Odd Laws

Odd Laws
Jenny Paschall

Loopy legislation, crazy crimes and punishments – based on the TV series Beyond Belief!In Madagascar the law forbids pregnant women to wear hats or eat eels.In 1982, an elephant was arrested in Wisconsin on suspicion of murder.Minnesotans may not put male and female underwear next to each other on the clothes line.It sometimes seems that there is a law for everything these days – you never know when you could be risking arrest through some seemingly innocent act, especially when travelling abroad.Fear no more! With 'Odd Laws', the essential handbook for law-abiding travellers, you will know: not to dance on turtles in Malaya or hunt camels in Arizona, get fish drunk in Oklahoma or wrestle an untrained bull in public in England.Packed with amazing and side-splitting anecdotes of crime and punishment, Odd Laws proves what we all suspected, that sometimes the law really is an ass.

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CONTENTS

Cover (#ud3aab5fe-aae2-51c6-ac06-7aa023e7aa1e)

Title Page (#ucba4ca6d-a8f3-5afa-af65-5b8dc49050fc)

Copyright (#ulink_65d2663a-9e28-5d1f-a6a0-bca428981a61)

One For The Road (#ulink_a8436f6b-c710-5d3f-ac69-79b298183b49)

The Eye Of The Beholder (#ulink_efe94c6f-b034-5e81-b8d1-d3e02ab7b87b)

Love And Marriage (#ulink_d75a4eac-34d5-5fc8-a506-24bb35d9ee25)

Till Death Us Do Part (#ulink_bacd5e79-d9da-5622-acac-ef9ef5d8b60b)

House Rules (#ulink_ab2135bf-3a6f-506c-8e36-00a15052ad4a)

A Close Shave (#litres_trial_promo)

When In Rome (#litres_trial_promo)

Eat, Drink – And Be Arrested (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Taking The Tablets (#litres_trial_promo)

Trendy, But Illegal (#litres_trial_promo)

Blame The Parents (#litres_trial_promo)

That’s Entertainment (#litres_trial_promo)

Going Off The Rails (#litres_trial_promo)

Politicians Know Best (#litres_trial_promo)

Of Mice And Men (#litres_trial_promo)

Kangaroo Court – Animals In The Dock (#litres_trial_promo)

Death Is No Excuse (#litres_trial_promo)

Daylight Robberies (#litres_trial_promo)

Publish And Be Damned (#litres_trial_promo)

Courtroom Capers (#litres_trial_promo)

Walls Do Not A Prison Make (#litres_trial_promo)

Sporting Fixtures (#litres_trial_promo)

In Church (#litres_trial_promo)

Miscellaneous Misdemeanours (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 1 (#ulink_4df003a9-1d09-552f-a0f9-7e64c44318fd)

One For The Road (#ulink_4df003a9-1d09-552f-a0f9-7e64c44318fd)