You do that in the US, and they will shoot you.
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I grew up next to an RAF base in the UK, it had areas forbidden to civvies but also several large areas where the force staff with families would live. These areas were an absolute knock-door-run goldmine, long rows of houses with doors for knocking.
We were, undisputably, little shits. Knock-door-run was the least of the problems we caused for the 'toy police' (as we called the military police as they had no powers of arrest over civvies). We'd all line up in a row, knock 10 doors at once then leg it. You did NOT want to be the clumsy-footed teen knocking on the door at the back of the row! I had no idea we were breakin' the lawwwww
You call it knock-door-run? What a dumb thing to call it. Brits always have weird names for things. In Canada we call it Nicky-nicky-nine-doors. Like normal people.
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Great Britain is the large island. Northern Ireland is also shaded red, meaning it's the entire UK.
That explains why they had to come up with Theft and Shrubbery.
We do beg your pardon,
For we are in your garden!
Fuckin' UK. Making everything they can possibly think of illegal since checks notes 12 July 927.
Oi mate, you got your complaining licence? Its illegal to complain about UK law without a permit.
You jest, but you weren't there in 1986. Never has fish been handled so suspiciously, before or since. It's the only country where I've ever felt safe from those pesky suspicious fish handlers.
Sam O'Nella Academy
Is there a time limit?
Are the people inside similarly required to answer the door within that time limit?
No to both. If you knock on a door in Britain, you must remain there indefinitely until the homeowner arrives. If the house is unoccupied, you have doomed yourself.
Yeah but only because it's way more punk if it's illegal 😎
A better question to ask, what's not wrong with the British?
Guess they really don't like someone knocking on doors over there.
Of course a country which puts their children in suits and sends them to boarding schools may have an issue with understanding what it means to have fun as a kid.
Question is: is it punishable?
I guess they don't come from the school of hard knocks
KLINGELSTREICH!
Is there a source for this.
For the UK legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/2-3/47/section/54
Paragraph 16.
Wow that's a gold mine! Some highlights:
Every person shall be liable to a penalty [...] who [...] commit any of the following offences;
[...]
Every person who shall roll or carry any cask, tub, hoop, or wheel, or any ladder, plank, pole, showboard, or placard, upon any footway, except for the purpose of loading or unloading any cart or carriage, or of crossing the footway
[...]
Every person who shall blow any horn or use any other noisy instrument, for the purpose of calling persons together, or of announcing any show or entertainment, or for the purpose of hawking, selling, distributing, or collecting any article whatsoever, or of obtaining money or alms
[...]
Every person who shall wilfully and wantonly disturb any inhabitant by pulling or ringing any door-bell or knocking at any door without lawful excuse, or who shall wilfully and unlawfully extinguish the light of any lamp
[...]
Every person who shall fly any kite or play at any game to the annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers, or who shall make or use any slide upon ice or snow in any street or other thoroughfare, to the common danger of the passengers.
So don't even think about *checks notes* flying a kite and playing games in general and also don't you dare to *checks notes again* slide on ice or carry a wheel on a footpath, punk!
There's a reason the UK has the "Oy mate, have you got a loisence for that loisence?" joke. ("Loisence" meaning "license", but pronounced funny)
Those actually all sound pretty reasonable. Basically don't interfere with or inconvenience people in public areas.
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When I was a kid we called it 'knock down ginger'. No idea why. We would just knock and run. Lots of fun. Once or twice we were chased by grown ups. I don't really hear of kids doing it today, probably because everyone has ring cameras or similar things nowadays.
it gets its name from the 1967 George McKay Shaw poem
Ginger, Ginger broke a winder
Hit the winda – crack!
The baker came out to give 'im a clout
And landed on his back.
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common uk L
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