DID you know that, according to UK law, it is illegal to handle a salmon in suspicious circumstances? Or MPs are not allowed to wear armour in Parliament?
It is also illegal to be drunk in the pub, and illegal to activate your burglar alarm without first nominating a ‘Key-Holder’ who can switch it off in your absence.
Well, those are some of the strange (and more well known) laws that are still in force in Britain.
But, do you know it used to be against the law to make friends while in jail?
An article printed in the Redditch Indicator (which later became the Advertiser) read:
"A PRISONER serving a two years' hard labour sentence for using counterfeit coins, appeared before the court again for making a friendship whilst in jail.
"He had broken prison rules by befriending and taming a mouse which entered his cell through the ventilator."
The article was featured in the memory lane feature of a 1981 edition of the Redditch Indicator.
It was spotted by Peter Harris who sent it to the Redditch Local History Society which featured it in its monthly newsletter.
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