Post odd things happen in your country!

I think we should make an "oddly enough" thread in GFF since there are many people here come from different countries. Sharing odd stories that happen in our country would be fun thing to do.

I will start from my mine by posting the most laughable law ever that applied in town where I live.

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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Unrelated people who kiss each other on the lips for more than five minutes at public places in the Indonesian city of Tangerang will face arrest, local media said Friday.

The government in Tangerang, a suburb west of Jakarta, defended the regulation as a practical guideline for its officers to follow up on tough and heavily criticized anti-prostitution laws passed by the city council last year.

"Please do not dramatize this. We will not arrest people at will as we are not oppressors," Ahmad Lutfi, head of the city's public order department, told the Koran Tempo newspaper.

Lutfi declined to comment on whether officers would be armed with stopwatches, Tempo reported.

It was not clear if the guideline referred to an uninterrupted five-minute kiss.

Kissing in public is generally frowned upon in Indonesia, especially in rural, predominantly Muslim areas, but giving a time limit for such behavior is unheard of.

Around 85 percent of Indonesia's 220 million people follow Islam, giving the sprawling archipelago the largest number of Muslims of any country. Although most are moderates, there is a growing tendency toward showing Islamic identity and conservative attitudes.

That backdrop, along with the recent devolution of power to regional governments, has given several regions space to create tighter rules on morality.

The new anti-prostitution laws in Tangerang, a city of more than one million, sparked complaints from liberals in February after a female restaurant worker waiting for her husband on a street at night was picked up because police officers thought she was a prostitute.

At the national level, draft legislation addressing pornography issues has been circulating for years in parliament and debate on it is reaching a peak. The original draft proposed a ban on public kissing on the lips but it is unclear whether the particular article will survive in the final version.

Law forbids people to kiss beyond 5 minutes? Hilarious. I wish these policitians care more important things than this.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...oral_election/

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Donkey wins Colorado mayoral election

July 26, 2004
FLORISSANT, Colo. -- No elephants need apply. This unincorporated area on Saturday re-elected Paco Bell, a donkey, as its mayor, and that wasn't even close. Two of the four candidates didn't show up.

It's all part of the 15th annual Heritage Days in the town between Divide and Lake George on Colorado Highway 24. Residents like to poke fun at the political process, and they do it by electing a donkey as mayor. Paco Bell won re-election against two no shows and a white donkey named Birdie.
"We had one who was colicky, so he couldn't make it, and another one's trailer broke down, so he couldn't come either," said organizer Tracie Bennitt.
Volunteers the Pikes Peak Historical Society stuffed Paco Bell's ballot box with donations -- ensuring him a second term.
Dagney Hales, 8, and Sam Easto, 7, fed the mayor wild goldenrod, green stalks with little yellow flowers, and Teller County Sheriff Kevin Dougherty swore in the incumbent.
"This is good and rural," Dougherty said. "We love doing this kind of stuff."

I love Colorado, but damn is it a weird state xp Of course not like I can complain, since that's nothing like what Ohio and Michigan did...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War

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The Toledo War of 1835-1836 was a largely bloodless boundary dispute between the state of Ohio and the Michigan Territory of the United States over a 468 square mile (1,210 km²) strip of land (the "Toledo Strip") including what is now the city of Toledo, Ohio. It is also referred to variously as the Ohio-Michigan War, the Battle of Phillip's Crossing, the Ohio-Michigan Boundary War and the Michigan-Ohio War.
The land in question was officially made part of the Michigan Territory by Congress in 1805, but the lack of accurate maps at the time led the land to be claimed by both governments. Due to the strategic importance of the land (specifically, the port of Maumee Bay), both sent out militias to stake their claims.
While only one injury resulted from the conflict, the state of Ohio, with its 21 members in Congress (compared to Michigan's single non-voting delegate), was able to stall Michigan's admission to the Union as a state until they gave up the disputed land in exchange for the western half of the Upper Peninsula. Considered a poor deal for Michigan at the time, the eventual discovery of copper and other valuable natural resources in the Upper Peninsula have led some to speculate that Michigan, in fact, was the ultimate winner of the Toledo War.

I think a lot of the humor of that one comes from it being Ohio and Michigan XD

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hmm.....I'd have to say everything here in the US is pretty screwed up.

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you know, I heard somewhere a woman actually swallowed her cellphone in USA. now, that's news. Anyway seems like this thread is not too hot. I guess mod should lock it since nobody posts anything here.

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Nothing quotable happens in my country, the biggest thing is that poor people keep voting for a world famous assasin (and the rest of this will go in political palace if somebody needs to hear more (please not )

Originally Posted by eriol

I guess mod should lock it since nobody posts anything here.

or just let it rest with the other thousands of threads in the "Thread Heaven"

I was speaking idiomatically.