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The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities: Pizza Police, Illicit Fishbowls, and Other Anomalies of the Law That Make Us All Unsuspecting Criminals (edició 2010)
You're probably breaking the law right now-and don't even know it. Did you know... Naples, Italy, enforces laws for what constitutes real pizza, and 'pizza police' visit restaurants to crack down on unlawful pies? In West Virginia it is a crime to display or possess a red or black flag? It is illegal to sell stuffed articles depicting female breasts within a thousand feet of any county highway in California? Spherical fishbowls have been banned in Rome since 2004? There are hundreds of bizarre laws that we could be breaking at any moment. What exactly are we doing that we shouldn't be doing, and what happens if we get caught? In this engaging and insightful collection, Nathan Belofsky takes us on a journey of eclectic, unexpected, and bizarre laws from around the world. Written by a practicing lawyer with an eye for his profession's most unusual quirks, The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Odditiesoffers a delightful look at the legal system's peculiarities through the ages. From laws that crack down on how we eat, look, and have sex, to real legal battles involving litigious chimpanzees, you'll start wondering whether you're really the law-abiding citizen you claim to be.… (més)
The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities: Pizza Police, Illicit Fishbowls, and Other Anomalies of the Law That Make Us All Unsuspecting Criminals
The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities: Pizza Police, Illicit Fishbowls, and Other Anomalies of the Law That Make Us All Unsuspecting Criminals de Nathan Belofsky
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The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities, by Nathan Belofsky, is a trivia book divided into eight chapters and concerning odd laws from countries around the world and from different times throughout history. The first chapter concerns ancient laws, the second local statutes, the third general oddities, the fourth laws related to animals, the fifth laws pertaining to food and sex, the sixth laws governing leisure activities, the seventh human relations and the last laws that even lawyers can't understand, so full are they of lawyer-speak. Written in a nicely breezy style, this is a book best dipped into from time to time rather than read from cover to cover. Interesting stuff, but (obviously) trivial. ( )
You're probably breaking the law right now-and don't even know it. Did you know... Naples, Italy, enforces laws for what constitutes real pizza, and 'pizza police' visit restaurants to crack down on unlawful pies? In West Virginia it is a crime to display or possess a red or black flag? It is illegal to sell stuffed articles depicting female breasts within a thousand feet of any county highway in California? Spherical fishbowls have been banned in Rome since 2004? There are hundreds of bizarre laws that we could be breaking at any moment. What exactly are we doing that we shouldn't be doing, and what happens if we get caught? In this engaging and insightful collection, Nathan Belofsky takes us on a journey of eclectic, unexpected, and bizarre laws from around the world. Written by a practicing lawyer with an eye for his profession's most unusual quirks, The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Odditiesoffers a delightful look at the legal system's peculiarities through the ages. From laws that crack down on how we eat, look, and have sex, to real legal battles involving litigious chimpanzees, you'll start wondering whether you're really the law-abiding citizen you claim to be.
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