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If a person finds a lost child they can claim the child as their own is a parent does not turn up within 2 hours.


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5 Responses to “If a person finds a lost child they can claim the child as their own is a parent does not turn up within 2 hours.”

Comment from Vibeke
Time May 5, 2010 at 8:42 pm

WTF…

Along with some some of the other stupid laws in Denmark, i think this is a very old law that has no effect today…. but still… WTF?
Im pretty sure you would be arrested if you kept a lost child as your own.

Comment from Mikkel Hansen
Time November 10, 2010 at 2:18 pm

Im from denmark, and i can tell a lot of these laws ait real!

Comment from Daniel Pedersen
Time December 10, 2010 at 12:03 am

Alot of these laws your putting up are not even real.

Comment from no
Time January 30, 2011 at 4:20 am

these laws are real they’re just not enforced

Comment from HÃ¥kon
Time May 26, 2011 at 7:57 pm

No a lot of them are not real, but made up. Obviously this site does not check the laws at all before posting something someone mailed them, because at least all the scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden and Denmark) has a lot of made-up laws on their pages

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