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Dumb Laws

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Phillipines:

Cars whose license plates end with a 1 or 2 are not allowed on the roads on Monday, 3 or 4 on Tuesday, 5 or 6 on Wednesday, 7 or 8 on Thursday, and 9 or 0 on Friday from 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M.

Switzerland:

Clothes may not be hung to dry on Sunday.

You may not wash your car on a Sunday.

It is considered an offense to mow your lawn on a Sunday, because it causes too much noise.

It is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 P.M. if you live in an apartment.

A man may not relieve himself while standing up, after 10 P.M.

Though it is illegal to produce, store, sell and trade absinth (special alcohol), it is legal to consume it.

If you forget you car-keys inside the car and you leave the car open, you will be punished.

Sweden:

While prostitution is legal, it is illegal to use the services of a prostitute.

You may only own half a meter down in the ground of any land you own.

It is illegal to repaint a house without a painting license and the government's permission.

If you release pigs into a acornwood (or a beechnutwood) mutually owned by you and at least one more, and exceeded your quota of allowed pigs, you will have to pay a fine for each each pig to the other owners and to restore any damages caused by the extra pigs.

Singapore:

The sale of gum is prohibited.

Homosexuals are not allowed to live in the country.

Oral sex is illegal unless it is used as a form of foreplay.

As it is considered pornographic, you may not walk around your home nud_e.

If you are convicted of littering three times, you will have to clean the streets on Sundays with a bib on saying, "I am a litterer." This will then be broadcasted on the local news.

South Korea

Traffic police are required to report all bribes that they receive from motorists.

United Kingdom

It is illegal for two adult men to have sex in the same house as a third person.

Trespassing on someone else's land is legal.

You may not fish on Sundays for salmon.

Anal sex is prohibited.

You may not make out in public.

It is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle.

A license is required to keep a lunatic. Like K.O.

Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks (enacted by Edward VI).

It is illegal to stand within one hundred yards of the reigning monarch when not wearing socks (enacted by Edward VI)

A bed may not be hung out of a window.

Picking up abandoned baggage is an act of terrorism.

Liverpool Laws: It is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.

Chester Laws: You can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.

Hereford Laws: You may not shoot a Welsh person on Sunday with a longbow in the Cathedral Close.

York Laws: Excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow. Edit// but not "JockStar"

Isle of Sark Laws: All land must be left to the eldest son.

Divorces are outlawed.

Japan:

There is no age of consent. (Repealed 1999 - now age 13)

Italy:

A man may be arrested for wearing a skirt. :D

Striking someone with a fist is considered a felony.

It is illegal to practice the profession of charlantry.

Greece:

All electronic games are banned. :D

China:

To go to college you must be intelligent. :D

France:

Between the hours of 8AM and 8PM, 70% of music on the radio must be by French artists.

It is illegal to kiss on railways in France. :o

No pig may be addressed as Napoleon by its owner. :D

Antibes Laws:

It is illegal to take photos of police officers or police vehicles, even if they are just in the background.

Le Lavandou Laws:

It is forbidden without a cemetery plot to die on the territory of the commune.

Paris Laws:

An ashtray is considered to be a deadly weapon. :D

Thailand:

It is illegal to leave your house if you are not wearing underwear.

You must wear a shirt while driving a car.

UK

All taxis must carry a bale of hay at all times. (to ensure the horse is not undernourished)

Thailand:

It is illegal to leave your house if you are not wearing underwear.

Oops... :o

totster :D

i`m not a uncertified lunatic....

remember when I lived in Kanchanaburi... Mrs Frog had a licence to keep me ther...

Another Swiss one is that your garden hedges cannot be any higher than two metres.

And a new one in Geneva (after several children were mauled by pit bulls) is that all dogs have to wear muzzles.

Thailand:

It is illegal to leave your house if you are not wearing underwear.

Oops... :o

totster :D

What about returning home ??? :D

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