This has been lifted from the popular Top Ten page in the current edition of free magazine Time Out London (out this week). In the article Top Ten….Urban myths, we discovered this which is at number eight:
A pregnant woman is legally allowed to wee into a policeman’s helmet.
We seriously advise against trying to put this to the test (in London). From what we can tell, it stems from a well-meaning attempt to grant maidens with child some leniency in their bladder requirements. But the law stating that they could relieve themselves anywhere in public if a toilet wasn’t nearby, somehow transformed in the public imagination to: “Ere love, why not have a piss in a copper’s hat?”
Most women aren’t silly enough to do this. After all, like their male counterparts, if they need to pee, they can just go somewhere discreet. Just look around the pubs, bars and nightclubs in any British city, and you’ll see plenty of puddles of urine everywhere.