Malawi to debate public farting ban
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Malawian lawmakers will next week debate a law change to criminalise public farting, which a cabinet minister said had been encouraged by democracy.
"The government has a right to ensure public decency. We are entitled to introduce order in the country," justice and constitutional affairs minister George Chaponda told independent radio station Capital Radio.
"Would you like to see people farting in public anywhere?"
Since the country embraced multi-party politics 16 years ago people had felt free to fart anywhere, said Chaponda.
"It was not there during the time of dictatorship because people were afraid of the consequences. Now because of multipartism or freedom, people would like to fart anywhere, he said.
Chaponda, a key figure in President Bingu wa Mutharika's government, said that if Malawians cannot control their farting "they should go to the toilet instead of farting in public."
"Nature can be controlled... it becomes a nuisance if people fart anywhere."
A lawyer himself, Chaponda said that under the amended law farting will be considered a minor offence.
Chaponda's Democratic Progressive Party will bank on its majority to pass the amendment to a law which was first introduced in 1929.
The amendment, which will make farting in public an offence, is not yet public and it will be presented to parliament for debate as part of a review by the state-sponsored Law Commission of the country's penal code.
Nobody in Malawi has been arrested nor convicted for farting under the old law, as police did not enforce it.
The old law states: "Any person who voluntarily vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing along a public way, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour."
The southern African state is a conservative society with punishable previous bans on long hair for men and trouser-wearing for women.
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"Nature can be controlled... it becomes a nuisance if people fart anywhere."
"they should go to the toilet instead of farting in public."
Minister George Chaponda, you not joking, are you?
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The law is against indiscriminate farting. I think they just fart without caring if anybody is near by, and it come to a stage where action must be taken.
Singaporeans also fart, of all places in crowded MRT trains, but the situation has yet to reach the intollerable stage.
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Originally posted by mancha:
The law is against indiscriminate farting. I think they just fart without caring if anybody is near by, and it come to a stage where action must be taken.
Singaporeans also fart, of all places in crowded MRT trains, but the situation has yet to reach the intollerable stage.
.....depend on how strong is the smell. I believed the food the Malawian eat is different from us. So their fart is much much stinky, so they had it coming -
farting is a natural process of the human body to discharge waste gases in our intestines. why we cannot do that in public? should we then have to fart in toliets too?! oh dearddear, my worse fears come true.
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他的�够special, can 留到去toilet �放
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I agree farting is a natural process but some people obviously are just being selfish and inconsiderate of others...Like Mancha said, when the case happens in crowded MRT trains it is just revolting. And it must be quite frequent: even brands are using the topic!
http://www.youtube.com/user/BurgerKingSg#p/c/4DFB0D0CCD01E690/1/B8cePFKlR7g
But I don't think it is only the case in Singapore public transports though, must be the case in public transports around the world!
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some people got bad breath, some got stinking mouth. when they open their mouth to tok not only very loud and smeely too. i going to counter next time with my stinking shoes. no problem in mrt