Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 04, 2023

Well, now it’s illegal in the UK to imagine depraving the king of his crown… assuming Charles becomes a good king once he gets his coronation ceremony.

Anybody here ever been YOINKED? And does it hurt! Asking for my sex partner. I ain’t doing it!

That’s ironic about the Maryland Supreme Court. Because Maryland is not at all a “red” state.

Maybe the Maryland SC judges think they are like Cardinals in the Catholic Church, because the state was originally founded as a haven for Catholics.

Nowadays , it’s OK to deprive Harry and Megan of anything.

Does it apply to King Charles?

Illegal to imagine depriving queen of her crown – hope there’s an exemption for her dentist.

wrong queen pictured, should be Victoria

Red clown noses would be the completion of those judges ensembles. ~ Richard Blackwell, dead but still charmingly and accurately snooty if I do say so myself

Take care, famed mind reader Akinator “Well It’s Not Really Your Mind I Read But You’ll Find A Way To Make Me Right After A While” BeeEssord be with you, and gesundheit.

Maybe all the judges are U Md grads. One of their school colors is red.

British sympathizers !

How would the authorities know if you imagined the Queen without her crown?

The stool-pigeon parrot was lucky not to end up in the deep with cement overshoes.

United Kingdom: Policing your thoughts since (at least) 1848. Better not pray where you’re not supposed to! Don’t commit any thought crimes!

Surprised their robes aren’t green from all the insane toll booth money.

Looks like they have finally given up the powdered wigs.

maryland be stylin’

A parrot in the witness protection program— I do want that one to be true.

The Queen but not the King? What if the law used “monarch” ?

Red Rober, Red Rober, just send the case over..

Interesting that the year of the thought treason act in G.B. Has 3 of the numbers from 1984. I fear that USA is headed that way – following Canada – if the vocal minority keeps shouting down common sense beliefs.

The Maryland Supreme Court is Communist?

According to the everything2.com website, there is nothing about “imagining” or even about the Queen specifically in the Act. RBION has misstated things rather badly here, IMO. Snippet from that site:

In 1848 the Parliament of England passed the Treason Felony Act. This law made it a high crime, punishable by exile, to write or say anything about removing the monarchy – even by peaceful means.

What it actually says is, “compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend”, and “imagine” originally didn’t originally mean, “visualize in the mind’s eye”, but “plot or plan”. Legal authorities of the time are quite clear that the Law has nothing to say about what you merely think, because it doesn’t know.

There was a woman in England who was arrested for praying silently while standing across the street from an abortion clinic.

“Yes, we like dressing up.”

Parrots can live to be 80 or 90 years old,so justice shall eventually triumph.

https://youtu.be/yWXIpg5bf4E