I used to think I’d be in a whole heap of trouble if anyone ever caught me taping the Top 40 off the radio on my ghetto blaster, trying to perfect the art of pressing stop before Bruno Brookes or Mark Goodier started talking again. I’ve considerably moved on technologically since then, as Alexa will play pretty much whatever I want just at my command…although my music taste is still stuck quite firmly in the 1980s!
And illegally recording music off Radio1 really was the worst of my crimes…or so I believed. It turns out that us law-abiding citizens may not be quite as innocent as first thought!
Whilst mainly redundant now, and probably not enforced quite as strenuously as other crimes did you know you could still be nicked in England for carrying a plank of wood down the pavement, bringing potatoes into the country from Poland or trying to flag down a taxi or ride the bus whilst knowingly having the plague. And if you’ve ever ‘handled a salmon in suspicious circumstances’, watch out!
Here are some of the weird and wonderful laws still enforceable in the UK:
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