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10 Silly Traffic Laws From Around The World

— June 13, 2014 Comments Off 7296

7. Great Britain

taste-of-the-past

A law that is probably not enforced any longer states that all hackney carriages (taxi cabs) must carry a bail of hay and a bag of oats. It seems like this law may have once been enacted as a kind of animal welfare regulation back in the day when the carriages were pulled by horses.

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