If You Could Create A Law....?

What would it be? Here's mine:

On the "School Run", if you live closer than a mile to the school, then you walk.

Don't be lazy and stop double parking when you get there. It's a right pain near where I live.

CAVEAT: Medical exemptions obviously apply.

 

Who would enforce this law?

 

Ever thought about moving.
There should be a law making grilled tomatoes.
Illegal on a full English. Replaced by tinned.

 

I've no idea and clearly haven't thought it through.

I just got annoyed earlier when I drove passed the school at about 3ish and I moved 100 yards in about 7 minutes.

 

Death penalty for anyone urinating on the toilet seats in pub traps.

 

Death penalty for the owners of dogs who live in Old Town near the two snickets who don't pick up the copious amounts of dog muck.

 

Same as with existing laws I’d imagine, no lovely person!

 

I'd ban twitter, facebook and reality tv.

 

Oh, and given the latest yougov poll shows support for brexit stands at 32% I'd introduce a law to start the process of rejoining the EU.

 

Civilians have the right to shoot people who put fog lights on and just sidelights or fog lights more generally, or illegal blue lights with illegal spacing number plates lit by too bright flickering LEDs that cant be supported by the current.
Car based.

 

Here are some laws still on our statute books:
Town police clauses act 1847:
In a street, highway, footpath it is unlawful to
beat a carpet after 0800
Roll a cask or wheel
Ride a cart or carriage without holding the reins
Cause a beast of burden to stand still too long
Keeping a pigsty to the front of any street (Hillsborough must have an exemption)

1824 vagrancy act
Exposing wounds or deformity whilst gathering alms
Imposing on his majesty's subjects by pretending or professing to tell a fortune by palmistry or otherwise ( this is why fortune tellers ask for silver (it's their proof you asked them to do it and hence a defence.).
(This act is only now in the course of being repealed).
It is also an offence at common law to impersonate a priest in holy orders and vestments and conduct a marriage ceremony

In light of some of our silly real laws, I doubt we'd come up with anything as daft. Unless it's a law against people in groups of two or more who dawdle in a pedestrian walkway to the annoyance of people trying to get somewhere.

 

No need to create a law for that, just move to China.

 

Not forgetting the power to commit an incorrigible rogue to the Crown Court for sentence!

 

Was nicknamed skid row alley when we used to go to Grey Horse..

 

Shariah.

 

Mothers with prams travelling on public transport during rush hour. (You don't need to be out that early or late with a child of pram age.)

 

Same for OAP's trying it on before 0930.

And OAP's at the post office or barber, who will queue outside from 0830 until it opens at 0900 to avoid a queue when they have all day, but you have a 10 minute slot to drop a parcel off before work.

 

Scrap V.E.D. and introduce a Vignette system like Switzerland, Austria etc and also Tolls for some motorways/crossing points (tunnels and bridges) . The advantages are that -
since Vignettes would be required for ALL vehicles both domestic and foreign it raises additional funds since foreign lorries, cars and MCs would have to buy one when entering UK. This works well when you pass through Switzerland en route to Italy ... You buy them at various shops services etc near the border or at the border itself. Swiss ones are annual (one month grace at either end and Austria you can buy them for specific periods month year etc.
Motorway users would effectively pay by the mile which is much fairer since someone who travels 4 or 5 thousand miles a year is far less polluting than someone travelling 15-30 or 40 thousand miles. The current system does not take into account actual usage. The argument that it will force cars off motorways and increase congestion on non toll roads does not stand up providing the toll pricing is fair and matches the convenience element. You can also use systems like Telepass that has a transponder stuck to the windscreen and raises barriers automatically in certain toll booth lanes so no delays and you are billed every 3 months. A 'better way' would be to not have tolls, scrap V.E.D and add a small amount to price per litre ( PAYG) but keeping what you were actually paying per litre would probably not remain 'transparent' and open to abuse by Govts.

 

What if they are taking their kids to their parents/childminder/daycare while they go to work?

 

I used to live under 1 mile from school (about 10 minutes walk), but I used to drop my daughter off at school on the way to work - it was directly on the way. Would I have had to walk her to school, then walk back, then drive past the school to go to work?