In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and needs to use your toilet, you are legally obliged to give them access to it. Thoughts?
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Yea, I got a thought. Slamming the door in the old scotts face.
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LMAO...that's awesome. Driving home tonight from work that would have come in handy. On the flip side serial killers have got to use it too.
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No way would I let a complete stranger in my home like that!
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I think it is bull...what if they are crazy and try to kill ya? That law should be changed!
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If I lived in Scotland, I'd break that law every time. I don't let strangers in my home
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I must think about this other question: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/469870 The solution: more public restrooms!
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If it is true it will be one of those 400 year old laws that no one pays any attention to! Just like all Hackney Carriages (Black cabs to all none English people) need to carry a bail of hay at all times!
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I'd build one in the front garden like this facing out onto the street and see if anyone knocked then.
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That probably only applies if you open the door. Big mistake. Just leave them out on the porch like a jehovahs witness.
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Thats worth remembering next time im up in Scotland and i get caught short <winks>
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I am from the UK and I have checked this out and it is true :o( although I think it is unenforceable because of how ridiculous it is :o)
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Yep them old laws- in Minnesota you may not cross state lines with a duck on your head.
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That's when it pays to keep a chamber pot on your front porch. LOL!
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there's also still the law that allows a scotsman to shoot an englishman with a crossbow in edinburgh at noon.
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dont think i would refuse someone anyhow-is strange that they made a law about it-but heck there are many strange laws on the books---smile and enjoy the day
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That does it, I am moving to Scotland.
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Is that true? Seriously? So if somebody knocks on my door right now, even if they look crazy, and asks to use my toilet - I HAVE to let them in? Yargh.
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As a Scot, I can say that I (and people I know) only became aware of this law a few months ago when it was in the newspapers. And no-one's ever asked to get into my house before or since. However, one of my friends from school did let Billy Connoly in to use his toilet when he was making a film in the village. :)
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I wouldn't let them in if they looked like a murderer. I'd rather have a murderer poop in front of my door than chopping up into tiny pieces!
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This may explain the flatulence problem there.
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I don't give a shit. I'd be pissed if someone made me crap my pants.
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Sounds sensible to me! There's a great similarly daft law here in one part of Cape Town - there's a public space where you're legally entitled to make camp for a few days provided you have a small flock of sheep with you. I've always been tempted to give it a go :)
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And officcialy, sheep theft in Scotland still carriers the death penalty. Though it hasent been given out for a loooooooooooooooooooooong time.
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good in theory, never done it though... yet lol!!!
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I live in Scotland and this has never happened and never will as strangers don't get access to my home.
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Thanks for the heads-up. ;) If I'm ever in Scotland I'll make sure that I don't answer the door unless it's my wife.
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Hmm... let me think of some of the Scottish serial killers.... Dennis Nilsen, Fred West, Bible John, Robert Black, Peter Manuel,....... Ehm.. no, thank you, just piss on a tree or something.
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Really......I have been wanting to visit Scotland for a very long time....uhmmmmmmm.....I would direct them to the building in the back...
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Are toilets a tax deduction in scotland? will the government pay for the stranger's use of your toilet!?
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If it was my toilet they would have to sheet their pants and I guess I would go to jail!
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This is a strange law!
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Good to know for next time I visit that part of UK. I did and when I have the chance I will do again like most countries just enter a pub or restaurant.
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Really!!! god i never knew that. i hope my neighbour is never locked out of her house when she needs a pee !!:)
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im never in
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Thnak God I don't live there.
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I personally think that it very nice of them. Although it it's a male, I would not answer the door.
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well then...i guess thats maaaaaaaaabye okay...but still not though...i mean like..if the person has been rolling on the street, really wet, and already pooped in pants. then id rather keep the door closed..
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I'd tell them that my toilet is that tree in the back yard!
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i'm not sure about this one mate. im scottish and i've lived in scotland all my life! i've never heard of that one anyway! i think someone in scotland would be just as shocked to have you come chapping on their door as anywhere else in the world!
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well last year i got lost in glasgow and was like dying for a pee... and remembered that a gay friend of mine told me about this law... and its true!!!!! so anyway i knocked on the door... and a rotund ginger minger opened the door... apparently she was filming the sequel to debbie does dallas... called debbie does glasgow.. she was a v pleasant lassie though her bathroom was very unclean! anyway so yes this law is true - amazing!!!
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I don't know that it's true. Perhaps it is one of those obscure and never enforced laws one finds practically anywhere. On the topic though, I have a bathroom by the door and would let most anyone in to use it. Just not door-to-door religion salesmen. They're not allowed in for any reason. They can just pee their pants for all I care. I've also stopped a few times in my life and asked to use people's bathrooms. I guess I'm an unimposing girl, and they've always let me. I've also been known to use telephones, as I still don't have a cell phone... and once, just once, (it's a long story) I was left alone in a complete random stranger's house, deliberately, for several hours, while they went out. No, I didn't steal anything, but the sister-in-law on the phone suggested I should have rearranged the dishes just to freak them out. LOL
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it DEFINATLY doesnt happen tho! those scottish would run you from the door :P
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Pretty scary law. I guess I would just have to get arrested for breaking that law. The stalkers, perverts, and psychos would have a 'free for all' with a law like that. They could come to your door to kill or rape you...and you would HAVE to let them in....or YOU would go to jail. ...YIKES!!! : )
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I think I'd build an outhouse.
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i think your a liar. fuck you
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Only if they promise to clean it afterward.
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heh, I've heard of it but I wouldn't let a stranger in to pee!
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Scotland is a Toilet?
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No one gets in my house, I couldn't give a toss about that law, my house, my rules.
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Shit happens.
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Yea and I could get my gun and watch every move they make.
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The same applies in England, but slightly different. If someone knocks on your door and asks for a glass of water you are obliged by law to let them have a glass.
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how very hospitable!
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That's a stupid law. I thought it might be untrue, but I checked and it appears to be a real law.
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If the person remembers to put the toilet seat down
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uh oh, that means i've broken the law?
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I would love to see an officer try to enforce that law after a stranger was denied "access" to another person's toilet.
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True. I remember when I was a kid we used to get the odd vagrant ringing the doorbell because they were touching cloth. What can you do?!
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That's the kind of stupid shit that happens when you let your govenment have too much control. This is the route that America is on too. My property is my proerty and I don't think that the government shold have any rights to tell me who can or can't come on to it.
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