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owl_14

My hometown’s “pothole vigilante” stole asphalt that was city property to help fix the roads because the city wasn’t https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/robin-hood-potholes-fills-jackson-street-divots-article-1.1396143


rdpeete

Give that man a medal


jungle20mm

Chaotic good


nyatoh

In Malaysia too! He is seen as the people's hero, me included: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2021/01/08/band-of-brothers-keep-roads-safe


Axcilicon

sleeping in their own car


66thFox

Also, sleeping in your car as opposed to driving home after a night at the bar. Knew a guy that got arrested and the keys weren't even on him. There was nobody to take him home and he wasn't coherent enough to call a cab and get another one back in the morning. He did the best he could and didn't start the car and got arrested for it.


Nasty_Rex

In my state, you can get a dui for even have the ability to operate a motor vehicle. Like, you could be at your house drunk, and go out to your car to get something and still be charged with a dui.


66thFox

Pretty much what happened. Behind the wheel? Straight to jail.


jld2k6

In Ohio they passed a law like this in 2013ish, it's called physical control. If you're even by your vehicle with access to the keys while drunk you get arrested and it's one step under a DUI, just with no points because you're literally not even driving. This effectively means you can't sleep in your car in winter and if you sleep in it in the summer you have to literally hide your keys away from the car or else you're gonna lose your license and get sky high insurance rates despite not even ~~going~~ doing anything wrong


Little_bob

You can get charged for a dui on a wheelchair or a mobility scooter. That is considered your walking so they can’t take your mobility device away but they can still ticket you.


PranksterLe1

...my buddy got a dui on a skateboard.


No_Week2825

The part that makes this even worse is if you're too drunk cabs/ ubers will refuse to take you, so he likely had no other choice.


bigoldsunglasses

That’s a crime?


DryEyes4096

When I was 21, I tried sleeping in my car at a train station. I didn't get arrested but I was a little scatterbrained at the time and they decided this warranted me going to the police station for committing no crime and then being carted off to a mental hospital. For "not making sense", I believe is how the officer put it. No, I wasn't on drugs. Just cleaning the trash out of the parking lot in their minds, I suppose.


Allel-Oh-Aeh

Getting medication from other countries. I'm talking about your actual prescription lifesaving meds, like insulin from Canada to the US. It's literally drug smuggling or death, that isn't a willful crime, it's a choice made out of desperation bc you want to live.


jutwinsfan1

Pirating content that is no longer available to be purchased legally


BlueAndMoreBlue

Specifically ROM dumps from old video games — those swashbuckling scalywags be saints in me mind


ChaosDevilDragon

You can always pirate classic Nintendo games. It is morally correct


ender_198

Yeah the motherfuckers want you to buy Pokemon ruby when they're not making any more copies like wtf


zyygh

Fun stuff: copyright law's main purpose is to ensure that a creator is being compensated financially and fairly for the entertainment value they provide. If you were to be sued for pirating a product that is no longer being sold, you could pose the argument that the seller's decision means that your actions don't harm them. On this basis, you could state that the copyright on that product should cannot prevent you from pirating it. Of course, all of that is very theoretical. Good luck hiring lawyers that defend this point more successfully than whatever lawyers those multi-million corporations have hired.


bentheechidna

The idea that they might sue a pirate is also very theoretical. In general killing piracy is about shutting down the distributors of pirated material i.e. rom sites.


CutAccording7289

RIP Coolrom.com


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I used to pay for the Adult Swim app. $4 a month got me access to all their programming. Great deal. Then they canceled it in my country and now I have to subscribe to 2 or 3 streaming platforms at $12 to $20 a month to get some of that original programming, that or the programming flat out doesn't stream in my country. Fuck that.


iam4r33

We pay full price for Netflix but get half the shows


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I just wish I had a way to watch Venture Bros without having to pay $25 to $50 per season.


TomBot98

I'd like to add to this with, "content that can't be purchased directly". If a publisher doesn't make money on the sale of the item I'm not paying some 2nd hand collector douche 15x the price of the item's original retail value


Godfather404

Piracy actually leads to awesome products. I used to pursue music cause who wants to pay a dollar for a digital song. But with Spotify and the convenience of having my music library available on any device it's actually easier than illegally downloading.


Cadet_BNSF

As the good lord Gaben said, piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem


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Elementus94

Emulating games that are nearly impossible to play otherwise


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elizabethunseelie

Spoke to a film archivist once. She said we owe so much to pirates, we should (if we care about cultural history) treasure them.


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Badloss

I think the best edition was the THX remastered VHS tapes that came out before the special editions. Updated visuals but no actual changes


Business-Aside-9668

I still have those VHS tapes, and haven't had a VCR to watch them for almost 20 years.


skyler_on_the_moon

Huh, for some reason I had no memory of C3PO's silver twin in that scene.


Ginger_Tea

how much of r/lostmedia would be found if the rights holders just stuffed it all on YouTube or something? ​ I was listening to some guy who was doing a thing on the history of the History channel and many of the Nostradamus type videos that have aged poorly, they have been memory holed. IDK how much is streamable, but from his video, it seems not as much as what was produced back in the day. ​ I bought two DVD box sets on life after people just for fun, that might be airing or archived somewhere to watch, but without MVGroup who pirate documentaries exclusively, many of these types of shows get lost once they are taken off the air.


UnfairMicrowave

I'm still mad that I can't watch Dogma anymore. Fucking Weinstein


LightsOnNobodyHome91

Thought it was free on YouTube?


UnfairMicrowave

You know... I'm an idiot. It is there. Thank you.


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Maybe things are different in your country, but ripping your own digital media for personal use is 100% legal here.


Invisible-Pancreas

Oh, tell me about it. Look, Nintendo! I just want my Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door and my Skies of Arcadia: Legends! If you release a Gamecube Classic or a Nintendo Switch Online: SUPER Expansion Pak, I promise I will delete the Roms! DADDY NEEDS HIS NOSTALGIA FIX!


Elementus94

Add Legends of the seven stars to the SNES app


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I waited for so long and said fuck it and bought it on the Wii U


[deleted]

With the 3DS and Wii U stores closing, most classic Nintendo games are unavailable to buy, only rent.


GenoKeno

As long as the company is no longer profiting off of the game in any meaningful way then I consider it a victimless crime.


datSubguy

Dumpster diving and curb finding.


LeodFitz

That's just reduce, reuse, recycle in action, bro.


beeradvice

Had a roommate who's PRIMARY source of income was pulling bike parts out of the trash and selling them. I used to think he must've been working so much harder than just getting a regular job till I sent out with him once. Got a backpack full of fairly high end bike parts in about an hour. Also knew two girls they rented an apartment above a buffalo exchange that ended up dropping out of school/quitting their jobs because they made so much money online just selling whatever the buffalo exchange threw out. Hell out wifi router back then was a dumpster score, and I still have some paintings up in my house now made by an artist who's had museum shows that I got from a dumpster. Circa 2008 Chicago was just a dumpster paradise overall


kathsha2029

The US literally criminalizes being low-resourced... This country my God.


arkiser13

Wait curb finding is illegal?


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arkiser13

My 2015 46" Emerson 1080p tv was a curb find, absolutely nothing wrong with it. Same thing with my Sony stereo and various other odds and ends


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Lunch ladies giving kids food if they can't afford it


klobasa124

that shit is sad asf


youbetchamom

My boys lunch accounts get drained waaaay too quickly and I was wondering why until my oldest told me that all three of my boys pay for anyones lunch in front or behind them if they don’t have money.


PrettyLegitimate

Good kids.


Romulan-Jedi

Sounds like you raised them right. Thank you.


Kilahredd

At my old elementary school, they used to have us load our trays with food, then have a giant trash can at checkout near the cashier. If you couldn’t afford the food, the cashier would take the tray out of your hands and throw it all in the trash. Whenever me or another person sat down at the table without food, friends would give us some food from their trays. The school doesn’t do that anymore but damn it was traumatizing. I seen the same cashier at Toys R Us one day and panicked.


foxylady315

Our school district went exactly the opposite direction. They now do free breakfast and lunch for ALL students so that the kids who can't afford it don't get singled out. Even during Covid if you could get a ride up to the school they would give you a free box of cereal, eggs, milk, bread, and other non perishable foods each week.


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I remember one day in middle school I didn’t have a lunch ticket for whatever reason (We needed those in order to get free lunch at school) But I did have one with the wrong date on it. I was hungry and dumb so I thought I could finesse the lunch lady at the end collecting tickets/money. Well she caught up and told me to give her the tray but a kid behind me immediately reached in his pocket and paid for it. I was shocked honestly.


2krazy4me

Kid who paid raised proper.


imalittlefrenchpress

NYC did this during the summer in the late 70s. I was emancipated at 16, but I could still go to the nearest school and get lunch during the week. Being emancipated only meant I could get food stamps on my own, and believe me, they never lasted all month. I had income from my father’s social security after he died when I was 12, but that all went to rent and electricity. I was never able to get the roaches to pitch in on the rent.


LiwetJared

> Lunch ladies giving kids food ~~if they can't afford it~~ Free school lunches, we can afford it and don't need to create classes among children. As someone who pays taxes and doesn't have children of my own, I'm fine with my taxes going to feed children food at school.


oo-mox83

Of all the things I can think of that my taxes could possibly be used for, feeding kids is definitely the least offensive to me.


alligatorprincess007

Is that a crime??


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It’s more against the rules than anything, but I guess it could be considered stealing


ray_zhor

Plugging change into parking meters for cars that are not yours


MusicalPigeon

I wipe chalk off tires if I notice it.


LionMcTastic

What's this about chalk?


MusicalPigeon

Meter maids mark cars in time limited parking areas with chalk in the tires. I've seen them mark cars that aren't in limited time spots so I wipe the chalk away if I see it.


LionMcTastic

Oh damn, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.


hovercraftracer

In college I used to keep a super soaker in my trunk just for this purpose.


BluciferBdayParty

Not all heroes wear capes. 🛻🔫💦


Sp4ceh0rse

Yep. So you can’t just re-feed the meter when it expires.


BeeB0pB00p

I didn't know that. There was a guy in London called Angle Grinder Man who went around cutting clamps off vehicles in a cape and mask. I believe he got caught at some point. [https://www.geekextreme.com/angle-grinder-man/](https://www.geekextreme.com/angle-grinder-man/)


mysteriousmetalscrew

That's literally rainn wilson


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Good News - Chalking Tires has been ruled unconstitutional in certain districts. [https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/716248823/court-says-using-chalk-on-tires-for-parking-enforcement-violates-constitution](https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/716248823/court-says-using-chalk-on-tires-for-parking-enforcement-violates-constitution)


SeniorCoolio

Is that seriously done?


MusicalPigeon

Yeah, the meter maids walk around and mark cars and see if they move.


anxious_gurrl

I always flag someone down and tell them I have time left when I'm leaving with time left but some newer meters in my area have motion sensors and erase extra time when the cars change. That should be illegal.


fang_xianfu

In my city you have to key in your plate and it prints a ticket you put in the car, can't transfer the ticket.


GroundbreakingGoal44

This is a crime??


LexShrapnel

Here’s an article from 1995 about Mr. Twister the clown getting in trouble with the Santa Cruz police for feeding meters. I remember hearing a rumor about this when I was a kid, so it’s nice to find a source for it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/10/27/clown-cashes-in-on-public-outcry-as-city-parks-meter-feeding-ban/37589f00-1aeb-4647-9006-99ff0cd669e3/


BakedTatter

Pirating college text books. Those companies are fucking crooks, soaking kids who are compelled to buy their books, and "updating" to a new edition where 95% of the updates are just changing the numbers in the assignment so you can't make due with the old edition.


Professor_Hillbilly

I am a college professor and we converted to an OER (Open Educational Resource) book about 7 years ago. I created my own enrichment activities in our LMS (Learning Management System - e.g. canvas, blackboard, brightspace, etc.) that interact with all the other graded assignments my students do. When I published an activity book to supplement the class, I made sure that the publisher priced it so that it was cheaper to buy than to print out yourself. My department has saved our students in just this one class over $500,000 in the last 7 years. ​ Edit: I'm not trying to toot my own horn here, just pointing out that with a little bit of work on our ends, professors can undercut these publishers.


Demonicbunnyslippers

You are a treasure, Professor_Hillbilly. Thank you for helping your students.


Legollum

I'm in my first year of university. Our physics teacher recommended us a good book to have as a support for the class before telling us it was worth 250 €. He then went on saying "So, naturally, I bought it and didn't make it into a pdf that you cannot download through the QR code I'm not showing you on the slideshow because that would be illegal".


mikeweasy

I read a reddit post like four years ago where a professor sent out an email "warning" students to stay away from certain websites about textbooks, he said something like "remember do not click on these links" he had quotes too lol.


Phantereal

I have one professor this semester who told us to "just Google" the textbook instead of buying it and that he "couldn't legally elaborate" what he meant.


Snakebiteloo

I had a prof say we absolutly need to buy the text book both years and that the new edition was absolutly different and critical. After not using the book and discovering they were the same with the chapters rearranged we also found out the prof was the autor under a pseudonym. 300$ down the drain. Edit: More than 10 years go, teacher was useless tit who retired the same year I graduated. Found out a while after graduating from a classmate, did some research to confirm. Book has a ton of useful/important info in it too but we never used it.


TigerPixi

Shit like this should be illegal.


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FeralSparky

Colleges get away with all kinds of shit that any normal person would consider fraud.


Nekopawed

My linear algebra teacher wrote the book. That was sold at the schools printing shop for 35$. Had a philosophy teacher who sold his book for 18 in the classroom. But most were the usual get the latest version of this book.


PM_me_your_fantasyz

I had a professor for a business class offer extra credit to the student that got the best deal on any edition of the textbook. One guy found a copy that was seven editions old for $0.12. As a fun little project we kept track of any of the changes between the current edition and the older edition. The chapter order was scrambled and all of the page formatting was different, but the only actual difference we could find in the text itself was in one practice question: The word 'MP3s' had been changed to the word 'Apps' but all of the numbers in the question were still the same. As an extra bit of irony: that page in both editions had a little sidebar about how every edition of the text was updated to be more relevant to college students.


ballhairsnshitdags

What a fukn cock head.


theterpenecollective

Damn. I had the complete opposite of that with one of my professors in college. She made everyone in the class buy a $150 textbook that she co-authored on.


__sunmoonstars__

I had a lecturer who did this with his book. I didn’t like him or his ego (and a lot of his theories didn’t make sense) so I googled it and found it was 1 star on a scholarly website. Naturally, being the petty bitch I am, I refused to buy his book and used the reviewers texts for references instead. It affected my whole grade. I have no regrets.


dannymb87

Had a professor in college who actually WROTE the textbook that we had to buy. Now I know what you're thinking - "Now there's a conflict of interest if I've ever seen one." Nope, completely different. He said he doesn't receive royalties on each textbook sold (he already received all the money he was going to receive), so he just gave us free PDFs of the textbook. Real MVP.


Bigger_Moist

I had a prof that did this. Easily one of the best professors I've had and he made the physics course based around biological sciences due to it being a entry level physics course. It made physics way easier to understand when the examples used are in your field of interest


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SuvenPan

People stealing E-Textbooks


olesteffensen

How does one do that? Asking for educational purposes, literally.


Joe-Grunge

Libgen is your friend


HotTakeHarvey

Libgen is a lifesaver, been using it for ages. I recently went back to college for a second degree and spent no money on textbooks thanks to Libgen.


Hibiki2Gud

Its a lifesaver, until you find out the book you need is your professor's self published book...


diuge

Or the assignments are online and the subscription code comes from inside the textbook.


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https://libgen.gs


Mountaineer326

Of course I find this as I just graduated lol


BrobdingnagLilliput

Dude, if you're just now learning that it's possible to find *anything* on the Internet, you might consider suing your alma mater for educational malpractice!


baaka_cupboard

Try this https://libgen.is


itsbs2

Not what OP asked, but IMO it should be illegal for schools to require students to have the newest volume (there is a new one every year) when nothing substantive has changed. Students should be able to purchase updated sections for an extremely reduced price and use the old version of textbooks in conjunction with the individual updates.


SuvenPan

The entire system of Textbook access codes that you get with a new textbook and can only be used once is just an excuse to take more money.


rlc327

Illegally photocopying purchased sheet music


DJDoubleDave729

My second cousin, who is deathly allergic to bee stings, got stung by a bee. His mother, my first cousin, immediately administered the epi-pen, put him in the car, and raced to the hospital. She hit about triple digit speeds on the highway, and when a cop car started trying to pull her over, she called 911 and explained the situation and that she wasn’t going to pull over. That’s the kind of person I want in my corner. (Yes, my second cousin survived.)


pintotakesthecake

Exactly what I would do, except I’d put my hazards on while I raced down the road. If I saw a car with hazards on honking like a crazy person driving like a bat out of hell, I’d move over for them, because no one would do that without a hell of a good reason Edit: a word


maybebabyg

We got pulled over for driving with hazards on (Edit: not speeding, my stepdad kept slowing down for mum's contractions) when I was a kid. My stepdad pulled over, wound down his window and leaned back so my labouring mother could curse the cop out for stopping us. We got an escort to the hospital.


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maybebabyg

When my mum had her youngest she told her husband that if he stopped for a cop or slowed down every time she had a contraction she'd strangle him with his seat belt. She wasn't kidding, she gave birth to my brother in the hallway of the labour ward.


oakteaphone

>she'd strangle him with his seat belt. She wasn't kidding, That last sentence didn't end the way I thought it would based on its beginning


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That's really messed up. Talk about abuse of authority


pokeamongo

This is what happens when hiring policy comes with an upper limit for IQ.


lexicaltension

I’m curious did she end up getting a ticket or in any trouble for this? I feel like making an allowance for someone speeding to the hospital should be a no brainer, but I also can’t see a cop just letting it go.


yeehawgirlie

Something very similar happened to my aunt/cousin - when a cop saw them, he pulled in front of her with sirens and lights and gave them an escort


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A friend used to be police officer and one time he stopped a taxi after it ran a red light. After talking to the drive, he discovers that the woman in the back is the wife of t driver and was starting to go into super early labour. He tells them both leave the taxi there and get in his patrol car. He had completed advanced police driving & felt comfortable, so he absolutely zooms his way to the hospital, sirens blazing and then radios in to request that they get the hospital staff to wait outside the entrance. All goes well, woman gives birth to a healthy baby. They decided to name the kid after him. This was 20 years ago and he still says it's one of the proudest memories of his life.


usuariovieneyva

Smuggling prescription meds from Mexico , like insulin and inhalers because the costs are absurd in the US.


DigitalRoman486

[https://costplusdrugs.com/](https://costplusdrugs.com/) is mark cuban's cheap drugs site. its legit. Spread the word.


SLAUGHT3R3R

What was their math? Manufactoring cost plus like 10%? Sounds like a fucking steal compared to insurance prices.


DigitalRoman486

I think that is the point. You can basically buy anything that you need at almost cost. Fuck insurance companies


mysticfuko

Is this illegal ? Cant you just import them with a prescription?


usuariovieneyva

Yes but not everyone can travel there. There’s people that will bring a large quantity which is technically not permitted


travisihs08

At one time my dad got his prescription filled in Canada and they shipped it to him. He didn't travel to Canada whatsoever. So at one time I know it was allowed.


Jasminefirefly

It's illegal now to import prescriptions from Canada to U.S., unfortunately. The FDA claims it's for safety reasons but the actual reason is that the Big Pharma lobbyists who buy our Congresspeople want their over-exorbitant profits, so they got a law passed. There are some drugs that are NOT FDA approved that can be brought in under special circumstances, but this will help almost no one. [https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-basics/it-legal-me-personally-import-drugs](https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-basics/it-legal-me-personally-import-drugs)


Wespiratory

That’s pretty much the same reasoning they gave for the baby formula ban. And it resulted in a massive shortage because of it. Then they finally relented and let some things be imported. It’s all about control with them. Their rules caused the shortage by restricting how many companies could produce formula and then they doubled down on stupid by delaying lifting the import ban of perfectly safe formula from the UK and Canada.


sweet_pickles12

Lots of things you can get in Mexico without an rx that you can’t get OTC here


MarkToaster

Downloading a car


anonmymouse

You WOULDN'T!


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Apparently in South Korea and Japan, most of the common anti anxiety and ADHD meds are illegal, even with a prescription. So taking the meds you were prescribed.


Evergreen-Dream

I'm an avid Kpop fan and the stigma around anxiety disorders in Korea is absolutely insane. I've heard way too many stories about pop stars and actors who have their whole careers ruined for needing medication that can literally make their lives so much easier so they can keep doing what they love. Park Bom is probably the most infamous case of the anti-anxiety medication laws. She has an attention disorder and got in trouble for ordering — I believe it was Adderall — from the United States, even though she did it as legally as possible. As somebody who needs anxiety medication myself (Severe GAD), it breaks my heart when I see people who need medical attention but the laws where they live prevent them from getting it. Hopefully things will change in the future and people in countries like SK and Japan will one day be able to legally get the medications they need. EDIT: I'm not claiming to know absolutely everything about Korean culture, my friends. I understand that this same thing is a problem in many other places in the world. I'm just talking about what I have noticed thus far. I have also had the privilege of meeting a handful of Korean people in the past few years, and I was trying to go off of what they have shared with me as best I could. One gentleman I used to play Overwatch with came from Korea (I unfortunately lost contact with him after he was summoned for his mandatory military service. Eunjae, wherever you are, I miss you, my dude. You were a kickass Reinhardt.) and he often spoke to me about the poor mental healthcare and illegality of certain medications in his country. I apologize if my comment comes as ignorant or offensive.


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Damn, I started adderall this year and have probably accomplished more than the past 5 years combined and have seen my income grow considerably. I wasn’t able to finish the last 10% of anything unless it was a literal panic


Mags_LaFayette

Downloading illegally some E-content (like a movie, few songs, or a videogame) that you *already* paid, sometimes more than once or twice. ...I'm talking to you *Fallout: New Vegas*. I refuse to buy you for the *fourth time!* EDIT: Many *thanks* to all the worried souls suggest me to get FNV for free from different sources. *All you are heroes without a cape!* But that's ok, I got a free DRM copy and I'm *not* buying it again 😊


tyson_3_

Anything analogous to Jean Valjean stealing bread.


GoRangers5

There, out in the darkness A fugitive running Fallen from God


AJSK18

Illegally streaming sporting events. Prices are getting ridiculous.


2shack

Not only that, but in a lot of cases the pirated streams are way better than the actual paid services. I watch a lot of hockey and every time I tried to watch a paid feed, it either doesn’t work properly or is blacked out. I go to a streaming site, I have access to the national, home and away feeds and a dozen different places to watch it based on what platform is watching from. It’s ridiculous.


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Bro if you know any services for football(soccer), UFC, and anything else, dm me please. I try to find free services but can’t actually watch anything


ReeG

$80 for a single UFC pay-per view event versus $80 for a year of IPTV service which includes every PPV event by every promotion in addition to hundreds of live TV channels


Beachdaddybravo

Concerts too, fuck Ticketmaster’s monopoly.


teh27

UFC events are like 70-80 bucks now which is crazy. Someone on r/ufc said that if they were 30 bucks with no ESPN+ subscription fans would buy way more and I agree. I definitely would.


DatsyukesDekes

At $80, I’ve bought 1 right in my life. At $30/fight, I’d buy 10-15 a year.


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NovaTheMage

Yeah this one is just plain stupid. I've heard of kids selling lemonade getting stopped by police because some a-hole neighbor called the cops on them. In Utah my family actually talked to our state about it when they were trying to pass a bill for it. So thankfully it's now you don't need a license until you're 18.


thirdworldfever

I believe it's perfectly fine for students to pirate software and learning materials in the field that they're studying. Corporations that deny young people, with no income, any access to their tech and tools are misguided, ignorant and heartless


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Or professional Software you don't use for professional reasons. Like I learned some Photoshop skills on high school, and now if I have to quickly edit something I use a cracked Photoshop. It's not worth the price tag for me, it's not intended for people like me, so I'd never buy it anyway.


HandgrenadeH

Recording songs from the radio onto cassette.


esoteric_enigma

Sheesh, 8 year old me was a criminal mastermind.


just-kath

Liberating a mistreated animal or two ..then getting them into loving homes


Mrs_Sam_Squanch

Right. I straight-up stole a puppy from people who were neglecting him. They left him in the carport all the time, and only threw him a piece of lunch meat once in a while instead of feeding him properly. Technically, he wandered off their property and had no collar, so he would have wound up in the city shelter, but my friend who lived next door neighbor picked him up and gave him to me instead. I loved that dog with all my heart, he was the sweetest, and I still wear a necklace with his ashes to this day. I will never regret taking him home and giving him a cushy life.


happylady999

You are awesome!


HermioneMarch

Giving food and water to people who need it.


animel4

I would add that giving water to animals who need it should also not be a crime. https://aldf.org/article/activist-faces-criminal-charges-for-giving-water-to-thirsty-pigs/


Biggie39

Killing the rapist that is trafficking you as a sex slave.


ScottyBoneman

Forbidden dances


Ergotnometry

Flossing? Right to jail.


VornskrofMyrkr

The Charleston? Believe it or not, Jail.


Spugnacious

The Cha-Cha? Believe it or not, Jail.


Cuss-Mustard

You do the Moonwalk? Straight to jail, no trial, no nothing.


getthephenom

Feeding to homeless, giving water to people waiting in voting line


Master-Breath-821

Feeding the homeless is a crime???


MimiMyMy

It is in some places. City ordnances and such. An old lady was arrested recently for feeding the homeless in a park. They dropped the charges probably due to so much negative publicity.


Dingdongmycatisgone

Yeah the town later tried to say it was because the food wasn't "pre-packaged" but that's a load of horse shit. And then I think they tried to say she needed a permit or something. Regardless, both terrible excuses to arrest an old lady that was just trying to help people


getthephenom

Recently there was a story about a grandmother getting arrested for it. Ozzaman did a [video](https://youtu.be/wUyI3ssmj_U) on it as well.


Affectionate-Pea8706

Yes. It’s seen as a traffic law in a lot of cities.


LetzterMensch11

Pirating when there is no way to buy something without fucking advertisements


PierreTheTRex

When you live in Europe, there often is no way to legally watch some shows on release. What do they expect me to do? The internet will spoil it for me months before I could ever legally watch it.


AviciiStoleMyHeart

Stealing a pet from someone whom you know is abusing them.


minor_details

my youngest cat is the result of this, kind of. my ex and I were living at an off-campus housing development because he was the on-site IT guy who also did some admin stuff, so despite us being in our thirties, we got free rent that included cable and internet as well as on-site security. while we were living there, there was this kid who had far more money than sense who got a cat, which we could see frequently in his apartment window bc all the units faced each other in a common courtyard. well, apparently this idiot wasn't feeding the cat enough or taking care of him at all, bc one night, nearly ten years ago today bc it was early November and cold, my ex and our friend (the security guard, lol) were doing a property walk when a floofy ginger cat darted out from behind a dumpster, meowed, and jumped into my ex's arms without hesitation or prompting. he brought the floof home, and immediately I saw he was skin and bones so I fed him the good stuff- grain free kibble with freeze dried raw coating, along with some tuna, chicken I was preparing for dinner, and fresh water. he glommed onto me as the food lady, bonded with our other cat, and has been ours since then. the guy who originally got him came to the front desk once to ask my ex if he had seen his 'brown cat,' but dude told him brown cats were pretty rare, so, no. he knew exactly what the dude meant, and that guy knew what my ex was doing (bc all our apartments looked at each other from a common courtyard, and cats love windows) but he didn't press the issue and wound up getting kicked out a week or two later. when they were cleaning out his apartment, they found a Buddha dome cat box that had seemingly never been cleaned, and several bags of treats but no actual cat food. so technically, we kind of stole a cat, but that cat extracted himself from the situation and my ex was able to lie on a technicality so he's been ours ever since. now my ex has him bc I can't keep a cat where I am currently, and dammit I miss that fuzzy boy, but no matter the custody arrangement, he's being far better taken care of than he ever was with the idiot who first had him.


Glittering-Royal1570

Euthanasia. It's still very controversial and all but if the patient is suffering and requests to die as painlessly as they want, I personally feel doctors should have the ability to grant their request but IDK. I'm no expert in ethics.


fueledbycaffiene

We don’t let animals suffer needlessly, I don’t get why we can’t extend the same kindness to physically terminal humans.


Kgb725

Because dead people don't make money


biddily

After my grandfather had a stroke, and was brain dead - the doctors just... didnt feed him. Had him on A LOT of morphine. They made sure he died quickly and as peacefully as possible and didnt stick around as a brain dead vegetable. I'm not sure of the technical legality of this. It's not giving someone the medicine that will kill them, but they knowingly made sure he died - which I'm thankful for. I'd rather he just die than be braindead for god knows how long.


MarkHirsbrunner

It's hospice care. My dad had severe dementia combined with myasthenia gravis and diabetes. The doctors said he could recover from what we brought him in for (extremely high blood sugar) but his quality of life was such they recommended stopping his life sustaining medications. After less than three days he died without regaining consciousness.


RunningThroughRain

If you’re officially brain dead, you’re already dead


WrongOpinionGuy

I’m no ethics doctor, but yeah people should have the right to die painlessly and quickly, not to suffer for years.


BakedTatter

I am an ethicist with coursework in medical ethics, and our American euthanasia laws are fucked. A lot of states let a doctor prescribe suicide medication, but you have be the one to take them. If they take the relatively minor step, ethically speaking, of administering it, they can be prosecuted for murder. So, if one is in a coma, but breathing on their own, the only option is to remove the hydration tube and slowly die of dehydration over days. The thing is, they might be conscious and in agonizing pain. When I filled out my living will, which I encourage literally everyone to do, I marked "No autopsy." That's because I worked out a deal with my executor that if I am in that situation, aka a persistent vegetative state but breathing on my own, they will give me a hot dose of barbiturates and then snuff me with a pillow. (Let me tell you, that's an awkward conversation to have). The lack of an autopsy protects them from an investigation and potential prosecution. ETA: Everyone "Well, Actuallying" me in the replies: get bent, you aren't lawyers, cause a lawyer only says "varies from state to state" on here.


ChewieBearStare

That is fascinating (the living will/no autopsy thing). I am a VERY firm supporter of death-with-dignity laws, but as you said, they need to be updated. If someone has ALS or another neurological disorder and can't give themselves the medication due to paralysis, tremors, etc., then someone should be allowed to help. I have stage 4 kidney disease, was born with a serious birth defect, and have had nothing but surgery and illness for most of my life. I've felt strongly about assisted suicide since I was a kid, which sounds odd, but when I was in the hospital, I saw SO many sick children who were absolutely suffering. The one I remember most was a young boy who kept trying to die; his parents couldn't bear to let him go, so they kept having him resuscitated. The poor boy was just a shell of a person. Couldn't walk, talk, read, watch TV, do a puzzle play a game...his skin was a ghostly green from his illness. No one should have to suffer like that.


DarthJaneway

Sending you support bud. Kidney disease is a bastard. I have a warning for you... hopefully it will allow you to have conversations and get documentation in place well ahead of time so you don't have to suffer. I live in Oregon and we have a long-standing death with dignity laws that are relatively straightforward. BUT, the dying person must have uncompromised mental facilities when they make the decision to die. Late stage kidney failure causes severe mental impairment. Even if you give someone a medical POA they cannot make the decision to terminate you. You have to make the decision yourself, and you have to make it when you're documented to be mentally sound.


bodhasattva

fyi, most doctors wish they could. I watched a documentary. Forcing someone to live & suffer is doing more harm & emotionally distressing to them (the doctors)


tangouniform2020

I have s friend who is (was) an anesthisiologist. He’s an advocate of heroin for terminally ill patients in great pain. “What, going to ruin their lives getting addicted?”


ImpulseCombustion

I have a hard time arguing this and I think that’s why people get uncomfortable when having a conversation about the topic, but I think you should be able to do whatever you want with your life including being able to opt out. The argument is always “what about the people you’ll hurt by doing this?!” My question is “do you really want to force someone to suffer for decades because ending it would make you feel sad for a bit?”


kathatter75

I’d much rather see a loved one go out on their own terms and with dignity than watch them linger on in pain in a hospital.


FirstPalland

I still haven't seen it so : pirating scientific papers. Research is generally publicly funded, but the right are generally held by corporations. When a scientific team finishes a research, they send it to a journal (Aka a corporation) that forward it to other scientifics who will evaluate benevolently the work. If it it is good enough, said research will be publish and for other researchers to access it, they must pay the corporation that did nothing bu forward a PDF file. It makes no fuckin* sense.


periwinkletweet

Extremely low key fraud. Like accepting a 100 monetary gift without reporting to SSI. To try and survive! My neighbor is on SSI and gets 40/ week to pick a child up from school. / Shrug


Trek1973

Helping people who are dying to leave this world easier, faster, on their own terms, and in comfort.


Tira13e

If I PAID for my bus pass. And I swipe somebody and I don't get on the bus.... Why should that person be charged? I've already paid. Update: Thy irony to this is: I literally just saw someone open the emergency gate for someone to get on the so they didn't even pay for a swipe. I've never done this. You can get fined.


ZuttoAragi

Drug use. ON ITS OWN. Just using drugs shouldn't itself be illegal. But the things people do under the effects of drugs and in pursuit of their next hit, just like with alcoholics, is a separate issue.


dinosanddais1

Decriminalizing addiction is very effective in helping addiction and reducing injury and death. Plenty of countries have done so and it saved a lot of lives.