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83: No Such Thing As A Flying Sniffer Dog

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The First Parking Ticket in America

The first ever parking ticket in Britain was given to a Dr. Thomas Creighton who was answering an emergency call to help a heart attack victim at a West End hotel. A reverend actually, the reverend CH North of the Third Pentecostal Holiness Church complained and had it overturned. Apparently anyone found guilty of committing a sex act with a dog or pig would be killed. But if it was with a horse or a mule, the only punishment that they could give out was that you were no longer allowed to be in the presence of the king.

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