B1 – Intermediate
When you’re travelling around the world, it’s not always a bad idea to do your research on local laws and traditions. Not only could this keep you out of trouble, but it can also help you get the most out of your trip. However, there are some strange laws in some countries that will surely make you scratch your head.
Here are 14 strange laws to keep in mind next time you book a trip.
https://www.businessinsider.com/14-strange-laws-from-around-the-world-2016-7
Discussion Questions:
- Which among the laws mentioned do you find most absurd?
- Does your country have any strange laws as well?
- If you could add or remove a law in your country, what would it be?
8 replies on “Strange Laws Around the World”
1- The most absurd law is the chickens can’t cross the road
2- I don’t know, but its probable tha here are lots of absurd laws
3- Probably the law that put taxes on sun, to prevent invests on solar energy
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1- The most absurd law is the chickens can’t cross the road
2- I don’t know, but its probable tha here are lots of absurd laws
3- Probably the law that put taxes on sun, to prevent invests on solar energy
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Which among the laws mentioned do you find most absurd?
“the chicken-gate”, it´s incredible – a chicken can´t cross the road in Georgia, why?.
Does your country have any strange laws as well?
I wish the rules in my country be usseful rules, if there are laws like those, they must change.
If you could add or remove a law in your country, what would it be?
Spain must be ban bullfighting
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1. Which among the laws mentioned do you find most absurd?
There are some of them that are absurd but the two ones the most absurd are naming a pig Napoleon in France and using water guns in Cambodia on New Year’s Eve.
2. Does your country have any strange laws as well?
Yes, Spain has. It’s not allowed to beg with dog in Madrid or to play dominoes at the terraces of bars in Seville.
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1. Which among the laws mentioned do you find most absurd?
I think that laws such as prohibiting the sale or importation of water pistols in Pnom Phen or prohibiting peeing in the ocean or prohibiting calling a pig Napoleon, are absurd
2. Does your country have any strange laws as well?
One of the strange laws that exists in some Spanish cities is to prohibit people from walking without a shirt in the city center.
3. If you could add or remove a law in your country, what would it be?
It would revoke the electoral law currently in force for a more balanced one in which each person’s vote is worth the same regardless of where they reside.
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