Freeman-on-the-land idiocies

[seeformiles]

Delivery driver at work yesterday told me that, if I declare myself to be a corporation, then I won’t have to pay my speeding fine. He also confidently declared that there’s a street in York where I can legally kill a Scotsman and if I “do my research” (while tapping his nose) there’s all sorts of tricks the government doesn’t want “the little man” to know about and that it’s all in the “Magna Charter”.

 

[scifisam]

Delivery driver at work yesterday told me that, if I declare myself to be a corporation, then I won’t have to pay my speeding fine. He also confidently declared that there’s a street in York where I can legally kill a Scotsman and if I “do my research” (while tapping his nose) there’s all sorts of tricks the government doesn’t want “the little man” to know about and that it’s all in the “Magna Charter”.

Of course, if the govt did accept that you were a corporation and not a person, you wouldn't get any benefits, pensions, free NHS treatment, the vote, a passport, etc, and you'd have to pay the (usually much higher) rates rather than council tax.

 

[PTK]

Heard a story from a lawyer today who said a friend with blonde hair had been prosecuting a Sov Citizen recently, where the judge was also a blonde woman. Anyway, the defendent misheard the lawyer addressing the judge as "ma'am" as "mum" and was not able to be convinced that the two were not mother and daughter. Which of course just added to their already high paranoia

Boris Johnson has blonde hair. Many people call him "Dad". Makes you think, eh?

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Well by the looks of it he's only been ordered to pay and hasn't actually paid anything yet looks like he's still successful

He's only just getting started. He'll have successed the fine up to fifty grand and a short prison sentence before you know it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

He's only just getting started. He'll have successed the fine up to fifty grand and a short prison sentence before you know it.

The freeest citizen in the entire 7 square metre realm

 

[brogdale]

Delivery driver at work yesterday told me that, if I declare myself to be a corporation, then I won’t have to pay my speeding fine. He also confidently declared that there’s a street in York where I can legally kill a Scotsman and if I “do my research” (while tapping his nose) there’s all sorts of tricks the government doesn’t want “the little man” to know about and that it’s all in the “Magna Charter”.

Ah, that brave Hungarian peasant girl?

 

[ska invita]

Delivery driver at work yesterday told me that, if I declare myself to be a corporation, then I won’t have to pay my speeding fine. He also confidently declared that there’s a street in York where I can legally kill a Scotsman and if I “do my research” (while tapping his nose) there’s all sorts of tricks the government doesn’t want “the little man” to know about and that it’s all in the “Magna Charter”.

facts

York - a city where it's legal to kill a Scot, but don't let that put you off

I DON'T think I'd have been so keen to visit York if I'd known that I was taking my life in my hands - I discovered, unbelievably, that it is still legal to kill a Scotsman there.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

it has to be with a bow and arrow and you can't do it on a Sunday.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

facts

York - a city where it's legal to kill a Scot, but don't let that put you off

I DON'T think I'd have been so keen to visit York if I'd known that I was taking my life in my hands - I discovered, unbelievably, that it is still legal to kill a Scotsman there.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

it has to be with a bow and arrow and you can't do it on a Sunday.

I thought that was the rule for killing Welsh people in Chester?

 

[ska invita]

I thought that was the rule for killing Welsh people in Chester?

supposedly not the case.... No, you can't shoot a Welshman with a longbow in Chester <though thats the Lame Stream Cheshire Media, so not sure you can trust it.
still York seems to be a goer

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

This is an interesting, quite sad, article. Must admit, I'd always thought of 'freeman of the land' and Covid denialists/anti-vaxxers and '9/11 was an inside job' type people in isolation, I hadn't thought about their long-suffering partners or how difficult it is when your partner starts to disappear down the internet rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. Quite a fascinating insight.

My husband became a conspiracy theorist. Would our marriage survive?

When we met, Arlo was a charming and adventurous photographer. Then the pandemic hit and he fell for fake news, financial scams and flat-Earthers

www.theguardian.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

This is an interesting, quite sad, article. Must admit, I'd always thought of 'freeman of the land' and Covid denialists/anti-vaxxers and '9/11 was an inside job' type people in isolation, I hadn't thought about their long-suffering partners or how difficult it is when your partner starts to disappear down the internet rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. Quite a fascinating insight.

My husband became a conspiracy theorist. Would our marriage survive?

When we met, Arlo was a charming and adventurous photographer. Then the pandemic hit and he fell for fake news, financial scams and flat-Earthers

www.theguardian.com

It's not just partners that can suffer, but any kids and the parents of the one that's gone down the rabbit hole, too.

 

[PTK]

According to this article in The Guardian, the Scotsman must be CARRYING a bow and arrow.
It is also illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas day, it states.

Once again, the government lost the chance to repeal a list of legal curiosities

In the customary rush to create exciting new bills, the government once more lost the chance to repeal a list of legal curiosities.

www.theguardian.com

 

[danski]

According to this article in The Guardian, the Scotsman must be CARRYING a bow and arrow.
It is also illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas day, it states.

Once again, the government lost the chance to repeal a list of legal curiosities

In the customary rush to create exciting new bills, the government once more lost the chance to repeal a list of legal curiosities.

www.theguardian.com

But only while the Scotsman Carries a bow and arrow?

 

[PTK]

But only while the Scotsman Carries a bow and arrow?

Yes, that is what seems to be the case.

These days, it is legal to shoot a man from Brazil if he is unarmed and sitting in a carriage of a London Underground train.

 

[Serge Forward]

This is all very well but thankfully it's still perfectly legal to repeatedly slap a conspiraloon round the head with a Millwall brick, as long as it was constructed from a copy of The Light. And that's also in the Magna Carta (probably)

 

[T & P]

I am actually as relieved as I am surprised there have not been any reports of unemployed FOTL believers in York deciding to seek a new career as legally-exempt assassins for hire to anyone wishing to off a Scot. Available Sundays only within York’s city limits, of course.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I am actually as relieved as I am surprised there have not been any reports of unemployed FOTL believers in York deciding to seek a new career as legally-exempt assassins for hire to anyone wishing to off a Scot. Available Sundays only within York’s city limits, of course.

It's almost as if they know it's a load of bollocks.

 

[dessiato]

According to this article in The Guardian, the Scotsman must be CARRYING a bow and arrow.
It is also illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas day, it states.

Once again, the government lost the chance to repeal a list of legal curiosities

In the customary rush to create exciting new bills, the government once more lost the chance to repeal a list of legal curiosities.

www.theguardian.com

This bit pricked my curiosity " and permitting women to go topless in Liverpool - if, that is, they work as a clerk in a tropical fish shop," does the law include men, if not why not? And what are the circumstances, specific to Liverpool, in which anyone working with tropical fish would want, or need, to go topless? Why don't these conditions arise in other places?

I'm going to be buying some more fish for my aquarium soon, but I'll not be in Liverpool so, hopefully, the staff will be appropriately, and fully, clothed.

 

[ouirdeaux]

A bit of googling shows the topless fish shop law to be a myth. A lot of these quirky laws turn out to be myths.

I'm disappointed that the Graun gives credit to them. It should be easy enough to give the reference that would be used by lawyers discussing it. But you rarely if ever find this. It's worse than unsourced quotations on the internet, as Churchill once said.

 

[PR1Berske]

First as pub quiz question, then as panel show certainty, and finally as Internet fact.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Has not paid council tax for 5 years but only been ordered to pay a bit over 1k. Sounds like he did win, I should stop paying mine.

Init. That's not much more than five months for us.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Presumably he's still liable for the actual tax bill though?

 

[A380]

Presumably he's still liable for the actual tax bill though?

Not if the bailiff who tries to collect isn't wearing a hat...

 

[Serge Forward]

Not if the bailiff who tries to collect isn't wearing a hat...

And is carrying a mace.

 

[keybored]

Only he doesn't pay any council tax, and is still a "freeman" so it's not bollocks.

TFOL movement is gaining weight, like it or not. You can believe the lie told to you by those who want to use you as a cahscow, all you like. I like to think that there's a much better way of living. Away from the law sosciety. Which is a scam.

Lmao. Well it certainly didn't gain much momentum in all that time.

 

[emanymton]

Presumably he's still liable for the actual tax bill though?

Maybe, could be bad reporting, but the article does lists cost separately.

 

[PTK]

A bit of googling shows the topless fish shop law to be a myth. A lot of these quirky laws turn out to be myths.

I'm disappointed that the Graun gives credit to them. It should be easy enough to give the reference that would be used by lawyers discussing it. But you rarely if ever find this. It's worse than unsourced quotations on the internet, as Churchill once said.

It is illegal for a sailor with visible tattoos to purchase a tropical fish in a shop in Liverpool in the hours of darkness in a month with an “r” in it.

 

[existentialist]

A bit of googling shows the topless fish shop law to be a myth. A lot of these quirky laws turn out to be myths.

I'm disappointed that the Graun gives credit to them. It should be easy enough to give the reference that would be used by lawyers discussing it. But you rarely if ever find this. It's worse than unsourced quotations on the internet, as Churchill once said.

Pretty sure that one was Abraham Lincoln's.

 

[dessiato]

A bit of googling shows the topless fish shop law to be a myth. A lot of these quirky laws turn out to be myths.

...

I'm disappointed.

 

[ouirdeaux]

As were the fish.

Actually, what Lincoln said was, 'You can fool most of the people most of the time on the internet, and that's good enough for me.'