没吃饱不用付账？盘点世界各国奇怪法律

In Denmark, you legally have to check under your car for children who may be sleeping there before you start the engine. But don’t panic too much if you forget and get thrown in jail for running over some catnapping kids – in Denmark it is not against the law to escape from prison.

我在想那个泰迪熊在那边干什么

在丹麦，在开车之前，你必须在发动引擎之前先检查一下看看车底下有没有小孩躲在下面。但是即使你忘了检查，并且还把正在你车底下睡觉的小孩给碾了过去而进了监狱，那你也不用太紧张——在丹麦，从监狱里逃跑并不违法。

Not feeling very flush

You must plan your movements very carefully in Switzerland. Flushing the toilet after 10pm in an apartment building is illegal there. The Government curiously considered noise pollution to be more anti-social than olfactory pollution. Not sure we agree with them on that one. Anyway, whether you relieve yourself and leave the flat humming, or you just wait until morning, the choice is completely yours.

晚上十点以后禁止冲马桶

在瑞士，你得好好地安排的自己的日常活动。在公寓大楼里，如果在10点以后你还在冲马桶的话就会被当作是违法的行为。和嗅觉污染比起来，当地政府认为噪音污染对社会的影响更大。不能肯定在这一点上我们会同意瑞士政府的观点。但是无论如何，解决内急让公寓大楼陷入嗡嗡噪音，或者憋到天亮再解决，总之选择的权力在你的手中。

Pricey passports

You’re a British citizen, you pay upwards of £77.50 for your passport, it has a valid picture of you in it – so it’s yours, right? Well, maybe. According to the text on the leaflet it belongs to Her Majesty’s Government. But in 1955, Earl Jowitt, a former solicitor-general and attorney-general, pointed out that ‘the Government’ couldn’t own anything because there is no such legal entity. No one since has been able to clarify the matter. So who gets the £77.50?

价格高昂的护照

你是一个英国市民，然后你付77.5英镑来获得你的护照，在护照里有你的一张照片——所以这张护照肯定是你的，是吧？嗯，或许吧。根据护照上的一段说明书的说法，这个护照是属于英国政府的。但是在1955年的时候，乔伊特伯爵（英国前副检察长和首席检察官）却指出“政府”无法拥有任何东西，因为根本就不存在这个法律实体。从那以后，就再也没有人澄清过这件事情。所以到底是谁获得了这77.5英镑？

G.I. No

If you’re one of those spirited sorts who relaxes by re-enacting battles, you might want to think twice about taking a Caribbean holiday – it’s against the law to wear camouflage clothing in Trinidad and Tobago and St Lucia. Apparently this is to prevent people from imitating military and other officials, and you could be detained and have your kit confiscated. That is, of course, if they can find you.

军用品，不行

如果你是那种精力充沛的人，都要通过玩战斗对抗来放松的话，那么在去加勒比海度假之前你可能要三思——在特立尼达和多巴哥，穿着迷彩服是一种违法行为。很显然，这是为了禁止人们模仿军方官员以及其他的官员，如果你穿着迷彩服的话，将会被拘留并且你的装备还会被没收。当然那也得在他们找得到你的情况下。

Out of this world

According to the brilliantly named ‘The Outer Space Act 1986’, the Secretary of State is permitted to use ‘reasonable force’ to prevent an alien invasion of the UK – as long as the aliens don’t possess a licence to invade. In which case, they can operate their ‘space objects’ in perfect legality. This is the sort of law that truly made Britain great.

异常了得

根据“1986外太空法案”的规定，如果外星人没有持有侵略证的话，那么国务大臣就有权利使用“适当的力量”来阻止外星人入侵英国。在外星人入侵的情况下，英国就可以完全合法的使用自己的“太空武器”了。而正是这种法律才让英国在过去如此的强大。

Drunken Disorders

Drinking a lot is confusing enough without having to remember a myriad of boozing bylaws. For example, in St Louis you can’t drink beer while sitting on a city street, but in Chicago you can be arrested for drinking standing up anywhere in the city. You cannot be served wine in a teacup in Topeka, Kansas; while in Cleveland, no more than one person may sip from a whisky bottle. Saskatchewan in Canada at least has the rights of the drinker at its civic heart – it is against the law to drink water in beer parlours there.

酒后骚乱

虽然我们不用太在意酒桌上众多的喝酒禁忌，但是想喝多点还真不是一件容易的事情。举个例子，在圣路易斯市，当你坐在城市街道上时是不允许喝啤酒的，但是在芝加哥，不管是在这个城市的哪个角落，只要你站着喝酒警察就可以逮捕你。在堪萨斯州的托皮卡市，是不允许用茶杯来盛酒的；而在克利夫兰市，是不允许用威士忌酒瓶直接喝的。加拿大的萨斯喀彻温省的做法就更绝了——在啤酒酒吧里面喝水是违法的。

Czech your change

If you’re in Prague and your taxi driver ups the meter setting beyond the standard rate of ‘level 1’, watch out. If he turns it up to ‘level 2’ he might just be ripping you off – par for the tourist course. But if he cranks it up all the way to ‘level 3’ then it’s time to panic. This is the official Government-sanctioned rate that must be used for all taxi rides following a nuclear explosion.

当心的士司机的计时器

假设你现在在布拉格，如果的士司机把计时器表盘调到标准“水平1” 以外去的话，那你就要小心了。如果司机把标准调到“水平2”的话，他这时候可能就是在敲诈你了——“水平2”是为旅游路线设计的，费用较高。但是如果司机把标准升到“水平3”的话，这时候你要感到恐惧才对。因为“水平3”是政府制定的标准，而这种标准只有在核爆炸的情况下才会被应用。