Karenluvs6
01-10-2001, 07:51 AM
Bizarre Laws
SWITZERLAND
Clothes may not be hung to dry on Sunday.
It is considered an offense to mow your lawn on a Sunday,
because it causes too much noise.
It is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 p.m. if you live
in an apartment.
A man may not relieve himself while standing up, after 10 p.m.
Though it is illegal to produce, store, sell alcohol, it is
legal to consume it.
It is required that every car with snow tires has to have
a sticker on its dashboard which tells that the driver
should not drive faster than 160 km/h with these tires.
If you leave your car-keys inside the car with the car door
open, you will be punished.
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MALAYSIA - Bamboo-nesting ants in the Malaysian rainforest
are providing their own type of flood damage control. New
research has shown that worker ants protect their nest from
flooding by drinking the water that has got in, then head
out the back and pee it away. Researchers Ulrich Maschwitz
and Joachim Moog of Frankfurt University, Germany, discovered
the method by watching a colony at work in their lab. They
dripped two milliliters of colored water into the nest and
watched the ants literally squeeze out 3,030 droplets over
two days.
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MEMPHIS, Tennessee - It's the stuff country song lyrics are
made of. Apartment complex owner Ricky Kees was sentenced
to nearly a year in jail for shooting a tenant's alarm clock
with a .22-caliber revolver while he was drunk. After it had
been shot, the General Electric clock kept on ticking, and
buzzing, prompting Kees to return and take a second shot at
it. Criminal Court Judge W. Otis Higgs Jr. sentenced Kees to
11 months and 29 days in jail and to an additional 90 days
for drunk-driving offences.
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ROCHESTER, New York - Those New York deer are nothing to mess
with. US athlete Chet Jozefski was taking part in a New Year's
Day run sponsored by the Greater Rochester Track Club when he
was knocked off his feet by a passing deer. Chet Jozefski said
he had given up his traditional New Year's Day motorcycle ride
because he thought a run would be safer. The first deer passed
him without incident. However, the second deer jumped and sent
Jozefski to the ground after catching him on the shoulder with
one of it's hoofs. He went on to finish the race, bloody nose
and all.
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PASADENA, California - Callers wishing to hear information
about upcoming US amateur golf tournament heard about more
than their golf balls. A one digit error published in 100,000
brochures for the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, CA, led
callers to a sex line instead of the golf line. Caryn Eaves
Person, the event's spokeswoman, told reporters, "As everyone
knows who works with printed materials, mistakes happen."
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New Bedford, MA - A gallery browser walked into Gallery X on
Sunday and chatted with a bystander before stealing a large
plastic jug containing $100 in donations. Unfortunately for
the thief the bystander was an artist who quickly made a sketch
of the man and called the police. The sketch led to his
capture.
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SWITZERLAND
Clothes may not be hung to dry on Sunday.
It is considered an offense to mow your lawn on a Sunday,
because it causes too much noise.
It is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 p.m. if you live
in an apartment.
A man may not relieve himself while standing up, after 10 p.m.
Though it is illegal to produce, store, sell alcohol, it is
legal to consume it.
It is required that every car with snow tires has to have
a sticker on its dashboard which tells that the driver
should not drive faster than 160 km/h with these tires.
If you leave your car-keys inside the car with the car door
open, you will be punished.
------------------------------------------------------------
MALAYSIA - Bamboo-nesting ants in the Malaysian rainforest
are providing their own type of flood damage control. New
research has shown that worker ants protect their nest from
flooding by drinking the water that has got in, then head
out the back and pee it away. Researchers Ulrich Maschwitz
and Joachim Moog of Frankfurt University, Germany, discovered
the method by watching a colony at work in their lab. They
dripped two milliliters of colored water into the nest and
watched the ants literally squeeze out 3,030 droplets over
two days.
------------------------------------------------------------
MEMPHIS, Tennessee - It's the stuff country song lyrics are
made of. Apartment complex owner Ricky Kees was sentenced
to nearly a year in jail for shooting a tenant's alarm clock
with a .22-caliber revolver while he was drunk. After it had
been shot, the General Electric clock kept on ticking, and
buzzing, prompting Kees to return and take a second shot at
it. Criminal Court Judge W. Otis Higgs Jr. sentenced Kees to
11 months and 29 days in jail and to an additional 90 days
for drunk-driving offences.
------------------------------------------------------------
ROCHESTER, New York - Those New York deer are nothing to mess
with. US athlete Chet Jozefski was taking part in a New Year's
Day run sponsored by the Greater Rochester Track Club when he
was knocked off his feet by a passing deer. Chet Jozefski said
he had given up his traditional New Year's Day motorcycle ride
because he thought a run would be safer. The first deer passed
him without incident. However, the second deer jumped and sent
Jozefski to the ground after catching him on the shoulder with
one of it's hoofs. He went on to finish the race, bloody nose
and all.
------------------------------------------------------------
PASADENA, California - Callers wishing to hear information
about upcoming US amateur golf tournament heard about more
than their golf balls. A one digit error published in 100,000
brochures for the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, CA, led
callers to a sex line instead of the golf line. Caryn Eaves
Person, the event's spokeswoman, told reporters, "As everyone
knows who works with printed materials, mistakes happen."
------------------------------------------------------------
New Bedford, MA - A gallery browser walked into Gallery X on
Sunday and chatted with a bystander before stealing a large
plastic jug containing $100 in donations. Unfortunately for
the thief the bystander was an artist who quickly made a sketch
of the man and called the police. The sketch led to his
capture.
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