Understanding the Lawfulness of Electronic Signatures for Hold Harmless in Australia

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would i read things out of time like a professional please sam afterwards is gonna add in some of the finest vintage memes and uh maybe edit the video a little bit if he feels like it i don't know whatever you want to do man just do it hold on i mean please edit it don't leave it on unedited it would be uh just not very good people be like did you upload the wrong thing and i'll be like well did you not watch the introduction sam does as he pleases i'll be like oh proof this god damn it [Music] ah there was always something kicking off at my local grotty post office in rotherham i feel like i was winning in life on those very rare occasions when i managed to make it exit without witnessing some kind of argument break out it was usually something to do with queue jumping or the wrong change being handed out or a problem with a benefit check which had become illegible after getting dropped in a puddle of blood highly i remember the last time so i was like simon i was like what the [ __ ] the gyro who is all these gyros what's going on i don't understand why people are getting gyros and people like bro that's a benefit jack it's slang how do you not know this i don't know i've led a very sheltered life um also i have to say another massive first world problem i have like speaking of queues it's like most places you go into ryan you're like oh yeah there's a q easy your queue there no problem there's a [ __ ] pool which is like i don't know if you have them in america it's like a i don't know if it's but it's like a french bakery it's really good they sell all sorts of delicious pastries and the one nearest my house it's like there is no queuing system you just go in and there's just this big like counter and there's three tills sometimes they're occupied sometimes that no one has any idea what's going on so people are like jumping in front of each other and i've always like if there's more than three people in there i'm just not going in because i don't want to like jump in front of someone or have someone jump in front of me because of course i'm not going to confront them i'm way too british for that and uh i just don't want that horrible feeling of being like you you know you see what i'm saying you got to think partner you don't want the [ __ ] are you talking about sam you know that that mask you know the mask the the face that's like this on top of the face that's like this um that's how i feel when someone jumps in front of the queue because i'm like oh yeah they didn't know inside i'm like you [ __ ] [ __ ] i'll [ __ ] destroy you and your family goddamn not really i mean but it is kind of annoying daddy chill what's going on i can remember a completely genuine experience in the post office which involved into the most bizarre reason for a day that a delay that i'd ever unwittingly stumbled into i was directly behind a very elderly woman as getting served up served with some stamps for a bundle of letters that she was tightly clutching in her withered hand oh man old people have the weirdest hands like i i know my hands are going to go that way because already i'm like my hands used to be nice and smooth and now it's like you can see the little bits you know there's little skin on top where it's like it's not quite as smooth as it used to be also for some reason my hands are extremely hairy and uh i could start seeing those veins and it's i'm 34. by the time i'm 50 my hands are gonna look like i don't know like i've been disarming a nuclear reactor at chernobyl by the time i'm 80 i mean i'm probably not going to live that long i'm going to be frozen well before 80. but my hands are going to be like i don't know like some sort of just sloths of skin it's horrible creepy old people hands the post office clerk had clerk had generously offered to attach the stamps onto the letters himself possibly sensing that this customer might lack the licking powder power required for such an arduous task i remember i i mean after have i told this specific story i worked at a news agent for like six months and i feel like half of my life stories on business plays on brain blaze are from that time i remember once some woman came in and she bought a christmas card and she was like can you fill it out for me and i'm like just in my mind i'm like can't you fill it out yourself really [ __ ] so i go home and i'm like all right later on at some points i was trying to work this out and someone was like yeah she probably couldn't write and i'm like ah you can't write and then i realized i'd led a very sheltered existence again wow were two paragraphs in but after it attached the first few stamps the woman suddenly started to wail in distress the clerk i always want to say clerk clark and i don't know why uh the clerk had always had stuck one of the stamps upside down on the envelope so that the queen's head was facing him rather than the customer [Music] off with his head the woman was distraught because she felt that attaching a stamp the wrong way around was disrespectful to her majesty the queen ah who cares that [ __ ] mi6 oh what are you gonna do old lady yeah i called the queen a [ __ ] i don't i don't care like she's all right she's all right it's a bit she's a bit pointless really it's just i feel like it's just tourist dollars isn't it like no one gives a [ __ ] i mean my grandparents they like every year every year the queen gives a speech on tv and she's like my dearest subjects it's been a troubling year for us all here at windsor turns out my son prince andrew oh my god let's just say allegedly you know blah blah blah blah blah blah everyone knows the story look if jeffrey epstein ah what's going on it's like it's been a hard year for the country with covers and my she gives this speech it's very boring she talks about some stuff that no one cares about my grandparents love this my granddad used to make me watch every year he'd be like okay it's time for the queen's speech and i'll be like just in my bedroom playing with my newly acquired christmas toys and we'd have to spend like five minutes watching this stupid thing that no one cares about nope nope stop talking go to jail oh then this is this is even more interesting i have a russian friend who we were all celebrating new years together and putin gives a new year's speech and my russian friend who's very liberal-minded like i'd say more liberal than i am and i feel like i'm like yeah whatever who gives it and she's just like yeah but she's like you know hipstery and like you know just like all about that stuff but she's like yeah we have to watch putin's speech and i'm like really she's like yes and i'm like y'all watching out of entertainment value and it's subtitles and it's just putin talking about how great russia is and it's called these like weird veiled threats today it feels like like russia is going to have glorious year in 2021. glorious year ever we take more i mean we are give more than ever before and it's like that's what i don't know why normally i can do a decent russian accent but it was weird watching putin give the speech i mean it was also long like longer than the queen's that's a little gay the situation only escalated from there another customer right at the back of the long queue marched the front to stick his oar in he was firmly of the opinion that sticking on an upside down stamp wasn't just an act of disrespect it was an act of treason punishable by law all right mate you've been smoking the crack pipe he even went so far as to bring up the treason felony act of 1848 which is still in force today and apparently makes specific reference to the criminal act of attaching a stamp the wrong way around it carries a sentence of penal transportation which involves you getting dragged beyond the seas for the term uh beyond the seas with the term of your natural life well look penal things don't really work anymore because i'm sure she's got balls what it's gonna be like look we're gonna send you to australia australia could be like what the [ __ ] you guys said your prisoners here anymore we're an independent country for the most part the argument raged on for a good ten minutes and i seem to remember that the clerk [ __ ] clark the clerk the clerk [ __ ] clerk avoided a sentence of penal transportation by just sticking another stamp on the envelope and making sure that it was the right way around this time oh well he just wasted 70p or i don't know how much is a stamp it's probably more than 70p isn't it i have absolutely no idea it's not very expensive but it's also quite expensive like for what it does especially when you can just send an email oh my god this has to be sent by post it's like i had to mail some a letter the other day and i had to receive a letter and i what the [ __ ] we just got a letter we just got a letter we just got a letter wonder who it's from it was to a bank like i don't know and you're like what the [ __ ] it's 2021 2021 what the [ __ ] am i sending a letter for and allegedly and obviously this isn't something i would ever do but i'm always like my wife will be home i mean alleged my wife allegedly i mean someone is not me great job there's some letter alive that he's by satan shall be like yeah yeah you know what to do the argument raged on for a good 10 minutes and i seem to remember that the clerk you [ __ ] [ __ ] me i read the wrong sentence and i say it [ __ ] clark again [ __ ] that's it mister you just lost your brain privileges but the this highlights a couple of important points when looking back at silly outdated laws that are allegedly still in place today it is true that the uk does still have a few weird and wacky laws that have yet to be pulled from the pages of the statue book but when you probe a little deeper into these widely reported laws you'll find that many of the stories are just urban myths surprise some of the laws may have been revealed centuries ago while others may have never existed at all the treason felony act of 1848 is a curious beast as it's a mash-up of all the points just mentioned it's a genuinely idiotic law that is still in force today yet parts of it have been repealed while others were never there in the first place the act originally stated that it was treason for anyone to compass imagine or demise an intention of depriving the reigning monarch of his or her crown violation of this law was punishable by exile to australian penal colony weather sounds better but it mentions not a single word about upside-down stamps largely because there was never a point in history when anyone considered this to be a defiant act of treason you'd think that a post office clerk might have learned how to put on a stamp the right way rounds but he wasn't going to get exiled to australia for being a bit careless not that he would have been exiled at that time anyway as part of the law was that part of the law was repealed in 1868 when the punishment was generously downgraded to life imprisonment i don't know i know going to australia was seen as like bad and there's all sorts of stuff that can kill you and you're going to be like working on a penal colony and like that but i'll be like do you want to go they'd be like do you want to go to life in prison in like i don't know some like cold ass uk prison which i just you know or do you want to go to australia i'd be like i mean at least australia's warm so and i mean things worked out in the end there didn't they like i don't exactly know what happens in australia but in my mind they all broke free and had babies and voila australia i know that's not the actual history of it i think i don't really know much about australia to be honest sorry australians people in the comments gonna be like simon what are you talking about that's not how australia works however it's a royally ridiculous law that needs to be thrown out altogether ing to the wording of the law it's still technically illegal in the uk to advocate for abolition of the monarchy even though this in itself is a blatant violation of the 1998 human rights act yeah i mean later actor parliaments are superior so we're all good on that one down with the queen oh not really who cares mi6 still just to be on the safe side god save the queen oh i have it on good authority she's a brain blaze viewer she doesn't like it when simon uses cuss words oh she's not going to like this [ __ ] episode is she danny although she is because sam will bleep them all out but i didn't although sometimes i'll just be watching a brain blaze be like sam got the wall except for one extremely loud one that's how i roll oh there are several other cases of supposedly outlandish laws in the uk which have no basis in reality despite getting regularly bundled out by the press and online media contrary to what you might have heard it's never been legal to shoot a scotsman with a crossbow in the city of york as long as it's not a sunday and it has never been legal to shoot a welshman with a bow and arrow in cheshire as long as it's written as long as it's within the city walls and it's after midnight yeah these are the famous ones like you can shoot people with bows and arrows i always just assume this was all the law commission has even recently felt the need to publicly clarify this it's illegal to shoot a welsh or scottish or any other person regardless of the day location or choice of weaponry this is the united states of mayor for god's sake can you imagine actually doing that yeah yeah i don't like the scottish guy so i shot him and i fulfilled the very specific elements of this law and they'd be like you know that's an urban legend mate you're going to jail for life believe it or not jail right away it is not technically illegal tweetman's pies on christmas day this appears to date back to the 17th century when christmas day just happened to fall on a legally enforced day of fasting but it's not been a problem since 1644 what the [ __ ] was a legally enforced day of fasting that sounds like a day where i've got to the pre the day before is the legally of course day of hiding food on my person jesus it's never been illegal for scottish children under the age of 10 to catch sight of a naked mannequin in a clothes store and i'm not entire i'm not exactly sure which party would have been prosecuted under such tragic stir traumatic circumstances the child the bear at the store owner probably the naked mannequin don't do it no ah and there was definitely never a law which stated that it's illegal for a woman to be topless in public in liverpool except if she's working as a clerk in a tropical fish store oh my god i've heard of the bow and arrow one i've never heard of any of these no idea where that one came from or the logic behind it but i'd be amazed if at least one tropical fish store in liverpool hasn't put this to the test since 1965 the law commission has been busy pruning out dated or nonsensical laws from the statute book and it's estimated that they've repealed over 2 000 laws since then yeah that's the problem when you've got a really old country like with all sorts of old laws and it's like we've got to spend ages like getting rid of all the weird ones and it's going to take a long time you can't just be like yeah we'll get rid of that one because what if they accidentally get rid of murder they'd be like oh jeff did you actually get rid of murder when we were supposed to be getting rid of stupid crimes and jeffrey like yeah i know and then there's like they don't realize for three days and all these murderers walk free those are illegal it's extremely unlikely i don't know why we've played out this situation to its extent to this extent but it's a long slow process there we go and it's believed they don't always bother if it's blindingly obvious that the law has no modern relevance so to put on my quiz master sap for the rest of the episode which of these alleged uk laws still appear on the statue book today and which were only ever a fairy tale fit for an upside-down queen oh my god danny two things one is that the introduction just done because shh we're gonna be here for a while and secondly are we mate is this now one of these ones where i have to guess because i like those okay just let's look at the last page do we have like a answers do we have an answers uh wait oh wait no those are the two pages i've already read i'm like did i print this twice it's like no i'm just not so dumb that i don't realize you're on the back come on i'm blurring my eyes so i don't cheat uh no we don't have any answers so i'm guessing they're in here i'm gonna let's just play along play along yourself it's gonna be fun three two one go it's illegal to get drunk in a pub if this one is true i think we're gonna need to build a few more thousand prisons very quickly it's a controversial entry as many people seem to think there's been a misunderstanding of the law they reckon that the licensing act of 2003 is relatively recent law makes it clear that it's not illegal to be drunk in a pub as that would be preposterous it's only an offense for bar staff to continue serving a customer who is completely off their and pub landlords space a thousand pound fine if they're caught flying outrageously drunk customers with even more alcohol i could have drink in 2003 i wasn't old enough but i was a couple of years later and they said well this is obviously not true the number of times i've been told i've got totally shit-faced i mean there would be a lot of fines uh it's that's fair enough but these people seem to overlook section 12 of the 1872 licensing act which say which is still very much in place although most of the other sections of the act have either been repealed or replaced section 12 states every person found drunk in any highway or other public place or on any licensed premises important one there shall be liable to a penalty so yes it is technically illegal to be drunk in a pub and yes that is preposterous i am not [ __ ] drunk the law was originally introduced to stop poor people from drinking too much in the pubs as it left them and it was felt their productivity at work the next morning would be affected if they weren't if they were all suffering from hangovers which honestly is a problem rich people just don't have like you can just get absolutely faced wake up the next morning and just be completely fine for all of the activities that you have to do that day because i guess rich people don't have to work what the [ __ ] oh the past well i think they should attack the lure classes uh first with bombs and rockets destroying their homes and then when they run helpless into these streets uh mowing them down with machine guns it was more socially acceptable for the rich factory owners to drink themselves into a stupor as they didn't really have to do anything of great value anyway is that true i mean i don't know like i i feel like my work i'm not like putting widgets together in a factory or something but business place isn't going to be very good if i'm massively hungover or i'm doing one of my if i'm doing one of my more serious channels it's going to be like ah i got a massive headache and i have to record like eight videos today it's not gonna go well it's not gonna go well oh christ and what about people who are like running big like typical rich people like i don't know business magnates magnets why is the word magnate and magnet so similar businessman they're gonna be like yeah we got this board meeting and be like okay okay i'll be in the board meeting in just a second i'm just gonna rush and chunder everywhere in the toilet i'll be right back the [ __ ] is he talking about although it might seem to be an outdated approach today it's still illegal to be drunk on any licensed premises or in any public place at all but it seems quite odd that whenever you wander into an establishment which operates on the sole premise of serving you with alcohol you're dicing with danger whenever you dare to take another sip and we can't even say that it's one of those laws which is not really enforced today a recent in a recent response to a freedom of information request revealed that literally thousands of people have been charged with violating section 12 of the 80-72 license over the last decade really i am not [ __ ] drunk i guess i mean it's gotta be like because you're getting a bit larry you know it's not just gonna be like oh you're really drunk and you fell asleep in the corner again it's gonna be like you got really drunk and you were starting fights and uh we're gonna charge you with this licensing thing but the reality is that it's only brought into play when a drunk person is creating a problem oh big brain facts boy yes i mean this is extremely obvious so in other words nobody will bat an eyelid if you're getting quietly plastered in a pub and if you've learned to behave yourself with a belly full of booze but the police can get involved the minute you start acting like a bit of a knob it's illegal to dress up as a police officer for a fancy dress party really impersonating a police officer or a soldier for any reason whatsoever is thought to be against the law even if you're just attending a fancy dress party and you've got no imagination whatsoever all the strippers are in big trouble now [Music] ing to the 1894 uniforms act dressing up as a member of the military without permission from the queen is against the law and could lead to a custodial sentence meanwhile section 90 of the police act of 1996 states that it's illegal to impersonate a member of the police force or carry in your possession an article of police uniform violating this law carries a maximum sentence of six months in prison i was in a play once when i was a kid like a teenager i don't know 15 16. and we got camouflage gear i was a soldier and uh me and my mate we were like uh we dressed up in this camouflage gear they painted our faces and all this stuff and this was just like we were doing dress rehearsals or whatever and we'd like we were we had tiny roles in this in this play so we just go out around the school grounds and uh it was night and it's unbelievable how good camouflage is so we'd just be running around like you'd be right by a bush in the night and someone just walked straight past you and be like ha and they'd just be like and they you're standing right there and they can't see you it's crazy how good camouflage is fascinating story fact boy why don't we carry on uh uh what i'm saying we didn't get in trouble with the queen at all and as far as i'm aware she didn't give us permission bearing this in mind you'd think that it would be illegal for a fancy dress store to even sell or rent a police costume in the first place any actors who dared to impersonate a police officer on stage or screen should have felt the long arm of the real law after the curtain went down on their last performance and we should be witnessing regular mirthful scenes of fancy dress parties all over the uk in which people dressed as police officers are bundling other people dressed as police officers into police cars you'll just be like oh no no no no rest that man and then you just then you just exit stage right that would be stage left right because it's that that that yeah yeah big brain what's going on i've lost my place ah but although many newspapers and websites insist that it's technically illegal to dress up a police officer it's not quite true when you look at the police act 1966 in detail it emphasizes that the impersonation of a police officer is only illegal when there's a genuine intent to deceive and those articles of police uniform mentioned in the act specifically address only authentic-looking badges of documentation rather than a tit-shaped helmet or a truncheon so the truth is a tit-shaped helmet ah i don't know if that's a strip of reference but maybe it is [Music] uh so the truth is that it's perfectly acceptable to dress up as a police officer for a fancy dress party as long as you don't intentionally try and deceive anybody that you're a real police officer i suppose the lines could get blurred though they came across a story when which a british man dressed up as a police officer for a new year's eve party in a pub he went outside for a smoke suddenly thought it'd be funny to start hailing down random cars and druggingly wishing their hat i'm just drunkenly wishing the drivers happy new year [ __ ] legends there's something really good about like drunk people stories isn't that what it's just like harmless fun ah the real police were called and told him to get inside the pub he was given a warning that he'd be in trouble if he's tried to interact with anyone outside the confines of the party there's an interesting point to consider for anyone making their way home after the host of the fancy dress party has finally kicked you all out having said that it's still very much an offense for anyone who's never served in the forces to dress up in real military uniform in public the only exception of this law relate to stage plays and performances which explain why actors aren't getting arrested every day and why mere my friend was safe he's kinda gay it's not gay come on he's kind of gay also we were teenagers they're not going to be like are you actually a colonel be like yes what does it say on my arm dismissed i just don't trust anybody like that i don't trust somebody like that open that button i don't trust like that open that button but there are still regular arrests and fines dished out to non-actors who violate this law even if they had the best of intentions for example a guy from derby was fired 500 pounds in 2017 for dressing up in military uniform or taking part in a fundraising unit from charity which sends out packages to troops serving abroad he claimed to merely be paying respect to paul and soldiers although it was suggested that he was a bit of a walter mitty character who liked people to believe that he'd really served in the army it's kind of harmless though isn't it it's just some poor guy he's just a little bit sad um also allegedly whenever there's a box that allows you know you've got that dropped i think it's like mr mrs reverend doctor i'm always like if it's just filling your own one i'm always that i just choose different ones like whatever i want i've been his royal highness i've been colonel i've been god king and now i'm really worried that i'm gonna get in trouble for the colonel one you're like uh are you a colonel it's like no no no i'll change it it's just god king just call me god king what the [ __ ] are you talking about it's illegal to hold a salmon suspiciously that sounds like a lie johnny sausage hurts up this isn't the game though i thought this would be a bit of a game danny was like trying guess or something and now i'm like not guessing at all because it's not a game do you want to play a game i want to play a game uh johnny sausage hurdle down the dark alleyway and pause from him to catch his breath tonight had been a close call but had figured he was just about to get away with it no thanks to billy pancake who got the jitters and scarped like a weasel down a hell to skelter he glanced down to check the salmon that he was holding in his hands fishmonger freddie had given him a pretty good price tonight this is going to slip down nicely with a bit of greatly grilled asparagus and a kinder surprise egg but those are illegal just as he was pondering whether to bake fry or poach his main course he heard the thud of heavy footsteps behind him and then became temporarily blinded by a flashlight it was the filth wait is the filth a word for sausage oh my sausage the next line says sausage i was reading your head uh fill for police i remember a friend of mine was uh he was wearing a stoplight his dad had like uh it was some like cool vintage sports car and he just said to his dad as a joke like uh dad florian don't worry about the rozzers roz's is slang for the police and his dad slams the accelerator down absolutely burns it off the line and then he does get pulled over by a police car and he gets a ticket because of course he does whoa that's interesting but i sure don't care oi sausage cried out one of the officers is that a salmon you're holding johnny could feel the sweat trickling down his nose he replied the officer approached johnny and looked him up and down you're looking a bit suspicious to me sausage the game's up son you know the rules about suspiciously ordinary salmon it's two more years in the clink for you milad as johnny was dragged away screaming into the van his words echoed around the mean streets of chipping norton this isn't fair i've been probably stitched up like a mackerel oh so oh is it really illegal to hold a salmon suspiciously well in a way yes what he's like you're like this just holding it like the relatively recent salmon act of 1986 holy [ __ ] parliament what are you up to i guess you got lots of time on your hands for all the cocaine you're doing there was a bbc article literally yesterday which uh they did a study into the bathrooms in the house of parliament 11 out of the 12 bathrooms in the houses of parliament had cocaine in them i'm like king legends you should be getting more done states in section 32 that is an offense to handle a salmon under suspicious circumstances in england scotland and wales and a violation of the law carries a two-year prison sentence the government was keen to regulate fisheries and crack down on dodgy deals involving salmon that had been illegally fished the government was keen to regulate fisheries i said that already so you're not likely to get stopped by the police if you wander out of the fishmonger store with a bit of a salmon you could possibly get stopped by the police if you're clutching a salmon while staggering home for the problem at night after you've clearly done another shady trade with the local poacher wow so don't buy illegal salmon if there's some dodgy guy on the corner being like salmon salmon salmon salmon you want salmon i got some salmon salmon yeah come on then and he like takes you to a place and he's got like a chest full of ice and he obviously there's some salmon lying down in that don't do it two years in jail right away no trial no no nothing if you're buying heroin it's probably less heroin heroin heroin heroin heroin heroin heroin heroin heroin heroin that one's a lot easier heroin heroin heroin heroin heroine get some help is this chair being here this whole time i'm so sorry i was recording other videos earlier and i guess i left it here be gone this chair is called charlie i just gave him a name i gave this guy a name previously i already forgot what it was i don't know why i gave it a kiss that was weird what's wrong with me it wouldn't be there's a butt it's a law which could possibly have just benefited from slightly clearer wording but it rather alarmingly took the house of lords a total of five hours to come up with the wording currently in place yes the house of lords they're probably all drunk they're all super old and they're in the house of lords because they inherited it is this there is a part i know people are going to be like of course there is cyber it's england your country's built on you're like who blood who's your blood inherited from and i mean like well not really anymore because no one gives a [ __ ] about like this that all those people are now poor because of taxes and not wanting to work i mean they're not poor but then you know they you know what i mean you know what i mean there's all parts of parliament which is just a bunch of old white dudes being like oh let's see what that was the comments that's got for us today ah oh interesting shall we pass this or not ah this is how i imagine they speak fortunately now if they say no the house of commons could just be like you were actually elected you're [ __ ] i am the senate not yet the house of lords should definitely be got rid of um i wouldn't want to tax their brain cells any further so they can have this new wording for free it's an offense to handle poached salmon bingo danny i think danny should be in the house of lords we should get that going i'd like that i mean he can't you can't he can't be elected to the house of lords we should change that and then have him put in the house of lords praying actually let's not do that because i need him to continue writing these brain blaze scripts for me that's slavery it's society they work for each other morty that just sounds like slavery with extra steps someone's gonna get laid in college pregnant women have a legal right to relieve themselves in a police officer's helmet i've heard of this one is it surely not it's a good job we still have some conscientious people out there who recognize an archaic law when they see one and demand to have it repealed just to pluck one example out of a soggy hat isn't it about time we got rid of that damn stupid law which states the police officer is legally obliged to hand over his helmet to any pregnant woman who's been caught short in public just a few years ago a group of concerned citizens launched a petition on the downing street website to get this law pulled from the books the campaign noted that this law has no place in modern britain and pointed out there was specifically degrading and insulting to male police officers no it's not no one cares if i was the believer it was like sweet i'm gonna get a new hat for free why is this a problem i don't have to wear my stupid hat for the rest of the day i wasn't quite sure of the logic behind this last bit i would imagine that a police officer of any gender is unlikely to be terribly impressed by the idea of somebody pissing into their helmet but i think the main point is that the male version the helmet is has a larger capacity so it's more likely to be commandeered by a pregnant woman in need of urgent relief sadly the petition didn't gather enough signatures to warrant a hearing in parliament but the good news is that it didn't really justify hearing in parliament anyway as the law never existed in the first place how many signatures do you need to get something into parliament surely people with like big enough social influence like with youtube channels and such it could definitely get enough signatures on a thing to get danny into the house don't do that please don't do that it's too late to run malone it's too late or at least parliament to consider it they really have to surely they don't have to consider something that goes past a certain number of signatures this isn't switzerland we don't i mean the uk's not switzerland they have direct democracy but the good news is that it didn't really justify hearing in parliament anyway as the law never existed in the first place it was completely made up by someone who was clearly just taking the pierce ah despite this the urban legend has continued to flow freely into the collective consciousness for decades and decades even today some officers claim that they're regularly strapped in the street by pregnant women demanding to pee in their helmets i wouldn't be too surprised if one of some of the women are just shoving pillows under their shirts to see if they can get away with it i don't trust like that open that button the police obviously like then lift up your shirt go on show me your stupid pregnant belly the law commission even thought kabil to go through the statue book with a fine tooth going to try and find any evidence of this mythical law why didn't they just google search that [ __ ] or like i don't know it's got to be google search or some sort of search for that i can command f come on uh but they drove complete blank whilst they had the book out they took the time to debunk the myth that it is perfectly legal for a man to urinate in public but only if he's doing it over the rear wheels of his own car while keeping one hand firmly on the vehicle never heard of that one it's not illegal to be in public is it oh god if it is i'm in trouble i've been in public many many times a friend of a friend of mine once got arrested he got so drunk that on the way home he went into a kebab shop and he ordered a kebab and he uh just so drunk he didn't know what he was doing and he just had a pee in the corner he was just desperate and he could have gone outside and they called the police and he got arrested then he spent a night in jail i was like oh no i am not [ __ ] drunk it's often claimed that any public act of urination in the uk violates the 1986 public order act but in fact there's no such specific mention of peeing in the streets in the act it's actually left to local authorities to implement their own bylaws on the matter and this usually involves police discretion and considering the urgency of the matter the exact location of the incident and the availability of nearby toilets a drunken youth blatantly pissing in the fountains of the busy town square is perhaps more likely to get a tap on the shoulder than a pregnant woman who tried her best to find a discreet corner or a guy peeing in the corner of a kebab shop maybe there is some legal advantage to having a bun in the oven but even if you're pregnant with your second helping of quintuplets that police officer is never going to hand over their helmet in a million years it's illegal to ask a stranger of a spare change in a car park this one is probably not so much of a problem in recent years when nearly everybody pays for everything using their bank card or a phone app but the law still stands nearly 200 years after it was introduced if you dare ask a stranger for spare change in a car park or at a bus stop or at a pickled egg vending machine rotherham's weird you're still technically violating the 1824 vagrancy act which states that it's illegal to ask for free money in a public place payday mayday we have a crack kid lifting up the bus must be red ball naturally nobody has ever been arrested for asking for change in a car park but that's not really the main issue with this law the huge problem was this quite barbaric law that makes it a criminal offence to be homeless that that's how we solve the problem oh my god there's homeless people everywhere what should we do uh let's just make that illegal shall we problem solved when they run helpless into these streets uh mowing them down with machine guns i said oh my god there's so many people with covert it's going really badly what should we do let's make having cobed illegal oh abram solved laterally nobody has ever been arrested for asking for change in a car park but that's not really the oh way i read this already oh my god what's wrong with me today ah clerk the clerk the clerk [ __ ] it all the 1824 vagrancy act also states that it's an offense to be found sleeping in a public place and the only one found sleeping rough shall be deemed an idle and disorderly criminal thankfully the civic government in scotland took the wise step of repealing the whole act in 1982 but the law quite incredibly remains in place in england and wales and is still in force today i've slept outside many times in my life i used to go and i wish i still did but you know life gets older you have to work you have a family to look after you can't just go on random trips with friends uh i used to go like most years on a cycling trip with a friend of mine from university and we just take nothing we really just take like a little bag with us we jump on our bikes we did like the north to the south of england trip and we're just like where should we sleep oh just find a little park or it was mostly like a little forest somewhere or like you know a bush and just like camp out sleep outside just in our sleeping bags and then we cycle on the next day it took us 12 days or 11 days 11 days yeah something like that to do the whole trip and we just slept outside just randomly the whole time and by the end of that trip we [ __ ] stank because we were like cycling 100 miles a day didn't shower for 11 days and just slept outside uh yeah with basically one set of clothes we'd be cycling and be like yeah yeah yeah do you want to recycle a head or bind and be like always want to cycle ahead because otherwise you're just smelling the other person was rough [Music] that smells like ass the act even had its critics back in the day when it was first introduced deal with an unwelcome rise in sailors and soldiers returning home from the napoleonic wars without so much as a roof over their heads or a police helmet to piss him wow it's really great how our countries take care of their their hero veterans isn't it brilliant job brilliant job governments their reward for fighting in the battle would was to be classified as undesirable and illegal vagrants on their return lumped in with the fresh influx of irish and scottish migrants who were attempting to seek their fortunes on the streets of london independent mb william wildforce had condemned the proposal of the act and it took as it took no time to consider the circumstances of how an individual might found themselves homeless and instead just branded them all as criminals nearly 200 years later anyone with an ounce of passion in their soul i guess that means compassion is making the exact same argument although the number of arrests has steadily declined over recent years the act is still frequently used by police to move homeless people into more discrete areas where they're less likely to be an eyesore to the public and thank god for that because there's nothing worse than idling along on the streets drinking a latte having a good time having recently filled up your healthy wallet from the atm and then you see a dirty homeless person you're like oh god oh god hopefully he doesn't rob me or come near me or look at me in any way oh and 28 of local authorities admit that they've used the act to arrest homeless people over the last decade 573 homeless people were prosecuted under the act in 2020 alone this doesn't seem like i was really joking when i was like how are we going to get rid of homelessness make it illegal this is actually this is like 200 years ago thinking it's 20 20 what are you doing and it's beggar's belief that the punishment for being homeless is a fight to a thousand pounds good luck collecting that ah i love this drink one of the most high profile cases in recent years involved the 2018 royal wedding of harry prince harry and meghan markle during the run-up to the lavish ceremony at windsor castle the leader of the local council simon dudley suggests the police should use their powers to clear the streets of the homeless as they apparently created a hostile atmosphere for tourists who which didn't provide a bat suitable backdrop from the royal event simon dudley a little bit time-deaf mercifully although the police got busy on removing the possessions of the homeless people into safe storage for the duration of the wedding there was no evidence of the homeless getting forcibly taken out of public oh my god it's the next thing you know you're rounding them up you're putting them in a special part of town and then you're putting them on trains somewhere mercifully though uh simon dudley's comments attracted widespread criticism i wonder where that was including from then prime minister theresa may but he never apologized uh maybe you should sign up maybe you said meanwhile the royal wedding was a glorious triumph it only cost about 32 million pounds and that included a semi-decent buffet wait the taxpayer didn't pay for that though did they i mean i oh god there is going to be this ain't going to be so much security around that isn't that and all that [ __ ] i don't like that no sir i don't like it the hopeful news is that the government finally appeared to be taking another look at the law which portrays a complete lack of empathy for support for rough sleepers while trying to collect a stupidly big fine from people who've resorted to begging for change to buy their next meal it's surely only a matter of time before the actors replaced with something a little more fit for purpose in a supposedly civilized society but until the act is repealed and finally consigned to history it remains the most idiotic law of all to have a place on the statute book in the meantime i'm still deeply concerned with the homeless guy who lives in a car park and begs for spare change while dressed up as a 19th century shoulder soldier shamelessly holding a salmon he's just asking for trouble yes this is a bit of episode of brain blaze thank you so much for watching was this long i don't know all i do know is that i am hungry and uh because it's almost the end of the day here but i think i'm actually going to crack at another business place brain blaze even before i go home thank you so much for watching and i'll see you next time why am i clapping for myself what the [ __ ] [Music] we just got a letter we just got a letter we just got a letter wonder who it's from