Funniest or Weirdest Reaction from Legislation?

[Sucrati]

What is your nation's weirdest or funniest reaction after legislation is passed by your parliament or congress?

Mine involves the Capital City burning down and riots all over my country after legislation allowing anything to be burned, not just the flag.

[Mature Related]

crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters.

[Lyberya (Ancient)]

The socialists commited mass suicide after a constitutional amendment banning deficit spending was passed

[Maraque]

The platypus community rioted after the Royal Legislature voted on a non-binding resolution naming the sea otter the "cutest animal in Tsvarchi." Platypus' descended upon the capital and attacked and damaged everything in sight, until HRH King Whirnak ran outside in a platypus hat and offered them some food.

[Aurora-Nova]

Coco the Clown was elected to my parliament, apparently. This is why I usually dismiss issues I know will result in ridiculousness.

[Eaglleia]

crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters.

Mostly this.

Coco the Clown was elected to my parliament, apparently. This is why I usually dismiss issues I know will result in ridiculousness.

I think these issues are meant to be funny....?

[Aurora-Nova]

Coco the Clown was elected to my parliament, apparently. This is why I usually dismiss issues I know will result in ridiculousness.

I think these issues are meant to be funny....?

Oh, I know they are. Doesn't mean I'm going to laugh, though

[Amazonnia]

Oh, I know they are. Doesn't mean I'm going to laugh, though

Best to laugh at yourself then to laugh at others

[Sealoi]

Not long after Sealoi's founding, a President died in office without appointing a clear successor. This caused a bit of a mess as a few different groups struggled for power. One group argued that the leader who died in office clutched a nearby general and proclaimed him to be the new leader while having his heart attack and immediately before he died. This "clutching" is not disputed, although what was said to the general is still not exactly clear. To appease the empty-headed, star-struck masses and work out a compromise, a law was passed which would entitle a leader who did not have a successor to physically touch someone and "bless" them as the new leader of Sealoi. Cute, right?

...except for the fact that the law did not just limit the "touching" to persons, but instead said "any entity," as the law was also intended to apply to corporations (whose Board of Directors would subsequently elect a new leader). The law also stated that the last being or entity touched would by default become the new President if there was no clear successor.

Sure enough, several generations later, another leader's Vice President was killed in a tragic accident in an explosives factory (slipped on floor, hit head, died), and the President died two days later. The President died during breakfast.

Sealoi was officially ruled for over a week by a half-empty glass of orange juice before that ridiculous law was repealed.

[Stolitland]

Early in Stolitland's founding, personal injury suits for negligence were illegal. After a series of defective products (exploding shampoo, for one) made it clear that quality and safety was going far downhill, a law was passed to authorize some lawsuits for gross negligence. Unfortunately, the law was more of a strict liability law and allowed for the plaintiff to recover extensive amounts of punitive damages without a showing of fault. This resulted in a flurry of people intentionally stepping into traffic to try and obtain a large settlement. Traffic deaths spiked over 300% that year. Additionally, it became common for competing businesses to send someone into the their rival's place of business, slam his or her head against the wall, and obtain large settlements. Some businesses actually closed due to threats of lawsuits.

The law was subsequently repealed. A new law, extremely limited in scope, was later passed, with much better results.

[ArghNeedAName]

There was the time when we passed a law that suspended the Statehood of West Areland in 1975, because of the chaos being caused by tension between the secessionists and the loyalists. The resolution passed the Senate in March that year and passed the National Assembly in June.

Anyway, a huge crowd gathered outside the Palace of Morpork, the building where the National Assembly meets, on the day of the voting on the resolution. Omnian secessionists wore green, Objectant loyalists wore orange. The previous week, a preliminary vote was held on the resolution and failed the 2/3 majority needed by just one vote. The atmosphere was very tense.

After the result was announced, 3 nationalists committed suicide by jumping off the Viewer's Gallery in the Debating Chamber (one actually survived).

In addition to the rioting outside, 32 armed nationalists broke into the building. But the trouble was, half of the Palace is used by the legislature and the other half is a museum - they're very well seperated and you can't access the legislative offices from the museum. So the intruders spent 3 hours running through the galleries (which we had wisely closef off), trying to find where the Assembly's chambers were, before realising that they weren't achieving anything.

The building's complicated defence systems were activated, with shutters coming down on the windows and security doors within the building being shut. 600 Lawmakers and their 1,500 support staff exited the other part of the building via the underground tunnel conecting it to the Ministry of the Interior.

After giving up their "storming of the building", the 32 intruders sat down in the gallery refusing to leave or lay down their guns. So the "secret weapon" of the defence system was activated - we switched on the music system to repeatedly play songs by Justin Bieber at 110 decibels. Within five minutes, they had laid down their weapons and were out of the building with their hands in the air, where the police arrested them.

[--Wagondia--]

When it became legal to put candidates with absolutely zero political experience on local voting ballots, 3 towns in Wagondia elected Animal Mayors.





Jimmy, the Mayor of Agusto Correa