funny laws in Ireland

Lady Lola

Hello All,
I'm doing a project at the moment on hitch hiking in time and I need a few funny laws, brehon or viking. I'm looking for ones that could apply to a visitor to the country such as being drunk and disorderly or the consequences of hitting on a warriors woman ! Anyone any suggestions as I am really stuck and need some help !!!

arctic lemur

Ducks have right of way on traffic at all times!

d-arke

check out http://www.dumblaws.com

apparently in some state in america its illegal to kiss a fish

Lady Lola

Ha Ha ! Some of them are great, America is a really wierd place. Thanks for the link and the duck law (!?!) Need Irish laws though, and I cant find anything, even some moral guidelines would do at this stage ! Gimme some help here Please !!!!

wb

Lady Lola wrote:

Ha Ha ! Some of them are great, America is a really wierd place. Thanks for the link and the duck law (!?!) Need Irish laws though, and I cant find anything, even some moral guidelines would do at this stage ! Gimme some help here Please !!!!

apparantly, a taxi is legally always supossed to carry hay in the back.
(goes back to the days when taxis were horse and carraige)

It is legal to crap on a public street, but not to p*ss

it is legal to drink on the street, so long as the bottle is covered with a bag or whatever.

Executive Steve

under brehon law, you could be fined a tenth of everything you woned for refusing food to a pregnant woman.

not exactly a "stupid" law mind you...

Downtime

If you ask a police man for his hat to pee in he must give it to you in the UK.
Also in TCD apparently one Catholic may be killed every year.

luckat

http://ua_tuathal.tripod.com/brehonlinks.html

3greenrizla's

wbailey wrote:

It is legal to crap on a public street, but not to p*ss

if i remember correctly a guard has to cover you with their jacket if they catch you having a cr*p in the street..........

like to see someone try though

biko

A law with the Tuatha De Danann was that no man imperfect in form could be king, so when Nuada lost his hand in a battle he also lost his crown...

samb

I think that law about the police man was for a pregnant woman. She pisses in the hat and he hides her with his cloak.

Is there some law about shooting catholics form trinity or something like that. Also a man can piss on the back wheel of his carriage (Car) with one hand up on vehicle

GusherING

In TCD when doing your exams, you can ask for a mug of brandy before you begin them. My mate did this, saying it was in some old rule book he found. The exam invigilators looked up the rule book themselves and found that for him to get his brandy he first had to surrender his sword to them. Obviously he didn't have a sword so he got no brandy, Funny all the same though.

monkeyfudge

GusherING wrote:

In TCD when doing your exams, you can ask for a mug of brandy before you begin them. My mate did this, saying it was in some old rule book he found. The exam invigilators looked up the rule book themselves and found that for him to get his brandy he first had to surrender his sword to them. Obviously he didn't have a sword so he got no brandy, Funny all the same though.

And how much time did he waste in his exam before they reached this conclusion?

EOA_Mushy

3greenrizla's wrote:

if i remember correctly a guard has to cover you with their jacket if they catch you having a cr*p in the street..........

like to see someone try though

I'd want a lawyers knowledge of law before attempting this one...
Dont think the cops are going to love you one way or another...lol

wayfarer

GusherING wrote:

In TCD when doing your exams, you can ask for a mug of brandy before you begin them. My mate did this, saying it was in some old rule book he found. The exam invigilators looked up the rule book themselves and found that for him to get his brandy he first had to surrender his sword to them. Obviously he didn't have a sword so he got no brandy, Funny all the same though.

lol your mate did this :rolleyes:

We were told this story by a lecturer back in first year only he said that they gave him the brandy (or I think it might have been port.. anyway) but afterwards fined him because he didn't have his sword by his desk.

Heard a few months after that it didn't happen in TCD at all but in Kings Inn and then heard some time later that it was from neither of these, that it's actually a tale from either Oxfod or Cambridge, I can't remember which.

Redleslie2

In brehon law a woman could divorce her husband for things like having bad breath and being a crap shag. And to keep the society reasonably equal, stable and united, the land would be periodically collectivised and the clan members would be given an equal share. That's not really funny but it wouldn't go down too well these days I imagine.

The_Bullman

GusherING wrote:

In TCD when doing your exams, you can ask for a mug of brandy before you begin them. My mate did this, saying it was in some old rule book he found. The exam invigilators looked up the rule book themselves and found that for him to get his brandy he first had to surrender his sword to them. Obviously he didn't have a sword so he got no brandy, Funny all the same though.

Yawn

Redleslie2

This looks like a lazy journalist trying to get others to do his/her work. Ho hum.

wayfarer

The_Bullman wrote:

Yawn

lol snopes really does take the fun out of everything!

pork99

The hoary old chestnut in this department was the one about being entitled to £5 for each head of a rebel or head of a wolf you could deliver to Dublin castle. Supposedly a piece of legislation from the 16th entury still technically in force today though probably an urban legend I think.

coyote6

Check out www.dumblaws.com for weird laws from across the globe. I work as a cop in a town inhabited by lots of Appalachians. They have their own "laws" one of which is "yu cain't urrest a pregnunt wuman" and then there's the guy who can't believe you arrest him for beating the living crap out of his wife.

Then there's this: It's bad when you show up to a domestic where the dad is yelling at his 12 yr. old daughter for smoking crack in front of their kids.

Yeah I know... wrong in SOOOO many ways!:(