Have You Committed Treason -

I'm sure I must have stuck a stamp on upside down at some point in my lifetime and I'm still here....Nothing's happened so no gulping necessary.

Me too merlot I must have over the years been guilty of the offence,wondering if I shall be dragged off to the Tower to serve my penance..As a child I always remember my mum making sure stamps where placed correctly on envelopes and telling us it was a mark of disrespect to have HMs head up side down.

I have also inadvertently put a stamp on upside down and by the time I realised, and tried to peel it off, the glue had already stuck it down! Thank goodness they don't act on it - I wouldn't really want a longer neck!

There are certainly some Gransnetters who have advocated the abolition of the monarch - we've had threads about it! To the Tower with them all...

I have to admit Ana - that's the one that jumped out at me; I've been on a lot of forums where that subject is usually one of the longest running threads on all of them! I'll bet none of them knew they were actually committing treason

On a good note - if you do get arrested, they don't hang, draw and quarter any more, just the hanging bit ....

I am with them on the prosecution of Marcus Sarjeant in 1981 for firing blank rounds at the Queen. It was no excuse to say "They were just blanks, I was only pretending to assassinate her" It was realistic enough to have fooled security men and could have got him shot by them in defence of the Queen, so it was realistic enough for him to take the consequences.

Why a special provision for the Queen re blank rounds? Surely it is illegal for anyone to be threatened with a gun containing blank rounds?

As for it being an offence to advocate for the abolition of the monarchy, that theoretically leaves all members of Republic (of which I am one) open to prosecution.

I don't know why they don't get rid of these outdated laws. I'm sure there are quite enough modern ones that have to be ploughed through, without cluttering up the legal system with stuff that is unnecessary.

If it could be realistically assumed that the firearm was genuine, then the firer should be treated as though it was real.

The trouble is Eloethan - the day may come when they want to enforce that law; a bit like the 'odds * s*ds' drawer - you're pretty sure you won't need all those odds and ends but keep them just in case ...

Hmmm, should read 'odds & s*ds' drawer

Perhaps you're right Holly.

And the one about urinating on the nearside offside rear wheel of hackney carriages?

Isn't in Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore that one character has to commit at least one crime a day or he will die?

I believe the solution was to plan to commit suicide each day, which was then a crime, and thus he rescued himself.

Just going out, I must remember to drive at 31 miles an hour in a 30 mile speed limit area.

Don't think the queen can hang people any more, and all the prisons are far too full for her to incarcerate everyone who says he/she wants rid of her.

I expect a knock on the door daily. It just shows their surveillance does not work.

Is it treason to conspire to destroy the UK? If so maybe Alex Salmond should be sent to the Tower.

We were always told to stick the stamp on correctly [by parents] and I think I usually do it's so deep rooted! We thought the Post Office may not accept a badly stuck on stamp [more than offending the Queen.]

varian - that did make me think so I had a quick google and couldn't find anything; I did find something else to ponder though - another thread on the way!

rosesarered - I was always told it a sign of disrespect as well to place the stamp upside down but, as a child, I couldn't understand why franking the stamp (writing all over the Queen's face) wasn't these adults and their double standards