My Favorite Laws in Colombia

I have two. The first is the law that bans the use of motorcycle helmets. It is not becuase there is a volitile group of hell's angles here but because helmets give the driver anonymity, and in a place where the motorcycle is widely associated with assasins anonymity is dangerous. More dangerous than the motorcycle. So they banned helmets.

The second law is the law that says that if you put bullets in someone else, even a lot of other people, you are not a fellon UNLESS one of the people in whom you put bullets spends more than two weeks in the hospital. If they spend less than two weeks in the hospital, no matter how many people you shoot, you have not attempted to commit murder and do not face real prison time.

I learned this when a friend of mine told me that he was in a club in March when the guy standing next to him pulled out a gun and shot seven people in the legs. The good news was that no one died and in fact, everyone was out of the hospital by the end of the week. The bad news: the police let the shooter out of jail the same day.