, and now I look back and think Jesus.

Speaker 2 7:48

And I can't believe there was a time in my life where I was like, oh, I wish the summer was over so I could go back to school, because I was quite a studious gal, yeah. I can't believe I was ever like oh yeah, I can't wait to go back to school.

Speaker 1 8:07

Who that girl? Yeah, no, spend your summer having fun, enjoy having a life, and we've actually had bloody hot summer, haven't we?

Speaker 2 8:10

we have, yeah, it's been, it's, it's, it's. It's been a bit of a roller coaster actually. It's been very up and down, but I'm I'm okay with that, because at least you get reprieve from both angles you get reprieve from the, from the rain, and the reprieve from the sun although one week this week when I was at work, we had, I think pretty much four seasons in one day, yeah yeah, that is crazy. British summertime is the the most like volatile weather nuts absolutely nuts.

Speaker 2 8:33

If it started hailing, I would not be surprised so laws, laws.

Speaker 1 8:37

Should we go back to the episode?

Speaker 2 8:38

yes, yes let's derail this again let's start the episode right now.

Speaker 1 8:43

I think this particular law should be a law across the world oh yes because, did you know? In milan, in italy, yeah, it is a legal requirement to smile at all times but I feel like I've broken that law, but not in milan yeah I don't smile at all times.

Speaker 2 9:02

What specifically? The city specifically?

Speaker 1 9:04

Specifically the city of Milan in Italy. It is a legal requirement to smile at all times.

Speaker 2 9:11

Smiling does make you feel good though it does, but do all the tourists know that, and do you get fined for it?

Speaker 1 9:18

No, the reason why I say is because it promotes positivity. And do you know what the penalty is? Historically, there have been small fines Although it is rarely enforced today For being a mizog. Yeah, it can be an mizog. So what you've actually done? You've just pissed them off even more.

Speaker 2 9:36

Also, does no one have a funeral in Milan? Like, can you imagine how freaky that funeral looks? You look along the procession and everyone's like, but like, yeah, imagine how freaky that funeral looks.

Speaker 1 9:46

You look along the procession and everyone's like. But like, like, give me like the fake smile as well.

Speaker 2 9:50

You'd be like um jack nicholson in the shiny yeah, I think it would get past the point of like nice and just creepy, oh shit remember the uh, exactly the film, smile I've never seen it, but but I know the premise.

First Round of Strange Laws

Speaker 1 10:03

Yeah, creepy as buggery. You might be smiling here, but the eyes are crying.

Speaker 2 10:13

Sort of why I went for Billie Eilish. So yeah, so that's law number one. Yeah, I've never been to Milan, but I've broken that in other cities.

Speaker 1 10:23

So if you do go to Milan, then make sure you smile the second you get off that plane until you get home if you learn anything from BD, bd podcast, smile in the land yeah, well, you're gonna learn a few things well, yeah, yeah of what not to do, what not to do or what to do, what yep. So, going on to the next one, I I'm ready, ready In London, so we're in the UK.

Speaker 2 10:45

We're in the UK.

Speaker 1 10:48

Did you know that it is illegal to carry a plank along a pavement in London?

Speaker 2 10:53

A plank. A plank Specifically wood.

Speaker 1 10:56

Well, a plank, it just says a plank.

Speaker 2 10:58

Okay.

Speaker 1 10:59

All the pirates are not having a good day. It is the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839. 1839. 1839. Yeah. The reason why is because it prevents obstruction and injury and you can be fined up to 500 English pounds 500 pounds back then would have been astronomical.

Speaker 2 11:15

What were they doing? Like just carrying sleepers everywhere? Well yeah, they'd been walking around. Was it a weapon, perhaps?

Speaker 1 11:21

No, no, no, no, it wouldanks of wood. It'd just be like because people were clonking into other people. How did they?

Speaker 2 11:26

build anything.

Speaker 1 11:28

Well, taking it by horse and cart, I assume.

Speaker 2 11:31

Oh, as long as you're not walking with the plank.

Speaker 1 11:33

As long as you're not carrying it along a pavement.

Speaker 2 11:35

Oh, carrying along a pavement, so a road is fine A road's fine, yeah. Oh, okay, okay.

Speaker 1 11:41

I suppose, yeah, someone does call you and you've got a plank of wood and you're like spinning around clocking, people Clocking.

Speaker 2 11:47

There must have been so many accents that they're like right, we've got to make this a law.

Speaker 1 11:50

I know this is. What makes me laugh about most of these laws is that when I've read some of them, it's like somebody had to have done this for it to have, then become a law to not to.

Speaker 2 12:06

Because some of these are just absolutely ridiculous. Okay, yeah, uh, and isn't it sorry? Isn't this a category? In boulder dash, I think it is actually, yeah, it was like stupid laws like it would you would have, like you'd have the first part of the sentence. Like in milan, it is illegal to dot dot dot yeah, and then it'd be a choice like multiple choice well, I think you fill in the gap, don't you, with boulder dash, and then you try and make a convincing answer yeah, yeah yeah anyway, sorry, so actually the the next law.

Speaker 1 12:29

The next law is essentially that very thing that I've just said is that somebody had to have done this. Yeah, for this to become a law, okay I'm ready okay, so we're flying across the atlantic to america, uh-huh. And in oklahoma, usa, okay, it is illegal to have a sleeping donkey in your bathtub after 7 pm how?

Speaker 2 12:55

how oddly specific 659? No prob mate. Yeah, wake it up. Wake up. It's got an alarm at like 7pm. Oh, it's not sleeping. Now we're not breaking the law. Yeah, why a sleeping donkey? Is that like a euphemism for something?

Speaker 1 13:13

No, it's a genuine sleeping donkey. A sleeping donkey, and all it says is why it's based on a past flood incident.

Speaker 2 13:21

Oh, because the donkey didn't survive.

Speaker 1 13:22

I don't know. That's literally all it says.

Speaker 2 13:24

Did the donkey cause the flood?

Speaker 1 13:26

I have so many questions. Well, I'm thinking now that it's a big bathtub. The donkey got in the bath and the water came out, causing a flood.

Speaker 2 13:34

I mean possibly what's the sleep part and the 7pm part? I don't know what it's so oddly specific that's what I mean.

Speaker 1 13:42

It's so specific, it's so crazy. It's not like a sleeping animal or an animal or something over a certain size, it's a sleeping donkey. After 7pm has a bath been mistranslated.

Speaker 2 13:52

I know it's America, so very rarely. But is there like a farm bath that we're not aware?

Speaker 1 13:57

of.

Speaker 2 14:04

Is there some sort of like donkey washing facility that shouldn't be open after 7pm, or is it like gremlins where you can't get them wet?

Speaker 1 14:07

You can't get a donkey wet after 7pm, Otherwise what do you think? It turns into? A horse. But yeah, you can.

Speaker 2 14:19

That is a nice boulder. You can get a fine if your, oh, can you now yeah?

Speaker 1 14:24

if your donkey is found to be asleep in the bathtub. I can't say I've ever broken this law. Yeah, and the exact amount varies depending on the area.

Speaker 2 14:33

Actually, it's just occurred to me. I don't think I've ever seen a donkey in real life Like I know they exist. Yes, you have.

Speaker 1 14:40

Have you not ridden on a donkey at the Armouth seafront?

Speaker 2 14:42

I don't think so.

Speaker 1 14:43

Do they still do that I don't know.

Speaker 2 14:44

I don't think I've ever seen a donkey RIL. I appreciate they exist. I've seen pictures of them. The same thing I think about badgers.

Speaker 1 14:53

I've never seen a badger either. Oh, I've seen a badger, a dead.

Speaker 2 15:00

Yeah, dead by the side of the road. See, I've never seen one, only pictures.

Speaker 1 15:03

They're like a unicorn to me and that weird cartoon that Brian May did a few years ago. Can you imagine that? Remember that? No.

Speaker 2 15:12

Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger.

Speaker 1 15:13

Brian May as in Queen, brian May, brian May Queen. Look it up afterwards. Okay, put Brian May Badger into YouTube. Okay, culling a lot of badgers, and he was protesting against it. He did this weird cartoon video Because he's not normally in the spotlight.

Speaker 2 15:27

No, no, but badgers, badgers. Yeah, he gets in the spotlight then, yeah, bless him so, yeah, so that's in.

Speaker 1 15:33

Oklahoma. Okay, so the next one we're going to Japan.

Speaker 2 15:38

Ah so, Is it fish related?

Speaker 1 15:42

No Seafood. Well, it is food related. Oh, okay, it is food related. Knife goes in guts come out.

Speaker 2 15:50

Why do my tracer thoughts always win? It's a Simpsons episode if anyone's wondering.

Speaker 1 15:55

Anyway, it is illegal to be fat in Japan, I know.

Speaker 2 15:59

Hmm.

Speaker 1 15:59

Yes, apparently, it encourages public health through waistlines.

Speaker 2 16:04

The whole Japan, the whole of Japan.

Speaker 1 16:06

It is illegal to be fat in Japan.

Speaker 2 16:08

I wonder what categorises as fat.

Speaker 1 16:11

Exactly Can.

Speaker 2 16:13

I not go to Japan.

Speaker 1 16:15

You are not fat. Employers and local governments can be fined. Individuals are sent for health counselling.

Speaker 2 16:22

Oh, okay, so it's not like Okay, so they're sent to be educated in healthiness. Okay, I can understand where they're coming from here.

Speaker 1 16:36

A little. When I read this next one I was like who?

Speaker 2 16:42

Wait, can we just go back? Can we rewind? Sorry to the Japan one, just because I feel like okay, so they don't allow fat people, right, they're very strict in other ways, like how women dress, particularly japan is is quite.

Speaker 1 16:54

I mean, I've never been.

Speaker 2 16:55

It's a place I would love to go but if you've watched any anime, ever no holes barred I know so it's funny to me that they're so strict on like, healthy eating.

Speaker 1 17:08

But I don't know the, the japanese.

Speaker 2 17:10

Yeah, I'm in other body positive ways not so much.

Speaker 1 17:14

Yeah, it's a place I would love to go to. Yeah, I would love to go to japan.

Speaker 1 17:19

I've been told on several occasions that if I if I was to go to japan, I would probably have to cover up my tattoos you would have to cover up your tattoos yeah, so long sleeved things there is a, there is a girl on tiktok who works in japan all right I don't know if she's american or english I can't remember but she does a little tiktok videos about where she works and the culture and the laws and things like that and they're quite jokey, and her, her workmates, get involved in them as well okay, and they're, yeah, they're really good. They're really good, it's, it's uh, it's not a comedy thing, but it's just, it's just interesting.

Speaker 2 17:50

Yeah, no, that's done in a really cool way. Yeah, I like that. I like that. Yeah, I have been told on several occasions that if I was to go to Japan, I would have to cover the tattoos. Yes, you would, yeah.

Speaker 1 18:04

Yeah, and then when it clicked I was like okay, yeah, I can actually see why this would be a law. And the law is it is illegal to marry a. Oh no, it's legal to marry a dead person in France.

Speaker 2 18:17

It's legal to.

Speaker 1 18:18

It's legal to marry a dead person in France.

Speaker 2 18:22

Again I have questions.

Speaker 1 18:23

Okay.

Speaker 2 18:25

First of all, I'm thinking, let's play devil's advocate here If you were to marry a dead person, because you were going to marry them and then they suddenly passed and you wanted to, I guess I guess out of respect or or maybe even for yourself, just to kind of solidify that illegally.

Speaker 1 18:45

Yeah.

Speaker 2 18:45

I think that's quite sweet and quite romantic actually.

Speaker 1 18:47

Yeah, it is the reason why is is it honors commitments that were made?

Speaker 2 18:51

before the person's death yeah, yeah I can see that, but there's a part of me that's like where does the buck stop?

Speaker 1 18:58

yeah, well, it does say that there is a penalty for false application, because you can get done for criminal charges if it's abused for fraud yeah, so I was thinking there will be a process that you would have, suppose you would have to go through yeah but yeah, you could yeah yeah, yeah, so there's a lack of consent there as well yeah obviously they can't consent because they're, because they're dead, they're dead yeah okay, yeah, yeah yeah, so I could. That was when I read that first.

Speaker 2 19:25

I was like huh and then when I read the next bit I thought oh okay I can see I can see where they go I can see the love, the commitment and the romanticism of that yeah but I wouldn't so this next one is english.

Speaker 1 19:43

Oh, we're just weird, are we? Yeah, this is the one where I thought, if you have done this, I would be very proud, okay. Okay, it is illegal to slap someone in Lyme Regis, so it's a local law.

Speaker 2 19:57

Lyme Regis.

Speaker 1 19:57

Lyme Regis, I don't know where that is no. It is illegal to slap someone with a dead eel.

Speaker 2 20:05

Oh, I've definitely done that. Yeah, Lyme Regis Is Lyme Regis, like? Famous for eels? No well, apparently it was passed after there was a chaotic eel slap event. What A chaotic eel, what I just I don't think my brain has got around to covered under this. Is this like? Is this like the watermelon bashing contest? Oh, that's hilarious riding the kisser that's hilarious, that video I can't feel my face, you have to continue. What?

Speaker 1 20:41

uh, yes, that's on par with grape lady anyway oh great lady, oh great lady, I forgot about that video oh, oh, ah, oh ah, oh.

Speaker 2 20:51

My God, it looks like she's really hurt. I don't know what it is with American news presenters. I think they are being genuine, but they sound so sarcastic when they say things like that. Oh gosh darn, she looks really hurt and you think I don't know it just sounds really sarcastic english.

Eel Slapping and Marrying the Dead

Speaker 2 21:08

We would just be laughing yeah just be laughing at them like oh my god, that just reminds me sorry side tangent uh, ryland, you know ryland oh, yeah, yeah he was fighting for his absolute life right on I don't know what program. He's up like this morning or something. He's a presenter on one of these shows. I can't remember which one. They were talking about bear backing. Oh my god. And because he's up like this morning or something, he's a presenter on one of these shows.

Speaker 2 21:31

I can't remember which one they were talking about barebacking, oh my god. And because he's obviously um homosexual as well like to him. That means something else to what they were talking about. Bless him. He was he. Just you could tell that he was trying not to crack like his face.

Speaker 2 21:44

He just kept like like this, this, oh, that poor man, that poor, poor man, I I felt so sorry for him because he wanted to laugh yeah he wanted to make comments but he was like and he even said I think it's not danny minogue, I can't remember who else he presents with me like I'm gonna let you take care of this one. And she was like, yeah, sure, because he just couldn't get through it. It was the funniest thing, brilliant, funniest bit of um bit of tv I've seen.

Speaker 1 22:08

Anyway, so back to eel slapping.

Speaker 2 22:10

Sorry, eel slapping, yeah eel slapping.

Speaker 1 22:11

So what went wrong at this event?

Speaker 2 22:14

Yeah what went down. Well, if they're electric eels, I can kind of understand, yeah, what happened at this event. Well, you can see.

Speaker 1 22:22

I don't know if you've seen, do you think somebody went a little bit rogue and rather than just have one eel, they pulled another one out dual wheel, dual eeling, dual eeling, dual eeling.

Speaker 2 22:33

Um, I feel like there's some random like competitions out there, like the cheese rolling thing like and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 22:39

Yeah, we have some weird ones, but there's a. There's a wife carrying event as well.

Speaker 2 22:42

Yeah, in germany they have a door hanging one, so you've got to hang in a doorway.

Speaker 1 22:46

Oh, I'll tell you what. Stop talking. Stop, because that's another podcast episode right there. Okay, yeah, let's do this. Let's do weird TV shows, weird TV shows and also weird events around the world.

Speaker 2 22:57

Because Japan have some odd like game shows as well, they do yeah.

Speaker 1 23:01

They do. Yeah, that's another podcast episode right there.

Speaker 2 23:03

Yeah, okay, I'm stopped.

Speaker 1 23:05

Yeah, so you can. It's it's. You can get arrested and fined.

Speaker 2 23:12

For eeling in Lime Regis.

Speaker 1 23:14

Well, essentially it's assault, isn't it yeah? I can understand why there's a fine but the weapon of choice.

Speaker 2 23:20

I'm struggling to comprehend, to be honest.

Speaker 1 23:23

You brought an eel to a knife fight. Jewel eeling, jewel eeling In Italy, knife fight, dual healing, dual healing in Italy. We're going back to Italy oh, milan again no, don't know how to pronounce this. I do apologise to anybody any Italians any. Italians and Stefano will probably have a pop do you know an? Italian. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, it is illegal to die in Falciano del Massico. Sorry, stefano.

Speaker 2 23:54

Okay, I would like to know how they find a dead person.

Speaker 1 24:01

Well, it was a protest due to cemetery overcrowding.

Speaker 2 24:04

Oh, so it's not that they can't die there, they just can't be buried there.

Speaker 1 24:09

No, no, that's what the law is is it's illegal to die inside that area. The reason being is because there were so many people in the cemeteries they couldn't put anybody else in the ground, so they were saying you can't die here because we haven't got space for you to be buried.

Speaker 2 24:24

okay, question, yeah, how this? Okay question, yeah, how. This is such a disrespectful question. But I'm now intrigued how long does one's grave remain one's grave?

Speaker 1 24:37

Well, you think we've got graves in England that go back centuries.

Speaker 2 24:40

That's what I was thinking Like. I wonder at what point it's not disrespectful to upturn and use land.

Speaker 1 24:46

What they did at Chapelfield, they did move the graves at Chapelfield to build the chapel, they moved the graves, but they forgot to move the bodies.

Speaker 2 24:55

The bodies yeah, that's poltergeist that was an Indian burial ground. It was a Native American burial ground yes, that was.

Speaker 1 25:05

Yeah, they did that at Chapelfield. They moved the graves. But yeah, we've got graves going back centuries. There's a part of me that thinks keep the special ones. Yeah, they did that at Chapelfield.

Speaker 2 25:10

They moved the graves. But yeah, we've got graves going back centuries, yeah, but Absolute centuries. There's a part of me that thinks keep the special ones. Well, I suppose. But who do you then determine who's special? I guess?

Speaker 1 25:18

I mean, I suppose that you think, like with cemeteries, over time, if people then stop going to those cemeteries and then they degrade and things, and then they degrade and things, they go, and then it's just another piece of land after a long period of time, isn't it?

Speaker 2 25:31

culturally speaking as well, wouldn't you? Rather than saying you can't die here, why can't you say you can only be cremated here?

Speaker 1 25:39

exactly, yeah.

Speaker 2 25:40

I mean, maybe it's a cultural thing, maybe they don't believe in cremation, that's fair. Dying is Again. How do you find the family? You can't find the person, can you?

Speaker 1 25:52

No, I suppose you would find the family on the other side, on top of all the other funeral costs. It does actually say that there is no penalty. It's a symbolic law.

Speaker 2 26:01

Oh, okay, it's a symbolic law, okay.

Speaker 1 26:04

In Singapore. You cannot chew chewing gum. Sorry, you cannot chew chewing gum in Singapore.

Speaker 2 26:17

Understood you cannot chew chewing gum. Sorry, you cannot. Yeah, you cannot chew chewing gum in singapore, understood? Yeah, reason being it prevents litter. Yeah, exactly, I kind of um, I kind of agree with that law, especially in places of like very historic value. Like, um, I don't know, I can't think of notre dame as just off the top of my head, like you, if, if you were prosecuted for chewing gum in somewhere like Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 26:31

I could kind of understand that. Well, you can get fined First time offence, second offence, two years in jail.

Speaker 2 26:39

Oh.

Speaker 1 26:40

They're not messing around. Oh shit, they don't mess around in Singapore, shit yeah.

Speaker 2 26:45

Okay.

Speaker 1 26:45

There you go. That's that one Dude. Okay, Fair enough In the Houses of Parliament in the UK you cannot die in the Houses of Parliament.

Speaker 2 26:54

Oh no, but what if old Bob has a heart attack Again? How can you say that?

Speaker 1 26:59

There's no actual enforcement of that one. There shouldn't be. The reason being is it's a symbolic law. It's due to status, because if you were to die there, you'd have to be buried somewhere special.

Speaker 2 27:09

Right.

Speaker 1 27:09

Yeah, so that's reason one.

Speaker 2 27:11

So if I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack in a day, we'll not visit the Houses of Parliament.

Speaker 1 27:15

Stupid law. We're still in the UK and I love the way that this is worded. Go on and this is a typical something that you write when you use policies and write laws that they're particularly ambiguous, that they can mean anything.

Speaker 2 27:33

Right, okay.

Speaker 1 27:36

Because it is illegal in the UK to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.

Speaker 2 27:44

A suspicious salmon.

Speaker 1 27:46

Yep, are you handling that salmon suspiciously.

Speaker 2 27:51

How does one determine that they are handling it suspiciously?

Speaker 1 27:54

What is a suspicious circumstance?

Speaker 2 27:56

What is a suspicious salmon?

Speaker 1 27:59

Because suspicion is what's the word.

Speaker 2 28:03

The only thing I can think of is salmon used for like drug smuggling.

Speaker 1 28:07

No, it does prevent illegal fishing, okay.

Speaker 2 28:14

Yeah.

Speaker 1 28:14

I'm going gonna buy some salmon yeah rather than yeah.

Speaker 2 28:17

Do you want to buy a watch? He's like do you want to buy some salmon? Yeah, he would smell so bad. What's that smell? Oh, can't say I've broken that law have you ever been approached by a watch salesman? I've been approached, not by a watch salesman?

Speaker 1 28:32

no, you used to get it all the time at South Mim services. You get out of the car and you see someone walking over to you genuinely with a suit, and you go. Oh, here we go, and they would go. Do you want to buy a watch?

Speaker 2 28:43

No, yeah, not. Not watches, no, no not watches.

Speaker 1 28:47

No, I've been approached by many other things as well.

Speaker 2 28:50

Yeah, I've been approached lots of times as in. Do you want to have a good time? Yeah, I don't know if that's just because I'm a woman, but also I remember being in London once being approached like do you want to buy these tickets for, like, some sort of show?

Speaker 1 29:03

Yeah, yeah. Because often they're undercover cops, aren't they Ticket touts piss me off.

Speaker 2 29:09

Yeah, that's what they call ticket touts.

Speaker 1 29:11

They piss me off.

Speaker 2 29:12

Yeah, so I've been approached by when I was in London once, at Camden Market specifically.

Speaker 1 29:17

Yeah, I mean people who sell tickets. Yeah, other than sexual advances, I can't tell.

Speaker 2 29:23

Again, I don't know if I'm a woman, so I guess it's different for me. Yeah, I've never watches. Maybe they just don't think, oh, she won't buy a watch, she'll buy some tickets. Though.

Speaker 1 29:31

South Mid. I've been to South Mid services for a while, but it used to happen there all the time in like the 90s yeah, maybe it was more common then, because most people now do that online yeah, proper dodgy geezers, yeah. So where? So yeah, so yeah, you can't handle salmon suspiciously in the UK. Now I don't know why this one is, but bless his little heart. But did you?

Speaker 2 29:57

know that Winnie the Pooh is banned from playgrounds in Poland.

Speaker 1 30:00

Why, anya, is that true? Anya would know, anya would know. Does it promote obesity? Apparently?

Winnie the Pooh Bans and Military Camouflage

Speaker 2 30:10

it's considered to be inappropriately dressed. To be fair, he is only wearing t-shirt yeah to sexualize a children's character also feels a bit risque to me as well, exactly yeah, but poor winnie the pooh, bless him is tigger allowed? Because tigger doesn't wear anything. Piglet doesn't wear anything. None of the other characters wear anything they can't catch.

Speaker 1 30:30

Tigger, what on earth? What he's bouncing? Boing boing, boing, boing, boing. You can't catch him. So yes, and I can see why. This next one is Civilians can't wear camouflage in certain Caribbean nations. It is reserved for military personnel.

Speaker 2 30:50

I can respectfully.

Speaker 1 30:51

I understand that one that I do definitely respect that one. Yeah, I can see that one.

Speaker 2 30:56

That's that one I don't own any camo.

Speaker 1 30:58

I own like khaki, but not camo uh, did you know that in georgia, in the usa, you can't allow your chicken to cross the road?

Speaker 2 31:11

I mean there's obviously a joke there, isn't there.

Speaker 1 31:13

Well, there is, but you can get fined up to $100 for that.

Speaker 2 31:17

Why can't you let your chicken cross the road?

Speaker 1 31:21

Well, apparently it causes traffic issues.

Speaker 2 31:24

They're just running amok. Surely the punishment enough is that your chicken dies from being hit by a car. Mm-hmm, what's the fine, just out of curiosity A hundred dollars. Gee per chicken Dude To get to the other side.

Speaker 1 31:44

There's a chicken roundabout near where we live, isn't there?

Speaker 2 31:46

There was? Yeah, there was.

Speaker 1 31:48

I don't know if there's any chickens around there?

Speaker 2 31:53

Oh yeah, the chickens live there all the time. They're just on the chickens. I was recently, uh I was recently informed by my sister-in-law about the black cat roundabout in milton keynes. What so? There's a roundabout called the black cat roundabout and there used to be a black cat sculpture on there. There wasn't at the moment because they're under construction at the moment yeah, they're rerouting the road and yadda, yadda, yadda.

Speaker 2 32:06

So the black cat has been been suitably removed, so they can do this construction only temporarily, I believe, and apparently she's been gaslighting her sister saying, oh, the black cat's there and she's going where, where I can't see it, and apparently they've been gaslighting her for at least five years whilst these roadworks have been going on.

Speaker 1 32:24

Excellent, I don't think that. Yes, you have. Yeah, I've just exposed their gasoline. I can see why this next law is a law you are not allowed to wear high heels at ancient sites in Greece. Can see why that? Because it will protect the clickety clacks.

Speaker 2 32:40

No, it protects the stone surfaces. Yeah, the clickety clacks. Yeah the clickety clacks yeah also if you're visiting ruins, why would you wear high heels? To me, you'd wear something comfortable. Exactly, exactly Doesn't seem like the sort of place, unless people get married in those settings. Perhaps Maybe that's why it's a law.

Speaker 1 32:58

Yeah, possibly it does say you won't be allowed in. It just says you know there'll be the security on the gates will say no, no, coming in here with your high heels. Fair enough here with your high heels, fair enough. So yeah, only licensed electricians can change light bulbs in in victoria in australia it's an old safety regulation. It's no longer enforced, but you could be.

Speaker 2 33:18

You could be fined ten dollars if you change your own light bulb per bulb per bulb, got it per bulb I mean, I'd risk it for a chocolate biscuit.

Speaker 1 33:28

I love this one. In Tibet, you are not allowed To be reincarnated Without government permission.

Speaker 2 33:38

I'm intrigued to know how they police that.

Speaker 1 33:40

Exactly the reason why they're saying is it controls succession of spiritual leaders.

Speaker 2 33:48

It's a very religious country, isn't it? It is very religious, isn't it? It is very religious? Yeah, isn't it monks? Tibetan monks, it is monks, yeah, tibetan monks.

Speaker 1 33:53

They look awesome.

Speaker 2 33:55

Do they? I can't see a picture of them, it's another place I'd like to go. Tibet. Well, just don't go reincarnating yourself out there.

Speaker 1 34:03

I won't die when I'm there, you hope, in Venice, in Italy feeding pigeons is banned.

Speaker 2 34:14

I can see the overpopulation fair enough.

Speaker 1 34:15

Yeah, that's fair enough. Uh, damages buildings and spreads diseases fines up to 700 euros whoa, that's a lot yeah, a lot of poop. In cambodia you are not allowed to use a water pistol during New Year's Eve celebrations. It just says why, prevents chaos.

Speaker 2 34:40

It genuinely says what were people doing before this law came into effect? Prevents chaos. What is the penalty? Yeah, what's the penalty, does it say.

Speaker 1 34:48

The penalty is confiscation and a fine. It doesn't say how much specifically new year's.

Speaker 2 34:54

Any other time of year.

Speaker 1 34:55

The time is chaos as much as you want with their water pistols, but new year's no, no, no, no, no, no that is the year's day well, also you, you know no dispute, but often you don't know what's in a water pistol. That is true.

Speaker 2 35:08

You could put any liquid in a water I mean, you could, you could smuggle in alcohol that way as well, you could squirt it in.

Speaker 1 35:13

Yes, I have yeah yeah, I can imagine.

Speaker 2 35:18

Yeah, you could. You could be really naughty and put like you know yeah chemicals that harm people's skin and stuff years ago.

Speaker 1 35:25

years ago, uh, we used to go down to cornwall to a place called Run to the Sun. Okay, and it would be, it would be like a massive.

Speaker 2 35:32

Was it an instant?

Speaker 1 35:33

instant, instant it was. Yeah, it wasn't instant, instant. And then we would stay on for the surfing watching and then surfing for the week. So we go for the party at the weekend and then stay the week, go surfing and because Run to the Sun was very, there's a lot of vehicles and it's quite small and I remember one year somebody was putting brake fluid in water pistols and shooting the cars as they were going past. So they're trying to melt the paint.

Speaker 2 35:58

Oh, that's mean.

Speaker 1 36:00

Yeah, so I do know it does happen, because I have seen it with my own eyes. Okay, so it can be very naughty.

Speaker 2 36:05

That's quite mean.

Speaker 1 36:06

Yes, what can be very naughty, that's quite mean. Yes, what else um? This one is definitely a law, should be a law. Well, sharon, forgetting your wife's birthday is illegal in samoa mine's coming up. Yes, oh it doesn't say daughters, no, no, I can forget yours, no, but I have a husband so I was just. You know If we're in Samoa.

Speaker 2 36:31

How much do you get fined for missing your wife's birthday?

Speaker 1 36:33

Possibly a fine or compensation, but you have to give a public apology. Oh how public it doesn't say.

Speaker 2 36:43

I'm sorry for forgetting. Maybe it's a respect thing.

Speaker 1 36:50

It is a cultural respect. That's exactly what it is exactly. Yeah, imagine if you forgot. Yeah, you forget your wives, not your husbands, so they're you know, don't care about them.

Speaker 2 36:55

Yeah, not your husband, but your wife's birthday is this the only time where women are like seen as actually respected?

Speaker 1 37:01

yeah, I'm gonna try the next one. Go on, I'm gonna try the next one. It's a uk law. I just want to see what happens.

Speaker 2 37:09

Wearing a suit of armor in parliament is illegal you actually have a suit of armor as well, yeah I'm gonna full plate armor.

Speaker 1 37:19

Hello see what happens clink, clink, clink yeah it is a law from 1313 to prevent intimidation still in force. Wow, yeah, there's a lot of laws that are still these lot. These are bylaws as well okay in russia it is illegal to drive a dirty car oh man your car must be clean. In russia, the reason being it's uh seen as neglect and a safety issue.

Speaker 2 37:46

Safety, yeah, I guess I guess headlights being covered by mush.

Speaker 1 37:49

Yeah.

Speaker 2 37:50

License plates being covered by mush.

Speaker 1 37:51

Yeah.

Speaker 2 37:52

Yeah, I think.

Speaker 1 37:54

I think it's a little strict, but yeah, you get fined up to between 500 and 2000 rubles, which in English money would be blah, blah, blah about 7, 7 quid to 25 quid, 30 quid. Oh, okay, so it's not a lot yeah, not a lot, not a lot rough, yeah, roughly, yeah, roughly that for a dirty car yeah, in turin, in italy, dog owners must walk their dogs daily. Yes, to promote animal welfare, you can be fined up to 500 euros for neglecting the pet. Agreed.

Speaker 2 38:30

Yeah, I like that law. That's quite good, although when was the last time you walked, archie? I just put this in there for mum.

Speaker 1 38:36

So I haven't walked Archie in quite a while. Your mum does walk Archie all the time. She does sometimes walk him twice a day.

Speaker 2 38:42

I feel like she would have wanted me to say that, yes, she would have done. She would have wanted me to say that, yes, she would have done.

Speaker 1 38:51

She would have done. She would have done that even wants to be a Fact checker Just for her. So, but also well, on hot days though.

Speaker 2 38:59

Yeah, I think there would have to be some leeway. I was thinking that hot days or people with disabilities, but I guess they would need to have someone walk the dog. It depends on the dog as well. The dog might not be able to walk, they might not have legs, I don't know. There could be many reasons why you couldn't walk your dog.

Speaker 1 39:16

But yeah, for the promotion, like in most normal circumstances yeah yeah, promoting healthy dog running and walking I, you know, I, I do, I do agree, because there's too many animals that are neglected in the world.

Speaker 2 39:30

There are. We are coming up to time. We are.

Speaker 1 39:33

I've only got a couple more.

Speaker 2 39:34

Okay, no problem. I do only have a couple more, no problem.

Speaker 1 39:36

Running out of petrol on the Autobahn is illegal in Germany, and you can see why because there is really no speed limit on the Autobahn. So you know, that's proper dangerous.

Speaker 2 39:47

That is proper dangerous.

Speaker 1 39:48

You cannot be stationary on that road really we mentioned Winnie the Pooh's been mentioned before.

Speaker 2 39:54

Oh my gosh. There's another lore about him.

Speaker 1 39:56

There's another lore about Winnie the Pooh in China. Indecent this chap. Yeah, Apparently you are not allowed to have a Winnie the Pooh tattoo in China because it's seen as being mockery of the Chinese president.

Speaker 2 40:10

And you can get arrested for it. Does the Chinese president look like? That's what I want to ask.

Speaker 1 40:14

Yeah, should we move on.

Speaker 2 40:16

Yeah, Does he look like Winnie the Pooh? I guess.

Speaker 1 40:18

Yeah, it is illegal to flush a toilet after 10pm in Switzerland.

Speaker 2 40:26

Oh, there's got to be some sort of water system issue there.

Speaker 1 40:28

That's considered noise pollution. Oh, there's got to be some sort of water system issue there. That was considered noise pollution. Oh, noise pollution. And you can get warnings or fines issued by landlords or the building managers. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 40:38

What if you live out on the sticks?

Speaker 1 40:40

Yeah.

Speaker 2 40:41

You flush a toilet after 10pm.

Final Batch of Peculiar Regulations

Speaker 1 40:43

Not allowed to, so you've just got to let it stew till the morning.

Speaker 2 40:47

If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, so you've just got to let it stew till the morning. If it's yellow, let it mellow.

Speaker 1 40:51

If it's brown, apparently don't flush it down after 10pm or just don't shit after 10. Exactly.

Speaker 2 40:55

Yeah.

Speaker 1 40:55

I'll just let my bowels know that, yes, and the final law, which isn't actually a law anymore. It was rescinded in 2015.

Speaker 2 41:03

Oh.

Speaker 1 41:03

Which is good.

Speaker 2 41:05

Oh yeah, which is good.

Speaker 1 41:06

Because this has got footloose all over it Everybody cut loose, yes, footloose. No dancing after midnight. In what?

Speaker 2 41:14

Where? In Japan, in Japan.

Speaker 1 41:15

It was an old anti-vice law linked to prostitution. Okay, okay, so, yeah. So you weren't allowed to dance after midnight in Japan until 2015.

Speaker 2 41:26

So all the clubs closed it.

Speaker 1 41:27

Basically all the clubs closed.

Speaker 2 41:29

Then they realised that, oh, we can make more money out of this. Let's remove that law.

Speaker 1 41:33

Yeah, rescind it yeah.

Speaker 2 41:34

I see, I see.

Speaker 1 41:35

So there you go.

Speaker 2 41:36

Those are the crazy laws. That's the crazy laws.

Speaker 1 41:42

What was your favourite?

Speaker 2 41:43

Please tell me it was the dead eel. I think it might have been the suspicious salmon as well. Just weird. Yeah, I'm going to go with suspicious salmon. I just feel like there's Indecent. Winnie the Pooh is quite funny as well, but I would say, yeah, suspicious salmon.

Speaker 1 42:00

Actually, I've just thought very quickly of one more Go on, and I don't know if this is still a law, but I'll have to look this up, but I think it used to be. It had to so if a pregnant lady.

Speaker 2 42:11

I knew you were going to say this can pee in a policeman's hat.

Speaker 1 42:15

I don't know if that's a thing that was.

Speaker 2 42:18

It was a thing. Yeah, I do remember it being a thing, but I don't know if it was just one of them like things that you're told.

Speaker 1 42:25

I'm looking for my telephone communication device okay well, mine's filming this. I'm gonna have a. I'm gonna have a quick communication device. Okay, well, mine's filming this. I'm going to have a quick Google.

Speaker 2 42:32

But yeah, I feel like suspicious salmon is probably my favourite. But yeah, a lot of them are just a little odd. The donkey sleeping in the bath after 7pm is just so oddly specific.

Speaker 1 42:43

How could?

Speaker 2 42:43

that possibly be a law? I don't know, it just seems a bit odd. But yeah, I don't know Suspicious salmon. How would you? I don't know, just seems a bit odd, but yeah, I don't know suspicious salmon. I just how would you handle a salmon, suspicious, right?

Speaker 1 42:53

I put can a pregnant woman pee? And the first thing up is come up can a pregnant woman pee in a police hat? Yeah, no, there is no law allowing or forbidding a pregnant woman from urinating in a police hat allowing or forbidding. Oh yes, while some While some may believe there is a legal exception, it is a myth.

Speaker 2 43:10

It is a myth.

Speaker 1 43:12

Yes.

Speaker 2 43:12

I recently learnt it is a myth as well.

Speaker 1 43:14

Go on, gentlemen. Only ladies forbidden. Apparently, that is not true.

Speaker 2 43:21

And I gobsmacked to notice that, because I genuinely thought that was what that was all about.

Speaker 1 43:25

I love this bit. It is not a legal requirement, unless done with consent. On both parties presumably On both parties.

Speaker 2 43:34

Yeah, well if you enjoyed this episode of Crazy Laws, we have other episodes that you might enjoy that aren't to do with Crazy Laws, but equally, as I don't know, insane, I suppose. The only thing left to say, I guess, is cue the outro. Thanks for joining us on Bonus Dad, bonus Daughter. Don't forget to follow us on all our socials and share the podcast with someone who'd love it. We are available on all streaming platforms. See you next time. Bye-bye, outro Music.