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22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group

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As good people we automatically follow most laws as they are there to keep us and others safe whether we are aware of it or not. We consider our duty to obey the rules and for the most part we avoid breaking the ones that would get us in serious trouble.

But the book of law is very long and every country or state or even region can have different things written in it so we may break the law only because we didn’t read about it. But ignorance doesn’t exempt us from responsibility so let’s find out some.

Reddit user EvilPilotFish asked people “What is surprisingly illegal?” after finding out that credit card fees are illegal in many states but gas stations still do that and others shared what’s a funny or weird law they know about in the place they live in.

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#1

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group It is forbidden to own a single Guinea pig in Switzerland. You must have two.

math-yoo , David Report

Final score:

186points

String cheese muppet 2 years ago

That’s such an adorable law. But imagine politicians sitting around a table and discussing this.

59points

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#2

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group In Germany it's legal to break out of prison - but not in your prison uniform, because that would be stealing.

Limp-Sundae5177 , Molly Haggerty Report

Final score:

128points

Gremlan jonnson 2 years ago

All this means is that you don't get time added on your original sentence if youescape, you will still be put back in prison when caught

77points

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#3

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group In China, it's illegal to reincarnate without the government's permission.

JalenNico , Julie Markee Report

Final score:

96points

CalicoKitty 2 years ago

Ah yes, the Dalai Lama wrangler.

44points

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#4

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group In the landlocked state of Nebraska, it is illegal to go whaling.

SonOfSkinDealer , David Stanley Report

Final score:

91points

Bouche Clay 2 years ago

*wanders around Nebraska, looking for an ocean*

3points

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#5

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group You can't put a donkey Ina bathtub in my state

obi-juan-kenobi_66 , Tim Green Report

Final score:

91points

$cagsy 2 years ago (edited)

Sorry officer, I was just washing my a$$.

113points

Gilmore Girls 2 years ago

LMAO, or, should I say, laughing my donkey off? Lol.

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Sheila Sinclair 2 years ago

What am I missing about donkeys and bathtubs? How is this a thing?

3points

Orbital 2 years ago

One was washed away in a flood and died so it became a law.

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Keisha 2 years ago

WTF is the deal with donkeys in a bathtub. I assure you having donkeys that you would have the most docile donkey alive or a really big bathtub to wrangle them into it.

1point

dev mehta 2 years ago

They probably meant Democrats

0points

Electra Complex 2 years ago

It's almost 7 PM! Get that donkey out of the tub!!

0points

Vic_UA 2 years ago

I think there should be some stories behind this :)

0points

Uber Mensch 2 years ago

I always wonder what happened to get laws like this in the first place.

0points

Featherytoad 2 years ago

You gotta wonder what led to the creation of some of these stupid laws and why are they still on the books?

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#6

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group here’s some odd laws from my state of Pennsylvania:

• in Ridley Park, You are not allowed to walk backwards while eating peanuts in front of Barnstormers Auditorium while a performance is taking place

• It’s illegal to sing while in a bathtub

• If you live in Morrisville and you’re a woman, you’ve got to have a permit to wear makeup

• It’s illegal to sleep on top of a refrigerator outside

• if you have a d**k and you’re in Allentown, don’t even think about getting aroused in public. tell your little buddy to stay down until y’all get home

• Fortune Telling is illegal

• If you’ve been in a duel, I hope you don’t have plans to run for Governor, because you won’t be able to.

• Dynamite is not to be used to catch fish

here’s a fun one..

• Ex-felons aren’t allowed to operate a Bingo game

insomniacakess , Jennifer C. Report

Final score:

83points

$cagsy 2 years ago

What the hell happened here?

78points

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#7

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group In the most southern island of the Caribbean, Trinidad, and Tobago, it's illegal to curse publicly

15Blins , Didier BIGAND Report

Final score:

74points

The Doom Song 2 years ago

Wow, you guys would make so much money out of us Australians!!! We can barely string a sentence together without dropping the f bomb or the c bomb

52points

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#8

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group If in Western Australia, possessing more than 50kg of potatoes.

Yep, you read that correctly. Potatoes.

Eldaas , Renoir Gaither Report

Final score:

67points

Élizaan Jansen van Rensburg 2 years ago

Why? And what about farmers, transport vehicles and distributors of it?

18points

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#9

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group In my country, not having at least one bidet installed per home.

EDIT since many keep asking: the country is Italy.

maseioavessiprevisto , Phil Kates Report

Final score:

66points

Nathaniel Heider 2 years ago

Mabey I should move to italy

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#10

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group It’s now illegal to buy canned whipped cream under 21 years of age here in my state.

18- fight for your country and possibly die? Yes!
Under 21- want whipped cream on your ice cream, pie? Oh well bye rocko.

Intelligent-Jelly419 , dogs & music Report

Final score:

59points

CalicoKitty 2 years ago

That's to stop you huffing the aerosol. Not that it makes the age comparison any better...

69points

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#11

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group Umm…a woman in Saudi Arabia just got sentenced to 34 years prison because of a mild tweet statement about current political situation in her country. So, political opinion is hugely illegal there.

anon , World's Direction Report

Final score:

58points

$cagsy 2 years ago

Why does it appear that the world doesn't care about the plight of women in Arab nations? Ukraine gets invaded by Russia and the world (rightly) sends weapons and aid. A woman leaves the house in Saudi and her hijab isn't on straight, 10 years in prison. It's absolutely scandalous the way the world just keeps on looking the other way. This must stop. There is no place for it in a civilised world.

64points

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#12

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group Being homeless.

C1ashRkr , James Abbott Report

Final score:

57points

Federico Guerrero-Isaza 2 years ago

"How should we fix homelessness?" "hmmm... I know! make it illegal!" "But sir-" "Make. It. Illegal."

62points

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#13

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group Alarming the Queen.

Section 49 of the Criminal Code of Canada. Sentence of up to 14 years in prison.

ScamboOfDoom , Governor-General of New Zealand Report

Final score:

51points

CalicoKitty 2 years ago

Pity the person who sets her clock to go off in the morning /j

31points

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#14

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group I ask this because I read today that credit card fees are illegal in many states, including mine, but that doesn’t stop many gas stations around me.

EvilPilotFish , 401(K) 2012 Report

Final score:

49points

Toby 2 years ago

Not usually illegal, but they do breach the merchant's contract with the credit card company which says they're not allowed to differentiate between payment methods.

20points

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#15

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group Entering the English parliament with a suit of armor for some reason

__-d-__ , UK Parliament Report

Final score:

49points

Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago

Same reason the front benches are more than two sword lengths apart.

30points

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#16

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group In several states, it's illegal to fish from horseback

Just google stupid fishing laws....there are lots of them.

SnootchieBootichies , k.steudel Report

Final score:

43points

Jyri Hakola 2 years ago

It's nice to hear about strange laws. BUT because most likely there are always some curious story behind most of these laws, it would be way more merrier to hear those stories...

25points

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#17

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group In my small home town spitting on the ground. (Was originally used when men chewed tobacco and the spit would stain the sidewalks), not enforced anymore.

squirebythefire , Hitchster Report

Final score:

42points

David Buchanan 2 years ago

This should be rolled out everywhere.

15points

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#18

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group Children selling lemonade without a license.

SuvenPan , David Russo Report

Final score:

37points

BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago

This blew up several years ago when a sweet girl was trying to sell water on the sidewalk. A Karen made a big deal about it. The girl was selling water to earn money for a trip to Disney world. She got her trip!

35points

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#19

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group You can’t legally collect rainwater in some states, even though it falls on your private property

bellagoat , Jan Tik Report

Final score:

37points

BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago

I had to look it up. According to a Washington Post article "In the West, water belongs to someone The principle at stake is called prior appropriation, which is legalese for “first come, first served.” This doctrine forms the bedrock of water law in the Western states, where long ago settlers raced to gobble up all the water rights. Prior appropriation helps explain why water-intensive agriculture is still a major industry in a place as arid as the West: Many of the early claimants were farmers seeking to irrigate their crops. Story continues below advertisement These days, with drought parching the region, there’s hardly enough water to go around. According to the law, the people who get first dibs are the ones who called it first, which tend to be the agricultural users and not the city dwellers. In Colorado, other people’s water rights even extend to the raindrops that fall onto your roof. Why? Because those raindrops might tumble into the gutter; they might seep into the ground; might, in some other eventual, serpentine fashion, find their way to a river where somebody’s great-great-grandfather once established a claim. Legal experts have long criticized the Wild West principle of prior appropriation. They say that the tradition of dibsies is incongruent with the way that people demand water in the 21st century"

32points

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#20

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group Selling cars directly to consumers. The government, working for the people as always, made it illegal to not use a car dealership.

scottevil110 , Manoj Prasad Report

Final score:

31points

David H 2 years ago

just one state, Texas

9points

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#21

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group A few of my favorites from when I used to look this s**t up years ago:

* In Boise, Idaho you may not fish from a camel or giraffe's back
* Hunting camels is illegal in Arizona
* Also in Logan, Utah, if a married woman commits a crime in her husband's presence, he is legally responsible.
* Once again in Utah, it is illegal to cause a catastrophe.

TheNecromancress , Neptunecloud Report

Final score:

31points

Keller Worthen 2 years ago

I live in Utah, and oh boy have I broken that last one

28points

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#22

22 Things You May Not Think Of Doing But If You Did, You Would Be Committing A Crime, As Shared In This Online Group In Australia (edit: except for New South Wales), it is illegal to use your mobile phone to pay at a drive-thru of a fast-food venue (KFC, McDonalds, Red Rooster, etc.); unless you apply the handbrake and switch the engine off BEFORE you touch your phone. If caught, the penalties are fines worth hundreds of dolars, plus a few demerit points on your licence; which the amount of both varies from state to state.

A lot of Aussie drivers only found out about this in 2019, after Victoria Police responded to a Facebook poll that they had put up asking the following question “When using a fast-food outlet’s drive-thru service, can I use my phone to pay?” in which out of the 51,000 people that voted, 65% said "Yes".

CodyTheHouso , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

29points

James016 2 years ago

I suppose it comes under the not using the phone while driving law

18points

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Viola Yarrow 2 years ago (edited)

In England, it’s illegal to “handle a salmon suspiciously”

9points

In too many fandoms 2 years ago

But other fishes are okay to be handled suspiciously?

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1.21Gigawatts?! 2 years ago

In Toronto, I believe it is illegal to drag a dead horse down the street on Saturday or Sunday. Any other day is fine 💀💀💀

6points

JacPot 2 years ago

This started off promising and then suddenly just turned into the US this and the US that, as usual... Boring! Here and there an interesting tidbit about the rest of the world, such a shame.

2points

Beck 2 years ago

It is illegal to have an ice cream cone in your pocket at the movies in alabama. And you can't drive the wrong way down a one way street unless you have a lantern on the front of your car.

2points

Jknbt 2 years ago

in Venice, CA, it is illegal to leave your dog's poop on the sidewalk after he is finished. You must pick it up & dispose of it. However, it is not illegal for the homeless to drop their pants & poop on the sidewalk, the poor dears. And they are not obligated to clean up for themselves. So the Venice city government hired professional pooper-scoopers at high expenses to patrol the homeless areas to keep the sidewalks clean. Go figure... Your tax dollars at work!

2points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

https://www.lebrun.com.au/4-weird-australian-laws-youve-almost-definitely-broken-without-realising/#:~:text=Carrying%20more%20than%2050kg%20of%20potatoes%20in%20WA&text=Potato%20Inspectors%20have%20the%20right,%245%2C000%20for%20your%20second%20offence.

1point

Viola Yarrow 2 years ago (edited)

In England, it’s illegal to “handle a salmon suspiciously”

9points

In too many fandoms 2 years ago

But other fishes are okay to be handled suspiciously?

1point

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1.21Gigawatts?! 2 years ago

In Toronto, I believe it is illegal to drag a dead horse down the street on Saturday or Sunday. Any other day is fine 💀💀💀

6points

JacPot 2 years ago

This started off promising and then suddenly just turned into the US this and the US that, as usual... Boring! Here and there an interesting tidbit about the rest of the world, such a shame.

2points

Beck 2 years ago

It is illegal to have an ice cream cone in your pocket at the movies in alabama. And you can't drive the wrong way down a one way street unless you have a lantern on the front of your car.

2points

Jknbt 2 years ago

in Venice, CA, it is illegal to leave your dog's poop on the sidewalk after he is finished. You must pick it up & dispose of it. However, it is not illegal for the homeless to drop their pants & poop on the sidewalk, the poor dears. And they are not obligated to clean up for themselves. So the Venice city government hired professional pooper-scoopers at high expenses to patrol the homeless areas to keep the sidewalks clean. Go figure... Your tax dollars at work!

2points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

https://www.lebrun.com.au/4-weird-australian-laws-youve-almost-definitely-broken-without-realising/#:~:text=Carrying%20more%20than%2050kg%20of%20potatoes%20in%20WA&text=Potato%20Inspectors%20have%20the%20right,%245%2C000%20for%20your%20second%20offence.

1point

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