5. Tibetan monks need permission to reincarnate
In one of history’s most absurd acts of totalitarianism, China banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs in 2007, the law, which strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is “an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation.”
4. Yellow margarine is illegal in Missouri, US.
Did you know that if you buy yellow margarine in Missouri you’re committing a crime? A 19th century state law banned the sale of yellow margarine, though “it’s been years since any violator was ordered to spread them.” Most of Missouri’s restrictions on imitation butter date to 1895, and they were last amended in 1939. Although the state no longer enforces them, the penalties could still make dealers in contraband dairy product toast: up to a month in jail and a $100 fine for first-time offenders and six months in jail and a $500 fine for repeat offenders.
Enforcement of the law falls to the state Agriculture Department, and officials there didn’t know when someone was last prosecuted under it. Case records from the late 19th and early 20th century show that Missouri courts upheld the constitutionality of the restrictions in several appeals. Agriculture Department spokeswoman Misti Preston said it’s likely that the Legislature restricted margarine and other imitation butter products to protect Missouri’s dairy industry, which was a key business for the state in the early 20th century.
3. It’s illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament in England
The reason people are banned from dying in parliament is that it is a Royal palace. Anyone who dies there is technically entitled to a state funeral. So if they see you looking a bit sick they carry you out quickly. However, a spokesman for the House of Commons said: “The people who know about these things here say there is no basis for such a law, not to say it does not exist somewhere in writing.”
2. Brazilian men allowed to return non-virgin brides
You could expect it in a Muslim country, but actually in Brazil, the country famous for its hot carnivals, from 1916 until 2002, men were able to obtain an annulment up to ten days after the wedding if they discovered that their wife was not a virgin before marriage. I bet Brazillian men probably expected that these fine ladies stamped in Rio’s postcard were all virgins. (By the way, a recently law in Brazil has forbidden Brazilian postcards featuring women in bikini, shame on them).
1. It’s illegal to sell sex toys in the state of Alabama
In Alabama, the justice is not only blind but sexually frustrated. Alabama’s anti-obscenity law, enacted in 1998, bans the distribution of “any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for anything of pecuniary value.” The law does not ban the possession of sex toys; residents may legally purchase sex toys out of state for use in Alabama. Be aware, five minutes of pleasure can cost you a lot, since the law has strong penalties: Up to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine for a first offense. A second offense carries a prison sentence of one to 10 years.
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