Ways not to lock your bike

I remember there's a law in a different country that stated you're not allowed to lock your bicycles to any street furniture unless there's a bicycle stand.

I can't remember which country that is though, it's in Europe I think.

They have that rule at my local university campus. Whats annoying is that the stands are weak as piss and really old fashioned. They are also not very well distributed across the very large campus. They actually come and angle grind.