Local authorities can impose fines on people hiking nude in the Alps in the conservative canton of Appenzell.
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No pilot-in-command of an aircraft shall permit a person to enter or leave the aircraft during flight without a parachute.
Transport Canada started this to curtail wing-walking and other stunts.
You can be fined $20 for swearing in public.
Police in the town of 22,000 will be writing tickets bearing fines in that amount to those who foul its public places with profanity after residents voted 183-50 in June 2012 that they were mad as *#%@& and weren’t going to take it anymore.
It is illegal not to smile in public
In 1948, the Mayor of the City of Pocatello, George Phillips, passed an ordinance making it illegal not to smile in Pocatello. The “Smile Ordinance” was passed tongue in cheek as a result of an exceptionally severe winter, which had dampened the spirit of city employees and citizens alike. The ordinance unintentionally remained on the…
You must pay a television tax whether or not you own a television
Finland’s television tax has been between €244.90 and €253.80 per annum with a household with a television. However, in 2013 the tax will be applied on every adult, not just every household, and will be graduated according to your income. The tax will be between €50 and €140 per person. The government assumes that even…
Women cannot be employed to dance with men
No female shall be permitted to be employed in any dance hall for the purpose of dancing with male patrons of the dance hall.