I think it was Lord Buckley who said “In England you can get away with the God damndest nuttiness as long as you’re polite about it.”
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I don’t see anything in the law that states you’ll be beheaded for wearing armour in parliament - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw2/7/0/section/wrapper1
Keeping in mind all death penalties have been revoked from our statute books, including for treason, so at least for the intro there’s some inaccuracies in this vid.
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I really wanted to see more interaction with the police, with him explaining what he was doing and why, and their responses.
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That’s not a salmon. This… is a salmon…
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Yeah. He was explicitly trying not to get arrested, including lying about why he was trying to get into parliment wearing a suit of armor. It would have much more interesting if he had said “I want to see if I’ll be beheaded!”
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I found this delightful.
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This seems like the makings of a police procedural comedy where the vice squad’s washout is seconded to Fish and Game to get rid of him; but ends up surprising everyone with his unerring knack for tracking down deviant fish-fondlers and nearly eradicates public salmon stroking.
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If they spun it off Midsomer Murders I would totally watch that.
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Where does English law stand on a dog playing basketball?
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Britain has yet to meet a law it didn’t fall in love with.
That’s the “Did you piscidphiles think you were getting off the hook?!” scene.
Such climactic, very drama.
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European Convention on Human Rights?
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I see what you did there… i meant its own laws such as the investigatory powers act or the porn blocking law as contained within the digital economy act. They’d be quite happy scrapping those filthy EU laws like the ECHR.
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Thought about starting a Kickstarter for a Netflix series where I go around the country breaking obscure laws and then explain where they came from. But then I applied to grad school. So someone please steal my idea and if you make bajillions of dollars remember me and my student loans.
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Well, since salmon aren’t native to the region, I’m going to throw a flag on that one. Shad perhaps. Or striped bass. Not salmon.
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Well, that sounds reasonable–wait, what? Six feet long? Was this enacted to prevent Andre the Giant from hauling around a cannon?
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Oh, and I guess British police are a bit more sensible than American ones. In the couple of videos about this subject that I have seen, not a single cop shot or even tased the boys a little.
Haha
Case Law is the supporting lattice of real-live judgments determining the application of the statutory laws, the world divides into “Common Law” (statutes + case law) - most anglo-saxons including the USA, Oz, New Zealand, the UK, and “Civil Law” - lots of Roman based systems (France, Italy etc), where some crazy person enforced codification of all the rules (viz Napoleon Bonaparte).
Because words aren’t accurate enough, codification is easily mis-applied, and populations revolt. So the sneaky reality (my own eyes, in France) is that Codified systems outside tyrannies have their very own huge volumes of case law, and the tomes of code have footnotes to inform local magistrates and low level judges how to apply the code.
It’s v interesting linguistically, as words are only our rough and ready attempts at communicating ideas and concepts, they are just signs indicating what spindles of thought we can suck from our busy and misguided minds; they are not the ideas themselves.
I really just came here to say we humans should maintain humility about our abilities. We’re really not very good at being. Oh, and fuck Brexit.
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