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Originally posted by Pacifier
sadly there seem to be no dumb laws form germany 
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I couldn't find any current ones but this old punishment for peeling the bark from a tree seems pretty harsh:
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"The culprits navel was to be cut out and nailed to the part of the tree he had peeled, and he was to be driven round and round the tree till all his guts were wound about its trunk. The intention of the punishment clearly was to replace the dead bark by a living substitute taken from the culprit; it was a life for a life, the life of a man for the life of a tree"
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