Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.13 $; site iuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!apratt From: apratt@iuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Another law -- British Message-ID: <7200038@iuvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 04:35:00 EDT Article-I.D.: iuvax.7200038 Posted: Thu Oct 11 04:35:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 06:22:25 EDT Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #N:iuvax:7200038:000:365 Nf-From: iuvax!apratt Oct 11 03:35:00 1984 Years ago, a fellow shot blanks during a parade in London (?) when the Queen was riding by. The Brits invoked one of the old charges in their famous, never-written "common law" - the man who did it was charged with the following: Causing a disturbance in the presence of the Queen with intent to alarm her. -- Allan Pratt ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!apratt