The law is an ass. A cliché, obviously, but like every cliché it is also true, at least sometimes. In this compilation of legal and non-legal oddities, the author has dug deep and delved wide to tease out everything from the identity of the family charged with washing the monarch's hands, through archaic but still applicable laws that, for example, govern what you may and may not do on a pavement and whether or not it is legal to shoot a Scotsman within the walls of York city on a Saturday afternoon, to the exploits of a selection of the most stupid and incompetent criminals that the law has ever had to deal with.
This is not a book to read from cover to cover, but rather a delightful treasure chest of interesting nuggets to be extracted and remembered, like the reason his comprehensive collection of pornography ultimately proved fatal to a Japanese former car worker. Along the way, you'll also discover in which country reincarnation is illegal unless the appropriate paperwork has been completed, that officials at Kent County Council are apparently incapable of reading – or at least of understanding what they read – and exactly what headgear followers of the Pastafarian religion wear to express their faith.
In short, inside this volume there really is something for everyone.