Strange old laws of Ye Old England

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One of the reasons British people said they voted Brexit was because they didn’t like European Laws over-riding British courts. When asked they couldn’t really come up with any of those laws they didn’t like and just another cover to say they don’t like foreigners. But they have failed to check our current laws for absurdities. An 1872 bylaw says it’s illegal for people to be drunk in pubs and bars in England, Scotland and Wales and should incur a fine. As you know British people live by alcohol consumption and the government love the booze tax and why we have pubs. In 1322 it was written by a quill that all beeched whales and sturgeon on this feted isles coastline should be offered to the monarch of the day. It is also illegal to handle a salmon in ‘suspicious circumstances’. The Queen owns 40% of the United Kingdom coastline. Knowing this law I caught a 14 pound sturgeon last year and put it in a wheelbarrow and knocked on the Buckingham Palace gates to offer it to the Queen. I was offered a gun muzzle in my face to please leave. In 1847 it was decided that it would be illegal to beat a carpet, mat or rug before 8 am in the morning. As we currently get fined for leaving our car engines idling in the street it would not surprise me if we get fined for this one soon. In 2005 this little one popped up in response to noisy home security alarms going off all day and night. You are legally asked to leave you current house alarm code with a neighbor or a friend to turn the thing off. No year listed for this one but no person shall, in the course of a business, import into England, potatoes which he knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, are from Poland. The one million Poles entering the United Kingdom need to be checked for potatoes then. From 1467, all MPs are not allowed to wear armour in Parliament. I guess they just hung it up outside. Still today there is a red line on the carpet of the Houses of Parliament to separate the Government benches from the opposition that is "two swords and one inch apart”. Does your country have strange old anarchism’s like these?