For those of you that subscribe to my RSS feed, you may have noticed the annoying Copyright blurb at the bottom of each post. It’s there for a reason. A little while back I had all of my posts mirrored at a splog, which had the intent of driving search engine hits to their website in order to pimp their spammy services.

Several months down the line and I found another splog doing exactly the same thing. This time round I took a more forceful approach as they were mirroring the recent video I uploaded in the post entitled Time Lapse. I spent a lot of time making that video and there’s no way I was going to have it being used to garner extra credit in Google without my permission.
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As outlined in the following BBC article, here are the top ten most ludicrous UK laws chosen by the public.

1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27%)
2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British king or queen’s image upside-down (7%)
3. It is illegal for a woman to be topless in Liverpool except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (6%)
4. Eating mince pies on Christmas Day is banned (5%)
5. If someone knocks on your door in Scotland and requires the use of your toilet, you are required to let them enter (4%)
6. In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman’s helmet (4%)
7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the King, and the tail of the Queen (3.5%)
8. It is illegal not to tell the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing (3%)
9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament wearing a suit of armour (3%)
10. It is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls of York, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow (2%)

I’m sure I could be prosecuted for doing at least two of these!