The Malawian government has had enough of people farting wherever they want. Malawian lawmakers will next week debate a law change that will make letting one rip in public a criminal offence. They’re not trying to be funny – they just want people to fart in toilets. They’ll get around to delivering those toilets when they’ve sorted out the farting.

This from IOL:

“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.

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.

So there you have it. If you can’t hold it in or release a silent one in Malawi, get ready to be deported on a plane where you can fart as much as you like.

[Source: IOL]