"Comic"? I'm not sure what you're referring to in the Economist article
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Personally, I would find overcriminalization, and particularly ridiculous scenarios like the 65-year old with his orchids, hilarious in a book, or movie, or some other fictional context in which it didn't affect actual people.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."