The World’s strangest laws
1. You can’t call a pig Napoleon in France.
2. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.
3. In Miami, Florida, you mustn’t skateboard in a police station.
4. In London, you don’t have to pay to take a flock of sheep across London Bridge.
5. In Florida, unmarried women can’t parachute on Sundays.
6. It’s illegal to play golf on the streets of New York.
7. In Kentucky the law still says that everyone must have a bath at least once a year.
8. In seventeenth-century Russia, you couldn’t grow a beard unless you paid a special tax.
9. In fifteenth-century England, it was illegal for men to wear a moustache.
10. In the USA in the eighteenth century, bars couldn’t sell soda water on Sundays.
From the book Practical Grammar John Hughes and Ceri Jones
According to the text, choose the correct alternative:
