Excluding situations involving security checkpoints, schools, and courtrooms etc., burqa bans are stupid.

This week, we saw a fantastic example why that’s true, when an Austrian man was cautioned by police for dressing up as a shark. According to Sky News, the gentlemen was advertising for a computer store named McShark, and was fined after he refused a police request to remove his shark head. That refusal meant he had contravened a new Austrian law requiring anyone in public to show their face between hairline and chin.