What are the strangest laws and rules in your country ?

In Italy the strangest laws are:

1 Article 121 of the Consolidated Law on Public Security prohibits the profession of charlatan

2 If you resign from work for an illness that needs treatment, you cannot receive unemployment benefits (but if you steal at work and are fired, you can receive unemployment benefits)

3 In Veneto and precisely in Eraclea, in the province of Venice, you cannot wander around the beach without a shirt, not even to build sand castles, collect shells and take sand.

4 In Lerici, Liguria, you cannot walk around the town wearing only a swimsuit, it cannot even be shown off when hanging towels out of balconies and windows.

5 If you park your car and leave the window open you can be fined for incitement to theft

6 The prohibition of scattering the ashes of one's relatives without their consent

7 In Milan it is forbidden to lie down in public view

8 In Milan it is forbidden to show sores or deformities

9 Even if you don't own a television, you are required to pay the Italian Radio and Television License Fee

10 If your neighbor's tree invades your property with its branches, you cannot cut them without authorization from the municipality, but if the roots of your neighbor's tree invade your property, you can cut them without authorization.

I know from our society class in school (in Dutch it is maatschappijleer) that soft drugs (like marihuana) is NOTTT legal in my country. Many people from other countries think that but he said that is NOTTT true. BUTTT the police does not do anything if you use it. I dont know the name in English but it means that you are not allowed to do it but the police will not do something (like that you have to go to jail). @-Kiki- i am not sure if this is completely correct but i hope it is!! 😛 😛

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I know from our society class in school (in Dutch it is maatschappijleer) that soft drugs (like marihuana) is NOTTT legal in my country. Many people from other countries think that but he said that is NOTTT true. BUTTT the police does not do anything if you use it. I dont know the name in English but it means that you are not allowed to do it but the police will not do something (like that you have to go to jail). @-Kiki- i am not sure if this is completely correct but i hope it is!! 😛 😛

I don't actually know 😅 but you could be very right!

@lucasar92 Why the heck can't people walk without a shirt on a BEACH!!!???? 🤨🤨🤯😵

On the seafront you can't walk without a shirt, it's a matter of public decorum. I think it's to prevent many people from walking around the city without a shirt

I don't actually know 😅 but you could be very right!

@lucasar92 Why the heck can't people walk without a shirt on a BEACH!!!???? 🤨🤨🤯😵

@lucasar92 in belgium/ Nobody is allowed to take your last cow, pig and 24 chickens.

Singing out of tune is punishable. You can get a GAS fine for almost anything, the craziest things first. 

Dogs, horses and oxen can be requisitioned for military purposes. A provision in a military regulation from 1939 states that draught animals can be requisitioned to pull military vehicles. 

Only elderly people, disabled people, women and children are allowed to pick up crop residues

@lucasar92 in belgium/ Nobody is allowed to take your last cow, pig and 24 chickens.

Singing out of tune is punishable. You can get a GAS fine for almost anything, the craziest things first. 

Dogs, horses and oxen can be requisitioned for military purposes. A provision in a military regulation from 1939 states that draught animals can be requisitioned to pull military vehicles. 

Only elderly people, disabled people, women and children are allowed to pick up crop residues

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A new rule was inserted in the Dutch Civil Code in 2013 pursuant to which animals are no longer deemed by law to constitute tangible movable property. However, the same set of rules governing such assets apply mutatis mutandis to animals. In essence: nothing changes except for legal terminology (disregarding some nuances). A strange law? Perhaps. Nevertheless, it echoes the modern societal belief that animals are inherently different than common assets which may be comprised in the "owner's" estate. It aims to acknowledge the unique and intrinsic value of an animal.

Another rule which seems "normal" in current times would seem outrageous from the perspective of older civilizations: people and businesses may deserve rehabilitation upon being declared bankrupt. The common legend/myth (note: controversial issue) is that the term is derived from the Italian practice of smashing the market bench of a trader who has defaulted on his payment obligations (banca rotta which I have been told means "broken bench"). Notorious were also the harsh debtor prisons in the UK (and elsewhere in Europe) and deliberate humiliating rituals required to be performed in public by defaulting debtors. In Ancient Rome a bankrupt debtor could essentially be enslaved (including those who were subject to his dominion). The first codified law in Europe (the Twelve Tables) even contains a provision pursuant to which creditors could cut the debtor in pieces. Likely the dissection of the debtor was soon replaced by a dissection of its patrimony (leading to a more lenient practice where a debtor may be rehabilitated upon the voluntary surrender of property).