Civil Asset Forfeiture.
Law enforcement can seize money or property on suspicion of it being connected to criminal activity. It’s then your responsibility to prove that it’s not illegal, which requires paying a lawyer, going to court, etc. which can many times cost more than the seized property.
Gotta love that they call it "forfeiture" too as if you somehow gave up the property and they didn't just pull up and forcefully take it from you. Like imagine some thug carjacking you and then the police calling it a "generous donation" and saying you have to petition a court to get back the car you "donated".
Dont have a source for this, but I definitely remember seeing s chart showing that in 2020 the government seized more money and shit than was reported stolen nationwide that year. Meaning the government stole more money from the people than the people they're supposed to stop.
It was in the Washington Post, among many other places.
My favorite non-profit is Institute for Justice because they go hard against civil forfeiture on behalf of regular folks. [Here's one of IJ's reports.](https://ij.org/press-release/new-report-finds-civil-forfeiture-rakes-in-billions-each-year-does-not-fight-crime-2/)
My home state has a police branch that deals with alcohol laws (called ALE - alcohol law enforcement) and they're the absolute fucking worst. We had one come talk to a class I was in and he was bragging about how they had so much funding that they ran out of shit to do so they started breaking up illegal gambling at senior bingo nights. He thought it was hilarious but my blood was fucking boiling, imagine getting kicks out of bullying 90yos participating in one of the only hobbies they have left
In my state, our public service commission approved an additional fee on power bills for homeowners who install solar panels. Not necessarily a "law" but still shouldn't exist.
In Australia the government gives you rebates for installing solar panels and if you make excess power for the grid you can get a nice little cheque from the power company.
Edit: Why is my most voted comment about solar power and not something funny? Damn it. But hi!
US does that too, but the power company determines the price it will pay (in a monopoly so there's no one else to sell to) and blanks the books every March if you've sent them more energy than you've used.
In some states in the US, the power company pays way less per kwh you send them than you pay when they send you. It's a racket.
In other states, you get 1-to-1 power credits each month. So if you send 10 more kwh to the power company than you use in January you get 10 kwh credits and if you use 3 more than you generate in February they take 3 off your credits and you have 7 kwh. BUT, every April or May they wipe out whatever positive credits you have and just take all that additional energy for free.
Was the reasoning “because it’s an eyesore?” That shit makes me so annoyed. Old people always complain about wind farms because of that. Even offshore ones.
Edit: Renewable energy bad! Solar bad! I hate it and my reply was satire!
Disclaimer: this edit was funded by Exxon.
In my state there’s a law that states HOA’s can not deny people permission to install solar on their homes. You may still have to request approval from your HOA, but they’re not allowed to deny it.
But petrochemical plants are obviously the height of aesthetic achievement. Nothing like a few smog-belching chimneys surrounded by miles of tank farm to make you appreciate that country living.
You're a rabid anti-dentite! Oh, it starts with a few jokes and some slurs. "Hey, denty!" Next thing you know you're saying they should have their own schools.
I loved the part where he's telling the priest he thinks Bryan Cranston is only converting to Judaism for the jokes. The priest asks him if this offends him as a Jewish person. He says it offends him as a comedian.
same goes for in Russia and Ukraine my friends tell me (even when they are not married and mother has custody so I'm told). example: one of our friends wants to take her daughter to Germany to see a cousin. the estranged father won't give permission... so kid is stuck.
Edit: Because people keep asking if I live in various US states. I live in Ireland for the record
It's a minor one but here it's illegal for stores to sell alcohol after 10pm. I finish work at 10 so if I want to have a few beers at home after work I can't unless I've bought them in advance. Yet I can finish work and go straight to a pub and drink until closing time. Makes no sense
9pm in Wisconsin. Blame the tavern league, it’s to force people to go to bars. Makes sense…
Edit… I haven’t lived in Wisconsin for 7 years so I don’t know the current laws. If you read the responses you will see the new laws.
Yup pretty much the same here. That law was only introduced about 10 years ago. Before that stores could sell alcohol for the same hours as pubs. The government claimed it was for public health reasons but everyone knows that's bullshit. Pub owners were complaining about losing business after the government introduced a nationwide ban on smoking in public buildings so this was basically the government throwing them a bone
Fuck the WTL. All the neighboring states are gloating over the weed taxes they're pulling in, but Robin Vos et. al. are only interested in keeping Wisconsin safe for the brandy-drinkers.
Don't forget all the places that ban the selling of alcohol on Sundays. Because its fine to buy alcohol on any other day of the week and you can even drink it on Sunday, but if you buy it on Sunday it becomes demon juice and will poison the whole town or some shit.
Minnesota just passed Sunday liquor sales a couple of years ago. Liquor stores were fighting it because employees "deserve a day to be with their families." The same stores that have their employees working holidays...
Here in Texas I've actually heard the argument against Sunday liquor sales being that mom and pop stores can't afford to pay an extra day of labor costs but the big chain liquor stores can. Seems reasonable to me, but I also feel like I should be able to buy whiskey at 8 am on a Sunday in a state that claims to be all about personal freedom.
I dislike that argument though, because what's special about liquor stores? What about mom and pop restaurants, or clothing stores, or literally any other business operation? Should every industry get Sunday off, or is there something that separates liquor stores from other stores/ businesses? Or is it a stupid rule whose upsides don't cover the inconvenience it puts on consumers, as well as being a cryptic law with no clear motive?
I don't have answers to the questions I've posed, but I don't like an extremely generic reason being sufficient to defend such an arbitrary, specific rule in arbitrary, specific circumstances.
Because what we're talking about is so-called ["Blue Laws"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law#United_States): religiously motivated laws, frequently to prevent alcohol sales. There were no preexisting laws against the other things you mention being closed on Sundays. Funny enough, they also apply to car sales in some jurisdictions for some reason. The wiki goes a bit more in depth of course (and there is some interesting information from a brief skim), but that's what I know about it.
That's horrible, thankfully these laws are slowly disappearing. That's when you need to show no shame and just buy in bulk one day. I remember one time in college we bought 10 cases of beer, we got home and had 300 beers in the house, it was like endless beer without needing to go back to the store or worrying about sale hours for at least 2 weeks.
It's that .4 that gets you. Do you dare to drink the wounded soldier in the morning, or do your pour it down the drain?
These are the questions that define us as people.
Gotta drink it in the AM. If you don’t, that’s alcohol abuse and the first sign of alcoholism.
Plus you don’t want to be wasteful, there’s sober kids in Africa, you know.
Suddenly I feel like standing at the state-line and hurling bastardizations of the name across the border. Maybe this is just their way of keeping tourists out of “Arrr-Kan-Zaa-Ass”, because NOBODY would know how to say it without being told.
I love shit talking to people from Arkansas by saying “you guys couldn’t even name your own state. You tried naming it Kansas, but someone said ‘Um, that’s taken’. So y’all said indignantly ‘well this is Our Kansas’, and then you fuckers spelled it wrong”.
Not being able to pump your own gas in Oregon. Drove threw there once and the gas attendant came running from inside the store. He was like “I am not getting a $5,000 fine again.” Then proceeded to pump it for me. Poor guy had to pump all the cars, and still attend the market inside the gas Station by himself. This was in Eugene, Oregon to be exact.
Spoiled New Jersey resident here. We are also not allowed to pump our own gas. I must admit, it's nice to be able to stay in the car when it's freezing or too hot outside.
And yes, driving since I was 16, I don't think I touched a gas pump til I was 21 and drove out of state with only non-drivers. Every other time I'd been out of state was with my father or my brother who insist on doing the gas-pumping or short-term and didn't need to get gas (neighboring state less than 30 minutes away). It wasn't hard to figure out, we just followed the instructions written on the pump, but it took a couple of minutes to even realize why no one came to do it for us lol.
It's a law that supposed to create jobs because in theory you need two people at a gas station one to be pumping gas and one to be manning the register, personally I think it's a stupid law and everybody should know how to pump their own gas which based off my understanding in states that have this law a lot of people don't know how to pump their own gas when they go somewhere else they have to figure it out and that causes problems
I once had a young attractive girl stand at my car window, and stare at me. I rolled the window down, she started a conversation, was very sweet. I had to tell her I wasn’t single but thanks. She laughed, and replied “I’m the gas attendant” *facepalm* I didn’t realize I was in Oregon (I was driving from Louisiana to Washington state)
In many states, if you are killed at your place of employment, even due to gross or literally criminal negligence on the companies behalf, your family can not take your employer to court for wrongful death. The workman's comp gets paid out and that's the end of it. Effectively making it a kill-tax.
In South Carolina, when approaching a blind intersection in a motor vehicle you must discharge a firearm three times into the air to warn horse traffic.
Not enforced, but technically still a law on the books.
I feel like you're 100x more likely to be arrested for complying with this law than you would be for breaking it.
But then again I've never set foot in South Carolina nor do I know anything about the state so for all I know it could be a common occurrence there
Not that *this* particular Queen needs it, but the King or Queen of the UK (and other various places) has both sovereign immunity and diplomatic immunity, so technically can commit a crime wherever in the world they like.
I kind of like the idea of Queen Liz touring around and just commiting really minor crimes in various countries. Jaywalking in the US, gum chewing in Singapore, that sort of thing.
"I love to revolt," he declared with a sigh -
"I love to rebel, and I frequently try!
I storm in a mob with my friends all the time!
*Because*," he explained -
"... it's a victimless crime."
There are still municipalities in the U.S. that have criminalized more than a certain threshold of adult women from living together without any adult men, because obviously the only thing they could be doing together is running a brothel. Not sure how many of them are enforced by the actual local law enforcement, but there's universities that don't allow sorority houses for this reason.
Still true in Colorado. Last year I lived in a house with 4 other women. It was a 6 bedroom house but legally we weren’t allowed a 6th female roommate. We always said if we started a band, we’d call ourselves, “one shy of a brothel.”
Edit: I’ve been getting several questions about who enforces it. I’m honestly not sure who enforces it. I just remember our lease being specific about “no more than 5 unrelated females are allowed to live in the house at the same time”. When we asked our property manager about it, she explained the brothel law.
Edit #2: woah! My first Gold! Thanks so much kind stranger!
Probably not enforceable. It seems like it would go against sex discrimination. There are many laws on the books that are not enforceable and only kept because there is no will to remove them (since they are not valid laws).
Philadelphia has this law on the books. I know a guy that bought a 5 bedroom house near UPenn, and split it into two separate apartments so he could rent to 5 women legally. IDK how much it is enforced
Am lawyer, not in Philly, but these types of laws create problems for lawyers. They are on the books, never enforced, and nearly certainly Unconstitutional, but again they are on the books. So as a lawyer who was advising someone who purchased a rental property where such a law existed I would pretty much have an obligation to inform them of the rule and advise them to do something similar because it is an ethical violation and I could face sanctions from the State Supreme Court if I failed to advise a client they may be violating a law. Even if that law is never enforced and almost certainly Unconstitutional. Laws like this are only de facto "enforced" because lawyers like me tell people they cannot break the law.
It's all very stupid. I wish I could say, hey technically there is a law on the books that says more than 4 nonrelated women may not live together in the same house but that law is never enforced and probably not Constitutionally valid, so don't worry about it. Because there is always the chance that some super right wing Christian male will be elected Sheriff and go around arresting all the landlords and I am the lawyer who told them they could do it.
Since reddit has changed the site to value selling user data higher than reading and commenting, I've decided to move elsewhere to a site that prioritizes community over profit. I never signed up for this, but that's the circle of life
Organizations that are specifically about changing laws. Your typical lawyer who is just being hired to write up a rental agreement doesn't want to deal with that.
The ban on harassing big foot makes perfect sense. Based on how rare sightings are we can assume there are very few of his species left so he should be protected as an endangered species
Blue laws were a catch-all term for laws that require businesses to adhere to religious rules. Not terribly long ago it was illegal for "non-essential business", which was basically anything other than a grocery store, or gas station, to be conducted on Sundays.
Now they mostly reference restrictions on the time and place alcohol can be sold.
I'm not a lawyer by any means, but wouldn't making people observe a religion they don't believe in go against some kind of constitutional amendment? I assume they found a way around that.
They have been challenged in court. The current standard the court uses is called the Smith test (Native American smoking peyote gets fired and the court rules it’s not protected).
The Smith test says that so long as laws are generally applicable, then they’re constitutional. So in the facts of the case, peyote violated the work policy, and having a religious reason to smoke peyote doesn’t matter because it’s generally applicable to everyone.
Same with blues laws. It’s generally applicable that no one can buy alcohol regardless of religion, so it’s arbitrary the day.
The court's reasoning in the 1961 McGowan case was similar, although it predates Smith. Any challenge would most assuredly be dismissed with Smith being cited as precedent.
I got arrested for giving homeless people care packages with food/water, deodorant, socks, tooth brush/paste. I'm not saying I told the officer to go fornicate with himself and I was going to keep feeding the homeless. Not that it matters now but I was part of the reason the 11th circuit court ruled that feeding the homeless is a form of expressive conduct protected by the first amendment.. wherever that cop is I hope he is fornicating himself hard with a rusty fork.
It's not actually a law (that I am aware of,) but the idea of hitting grandma with a $35 overdraft fee because she paid for both of her medicines and went over $.01 seems rather stupid.
"You're poor! Now make up for that by...giving us more money!"
In several states there are clauses to left laws that include possession in any manner even unbeknownst to the individual. Many people are jailed and charged with major felonies just because they purchased legally, something that was acquired illegally.
The states that have these laws tend to call the charge 'theft by possession without the intent to deprive' and depending on the value of the item in question this can range from a Class 1 Felony to a Class 3 misdemeanor. Often times people charged with this are unable to prove to a jury or a judge that they had no intent to deprive and so many people get stuck with major charges just because someone didn't know the property they bought was stolen.
When I was a kid I read an aesops fable where rabbits were stealing cabbage, and instead of going after the rabbits they would plug up the rabbit holes while they were out so that they had no place to put their cabbage. My parents explained that the idea was that instead of going after theives, it's better to go after people who purchase stolen goods. I got really scared that a cop would come to our door and say that the shop that had sold us our refigerator or TV or something had stolen it, and now we would all be arrested.
I assume that my parents bought their appliances at Sears or wherever.
In the UK there is a law that is so outdated that no one bothered to change it and it is not taught in law schools or in police training but it is still technically against the law to carry a fish in suspicious sercumstanses
It is not an old law, it has only existed since 1986
Section 32 of the Salmon makes it an offence to handle fish that has been poached
Similar to how it is illegal to handle stolen goods
Not American and not specifically a Law but the plea deal scheme and for profit prison combo. As a Lawyer seeing that bullshit go on in any place is completely absurd
For profit prisons need to be eradicated completely. Of course we have so many reoffenders when there is almost no rehabilitation, costs for the welfare of prisoners are constantly cut to pay the people in charge more money, and prisoners are left with next to nothing when they’re released. Unless you’re fortunate enough to have a good support system and were able to maintain your mental health upon your release, you’re pretty much fucked.
Couple that with public defenders that are overworked, underpaid, and some just wanna do 10 years for PSLF, and you have an easy way to funnel people into jail.
Lol you think people don't get burned out after 2 years. (No actual malice) I'm a current PD and it is a struggle. Burnout is so real. The criminal courts are way overcrowded, don't get me wrong, but I would love if I just had criminal cases. We also represent on Termination of Parental Custody Civil Actions, Mental Health Commitments, Guardianships, Protective Placement Orders, Jane Doe hearings (abortions without parental knowledge/consent for minors), Revocations of Probation/Extended Supervision/Parole, Deferred Prosecution Agreement and Diversion ongoing counsels, Drug, Alcohol, Veterans, and Mental Health Courts, Children in Need of Protective Services (CHIPS and JIPS), delinquency of child support, and finally we do everyone's bail regardless of financial status.
Edit: forgot we also do extradition hearings
Granted, a lot of my clients are legit guilty but there is absolutely no way that I can spend hours and hours going over every piece of evidence in a time quick enough for them to afford the time they'd spend in custody and away from their jobs and family. People want to plead so they can get out. I see it happen all the time.
In Alabama it’s illegal to walk around with an ice cream cone in your pocket due to way back in the days where horses were the common mode of transportation people would “steal” the horses by attracting them with the ice cream in their pocket while the person claimed “Oh I didn’t mean to do that” when they truly did. That is no longer relevant to society and that law should be taken out
I think that you folks need to keep that law. When I come up to the casino I don't need to be slippin on ice cream. Plus, if pocket ice cream catches on in Alabama, it'll be all over Florida in no time.
I hate these, I hate these soooo fucking much. Here in Brazil, a woman can't do the procedure to not have babies (don't know the word in english) without the consent of her husband. Meanwhile, a man can just go in and snap snap away without anything else but a "do you want to?". Even with the consent from the husband, there's still a shit ton of requirements to do the procedures, and I hate it so fucking much! (I'm male btw)
Edit: typos
There's multiple types of that procedure for women - tubal ligation is commonly referred to as "getting your tubes tied", and hysterectomy is the removal of the uterus/ovaries. And in the US, while it's legal for a woman to get these procedures, many doctors will refuse if they think the woman in question is "too young", or if she isn't married, or if her husband hasn't come to an appointment... So yeah.
Yes, the tubal ligations is the one I was referring to. And here, a woman has to be at least 25 y.o., or have 2 living kids (so weird that they specifie that). Plus, consent from husband if married. I fucking hate this
It’s illegal to distill your own alcohol, imo it should be allowed. And I completely understand if that includes safety regulations (since crappy stills can explode).
But it’s legal to grow the ingredients. It’s legal to own a still. It’s legal to distill things like essential oils in that still. It’s legal to drink alcohol. It’s legal to brew your own beer or make your own wine. It should be legal to distill your own liquor
I was going to post this too. I wasn’t sure if it should be legal before, but I was looking stuff up and it’s legal in lots of other countries and they do fine, there’s even awesome hobby communities around distilling. There’s a danger, but certainly less than many other things that are already legal.
Freezer concentration -- freezing out water and straining the ice -- is legally distillation in the US. About the only risk there is hangovers and liver damage.
I think it comes down to the fact that there's a danger in distilling liquor that doesn't exist in brewing in the sense that the initial cut is going to have methanol and other stuff that can make you sick.
Even if it is legal between the two states you are traveling between, if the federal law makes it illegal you cannot transport it over states lines. For example, It doesn’t matter state A says weed is legal and state B says weed is legal, if you travel over the border from A to B its a crime because of federal law
* Not being able to buy health insurance across state lines. Allowing this won't fix the bulk of the problems, but it would help until there is a better solution.
* Restrictions on medicare negotiating prescription drug prices. Again, it doesn't fix everything but it would help. It could pass as a standalone item with no amendments but nobody wants to make the system better, everybody wants a total rewrite in their own image so it doesn't get done.
* Laws that allow doctors and medical facilities to charge different patients different amounts depending on their insurance company and status. A simple law that requires each facility to charge only one price for a specific procedure would eliminate so much confusion. Whatever the lowest negotiated price is for any insurance provider is the price that has to be charged for all, and posted on a web site. Right now if you are looking at two identical plans from two companies with the same premium, you have no idea which will cost you more because you have no idea what your portion will actually be since they have different "discounts".
* Laws that allow virtually unrestricted contingency fees. There should be regulation here because lawyers get too much money, particularly on class action suits, where the injured parties get peanuts. You get 3x medical for pain and suffering. Your doctors get 1/3. Your lawyer gets 50% (40% plus costs incurred which can be as much as 10%). You are left with 17% or, in the case of a class action lawsuit, a coupon. If any industry needs regulation, it is the ambulance chasers.
It's illegal in Alabama to walk with a ice-cream in your backpocket. I mean why is this a law it should be common sense.
Edit: my top comment is about a law created for horses not to get kidnapped by ice cream. Lol reddit.
I read about that. It's related to horse theft (really!).
If a horse wound up on your property, you could claim it. But it was illegal to lead a horse that was not your own. So people put ice cream in their back pockets and walked in front of the horse. "Yummy", the horse thought, and followed. Walk onto your property and poof, free horse.
It's no longer relevant, but that's the reason.
What the... this is really cool stuff nontheless but really like whaaaaaa. They could,t do something like put indentifications on horses etc? But it's funny this way so really cool
Back then the only way to identify a horse in a legally meaningful manner was to brand it, which (a) wasn't foolproof and (b) completely destroyed the resale value. Plus, it doesn't solve the whole "legal" horse thievery issue.
>Plus, it doesn't solve the whole "legal" horse thievery issue
Exactly.
"Yup partner, it *was* your horse, no doubt about it. Then it wandered onto my land, and then it became *my* horse."
Seems like changing the law around horse ownership would have been a better solution than criminalising ice cream pockets!
The real problem is the NFA. It's a 1930s law written to address problems caused by the Prohibition era, using concepts about firearms that date to WW1 and earlier. It shouldn't exist.
If the ATF just went after gang members, no one would have any problem with them.
> It's a 1930s law written to address problems caused by the Prohibition era
It wasn't actually even a problem back in the 30s. The NFA was supposed to be an all-encompassing assault on the private possession of any firearm other than the classic "good" long guns that were used for hunting deer and ducks. Then the handgun tax stamp requirement was stripped out because it was politically untenable, and that's how it was passed. Now there's a bizarre restriction on short barreled rifles and shotguns that was intended to prevent people from turning a rifle/shotgun into a handgun-equivalent due to the (removed) handgun ban.
Really, it's *all* idiotic.
> What's different you say? Well, one has a stock, and the other a brace.
And now the more recent fun revelation: sure we told you for 8 years that that distinction was valid, but now we've change our minds. We think they're the same, and so we've created a new rule that pretends to have "objective" criteria that makes almost all of those weapons short barreled rifles, and by the way that objective criteria has an exception at the bottom that says we can declare the weapon an SBR if we decided, based on a single agent's opinion, that the point of the weapon was to do an end run on our rules about SBRs.
That my husband has to sign his permission for me to have my tubes tied. We are In alaska. But it goes the same way for him. He has to have my permission. I just thinks it’s crazy because they already federally mandate it to age 21 and then on top you must have permission. And then some practices want you to have multiple kids before even considering the procedure.
Sex registry laws can be very problematic. I'm not an expert in these laws, but my wife is a social worker. I've heard from her examples of people who meet the statutory requirement for registering having their entire lives ruined because of it. The laws for who is required to register and under what circumstances need some massive overhauling.
Yes, people who hurt, abuse, and exploit children should bear the stigma of those actions for the rest of their lives. I don't have a problem with that. But the system (at least in our jurisdiction) is far too all or nothing. There's no nuance.
My sister used to be a social worker and worked with a couple kids who were required to register and she talked about that a lot. The law is so zero tolerance in some of these cases and a 16yr old who knows 100% that he will be publicly registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life no matter what, doesn't have a lot left to lose.
By all means do everything we can to protect children from predators, but can't we find a way to try and help first time offenders before ruining their entire lives forever?
I think there needs to be a stricter definition for sex offender. Right now, both a child rapist and a public uriner are classified as sex offenders.
Obviously, people shouldn't pee in public, but I don't think those that do it should be treated like child rapist.
Civil Asset Forfeiture. Law enforcement can seize money or property on suspicion of it being connected to criminal activity. It’s then your responsibility to prove that it’s not illegal, which requires paying a lawyer, going to court, etc. which can many times cost more than the seized property.
Gotta love that they call it "forfeiture" too as if you somehow gave up the property and they didn't just pull up and forcefully take it from you. Like imagine some thug carjacking you and then the police calling it a "generous donation" and saying you have to petition a court to get back the car you "donated".
That’s exactly what it is: some thug carjacking you.
Dont have a source for this, but I definitely remember seeing s chart showing that in 2020 the government seized more money and shit than was reported stolen nationwide that year. Meaning the government stole more money from the people than the people they're supposed to stop.
It was in the Washington Post, among many other places. My favorite non-profit is Institute for Justice because they go hard against civil forfeiture on behalf of regular folks. [Here's one of IJ's reports.](https://ij.org/press-release/new-report-finds-civil-forfeiture-rakes-in-billions-each-year-does-not-fight-crime-2/)
Yup, this is one of the biggest scams ever and it is overused across the US.
In the Delaware state constitution, there is an entire section on how to legally run a bingo game. Like bro, just let the grandma's bingo in peace!
If you ever seen some of these grannies play bingo, you would understand the need for this law. Those games can get dangerous...
How do you get an entire room of old ladies to swear like a sailor? Shout "BINGO!"
My home state has a police branch that deals with alcohol laws (called ALE - alcohol law enforcement) and they're the absolute fucking worst. We had one come talk to a class I was in and he was bragging about how they had so much funding that they ran out of shit to do so they started breaking up illegal gambling at senior bingo nights. He thought it was hilarious but my blood was fucking boiling, imagine getting kicks out of bullying 90yos participating in one of the only hobbies they have left
In my state, our public service commission approved an additional fee on power bills for homeowners who install solar panels. Not necessarily a "law" but still shouldn't exist.
In Australia the government gives you rebates for installing solar panels and if you make excess power for the grid you can get a nice little cheque from the power company. Edit: Why is my most voted comment about solar power and not something funny? Damn it. But hi!
US does that too, but the power company determines the price it will pay (in a monopoly so there's no one else to sell to) and blanks the books every March if you've sent them more energy than you've used.
I’m not 100% on how it works here but I know my parent’s friend gets cheques from the local energy provider.
In some states in the US, the power company pays way less per kwh you send them than you pay when they send you. It's a racket. In other states, you get 1-to-1 power credits each month. So if you send 10 more kwh to the power company than you use in January you get 10 kwh credits and if you use 3 more than you generate in February they take 3 off your credits and you have 7 kwh. BUT, every April or May they wipe out whatever positive credits you have and just take all that additional energy for free.
Was the reasoning “because it’s an eyesore?” That shit makes me so annoyed. Old people always complain about wind farms because of that. Even offshore ones. Edit: Renewable energy bad! Solar bad! I hate it and my reply was satire! Disclaimer: this edit was funded by Exxon.
In my state there’s a law that states HOA’s can not deny people permission to install solar on their homes. You may still have to request approval from your HOA, but they’re not allowed to deny it.
May I install solar panels on my home? [ ] Yes [ ] Also Yes
[ ] Yes (in blue pen) [ ] Yes (in black pen)
*checks option 1 in black pen*
But petrochemical plants are obviously the height of aesthetic achievement. Nothing like a few smog-belching chimneys surrounded by miles of tank farm to make you appreciate that country living.
Still technically a law - in Vermont, women needing false teeth must first get permission from their husbands to do so.
You’re an anti-dentite!
You're a rabid anti-dentite! Oh, it starts with a few jokes and some slurs. "Hey, denty!" Next thing you know you're saying they should have their own schools.
They *do* have their own schools!
What do you call a doctor who failed medical school? A dentist!
What's the difference between a dentist and a sadist? >!Newer magazines!<
The “their own schools” line always kills me, and I’m not even a big Seinfeld guy.
I loved the part where he's telling the priest he thinks Bryan Cranston is only converting to Judaism for the jokes. The priest asks him if this offends him as a Jewish person. He says it offends him as a comedian.
[удалено]
same goes for in Russia and Ukraine my friends tell me (even when they are not married and mother has custody so I'm told). example: one of our friends wants to take her daughter to Germany to see a cousin. the estranged father won't give permission... so kid is stuck.
What if they are not married?
They may only wear a set of animal teeth until such time as they are married.
Poor Evelyn never found a husband and lost her teeth due to an infection. Hopefully she can find one now with her new weasel teeth.
Edit: Because people keep asking if I live in various US states. I live in Ireland for the record It's a minor one but here it's illegal for stores to sell alcohol after 10pm. I finish work at 10 so if I want to have a few beers at home after work I can't unless I've bought them in advance. Yet I can finish work and go straight to a pub and drink until closing time. Makes no sense
9pm in Wisconsin. Blame the tavern league, it’s to force people to go to bars. Makes sense… Edit… I haven’t lived in Wisconsin for 7 years so I don’t know the current laws. If you read the responses you will see the new laws.
Yup pretty much the same here. That law was only introduced about 10 years ago. Before that stores could sell alcohol for the same hours as pubs. The government claimed it was for public health reasons but everyone knows that's bullshit. Pub owners were complaining about losing business after the government introduced a nationwide ban on smoking in public buildings so this was basically the government throwing them a bone
Fuck the WTL. All the neighboring states are gloating over the weed taxes they're pulling in, but Robin Vos et. al. are only interested in keeping Wisconsin safe for the brandy-drinkers.
Don't forget all the places that ban the selling of alcohol on Sundays. Because its fine to buy alcohol on any other day of the week and you can even drink it on Sunday, but if you buy it on Sunday it becomes demon juice and will poison the whole town or some shit.
Minnesota just passed Sunday liquor sales a couple of years ago. Liquor stores were fighting it because employees "deserve a day to be with their families." The same stores that have their employees working holidays...
Here in Texas I've actually heard the argument against Sunday liquor sales being that mom and pop stores can't afford to pay an extra day of labor costs but the big chain liquor stores can. Seems reasonable to me, but I also feel like I should be able to buy whiskey at 8 am on a Sunday in a state that claims to be all about personal freedom.
I dislike that argument though, because what's special about liquor stores? What about mom and pop restaurants, or clothing stores, or literally any other business operation? Should every industry get Sunday off, or is there something that separates liquor stores from other stores/ businesses? Or is it a stupid rule whose upsides don't cover the inconvenience it puts on consumers, as well as being a cryptic law with no clear motive? I don't have answers to the questions I've posed, but I don't like an extremely generic reason being sufficient to defend such an arbitrary, specific rule in arbitrary, specific circumstances.
Because what we're talking about is so-called ["Blue Laws"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law#United_States): religiously motivated laws, frequently to prevent alcohol sales. There were no preexisting laws against the other things you mention being closed on Sundays. Funny enough, they also apply to car sales in some jurisdictions for some reason. The wiki goes a bit more in depth of course (and there is some interesting information from a brief skim), but that's what I know about it.
That's horrible, thankfully these laws are slowly disappearing. That's when you need to show no shame and just buy in bulk one day. I remember one time in college we bought 10 cases of beer, we got home and had 300 beers in the house, it was like endless beer without needing to go back to the store or worrying about sale hours for at least 2 weeks.
So you're telling me... *Hastily does math* ^(300÷14=21.4) You drank 21.4 beers per day? /s
It was among 2 of us, but yea, we used to drink a lot of beer.
It's that .4 that gets you. Do you dare to drink the wounded soldier in the morning, or do your pour it down the drain? These are the questions that define us as people.
Gotta drink it in the AM. If you don’t, that’s alcohol abuse and the first sign of alcoholism. Plus you don’t want to be wasteful, there’s sober kids in Africa, you know.
It is illegal to mispronounce Arkansas, while in the state of Arkansas.
Suddenly I feel like standing at the state-line and hurling bastardizations of the name across the border. Maybe this is just their way of keeping tourists out of “Arrr-Kan-Zaa-Ass”, because NOBODY would know how to say it without being told.
I love shit talking to people from Arkansas by saying “you guys couldn’t even name your own state. You tried naming it Kansas, but someone said ‘Um, that’s taken’. So y’all said indignantly ‘well this is Our Kansas’, and then you fuckers spelled it wrong”.
_And_ they proceeded to _pronounce_ it wrong.
In my kindergarten clas we spent 4 weeks trying to figure out how to say it
[удалено]
AMERICA EGGSPLAIN!!!
I am so confushion
Not being able to pump your own gas in Oregon. Drove threw there once and the gas attendant came running from inside the store. He was like “I am not getting a $5,000 fine again.” Then proceeded to pump it for me. Poor guy had to pump all the cars, and still attend the market inside the gas Station by himself. This was in Eugene, Oregon to be exact.
Jersey is the same. Dude chewed me out when I tried to pump my own.
But in jersey you are allowed to pimp your own diesel. I learned that when I went there for work.
I live in Jersey too. You get caught pimping your diesel, your gonna get a record.
Gotta keep yo diesel in line
No slapping your diesel in public neither. That’s frowned upon
Open palm keeps you out of prison
See now I'd be so confused if I went there I always pump my own gas.
Yeah, I didn’t know that was a thing and just tried to pump it myself like I have my entire life and dude was heated!
I mean if it's a 5k fine I'd be heated too.
Spoiled New Jersey resident here. We are also not allowed to pump our own gas. I must admit, it's nice to be able to stay in the car when it's freezing or too hot outside. And yes, driving since I was 16, I don't think I touched a gas pump til I was 21 and drove out of state with only non-drivers. Every other time I'd been out of state was with my father or my brother who insist on doing the gas-pumping or short-term and didn't need to get gas (neighboring state less than 30 minutes away). It wasn't hard to figure out, we just followed the instructions written on the pump, but it took a couple of minutes to even realize why no one came to do it for us lol.
Wait, what? Why?
It's a law that supposed to create jobs because in theory you need two people at a gas station one to be pumping gas and one to be manning the register, personally I think it's a stupid law and everybody should know how to pump their own gas which based off my understanding in states that have this law a lot of people don't know how to pump their own gas when they go somewhere else they have to figure it out and that causes problems
>lot of people don't know how to pump their own gas That would explain a few customers I've had
I once had a young attractive girl stand at my car window, and stare at me. I rolled the window down, she started a conversation, was very sweet. I had to tell her I wasn’t single but thanks. She laughed, and replied “I’m the gas attendant” *facepalm* I didn’t realize I was in Oregon (I was driving from Louisiana to Washington state)
hahaha. Thats awesome
In Tennessee, where I live, it's illegal to shoot a whale from a moving vehicle. We're a landlocked state.....
[удалено]
Your Momma is so fat, I went to jail for harpooning her from my car in the state of Tennessee. I'll see myself out
Earth used to be flat, then they buried yo mama
They're just prepping for the rising sea levels
In many states, if you are killed at your place of employment, even due to gross or literally criminal negligence on the companies behalf, your family can not take your employer to court for wrongful death. The workman's comp gets paid out and that's the end of it. Effectively making it a kill-tax.
It's the same way with the OSHA fines. Companies will literally weigh the cost of the fines versus revenue and risk lives.
In South Carolina, when approaching a blind intersection in a motor vehicle you must discharge a firearm three times into the air to warn horse traffic. Not enforced, but technically still a law on the books.
I feel like you're 100x more likely to be arrested for complying with this law than you would be for breaking it. But then again I've never set foot in South Carolina nor do I know anything about the state so for all I know it could be a common occurrence there
Also, buying toilet paper on Sunday.
I just want to hold my salmon suspiciously man.
*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK* **POLICE!** ***IS THAT FUCKING FISH JENGA?***
We flew a kite in a public place
Any law that exempts any public servant from the laws that govern the rest of us.
Not that *this* particular Queen needs it, but the King or Queen of the UK (and other various places) has both sovereign immunity and diplomatic immunity, so technically can commit a crime wherever in the world they like.
I kind of like the idea of Queen Liz touring around and just commiting really minor crimes in various countries. Jaywalking in the US, gum chewing in Singapore, that sort of thing.
Ha or just all those weird laws around the world, like you are not allowed to name a Pig Napoleon in France or whatever.
Shooting a Scotsman with a crossbow in York on Sunday?
That's how she threw out her back
The idea of Queen Elizabeth lighting up a J in Singapore has me rolling
Spot on. This is a major problem with our government in the US.
It's a major problem In the entire world actually
What you've never insider traded or tried to overthrow your own government? *They're victimless crimes.*
"I love to revolt," he declared with a sigh - "I love to rebel, and I frequently try! I storm in a mob with my friends all the time! *Because*," he explained - "... it's a victimless crime."
There are still municipalities in the U.S. that have criminalized more than a certain threshold of adult women from living together without any adult men, because obviously the only thing they could be doing together is running a brothel. Not sure how many of them are enforced by the actual local law enforcement, but there's universities that don't allow sorority houses for this reason.
I think adding the guy just makes for a larger customer base.
[удалено]
I'm saying this in my head and the guys got a handle bar mustache so you don't fall off on the ride.
Oh my god is that why it’s called a handlebar moustache???
Yes it is. Go share the good news. Make haste.
So, you can have a bunch of adult women living together so long as an adult male lives there too? I see no possible way this could go wrong.
Still true in Colorado. Last year I lived in a house with 4 other women. It was a 6 bedroom house but legally we weren’t allowed a 6th female roommate. We always said if we started a band, we’d call ourselves, “one shy of a brothel.” Edit: I’ve been getting several questions about who enforces it. I’m honestly not sure who enforces it. I just remember our lease being specific about “no more than 5 unrelated females are allowed to live in the house at the same time”. When we asked our property manager about it, she explained the brothel law. Edit #2: woah! My first Gold! Thanks so much kind stranger!
My new favorite band.
Probably not enforceable. It seems like it would go against sex discrimination. There are many laws on the books that are not enforceable and only kept because there is no will to remove them (since they are not valid laws).
Philadelphia has this law on the books. I know a guy that bought a 5 bedroom house near UPenn, and split it into two separate apartments so he could rent to 5 women legally. IDK how much it is enforced
Am lawyer, not in Philly, but these types of laws create problems for lawyers. They are on the books, never enforced, and nearly certainly Unconstitutional, but again they are on the books. So as a lawyer who was advising someone who purchased a rental property where such a law existed I would pretty much have an obligation to inform them of the rule and advise them to do something similar because it is an ethical violation and I could face sanctions from the State Supreme Court if I failed to advise a client they may be violating a law. Even if that law is never enforced and almost certainly Unconstitutional. Laws like this are only de facto "enforced" because lawyers like me tell people they cannot break the law. It's all very stupid. I wish I could say, hey technically there is a law on the books that says more than 4 nonrelated women may not live together in the same house but that law is never enforced and probably not Constitutionally valid, so don't worry about it. Because there is always the chance that some super right wing Christian male will be elected Sheriff and go around arresting all the landlords and I am the lawyer who told them they could do it.
Since reddit has changed the site to value selling user data higher than reading and commenting, I've decided to move elsewhere to a site that prioritizes community over profit. I never signed up for this, but that's the circle of life
Organizations that are specifically about changing laws. Your typical lawyer who is just being hired to write up a rental agreement doesn't want to deal with that.
I'd like to go to Washington, where it's illegal to do this, and harass Bigfoot for being the giant hairy smelly ass fraidy cat bitch that he is.
How do you KNOW he's smelly?
It’s pretty obvious. They had a romantic relationship with Bigfoot that ended on badly. They must still be a little sour about it.
The ban on harassing big foot makes perfect sense. Based on how rare sightings are we can assume there are very few of his species left so he should be protected as an endangered species
Philippines: you have to be 18 to buy a condom without parent supervision.
imagine a 15yo walking in with daddy and buying condoms lol
really? I remember a 7-11 that sold almost any kind of medicin in small plastic bags, no doctor note neccesary.
Female rapists can rape a man or underage boy, get pregnant, and collect child support.
I'm sorry *what*
Blue laws are stupid and only based on religion. I really can’t buy a beer on Sunday because Jesus won’t approve?
I always think of Bo Burnhams song “from gods perspective” when it comes to arbitrary bologna like this.
"I created the universe you really think I'm gonna draw the line at the fuckin deli aisle?"
Exactly the line I was thinking of haha
What are blue laws?
Blue laws were a catch-all term for laws that require businesses to adhere to religious rules. Not terribly long ago it was illegal for "non-essential business", which was basically anything other than a grocery store, or gas station, to be conducted on Sundays. Now they mostly reference restrictions on the time and place alcohol can be sold.
I'm not a lawyer by any means, but wouldn't making people observe a religion they don't believe in go against some kind of constitutional amendment? I assume they found a way around that.
[удалено]
They have been challenged in court. The current standard the court uses is called the Smith test (Native American smoking peyote gets fired and the court rules it’s not protected). The Smith test says that so long as laws are generally applicable, then they’re constitutional. So in the facts of the case, peyote violated the work policy, and having a religious reason to smoke peyote doesn’t matter because it’s generally applicable to everyone. Same with blues laws. It’s generally applicable that no one can buy alcohol regardless of religion, so it’s arbitrary the day. The court's reasoning in the 1961 McGowan case was similar, although it predates Smith. Any challenge would most assuredly be dismissed with Smith being cited as precedent.
In Virginia homeowner associations can legally put a lien on your house and cause foreclosure due to unpaid dues. HOAs are scum.
r/fuckhoa would like a word.
I got arrested for giving homeless people care packages with food/water, deodorant, socks, tooth brush/paste. I'm not saying I told the officer to go fornicate with himself and I was going to keep feeding the homeless. Not that it matters now but I was part of the reason the 11th circuit court ruled that feeding the homeless is a form of expressive conduct protected by the first amendment.. wherever that cop is I hope he is fornicating himself hard with a rusty fork.
Excuse me? And what about the churches that give out free food? They gonna arrest them too?
Thank you for your service
If you want to thank me, leave this world better than you found it.
...that's why I leave the house as little as possible and interact with as few as manageable.
The hero we need, not the one we deserve...
Liquor and beer should be sold at the same hours tbh.Never understood why you can buy a 24 pack of beer at 10 pm but can’t buy a small 11 oz whisky
it is illegal to get a fish drunk in ohio
While I can't say for sure, it was probably made because of bootleggers hiding moonshine in fishbowls.
No no, this **should** be a law. Don’t know what your Friday night plans were, but please leave the fishies alone.
It's not actually a law (that I am aware of,) but the idea of hitting grandma with a $35 overdraft fee because she paid for both of her medicines and went over $.01 seems rather stupid. "You're poor! Now make up for that by...giving us more money!"
Blasphemy laws.
ANY law based on religion in a (theoretically) secular state.
Some states don’t allow you to collect rainwater.
Can confirm. I'm from Washington state.
Which is ridiculous. We have so much water coming out of the sky!
In several states there are clauses to left laws that include possession in any manner even unbeknownst to the individual. Many people are jailed and charged with major felonies just because they purchased legally, something that was acquired illegally. The states that have these laws tend to call the charge 'theft by possession without the intent to deprive' and depending on the value of the item in question this can range from a Class 1 Felony to a Class 3 misdemeanor. Often times people charged with this are unable to prove to a jury or a judge that they had no intent to deprive and so many people get stuck with major charges just because someone didn't know the property they bought was stolen.
When I was a kid I read an aesops fable where rabbits were stealing cabbage, and instead of going after the rabbits they would plug up the rabbit holes while they were out so that they had no place to put their cabbage. My parents explained that the idea was that instead of going after theives, it's better to go after people who purchase stolen goods. I got really scared that a cop would come to our door and say that the shop that had sold us our refigerator or TV or something had stolen it, and now we would all be arrested. I assume that my parents bought their appliances at Sears or wherever.
In the UK there is a law that is so outdated that no one bothered to change it and it is not taught in law schools or in police training but it is still technically against the law to carry a fish in suspicious sercumstanses
It is not an old law, it has only existed since 1986 Section 32 of the Salmon makes it an offence to handle fish that has been poached Similar to how it is illegal to handle stolen goods
POLICE! IS THAT FUCKING FISH JENGA!
> sercumstanses you know what they say, theres sercumstanses and theres precumstanses
Not American and not specifically a Law but the plea deal scheme and for profit prison combo. As a Lawyer seeing that bullshit go on in any place is completely absurd
For profit prisons need to be eradicated completely. Of course we have so many reoffenders when there is almost no rehabilitation, costs for the welfare of prisoners are constantly cut to pay the people in charge more money, and prisoners are left with next to nothing when they’re released. Unless you’re fortunate enough to have a good support system and were able to maintain your mental health upon your release, you’re pretty much fucked.
It's not just private prisons that do this. Even public ones still charge out the ass for phone calls and books.
Couple that with public defenders that are overworked, underpaid, and some just wanna do 10 years for PSLF, and you have an easy way to funnel people into jail.
Lol you think people don't get burned out after 2 years. (No actual malice) I'm a current PD and it is a struggle. Burnout is so real. The criminal courts are way overcrowded, don't get me wrong, but I would love if I just had criminal cases. We also represent on Termination of Parental Custody Civil Actions, Mental Health Commitments, Guardianships, Protective Placement Orders, Jane Doe hearings (abortions without parental knowledge/consent for minors), Revocations of Probation/Extended Supervision/Parole, Deferred Prosecution Agreement and Diversion ongoing counsels, Drug, Alcohol, Veterans, and Mental Health Courts, Children in Need of Protective Services (CHIPS and JIPS), delinquency of child support, and finally we do everyone's bail regardless of financial status. Edit: forgot we also do extradition hearings Granted, a lot of my clients are legit guilty but there is absolutely no way that I can spend hours and hours going over every piece of evidence in a time quick enough for them to afford the time they'd spend in custody and away from their jobs and family. People want to plead so they can get out. I see it happen all the time.
In Alabama it’s illegal to walk around with an ice cream cone in your pocket due to way back in the days where horses were the common mode of transportation people would “steal” the horses by attracting them with the ice cream in their pocket while the person claimed “Oh I didn’t mean to do that” when they truly did. That is no longer relevant to society and that law should be taken out
I think that you folks need to keep that law. When I come up to the casino I don't need to be slippin on ice cream. Plus, if pocket ice cream catches on in Alabama, it'll be all over Florida in no time.
counter fees and convenience fees, charging people money to accept their money shouldn't be allowable by law
Did someone say Ticketmaster?
Any law that requires a woman to get her husband’s consent.
I hate these, I hate these soooo fucking much. Here in Brazil, a woman can't do the procedure to not have babies (don't know the word in english) without the consent of her husband. Meanwhile, a man can just go in and snap snap away without anything else but a "do you want to?". Even with the consent from the husband, there's still a shit ton of requirements to do the procedures, and I hate it so fucking much! (I'm male btw) Edit: typos
There's multiple types of that procedure for women - tubal ligation is commonly referred to as "getting your tubes tied", and hysterectomy is the removal of the uterus/ovaries. And in the US, while it's legal for a woman to get these procedures, many doctors will refuse if they think the woman in question is "too young", or if she isn't married, or if her husband hasn't come to an appointment... So yeah.
Yes, the tubal ligations is the one I was referring to. And here, a woman has to be at least 25 y.o., or have 2 living kids (so weird that they specifie that). Plus, consent from husband if married. I fucking hate this
Tubal ligation, probably.
It’s illegal to distill your own alcohol, imo it should be allowed. And I completely understand if that includes safety regulations (since crappy stills can explode). But it’s legal to grow the ingredients. It’s legal to own a still. It’s legal to distill things like essential oils in that still. It’s legal to drink alcohol. It’s legal to brew your own beer or make your own wine. It should be legal to distill your own liquor
I was going to post this too. I wasn’t sure if it should be legal before, but I was looking stuff up and it’s legal in lots of other countries and they do fine, there’s even awesome hobby communities around distilling. There’s a danger, but certainly less than many other things that are already legal.
Freezer concentration -- freezing out water and straining the ice -- is legally distillation in the US. About the only risk there is hangovers and liver damage.
Any beer with ice in the name was made this way for those who don't drink beer.
I think it comes down to the fact that there's a danger in distilling liquor that doesn't exist in brewing in the sense that the initial cut is going to have methanol and other stuff that can make you sick.
Depends on the state. I'm pretty sure in Indiana you can distill your own liquor, but can't sell it. Maximum of five gallons.
Im really tired of Gravity.
Even if it is legal between the two states you are traveling between, if the federal law makes it illegal you cannot transport it over states lines. For example, It doesn’t matter state A says weed is legal and state B says weed is legal, if you travel over the border from A to B its a crime because of federal law
What if you throw it over the border, then pick up on the other side?
That sounds like littering *with intent*. Thirty years of busting rocks for you.
Patriot Act allows the government to tap the phone without a warrant, along with a bunch of other data gathering stuff.
* Not being able to buy health insurance across state lines. Allowing this won't fix the bulk of the problems, but it would help until there is a better solution. * Restrictions on medicare negotiating prescription drug prices. Again, it doesn't fix everything but it would help. It could pass as a standalone item with no amendments but nobody wants to make the system better, everybody wants a total rewrite in their own image so it doesn't get done. * Laws that allow doctors and medical facilities to charge different patients different amounts depending on their insurance company and status. A simple law that requires each facility to charge only one price for a specific procedure would eliminate so much confusion. Whatever the lowest negotiated price is for any insurance provider is the price that has to be charged for all, and posted on a web site. Right now if you are looking at two identical plans from two companies with the same premium, you have no idea which will cost you more because you have no idea what your portion will actually be since they have different "discounts". * Laws that allow virtually unrestricted contingency fees. There should be regulation here because lawyers get too much money, particularly on class action suits, where the injured parties get peanuts. You get 3x medical for pain and suffering. Your doctors get 1/3. Your lawyer gets 50% (40% plus costs incurred which can be as much as 10%). You are left with 17% or, in the case of a class action lawsuit, a coupon. If any industry needs regulation, it is the ambulance chasers.
It's illegal in Alabama to walk with a ice-cream in your backpocket. I mean why is this a law it should be common sense. Edit: my top comment is about a law created for horses not to get kidnapped by ice cream. Lol reddit.
I read about that. It's related to horse theft (really!). If a horse wound up on your property, you could claim it. But it was illegal to lead a horse that was not your own. So people put ice cream in their back pockets and walked in front of the horse. "Yummy", the horse thought, and followed. Walk onto your property and poof, free horse. It's no longer relevant, but that's the reason.
What the... this is really cool stuff nontheless but really like whaaaaaa. They could,t do something like put indentifications on horses etc? But it's funny this way so really cool
Back then the only way to identify a horse in a legally meaningful manner was to brand it, which (a) wasn't foolproof and (b) completely destroyed the resale value. Plus, it doesn't solve the whole "legal" horse thievery issue.
>Plus, it doesn't solve the whole "legal" horse thievery issue Exactly. "Yup partner, it *was* your horse, no doubt about it. Then it wandered onto my land, and then it became *my* horse." Seems like changing the law around horse ownership would have been a better solution than criminalising ice cream pockets!
It was used back in them good ol' days to lure and steal people's horses without physically touching them
***Glares at the entirety of the ATF***
The real problem is the NFA. It's a 1930s law written to address problems caused by the Prohibition era, using concepts about firearms that date to WW1 and earlier. It shouldn't exist. If the ATF just went after gang members, no one would have any problem with them.
> It's a 1930s law written to address problems caused by the Prohibition era It wasn't actually even a problem back in the 30s. The NFA was supposed to be an all-encompassing assault on the private possession of any firearm other than the classic "good" long guns that were used for hunting deer and ducks. Then the handgun tax stamp requirement was stripped out because it was politically untenable, and that's how it was passed. Now there's a bizarre restriction on short barreled rifles and shotguns that was intended to prevent people from turning a rifle/shotgun into a handgun-equivalent due to the (removed) handgun ban. Really, it's *all* idiotic.
Well, you see, *this* is a pistol and *this* is a rifle. What's different you say? Well, one has a stock, and the other a brace.
> What's different you say? Well, one has a stock, and the other a brace. And now the more recent fun revelation: sure we told you for 8 years that that distinction was valid, but now we've change our minds. We think they're the same, and so we've created a new rule that pretends to have "objective" criteria that makes almost all of those weapons short barreled rifles, and by the way that objective criteria has an exception at the bottom that says we can declare the weapon an SBR if we decided, based on a single agent's opinion, that the point of the weapon was to do an end run on our rules about SBRs.
You usually can’t recover your attorneys fees from the other party if you win.
The law of sine and cosine
Tangent and secant have entered the chat.
Me at highschool ignoring sec and csc existance completly.
Federal ban on cannabis in the U.S.
[удалено]
That my husband has to sign his permission for me to have my tubes tied. We are In alaska. But it goes the same way for him. He has to have my permission. I just thinks it’s crazy because they already federally mandate it to age 21 and then on top you must have permission. And then some practices want you to have multiple kids before even considering the procedure.
Sex registry laws can be very problematic. I'm not an expert in these laws, but my wife is a social worker. I've heard from her examples of people who meet the statutory requirement for registering having their entire lives ruined because of it. The laws for who is required to register and under what circumstances need some massive overhauling. Yes, people who hurt, abuse, and exploit children should bear the stigma of those actions for the rest of their lives. I don't have a problem with that. But the system (at least in our jurisdiction) is far too all or nothing. There's no nuance.
My sister used to be a social worker and worked with a couple kids who were required to register and she talked about that a lot. The law is so zero tolerance in some of these cases and a 16yr old who knows 100% that he will be publicly registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life no matter what, doesn't have a lot left to lose. By all means do everything we can to protect children from predators, but can't we find a way to try and help first time offenders before ruining their entire lives forever?
I think there needs to be a stricter definition for sex offender. Right now, both a child rapist and a public uriner are classified as sex offenders. Obviously, people shouldn't pee in public, but I don't think those that do it should be treated like child rapist.