London: Ringing a doorbell and running away is a crime

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe first claim, from London: ringing a doorbell and running away is a crime.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorInternet. No government would bother. Though if it were real, it would prove that petty tyranny loves a locked door.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSection fifty-four of the Metropolitan Police Act of eighteen thirty-nine penalises wilfully and wantonly disturbing someone by ringing a doorbell or knocking, without lawful excuse.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWantonly. They saw it coming in eighteen thirty-nine.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe second claim, from Longyearbyen in Norway: it is illegal to die in this Arctic town.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. It is the cold, Gloria. When the ice wants you, the paperwork follows. Even the permafrost has a rulebook.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorInternet. Per Wikipedia, dying there is not illegal.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThere are no options for burying bodies, so residents considered terminally ill are typically required to move to the mainland.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRequired to move.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt is a housing matter, Dale, not an apocalypse. I have seen apocalypses. You are not serious.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI take that personally, and I will be filing it under doom.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe third claim, from the United Kingdom: it is illegal to write on banknotes.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. If people may doodle on money, then a fiver becomes a diary, and trade collapses into feelings.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSection twelve of the Currency and Banknotes Act of nineteen twenty-eight makes it an offence to print, stamp or otherwise impress words, letters or figures on a banknote.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwo for three. I did not expect accuracy to hurt this much.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDoes the court wish to rule on anything else?

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorYes. This courtroom is internet. Nobody could build a room this small legally.