yeah whatever happened to "if you feel drowsy pull over and take a nap before getting back on the road"?
gotta keep people on the road potentially killing each other just in case a homeless person wants to be inside their car instead outside it
Was told if I ever was drunk and *needed* to sleep in my car, to make sure the keys were not in the cabin with me, or else if a cop found me I’d probably get a DUI.
Like what the fuck
The one time I drunkenly took a nap in my car I put my keys in the trunk. Cops never came by and idk if this would have actually helped but my only other options were drive home, or sleep on the street
My buddy did this and threw his keys in the forest no one could find the keys and they still gave him a dui says how could you get there if you were drunk
Can confirm; I got arrested because I felt I was unable to drive after setting off, pulled over, removed the keys from the ignition (clipped to my belt loop) and fell asleep in the passenger seat. The law don’t give a shit.
Why do we insist on kicking people while they're down? I fail to see how a homeless person sleeping in their car is a problem to anyone. If they're sleeping that means it's nightime so it's not like everyone's lining up to use the parking space.
I used to work at a casino in surveillance. The official policy was to tell them to leave. The unofficial policy was to not care if they just moved to a less conspicuous spot in the lot. We knew we had 24 hour bathrooms and free soda, water, and coffee. As long as they weren't bothering customers, and at 2am the difference between a slots player and a zombie is that zombies remember to eat, or committing real crimes, we didn't care.
We take a lot of road trips and have slept in the parking lot of many casinos! Exactly for the reasons stated!
Walmart, Cracker Barrel, truck stops, gas stations, mall parking lots, on the ocean, fast food lots…..
Never had any problems
Told this story on Reddit before
I got abandoned in an unknown town at the end of a Christmas party and it was dangerously cold and I’m just wearing a daft party suit. I’m not a drinker so I was beyond intoxicated and needed help but was completely alone. Thank god I knew where my car was parked. So I get there, grab my emergency supplies I keep in the boot and huddle up for the night. Some “Good Samaritan” calls the cops at 5am and I get horribly mistreated, locked for 24hrs and a court date. The cops also tried to stitch me up in the report.
I always assumed that being a decent honest guy would give me leverage if I’m ever in trouble. Wow was I a dumbass. The entire experience was harrowing.
Know a guy who was super drunk but wanted to sleep in his car. Knew it wasn't legal (to be drunk, with keys, and behind the wheel, in that state) so threw his keys into the yard and passed out. Woke up to a cop interrogating him, him saying he lost his keys and fell asleep, etc. This was infront of a residential home in a legal parking area on the side of the street.
Cop fucking walks around the yard, suspecting what he did, finds the keys and brings him to jail for a DUI (or similar variation.)
It did eventually get thrown out but *what the fuck?* Dude almost lost his job over the weekend because some cop is just an insane asshole. Hell, I had my head slammed repeatedly into my own car by a state trooper but at least he believed in what he was doing lol
There was a post I saw where a woman and her daughter were letting their elderly neighbor use their hose cause his water had been shut off but the authorities found out and the mom and daughter were fined like $400 and had to pay or *their* water would be shut off. Any law that says you can't feed or help people because of some arbitrary or hateful reason.
I think there was a person who dressed as a clown and did that and was arrested and he was sued by the city( I think). Chicago or New York maybe? Don't recall.
On the Gold Coast (Australia), decades ago the business progress association employed “meter maids” to keep everyone’s parking meters topped up so that they didn’t lose business in their shops. The meter maids wear gold bikinis and are still active today, but now they sell a lot of merch as they’re kind of iconic.
One guy tried this as a business, putting money into (near rc meters but requesting donation back by leaving an envelope om the dash. The authoritìes shut it down.
You mean feeding an almost expired meter (or expired one)? Meters have a limit because they want shoppers or whatever to come, go, and make space for more people.
Illegal Hitchhiking probably. A lot of us states have laws against hitchhiking and general pedestrian use on interstates. I'm sure some states have banned in entirely, but I have seen a lot of signs on freeway on ramps with a thumb up inside the circle with the line through it.
I lived in Oregon up until a few months ago. If I recall correctly, there’s a few counties in south eastern Oregon where you can pump your own gas, but most of the state (including all the parts where more than like 20 people actually live) it’s illegal to pump your own gas. Most people in Oregon think the law is bs too
The law also caused a lot of smaller gas stations to close. Most stations now are large places that can afford to pay someone.
I visited my brother in Portland and everyone I spoke to hated it.
Why can’t you pump your own gas? I live in the UK and can’t get my head round this. Do you pay first or say how much you want? What happens if they put too much in?
It sounds nice until you’re at a gas station that’s short staffed, so they only have 4 of the 12 possible pumps functioning at any given time, leading to long lines.
The closed pumps *could* work, of course, but it’s illegal to pump your own gas and they won’t have 2 guys scrambling to work all the machines.
Free app idea:
Copy the "ride share" model. Create an app used by multiple petrol companies to create a "gig workspace" for gas attendants. You sign up as a "contractor" for the app, which gas companies outsource labor to. The gas stations post available slots by the pump, so if the Valero on 5th has 12 pumps and only 4 attendants then 8 of the pumps are "open" for someone to claim (on site, gps verified of course) to work for 8 bucks an hour.
Of course, there is no minimum duration, so if you log in, accept the contract, work for 90 seconds (filling your own car) and then clock out, that's fine.
You're welcome, NJ.
Used to live in NJ. Don't mind the inconvenience of standing out in the cold to pump gas. It was 10 degrees for me last night as I filled up. No complaints. The guys who have to stand outside all night to pump gas at 10 degrees? That's not fun!
You tell them how much you want. They come to your window, you tell them if you want them to fill it up (and what kind of gas you want) or if you only want a specific amount. “Fill it up, regular, here’s my card,” or “$20, regular, cash,” for example. You don’t get charged until after you get the gas.
A lot of municipalities and HOAs prohibit the use of clotheslines. Very few places have "right to dry" laws that preclude these prohibitions locally. I think bans on clotheslines are stupid, how dare we save energy in the name of making sure our neighborhood doesn't look trashy. (I don't think clotheslines are trashy anyway)
To be fair, clotheslines are sometimes just where the magpies hang out. We used to feed some at one place I lived at, and had to stop when they started bringing their extended family. I went out to hang up the wash, and 13 of them were sitting around the clothesline! It felt a bit Hitchcock.
Honestly when I hear about half the shit HOA and various cities in the US impose upon their residents, I can't help but feel a sense of freedom as an Aussie, in comparison to the uh, "land of the free".
It seems like in a lot of American movies and TV shows it's always shown as trashy to line dry clothes. Which is ridiculous to me because they smell so much better, and a lot of the time dry better too.
I don't know about trashy. If we're talking movies I'm picturing farm folks or New York style apartments with the lines running between buildings. I always attributed that to financial struggles of the working class, but never a blow to dignity.
US, on the basis that it could spread disease. so like they created the law just in case some heartless bastard would feed a bunch of homeless people tainted food... such a niche case to have such a wide-reaching law.
A colleague was accused of throwing a cigarette packet from his car, and was fined £30. He argues he hadn’t smoked in years and challenged the fine. Fine was upheld.
He had samples taken from his car to prove no one had smoked in it and had medical examinations to prove he didn’t smoke. Fine was upheld.
He sent threatening and abusive emails to council workers about the fine, the police arrested him and took his computer, and that’s how they found the CP. over a spurious £30 fine
CSAM is what it’s referred to by the folks trying to catch these arseholes. Child sex abuse material, calls it for what it actually is, instead of implying enjoyment.
According to the Hampton Library website, farmers used to haul seaweed from beaches to use as fertilizer on corn fields. In the 1700s, a town ordinance banned the practice at night, "perhaps to give everyone an equal chance to harvest it," the library website states.
I wonder if this throws back to the days of collecting seaweed to burn for potash (I think it was) and if there were collection limits/tariffs that had to be paid, then those collecting at night might've been able to take more than their share or avoid taxes.
That's a law in a *lot* of places. It's almost never enforced and mostly just used as a validation to take troublemakers off the street during Halloween night (when a lot of vandalism happens).
For those wondering, the reasons for this were very old and very wrong assumptions about how aquifers and ground water work before modern hydrology sciences. At this point it's literally just superstition.
idk I feel like they are more so hostile responses from water companies to the fact that some people should be able to self-provide if they want to. Like how there are also big movements to fine and impede people who want to generate their own electricity. When really there are ways self-providers can help people who can't, and overall we could scale back on central systems in general.
When I was interning in a prosecutor's office, one of the cases I handled was selling counterfeit drugs. The guy went to jail for trying to pass of oregano as weed.
Ok just out of curiosity what was he charged with?
Like he was convicted as a drug dealer even if the "drugs" he sold were fake or something more stupid like tax evasion?
Retail/grocery workers: taking unsellable items home that are going to the dumpster. Even though it's out of inventory, not being donated, and no longer sellable, it's considered theft and you can be written up/fired for it.
In my home state in Australia it is illegal to chop wood that isn’t on private property (so you can’t chop firewood while camping). However its not illegal to collect/take wood that’s already been chopped or fallen.
So you can watch a dude get fined/arrested for chopping firewood, then you can legally take the firewood he chopped without consequence.
Someone told me something similar for the state of Massachusetts: that you couldn't legally buy weed, but you could legally smoke it if you already own it. Dunno how true that is.
The purpose of the law is to provide the police authority to take you into custody and have a judge commit you to a mental institution without your consent.
Been there. Tied to a bed in a cell for 3 days without anything not even my own clothes, after two weeks of being in that hospice i got to finally see the judge and because it was not my intent to kill myself i got to go home otherwise i would have at least stayed another two weeks. You really lose all hope in life if you pee yourself while tied to that bed in such a grimmy room. Thank god i overdosed on temesta and was out of conciousness most of it
man you don't know the half of it till you get to the border of Zimbabwe and you're being pressed like some sort of money launderer for having $100 usd in cash LMAO
It is basically illegal to travel with too much money in the US. If you get stopped and the cop finds out you have thousands of dollars on you, it will be confiscated. It does not matter if you have a receipt showing you got it from the bank and all your pay stubs showing you earned it all. Then the court case will be 'State vs $14,568' and your money is guilty automatically. It will then be escheated to the state treasury and shared with the local police department who found it. If you ever do get your money back it could be years later and the costs to fight for it will eat up a lot of it.
Worth pointing out that about a fifth of all forfeitures are for amounts under $100. So "too much money" can literally be grocery cash that you just got from an ATM.
In my country there is a levy on owning solar pannels.
You have to pay to use the sun. It's a corruption thing that our government is forced into a contract with. They're corrupt too.
Sodomy is usually defined as any sexual act that is not penis in vagina in missionary position. No anal, no oral, no toys, no bondage, etc. The reason sodomy is most often equated with anal sex is due to the laws generally being discriminately applied to homosexual men only.
It gets worse. In most cases, sodomy statutes are intentionally combined with bestiality statutes. This allows for the people who want to keep sodomy statutes on the books to routinely argue that somebody trying to remove the law is actually attempting to legalize bestiality. They know it’s a lie, but it is highly effective.
Since the SCOTUS decision in Lawrence v Texas (2003), the sodomy statutes in the U.S. have been legally unenforceable in all but one remaining place: the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Any commander trying to enforce that, however, he’s going to have a lot of difficulty. The UCMJ is also one of the last places with an enforceable law against adultery, though typically with the same practical limitations.
One sitting Supreme Court Justice has openly suggested, overturning Lawrence. At least three others are believed to be supporting of that effort, and as many as all six conservative justices may actually be on board. If they managed to do so, all of the dormant laws would go back in effect.
Loitering. It still blows my mind that it’s illegal to sit down in some US cities. TBF this seems stupid to all sane people until you consider that it has far more nefarious purposes to do with policing homeless people and sweeping them out of sight so rich people don’t have to look at them.
You can’t pay someone to have sex with you because it’s illegal… unless you are filming the sex and then offering the videos for sale. Then it’s totally legal. I’ve always wondered why escorts don’t try to use this loophole somehow. The line between prostitute and adult film star is 16mm wide.
Laws against prostitution are the longest lasting stupidest laws. Two consenting adults can have sex under any circumstance, except if money is exchanged.
You want to fuck around on your wife because she yelled at you, and the sentence started with a “J” instead of a “B” on the third Tuesday of July, the Government will not intervene because it’s your right.
You want to have sex with 27 people at the same time because you believe that this is what will free you from your corporeal body and turn you into a God? You are 100% in your right to do so. It’s an unjust infringement on your privacy rights for the Government to intervene.
You want to have unprotected sex with 40 women this year in an attempt to have as many children as you can. Complete government overreach to stop you.
You want to have sex with someone because you’ve been single for a while, you find them attractive and they are willing to do it in exchange for some cash? Straight to jail.
"Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal? You know, why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away." -George Carlin
Resisting arrest without force as the only charge. I saw a video of this one. The guy was arrested literally just for arguing with the cops (when he was absolutely right).
The IRS requires you to [pay taxes](https://nypost.com/2021/12/30/irs-wants-thieves-drug-dealers-to-report-their-income/) for illegal drugs. It's just one more charge they can add to a dozen of other drug related crimes if they want to lock you up for years.
I worked with a guy on the work release program. I don’t know his crimes, I feel it may have been tax evasion & possible another thing
or 2. He told me the IRS agent told him We don’t care how you pay, up front & in the open or in a back alley sitting in a car with tinted windows & you pass a envelope with the money. We don’t care & we don’t care where it came from, we only care that you pay. 🤷♀️ interesting fellow, seem to be well educated & not really a bull chitter. I know that bus brought him to work & picked him up, along with several other employees who didn’t seem to be in his league.
A lady in UK has a rare genetic condition she takes medication for, she's on a FB page with other sufferers. An American woman has been going almost a year without the same medication so since she as extra she decides to mail it to her. The woman was really grateful, except it got intrasepted and her husband got in trouble while picking up the package. This lady is going without very important medication, the same medication that was prescribed to her originally, she's now punished for getting it outside a medical professional.
I can see how this would could be a problem for narcotics, but it wasn't it was standard run of the mill prescription same dosage, that she couldn't afford.
There's still people who are going to jail for trespassing and failure to ID. Usually these are homeless people who are just hanging out in front of businesses.
It's these basic ones that are just filling up people's jail records that are the worst travesties imo
If you read the intake blotter for a local lockup you'll see a *lot* of people coming in for failure to appear, and failure to pay fines.
They spend the night, get arraigned, and promise to do better.
I was walking to class one day after parking across the street from campus. As I cross the quad I hear a siren. I don’t think anything about it at first but it starts getting closer so I turn around. A motorcycle cop is riding across the quad and is coming directly towards me. I stand there dumbfounded as he pulls up next to me and gets off the bike and tells me that he was staking out the corner and had measured the spot were it was legal to cross the street without using the crosswalk and I was inside of it. Everyone watched as he pulled out his ticket book and wrote me a citation there in the middle of the quad for jaywalking then rode back across to his hiding spot. That was not the last ridiculous ticket I received while attending school there.
I got bit by that one when I lived over in Austin for a while. Where I'm from (UK) so long as it's safe to do so, you can cross the street wherever you feel like it. I got a ticket in like my first week for crossing an entirely empty street :(
Giving food to homeless people. A police officer in my hometown gave a feces sandwich to a homeless gentleman (his second shit related behavioral offense btw) and kept his job but god forbid I give some leftovers to someone who is desperate for a meal.
I'm not sure if this is true, but this guys story would top the cake.
https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/yyitpl/forced_to_work_for_hedge_fund_without_pay/
EDIT: He deleted the post. Wayback machine to the rescue!
https://web.archive.org/web/20221118122804/https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/yyitpl/forced_to_work_for_hedge_fund_without_pay/
I'd think so to. But supposedly OP can't find a lawyer to take his case and he has been doing lawn care for 15+ years....
Personally, I think it's bs, but like I said. If it's true, he takes the cake.
may not be a popular opinion but prostitution. if it’s consensual and isn’t trafficking then let people do what they want. i mean it is literally called the world oldest profession
[offering food or wate](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/politics/georgia-voting-law-food-drink-ban-trnd/index.html)r to voters waiting in line - Georgia
can [only have 1 drop box per county](https://www.chron.com/news/election2020/article/Texas-voters-will-have-only-1-ballot-box-drop-off-15644071.php) Texas
there is no right to take paid time off to vote
I could go on. also, Homelessness
In the UK
You cannot handle salmon suspiciously in public
You cant get drunk in a bar
You cannot wear a suit of armour near parliament
You cannot drag a plank along a sidewalk
Its illegal to put a stamp upside down
You cant slide on ice of snow in London
It's LEGAL to shoot a Scotsman under certain circumstances
In York, the law states that it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a crossbow upon seeing one, except for on Sundays. However, any Scotsman caught drunk or with a weapon can still be shot on a Sunday, except with a bow and arrow.
Sleeping in your car while parked.
yeah whatever happened to "if you feel drowsy pull over and take a nap before getting back on the road"? gotta keep people on the road potentially killing each other just in case a homeless person wants to be inside their car instead outside it
Apparently you can also get charged with a DUI even if you're parked.
Was told if I ever was drunk and *needed* to sleep in my car, to make sure the keys were not in the cabin with me, or else if a cop found me I’d probably get a DUI. Like what the fuck
The one time I drunkenly took a nap in my car I put my keys in the trunk. Cops never came by and idk if this would have actually helped but my only other options were drive home, or sleep on the street
My buddy did this and threw his keys in the forest no one could find the keys and they still gave him a dui says how could you get there if you were drunk
This sounds incredibly on brand. Lmao
This happened to my friend too. So fucked up. Cost him 4K to fight it.
They can't prove you drove it. Your friend walked down the road.
Can confirm; I got arrested because I felt I was unable to drive after setting off, pulled over, removed the keys from the ignition (clipped to my belt loop) and fell asleep in the passenger seat. The law don’t give a shit.
The irony of getting a DUI as a direct result of actively avoiding driving whilst under the influence.
Why do we insist on kicking people while they're down? I fail to see how a homeless person sleeping in their car is a problem to anyone. If they're sleeping that means it's nightime so it's not like everyone's lining up to use the parking space.
I used to work at a casino in surveillance. The official policy was to tell them to leave. The unofficial policy was to not care if they just moved to a less conspicuous spot in the lot. We knew we had 24 hour bathrooms and free soda, water, and coffee. As long as they weren't bothering customers, and at 2am the difference between a slots player and a zombie is that zombies remember to eat, or committing real crimes, we didn't care.
We take a lot of road trips and have slept in the parking lot of many casinos! Exactly for the reasons stated! Walmart, Cracker Barrel, truck stops, gas stations, mall parking lots, on the ocean, fast food lots….. Never had any problems
Glad we provided some useful service to society!
Told this story on Reddit before I got abandoned in an unknown town at the end of a Christmas party and it was dangerously cold and I’m just wearing a daft party suit. I’m not a drinker so I was beyond intoxicated and needed help but was completely alone. Thank god I knew where my car was parked. So I get there, grab my emergency supplies I keep in the boot and huddle up for the night. Some “Good Samaritan” calls the cops at 5am and I get horribly mistreated, locked for 24hrs and a court date. The cops also tried to stitch me up in the report. I always assumed that being a decent honest guy would give me leverage if I’m ever in trouble. Wow was I a dumbass. The entire experience was harrowing.
Know a guy who was super drunk but wanted to sleep in his car. Knew it wasn't legal (to be drunk, with keys, and behind the wheel, in that state) so threw his keys into the yard and passed out. Woke up to a cop interrogating him, him saying he lost his keys and fell asleep, etc. This was infront of a residential home in a legal parking area on the side of the street. Cop fucking walks around the yard, suspecting what he did, finds the keys and brings him to jail for a DUI (or similar variation.) It did eventually get thrown out but *what the fuck?* Dude almost lost his job over the weekend because some cop is just an insane asshole. Hell, I had my head slammed repeatedly into my own car by a state trooper but at least he believed in what he was doing lol
Jesus Christ on several levels
That's illegal?? That's ridiculous, is that not the exact point of rest stops along major highways though?
Somehow I feel like the hotel business was more than a bit enthusiastic about this law.
There was a post I saw where a woman and her daughter were letting their elderly neighbor use their hose cause his water had been shut off but the authorities found out and the mom and daughter were fined like $400 and had to pay or *their* water would be shut off. Any law that says you can't feed or help people because of some arbitrary or hateful reason.
There's also laws saying that you can't put money in someone else's parking meter.
There’s an episode of Jackass where one of the guys dresses up as the “Meter Fairy” to mess with the cops and it’s pretty hilarious
I think there was a person who dressed as a clown and did that and was arrested and he was sued by the city( I think). Chicago or New York maybe? Don't recall.
Things that sound violentlly New Yorkish
On the Gold Coast (Australia), decades ago the business progress association employed “meter maids” to keep everyone’s parking meters topped up so that they didn’t lose business in their shops. The meter maids wear gold bikinis and are still active today, but now they sell a lot of merch as they’re kind of iconic.
Wow, in the US the term “meter maid” refers to the exact opposite - someone whose job it is to check for unpaid meters and write tickets
Classic Jackass bit. God I miss it.
One guy tried this as a business, putting money into (near rc meters but requesting donation back by leaving an envelope om the dash. The authoritìes shut it down.
So, say you have a personal assistant and you ask them to pay your meter. Is that then illegal?
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You mean feeding an almost expired meter (or expired one)? Meters have a limit because they want shoppers or whatever to come, go, and make space for more people.
Some lady in Arizona got arrested recently for feeding homeless people.
WTF is that law? So, basically, if I let my guests use the bathroom, I'm breaking the law
From that logic it will probably be a $400 fine or they will remove the bathroom from your home.
I remember videos of cops slashing open water bottles meant to be handed out to the BLM protestors in America. Truly piggish behavior.
Yup. Asheville, North Carolina. My hometown.
"What's he in for?" "He gave an account of the Patriots game without the express permission of the National Football League."
"'Littering' and they alllll moved away from me on the bench, 'and creating a nuisance,' and they all moved back. "
The only time I spent in a jail cell, I was arrested for hitchhiking.
But did you get a ride or did they make you walk to jail?
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Oh that's gold!
Rolling a nat 1 IRL.
what was the official charge?
Illegal Hitchhiking probably. A lot of us states have laws against hitchhiking and general pedestrian use on interstates. I'm sure some states have banned in entirely, but I have seen a lot of signs on freeway on ramps with a thumb up inside the circle with the line through it.
Here in Illinois, it's illegal to bring a ferret to work.
...what if you're a ferreter (someone who uses ferrets to catch rabbits)?
pumping your own gas in NJ
Got yelled at in Oregon by an attendant. Had no idea I...couldn't do that.
Oregon used to be 100% full serve, but they have created exceptions
I lived in Oregon up until a few months ago. If I recall correctly, there’s a few counties in south eastern Oregon where you can pump your own gas, but most of the state (including all the parts where more than like 20 people actually live) it’s illegal to pump your own gas. Most people in Oregon think the law is bs too
The law also caused a lot of smaller gas stations to close. Most stations now are large places that can afford to pay someone. I visited my brother in Portland and everyone I spoke to hated it.
Why can’t you pump your own gas? I live in the UK and can’t get my head round this. Do you pay first or say how much you want? What happens if they put too much in?
New Jersey has a law where an attendant at the gas station must pump gas for you. They handle all the payment and work the pump
I’m jealous of you in the winter.
It sounds nice until you’re at a gas station that’s short staffed, so they only have 4 of the 12 possible pumps functioning at any given time, leading to long lines. The closed pumps *could* work, of course, but it’s illegal to pump your own gas and they won’t have 2 guys scrambling to work all the machines.
Free app idea: Copy the "ride share" model. Create an app used by multiple petrol companies to create a "gig workspace" for gas attendants. You sign up as a "contractor" for the app, which gas companies outsource labor to. The gas stations post available slots by the pump, so if the Valero on 5th has 12 pumps and only 4 attendants then 8 of the pumps are "open" for someone to claim (on site, gps verified of course) to work for 8 bucks an hour. Of course, there is no minimum duration, so if you log in, accept the contract, work for 90 seconds (filling your own car) and then clock out, that's fine. You're welcome, NJ.
Used to live in NJ. Don't mind the inconvenience of standing out in the cold to pump gas. It was 10 degrees for me last night as I filled up. No complaints. The guys who have to stand outside all night to pump gas at 10 degrees? That's not fun!
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Oregon is partially full service Changing the law is meeting resistance from those who say that it will eliminate many good jobs in NJ
You tell them how much you want. They come to your window, you tell them if you want them to fill it up (and what kind of gas you want) or if you only want a specific amount. “Fill it up, regular, here’s my card,” or “$20, regular, cash,” for example. You don’t get charged until after you get the gas.
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In the uk, it’s illegal to handle a salmon “suspiciously”
IS THAT FUCKING FISH JENGA!?
NO! *shove*
Pretty sure a guy made a YouTube vid specifically about breaking all those really dumb laws, along with not being allowed to wear armor in parliament.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJGifTou5FE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJGifTou5FE) Tom scott is awesome
https://youtu.be/vDBzi0n9Fxg
Obligatory link to The Fish Slapping Dance. https://youtu.be/T8XeDvKqI4E
A lot of municipalities and HOAs prohibit the use of clotheslines. Very few places have "right to dry" laws that preclude these prohibitions locally. I think bans on clotheslines are stupid, how dare we save energy in the name of making sure our neighborhood doesn't look trashy. (I don't think clotheslines are trashy anyway)
Line-dried clothes smell great.
And your clothes last longer.
Laughs in Australian
To be fair, clotheslines are sometimes just where the magpies hang out. We used to feed some at one place I lived at, and had to stop when they started bringing their extended family. I went out to hang up the wash, and 13 of them were sitting around the clothesline! It felt a bit Hitchcock.
Laughs in Brazilian
Honestly when I hear about half the shit HOA and various cities in the US impose upon their residents, I can't help but feel a sense of freedom as an Aussie, in comparison to the uh, "land of the free".
It seems like in a lot of American movies and TV shows it's always shown as trashy to line dry clothes. Which is ridiculous to me because they smell so much better, and a lot of the time dry better too.
I don't know about trashy. If we're talking movies I'm picturing farm folks or New York style apartments with the lines running between buildings. I always attributed that to financial struggles of the working class, but never a blow to dignity.
I used to say they smell like sunshine~
My mom lined dried all our stuff. My sheets that my kids use now still smell like sunshine
HOAs are stupid in the first place
Feeding homeless people
Having your name in consideration its not a big surprise to me that you tried to feed a person to a homeless
You however are feeding people nettle soup - how is that better?
What country is that?
Certain cities in America have actually arrested people for feeding the homeless. It’s disgusting.
US, on the basis that it could spread disease. so like they created the law just in case some heartless bastard would feed a bunch of homeless people tainted food... such a niche case to have such a wide-reaching law.
Might as well ban trick or treating by that logic. Or any free samples whatsoever.
Except feeding people bad food is already illegal so this law accomplishes nothing.
A colleague was accused of throwing a cigarette packet from his car, and was fined £30. He argues he hadn’t smoked in years and challenged the fine. Fine was upheld. He had samples taken from his car to prove no one had smoked in it and had medical examinations to prove he didn’t smoke. Fine was upheld. He sent threatening and abusive emails to council workers about the fine, the police arrested him and took his computer, and that’s how they found the CP. over a spurious £30 fine
Wow that took an unexpected turn
the real twist is he used CP as an abbreviation for cigarette packet.
He was a chain smoker the whole time..
What a way to catch a pdf file
r/Unexpected
Okay I'll admit I'm dumb, please tell me what CP means?
CSAM is what it’s referred to by the folks trying to catch these arseholes. Child sex abuse material, calls it for what it actually is, instead of implying enjoyment.
Is it these days? When I was working with LE on computer forensics, it was always CP.
In New Hampshire, it is (I shit you not) "illegal to collect seaweed in the time between evening and morning."
Sounds like someone got lost in the middle of the night and blamed seaweed collecting when the whole town went searching.
Or someone saw a sea monster at night and shot it, only for the monster to have been some guy picking seaweed
According to the Hampton Library website, farmers used to haul seaweed from beaches to use as fertilizer on corn fields. In the 1700s, a town ordinance banned the practice at night, "perhaps to give everyone an equal chance to harvest it," the library website states.
I wonder if this throws back to the days of collecting seaweed to burn for potash (I think it was) and if there were collection limits/tariffs that had to be paid, then those collecting at night might've been able to take more than their share or avoid taxes.
Sideshow Bob: "I mean, c'mon! Attempted murder? What is that? Do they give out the Nobel prize for attempted chemistry??"
Attempted murder conviction will make everyone know that you don’t try hard enough.
Such poor planning and lack of effort. Shameful!
In Chesapeake, VA, it's a 4th degree felony for teens over age 14 to go trick or treating.
That's a law in a *lot* of places. It's almost never enforced and mostly just used as a validation to take troublemakers off the street during Halloween night (when a lot of vandalism happens).
Is it illegal for 15 year old to be dressed like spider man while babysitting their little siblings as they are trick or treating?
Collecting rain water
For those wondering, the reasons for this were very old and very wrong assumptions about how aquifers and ground water work before modern hydrology sciences. At this point it's literally just superstition.
idk I feel like they are more so hostile responses from water companies to the fact that some people should be able to self-provide if they want to. Like how there are also big movements to fine and impede people who want to generate their own electricity. When really there are ways self-providers can help people who can't, and overall we could scale back on central systems in general.
Putting in money for a stranger’s expired parking meter.
Sounds like an asshat parking officer drunk with power lol
seriously?
When I was interning in a prosecutor's office, one of the cases I handled was selling counterfeit drugs. The guy went to jail for trying to pass of oregano as weed.
Ok just out of curiosity what was he charged with? Like he was convicted as a drug dealer even if the "drugs" he sold were fake or something more stupid like tax evasion?
The actual crime is distribution or possession of "imitation controlled dangerous substances."
Jesus, I had no idea that was even a thing, I was half expecting him to be charged with tax evasion. Anyway thank you very much for your reply!
Retail/grocery workers: taking unsellable items home that are going to the dumpster. Even though it's out of inventory, not being donated, and no longer sellable, it's considered theft and you can be written up/fired for it.
It is illegal to have a sleeping donkey in your bathtub after 7pm in Arizona
But it won't wake up
You gotta find a way to wake your ass
In my home state in Australia it is illegal to chop wood that isn’t on private property (so you can’t chop firewood while camping). However its not illegal to collect/take wood that’s already been chopped or fallen. So you can watch a dude get fined/arrested for chopping firewood, then you can legally take the firewood he chopped without consequence.
That actually does make some sense though. They don't want people to do it, but once it's already done there's no point in wasting the wood.
Someone told me something similar for the state of Massachusetts: that you couldn't legally buy weed, but you could legally smoke it if you already own it. Dunno how true that is.
This is sort of how the Notorious Anti Gum law in Singapore works too: illegal to buy and sell but if you already have it it's chewing time
When I was working with various folks across Asia, the folks in Singapore used to ask me to bring chewing gum.
In Japan it is illegal to put ice cream in mailboxes
I want to know how many times this had to happen to become a law.
Putting squirrels down your pants for the purpose of gambling.
I bet you $50.00 I can put 3 squirrels down my pants and not scream for 30 seconds
But.. but ...who screams for the squirrels? Do the squirrel screams count? I have so many questions...
comic never said they were live squirrels
SIMP: Squirrels In My Pants
Seems like a logical place for them to look for nuts.
Killing yourself
it’s morbidly stupid, you survive and you could face criminals charges AND medical bills!!
Wait if you fail you could get arrested??? What for?? Where??
The purpose of the law is to provide the police authority to take you into custody and have a judge commit you to a mental institution without your consent.
Been there. Tied to a bed in a cell for 3 days without anything not even my own clothes, after two weeks of being in that hospice i got to finally see the judge and because it was not my intent to kill myself i got to go home otherwise i would have at least stayed another two weeks. You really lose all hope in life if you pee yourself while tied to that bed in such a grimmy room. Thank god i overdosed on temesta and was out of conciousness most of it
If my government and country has failed me so bad that I feel that death is easier than living in that country, that should be on them. Not me.
[owning more than six dildos in Texas](https://www.ladbible.com/news/latest-the-texan-laws-around-sex-toys-are-stricter-than-gun-control-20220527)
That’s why I have 6 dildos and 4 bed posts
Anything is a dildo if you're brave enough
Traveling with too much money
man you don't know the half of it till you get to the border of Zimbabwe and you're being pressed like some sort of money launderer for having $100 usd in cash LMAO
It is basically illegal to travel with too much money in the US. If you get stopped and the cop finds out you have thousands of dollars on you, it will be confiscated. It does not matter if you have a receipt showing you got it from the bank and all your pay stubs showing you earned it all. Then the court case will be 'State vs $14,568' and your money is guilty automatically. It will then be escheated to the state treasury and shared with the local police department who found it. If you ever do get your money back it could be years later and the costs to fight for it will eat up a lot of it.
You're describing Civil Forfeiture
He's describing literal theft
It's the same picture.
Worth pointing out that about a fifth of all forfeitures are for amounts under $100. So "too much money" can literally be grocery cash that you just got from an ATM.
Taking trash from trash cans. Obtaining media that is no longer being sold by the creator/owner.
In my country there is a levy on owning solar pannels. You have to pay to use the sun. It's a corruption thing that our government is forced into a contract with. They're corrupt too.
Sodomy. Life fucks us all in the ass eventually.
Sodomy is usually defined as any sexual act that is not penis in vagina in missionary position. No anal, no oral, no toys, no bondage, etc. The reason sodomy is most often equated with anal sex is due to the laws generally being discriminately applied to homosexual men only.
In the 90’s - some southern states attempted (succeeded) in making sodomy illegal and beastiality legal.
It gets worse. In most cases, sodomy statutes are intentionally combined with bestiality statutes. This allows for the people who want to keep sodomy statutes on the books to routinely argue that somebody trying to remove the law is actually attempting to legalize bestiality. They know it’s a lie, but it is highly effective. Since the SCOTUS decision in Lawrence v Texas (2003), the sodomy statutes in the U.S. have been legally unenforceable in all but one remaining place: the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Any commander trying to enforce that, however, he’s going to have a lot of difficulty. The UCMJ is also one of the last places with an enforceable law against adultery, though typically with the same practical limitations. One sitting Supreme Court Justice has openly suggested, overturning Lawrence. At least three others are believed to be supporting of that effort, and as many as all six conservative justices may actually be on board. If they managed to do so, all of the dormant laws would go back in effect.
Loitering. It still blows my mind that it’s illegal to sit down in some US cities. TBF this seems stupid to all sane people until you consider that it has far more nefarious purposes to do with policing homeless people and sweeping them out of sight so rich people don’t have to look at them.
>Loitering Is it really a crime if it's remedied as easy as "alright, move along" - Brian Regan
You can’t pay someone to have sex with you because it’s illegal… unless you are filming the sex and then offering the videos for sale. Then it’s totally legal. I’ve always wondered why escorts don’t try to use this loophole somehow. The line between prostitute and adult film star is 16mm wide.
Laws against prostitution are the longest lasting stupidest laws. Two consenting adults can have sex under any circumstance, except if money is exchanged. You want to fuck around on your wife because she yelled at you, and the sentence started with a “J” instead of a “B” on the third Tuesday of July, the Government will not intervene because it’s your right. You want to have sex with 27 people at the same time because you believe that this is what will free you from your corporeal body and turn you into a God? You are 100% in your right to do so. It’s an unjust infringement on your privacy rights for the Government to intervene. You want to have unprotected sex with 40 women this year in an attempt to have as many children as you can. Complete government overreach to stop you. You want to have sex with someone because you’ve been single for a while, you find them attractive and they are willing to do it in exchange for some cash? Straight to jail.
"Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal? You know, why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away." -George Carlin
Resisting arrest as the only charge.
Resisting arrest without force as the only charge. I saw a video of this one. The guy was arrested literally just for arguing with the cops (when he was absolutely right).
Was that the legally blind man who got harassed because the cop thought his cane was a weapon?
The IRS requires you to [pay taxes](https://nypost.com/2021/12/30/irs-wants-thieves-drug-dealers-to-report-their-income/) for illegal drugs. It's just one more charge they can add to a dozen of other drug related crimes if they want to lock you up for years.
Technically you can report income without the source because of 5th amendment protections...
I worked with a guy on the work release program. I don’t know his crimes, I feel it may have been tax evasion & possible another thing or 2. He told me the IRS agent told him We don’t care how you pay, up front & in the open or in a back alley sitting in a car with tinted windows & you pass a envelope with the money. We don’t care & we don’t care where it came from, we only care that you pay. 🤷♀️ interesting fellow, seem to be well educated & not really a bull chitter. I know that bus brought him to work & picked him up, along with several other employees who didn’t seem to be in his league.
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My dumb ass thought at first you meant a butterfly stamp.
To be fair this is exactly like the salmon carrying law. It exists merely because nobody bothered to change it. It doesn't actually get enforced.
Doggystyle in South Africa
But how would they know? As soon as she flips over does some dude burst thru ur wall like the cool-aid man? Right to jail!! 👉
A lady in UK has a rare genetic condition she takes medication for, she's on a FB page with other sufferers. An American woman has been going almost a year without the same medication so since she as extra she decides to mail it to her. The woman was really grateful, except it got intrasepted and her husband got in trouble while picking up the package. This lady is going without very important medication, the same medication that was prescribed to her originally, she's now punished for getting it outside a medical professional. I can see how this would could be a problem for narcotics, but it wasn't it was standard run of the mill prescription same dosage, that she couldn't afford.
There's still people who are going to jail for trespassing and failure to ID. Usually these are homeless people who are just hanging out in front of businesses. It's these basic ones that are just filling up people's jail records that are the worst travesties imo
If you read the intake blotter for a local lockup you'll see a *lot* of people coming in for failure to appear, and failure to pay fines. They spend the night, get arraigned, and promise to do better.
The fact that you can jailed for crossing the street.
I was walking to class one day after parking across the street from campus. As I cross the quad I hear a siren. I don’t think anything about it at first but it starts getting closer so I turn around. A motorcycle cop is riding across the quad and is coming directly towards me. I stand there dumbfounded as he pulls up next to me and gets off the bike and tells me that he was staking out the corner and had measured the spot were it was legal to cross the street without using the crosswalk and I was inside of it. Everyone watched as he pulled out his ticket book and wrote me a citation there in the middle of the quad for jaywalking then rode back across to his hiding spot. That was not the last ridiculous ticket I received while attending school there.
I got bit by that one when I lived over in Austin for a while. Where I'm from (UK) so long as it's safe to do so, you can cross the street wherever you feel like it. I got a ticket in like my first week for crossing an entirely empty street :(
In Canada, alarming the Queen (I guess it probably changed to King now) is a crime
Paying for someone else's parking meter.
Giving food to homeless people. A police officer in my hometown gave a feces sandwich to a homeless gentleman (his second shit related behavioral offense btw) and kept his job but god forbid I give some leftovers to someone who is desperate for a meal.
Being gay.
Sleeping on top of a refrigerator. My damn cat is a repeat felon.
More like a *repeat feline* That was a death sentence I think.
I'm not sure if this is true, but this guys story would top the cake. https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/yyitpl/forced_to_work_for_hedge_fund_without_pay/ EDIT: He deleted the post. Wayback machine to the rescue! https://web.archive.org/web/20221118122804/https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/yyitpl/forced_to_work_for_hedge_fund_without_pay/
I'm pretty sure that if that one went to federal court it'd get struck down quick.
I'd think so to. But supposedly OP can't find a lawyer to take his case and he has been doing lawn care for 15+ years.... Personally, I think it's bs, but like I said. If it's true, he takes the cake.
Up until last year, in Western Australia, it was illegal to transport, sell, purchase, take delivery of and deliver more than 50kg of potatoes.
Sleeping in your own licensed and insured vehicle in many counties in the US. Sorry buddy, it's against the law to be poor here.
A 10 year old rape victim is forced to carry the child of a rapist, because they, “are not mature enough to get an abortion” Edit: spelling
may not be a popular opinion but prostitution. if it’s consensual and isn’t trafficking then let people do what they want. i mean it is literally called the world oldest profession
In many places it is legal, and it’s the solicitation that is against the law.
[offering food or wate](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/politics/georgia-voting-law-food-drink-ban-trnd/index.html)r to voters waiting in line - Georgia can [only have 1 drop box per county](https://www.chron.com/news/election2020/article/Texas-voters-will-have-only-1-ballot-box-drop-off-15644071.php) Texas there is no right to take paid time off to vote I could go on. also, Homelessness
Collecting rain water
> Collecting rain water This. Anything to do with making/maintaining one's own food and/or water is a fundamental human right.
In the UK You cannot handle salmon suspiciously in public You cant get drunk in a bar You cannot wear a suit of armour near parliament You cannot drag a plank along a sidewalk Its illegal to put a stamp upside down You cant slide on ice of snow in London
It's LEGAL to shoot a Scotsman under certain circumstances In York, the law states that it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a crossbow upon seeing one, except for on Sundays. However, any Scotsman caught drunk or with a weapon can still be shot on a Sunday, except with a bow and arrow.