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A Joke From The Past - A Law Known As Daylight Robbery

This could only happen in Britain and to be honest not a great deal has changed since the days of William The Third, this law came into force 1696 - Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two.

There must be strange laws around the Globe past and present it would be interesting to hear of some of them.

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Convivial · 26-30, F

I knew of the law, but the daylight robbery is new, thanks

senghenydd · M

@Convivial I didn't know this joke either until recently.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@senghenydd I have heard the saying "daylight robbery" many times, referring to excessive prices made in an easy way on something; but never as a joke, any more than the Window Tax was a joke.

senghenydd · M

@ArishMell It sounds as though this Window Tax Law started the saying "Day Light Robbery"

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@senghenydd Yes, it probably did.

Either that or it was a reference to literal daylight robbery at a time before street lighting, when city streets at night were if anything a lot more dangerous than today.

senghenydd · M

@ArishMell It's British sense of humour that they would take an unpopular act and turn into something farcical.

Convivial · 26-30, F

@senghenydd best way to get back at the system, laugh at it