Pointless Laws Vs Wanted Laws (There ought to be a law about that!)

Member Name: bettyboopy

Product:	There ought to be a law about that!
Date:	03/06/07 (597 review reads)
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Advantages: Stops peopele draining the system, criminal activity and respectable people losing money

Disadvantages: It will never happen

There are many pointless laws in the world, why do they even exsist?

For example:
In Alabama it is illegal to play donimoes on a Sunday
In Colorado car dealers cannot display their cars on a Sunday
In Florida it is illegal to have doors that open "inwards" on a public building
In London it is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour.

Crazy you may think, but why are there not laws in place for the things that we really want banning?

There are many laws that should exsist and in my opinion a few are as follows:

~Wages should be fair~
Yes, there are laws in place to ensure a fair place in employment, such as age, race, and sex discrimination. Footballers are on crazy wages, while other people who work seriously hard for a living scrimp and save for their food shopping each week.
I think a law should be introduced to companies to ensure that anyone working full time should get a higher wage than those working part time. This will encourage people to want to work, and those who only work 16 hours a week so they can also claim all their benefits, such as housing and council tax benefits, will actually be worse off than those working full time. It really angers me when people I know work 16 hours a week, they dont want to work anymore hours as they will lose their benefits, and be worse off if they work full time. I work 39 hours a week, and they have a better quality of life as they have more money than me.
Obviously there will be some problems with this law, and the only people that will moan and gripe about this are those who drain money from the government - our money than we pay through our taxes. And why do we pay this money? Oooh yes, thats right, because we work full time. I also think that those people who are on benefits should be paid by voucher ONLY, as most of the teenage girlies who think a baby in a pram is a fashion accessory should use their "hard earned" benefit money to buy baby products and child care (so they can go out and get a job), instead of the latest top or pair of shoes from New Look.

~Spitting~
I hate this. There are two types of spitter.
-There is the collective group of proffessional spitters. Lads, and many girls, walk down the street normally, then you here this foul sound coming from the pit of their stomach while they create the biggest glob of mucous you have ever seen and spit it out of their mouths, making it fly 10 feet.
-Then you have the wannabe spitters who are having a conversation with you, and after ever sentance they spit just a little saliva on the floor. You make a fast escape from them before you are paddling your way across the street.
Both of these groups should be fined £30 per spit if they are seen and the money donation to charity. This would stop them, and stop old people slipping over the slippery globs all over the floor in the town centre, while out shopping on a saturday morning.

~Dog walkers~
Dog walkers should keep their dogs on leads, unless on a beach, or an open place. I am sick to death of walking my dog and being approached by another dog off their lead with the owner trailing 100 feet behind. My dog doesn't like other dogs, why should I keep him muzzled, when I keep him on a lead? If I see another dog approaching on a lead I can simply cross the road, if the dog is off the lead it is on my dog in seconds. Twice, my dog has been attacked my another dog, once by a huge alsation, and the other by a staffordshire bull. The owners couldn't of cared less and didn't even apologise, they said they had the right not to have their dog on a lead.
A law to have all dogs to be put on leads in public areas, exept designated areas, so those who want their dogs off leads can do so, at their own expense. Those who don't adhere to this should again be fined and the money donated to an animal rescue or animal charity.

~Groups of kids~
We have all been young once, but 60 teenagers on my local park, right near my house, untill midnight every Friday and Saturday night is hell. This isn't just my problem, this problem exsists on most parks, and outside corner shops in the country. They are all rowdy, all drunk and all usually fighting by 9pm. The police come, take the ale off them (this has no effect as they are usually already out of it), and move them on. An hour later they are back again. And it continues....
So, a law stating that no more than 5 teenage individuals can "hang around" on the streets after 9pm. Any found after that are taken home and parents are fined. Simple.

~TV~
I think there should be law in place on TV channels to only show repeats a certain amount of times. I am sick of turning on the TV to find I have already seen almost every programme on every channel. BBC1 repeats it's programmes on BBC3, and BBC2, yet we pay a TV liscence to them. So if they break these laws in one year, nobody has to pay the liscence.

~Criminals~
There are so many burglars, usually druggies who rob people's homes and property. Most of the time by the time they are caught they have sold any goods on, and spent or hidden the money. The vicitims of these often crimes don't get a penny back. The criminals get a little prison sentance, and are out again in a few months happy as larry. The victim struggles to find the money to replace whatever was stolen from them
If someone steals your car, drives it and crashes it, you have to pay for the damage yourself if the criminal doesn't have car insurance. So if they do £3000 damage to a £3500 car, you are screwed.
When these idiots go to prison, they have 3 meals a day, sky tv, playstations, a gym, a nice clean room, and lots of courses to attend to aid them get a job on release.
So... when I was at college, at the age of 23, i had to pay for my course, as I was too old to get a free education. I struggled to find the money to pay for 3 meals a day, didn't have Sky, or a playstation, or a gym, and was seriously skint. I worked 30 hours a week as well as studying to pay to live.
I should of just robbed a house, sold the goods, spent the money, handed myself in, gone to prison, got fed, had a nice room, worked out and done my course for free.
A new law taking all these luxuries away from these losers and bringing back hard labour in prisons may just deter. I am unfortunate to know of 2 people who went to prison for drug offences, and they are never bothered about going back in, both have said they have a better life on the inside than they do on the outside, so where does the punishment come in? That is the thing - it clearly doesn't.
Before criminals go to prison they should be named and shamed in the town centre, and be made to stand there for a few hours, with gaurds of course so people can mock them, then send them off for a year of hard labour. That should work.

I could carry on and on and put the world to rights, but I'll stop here. We all know these laws probably won't ever come in for force, but with the ridiculous laws I mentioned at the start of the review - who knows?

Summary: The government should start listening to the public instead of doing what they think we want.