As US coast-to-coast crimewaves go, it is not in the league of Bonnie and Clyde. It lacks both violence and avarice and is further hindered by an overabundance of pre-publicity.

Undeterred, a couple of students from Cornwall are intent on making American criminal history by spending their summer breaking as many US laws as possible.

Starting in the liberal state of California, they hope to evade the attention of local police officers when they ride a bike in a swimming pool and curse on a crazy-golf course.

In the far more conservative – and landlocked – state of Utah, they will risk the penitentiary when they hire a boat and attempt to go whale-hunting.

Excellent post fodder – it’s got the Utah angle, it’s got British cheek, it’s got whales, and it’s got some remarkably dumb laws.

I wonder if any of the Utah contingent of the family would like to help these guys out? I might be able to come up with a harpoon, through a friend of a friend of a harpooner.