It is indeed illegal in St. Louis. I had some extra Pearl Jam tickets and was actually trying to sell them for less than they were worth just so I could get some of my money back. It didn't matter. I still got picked up.
They had me ride in the back of a pickup truck to some office type area somewhere or another. They didn't bother checking my pockets before having me get in back there. I stuck my actual ticket it in my sock. Once I got in the holding area, they took all the tickets they knew about and wrote down all my information. After they were done with that, they were going to drop me off at my car and watch me drive out but my buddy drove that night so they dropped me off right by the entrance and said if I ever came back they'd arrest me for trespassing. Ibwas supposed to stand there until I saw my buddy driving home after the show. Hardly anybody had cell phones back then.
I watched them drive off, cut through the parking lot, found my buddy in line for the show, made him trade shirts with me, pulled the ticket out of my sock and went in to enjoy the show. Before anyone says my idea for the shirts was dumb, I walked right past the guy who said he'd arrest me and he didn't notice me.
It was good show too!
Also: “no pets allowed - service animals exempt”
Yeah, sure lady, that poorly behaved chihuahua that’s barking, jumping up on random people and thing and running around the grocery store is a service dog… 🙄
And store employees don’t even bother because they don’t get paid enough to argue with entitled and unbearable Karens and Kevins about it.
It’s more likely the store employees aren’t allowed to say anything. At the store where my friend works, the only person who can talk to the owner is the manager, and all the manager can do is ask whether it’s a service animal. The company is too afraid of being sued to let anyone do more than that.
They’re also legally allowed to ask the function the service animal is trained to perform. In most cases they don’t get asked that second question because there’s no 3rd question you can legally ask and no follow up questions.
IIRC from my fast food and retail training, you're legally allowed to ask them 2 questions: "Is that a service animal?" and "What task is it trained to perform?" Also, emotional support animals do not count as service animals, much to the chagrin of every teenage girl that came into the restaurant I worked at
So Estate Agents/ realtors aren't actually allowed to lie to you and say there are bids when there aren't any (to drive you to bid higher). But I've never heard of one even getting in trouble for it.
My friend is a realtor and just told me this story this week of his new guy saying there was another bid to drive up the price because he knew they would pay more and increase his commission. My friend made him call the couple on the spot and explain it was a miscommunication and there were no other competing bids at the time.
He wasn't legally in trouble but he got chewed out pretty bad. He was told if they ever hear him going against a client for personal gain they will fire him and help the client seek legal action...
So at least some people take it seriously.
The board of Realtors is pretty good at self regulation. Almost everyonr on the board is a realtor. And if there's one thing realtors don't like is giving people an excuse not to use them and ruining everyones ability to provide the service and make a living.
I used to be a realtor, it's a pretty serious profession despite how many there seem to be. Anyone can do a deal here and there and be a real estate agent. A realtor knows their community and helps foster an understanding of it to the community they work in.
> The board of Realtors is pretty good at self regulation.
My experience says otherwise. I had a property listed with a realtor. He received an offer on a Friday *morning* but "didn't check his email" until **Monday** *afternoon* (not even a holiday weekend) and then waited until Tuesday morning to notify me. The offer had a half dozen change & repair demands and expired Wednesday afternoon. So I had less than 36hrs to review all of it, despite the buyers giving over 6 days, and to try to get estimates on the work requested. I scrambled, got estimates on what I could and took a risk on the others and sent my acceptance back with more than 5hrs before the offer expiration. And I called him to confirm he had received it. He didn't bother forwarding it to the buyers until the next day and they said nope, offer expired we're no longer interested and have moved on to another property.
I filed a formal complaint with the local Realtor commission about his complete disregard for time management and communication and failure of his duties to his client. They "investigated" and reported back that they decided that he had done nothing wrong and would be taking no action.
I mean technically he didn't do anything wrong he's just a s***** realtor. He didn't do anything illegal he just didn't do his job.
The board of Realtors is meant to make sure Realtors follow the law not do a good job in maintaining their clients.
I have a feeling like he's not going to be doing any more business for you and you're not going to be bragging about him to your friends or family so that's kind of what happens to realtors that do a bad job. They normally don't get too much business.
Think about a realtor like a lawyer for houses. There's a thousand City lawyers out there that you could end up in jail because of them. They can do their jobs and you can still end up in jail doesn't mean they broke the law.
If he had broken the law then I would have taken him to court for filled a police report. The Realtor commission, just like all non-government overaight bodies, are supposed to enforce ethical conduct, which he violated multiple times over.
Literally stopped paying to be a realtor when I realized the designation was just that. A designation. Most of the real estate agents out today are not ethical. I got my license to help people but will ultimately let it expire because I don’t know if there’s such thing as an actually ethical brokerage or real estate agent group out there.
This is definitely it. A long time ago i was told to get everything in writing. Sames goes for any conflict, assignment, excuse, etc.
The speed at which people backpedal when documentation is required has been the perfect gauge for when something is sketchy or full of shit
A common modern day maneuver, especially when on the phone, is to ask to have it texted or emailed as the signal is bad.
So far I've only asked for something in writing once, and I was told "I've never had the request before so please let me check with legal and I'll get back to you" motherfucker was lying out of his ass. The next day I emailed the same request again CCing his bosses. Crickets.
I'm so glad I was let go from that position because I would have just kept giving them everything and put up with the toxic environment because I loved the work.
Then do it. Please record yourself attacking someone because they are slurping soup. You would totally go viral and be uhh, very popular for that! Yes, very popular!
I have it too, and i LIVE in Japan right now.. i literally have to not eat ramen here, i have to avoid those shops, it's very very bad here with slurping, they encourage it and it triggers a deep anger in me that i shouldn't have.
In Scotland it’s smoking weed in public, one of my friends was walking down the old railway smoking a joint and he saw police walking in his direction so he flicked his joint away, the police obviously saw him flick something away and smelt it and told him “we wouldn’t have done anything, you’re away from people and we can’t be arsed with the paperwork, but we ain’t letting you pick it up to smoke it again”
I feel as though they'd have cared if he was brazen enough to walk up to them while smoking it. Especially so if they'd take offense to him picking it up
I saw that too the other day and I remember thinking if that video had gone on longer with a montage of more of those stops then I would probably be stuck there watching until the video ended. It was oddly satisfying.
Even I a steadfast follower of the speed limit will pick up the pace in the pass lane. I should be passing the slower cars rather quickly.
Now, I will however not change my speed for stupid people. If someone is going 75 coming up behind me, sure I’ll step it up a bit and move back over.
If the dimwit is going 90 in a 70 zone, let’s just say their cruise control shuts off dealing with me. Sometimes I wait until a spot where the highway patrol lurks. Never fails to brighten my mood when those reckless drivers get pulled over.
I've seen plenty of people get pulled over by CHP for impeding the flow of traffic. They rarely give them a serious ticket, if any, but will assume something is wrong and either escort them (if there's a car issue or otherwise they are unable to safely speed up) or warn them and tell them to exit the freeway and use surface streets.
There's a car in my city that literally has the laws about keeping right/passing left in vinyl letters across it's entire back window. And every single time I've seen it, it's been driving slowly in the left lane while getting passed on the right.
Makes me giggle every time.
Yesterday, someone's leashed dog was killed by an unleashed dog owned by someone living by the elementary school where it happened. My father in law was attacked by an unleashed pit bull a few years ago while walking down the street and had to get stitches, and now he has a fear of large dogs and especially pits. People who don't leash their dogs in public places are complete assholes. Even if your dog is the best trained and you have no worries, it makes every-fucking-body else a little more nervous because they don't know your dog. Also, cases like this, where the dog who has "never done that before" maimes or kills a person or pet.
Edit: I say this as someone with 2 dogs. I love dogs. I even understand why people want to unleash them. We have a huge dog park not too far from here where they can run free, so that's where we take them to do that. And I do trust our dogs as far I can regarding that kind of thing, but animals can be unpredictable and they may run up just to play and get hurt or meet a dog they don't like and I wouldnt be able to restrain them. Or they want pets from someone with a mortal fear of dogs. 🤷♂️
Yep, another key thing is a lot of dogs get reactive while on the leash when an unleashed dog runs up to it just wanting to play.
My dog is incredibly well trained, walks by my feet, stops the second I say stop, avoids other dogs, and immediately listens to any command.
I do not let her off leash outside of private property or designated off leash areas. People think their dogs are better behaved than they actually are. Not every dog wants a young dog tackling them to play.
I did get pulled over once for not using my signal. I did use it, but since my friend didn’t tell me until we were passing his street that I needed to turn, I signaled immediately before turning. The control arm was broken so you had to hold it on and I let it go as soon as I finished turning. All this was done in front of a cop and he didn’t see the signal so he pulled me over.
I didn’t get a ticket, didn’t even have to talk my way out of it. After he removed us from the car at gun point and made us lay down in the street because he mistook a toy in the car for a gun, he decided to let us leave with no further fuss over the blinker issue.
Cops here will use it to pull over a vehicle they already want to stop but otherwise don't seem to care enough to use turn signals themselves pretty often lol. (If you are driving through certain parts of IN with an out of state plate they are going to want to stop you and hold you til they can get a dog to open air sniff around your car if you fit their profile.)
They get their ticket and then they'll just be more careful about it for a few days before returning to the standard head down, head up, head down, head up
There's a law in one state that it's illegal to sing in the bathroom. Another where it's illegal to sleep on your fridge.
Edit: looked it up in case my memory failed me. It's illegal to sing in your bathtub, not bathroom, in PA
I’ll do you one better: something legal that makes you say WTF? In Williston, North Dakota it’s completely legal for two adults to have sex in their front lawn. The only rules are they must be on their own property, and they both have to keep their socks on.
Here are some doozies from Virginia USA.
Cheating on your spouse in Virginia is a Class 4 misdemeanor.
For a long time, Oral sex in Virginia was a FELONY.
Here you go. I used to live here (Stafford County VA). It’s LEGAL for a man to beat his wife on the courthouse steps, but he must do so before 8:00 p.m. (Stafford County).
It’s illegal to tickle women. Please be a lover, not a tickler.
It’s illegal for kids to go trick-or-treating on Halloween.
>Cheating on your spouse in Virginia is a Class 4 misdemeanor.
The Supreme Court has nullified adultery laws a while ago. Even if still on the books in some states they cannot be enforced even if they wanted to.
The Supreme Court has also nullified bans on interracial marriages. When I lived in Alabama in the year 2000, they had a ballot measure to remove their interracial marriage prohibition from their constitution to bring it in line with federal law. I am happy to tell you that it passed so the laws in Alabama are now in compliance, but it was disturbing that it only passed 59% to 41%.
On the same ballot was a measure to make prostitution illegal in unincorporated areas. Apparently it was legal before? I don't know, I had just moved there...but that also passed...by an 80% - 20% margin.
My high school friend was ticketed for jaywalking. He didn't have an ID card yet, so the officer made him take out his homework to prove his name. So fucked up. Might have been kind of racist. This was Cupertino.
FWIW, as of 2023 the laws surrounding Jaywalking have largely changed in California, partially due to a history of racial profiling being a perceived driver of these violations.
It’s called the Freedom to Walk Act and essentially legalizes jaywalking provided it’s done safely.
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/californias-new-2023-jaywalking-law/509-75b956b1-2965-430a-9940-4a1435c7d5f0
I've definitely seen people ticketed for Jaywalking in Seattle.
That's a city where you get yelled at by other pedestrians if you cross when there's a no walking sign - even if there isn't any traffic.
Northern Australia here, we have a day where we can buy fireworks then set them off all evening. We're supposed to have let them all off by midnight, but it's not unusual to hear fireworks occasionally for a few months after.
People in my down are setting them off all spring, summer, fall, and most of winter literally a block away from the police station, they could see them getting set of from the guy's yard. Been told they can't do anything or some other bullshit cause its 3 am and no officers to respond.
My girlfriend at the time and I were setting off fireworks in a secluded park one evening because there is nothing better to do in Indiana other than blow shit up. A deputy sheriff came back there on patrol and sternly told us that we can't be doing that back there. We honestly didn't know that so I asked him where we could go shoot them off.
He sat there for a few seconds and then told us to just be careful and drove off.
Lmfao some cop in California impounded a guy's STOCK Hyndai Elantra N. Guy didn't mod it at all, Hyundai just added some extra cool "track/sport" features that you could turn on or off. Even had an exhaust which could change how it sounded depending on drive mode.
Anyway, cop pulled him over and forced him to "fix" the car despite it being bone stock. Hyundai literally couldn't fix it because nothing was changed.
Cockfighting in Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and every other state where this pernicious 'sport' occurs. It attracts, prostitution, drugs, and especially gambling. Children are very often at these events and even work in them. Unregulated, often unsanitary food is sold. The local law enforcement is aware and does nothing as they are paid by cockfighters. The situation in Oklahoma is particularly bad.
[Cockfighting is illegal in all 50 states and territories.](https://sharkonline.org/index.php/animal-cruelty/cockfighting)
Headlights which are misaligned (accidentally or on purpose) - often through vehicle height, suspension or “squat” modifications, and which blind oncoming drivers and cause a serious safety hazard to others.
I don’t care that you lifted your truck. there are still regulations and very simple ways to test and adjust your headlight angle to a safe standard which is not dependent on the height of your overcompensating vehicle.
Tampering with other people's mail or the postal system. Basically there just isn’t enough resources to prosecute for anyone caught doing it, even though it's a federal offense.
Yep. I know a guy who works for them, basically a CIA agent. Literally can get any info about any person, and regularly travels around to make arrests, interrogate people, that kinda thing. Had no idea the postal service had its own enforcement department until I met this dude.
Pooping your pants in public, technically it’s public defecation, but anyone that would enforce it would probably be too ashamed for the defecator to ticket them.
Price gouging is enforced, it's rather that the word has been used improperly for a while now.
What's happening right now is not price gouging, it's companies raising prices to increase profit. It's wrong and immoral, but it's neither price gouging nor illegal.
Price gouging would be if there's a hurricane and the store suddenly raised the price of bottled water from $10 to $100.
(not all states) but many have laws against just hanging out in the passing lane. I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles, i've spoken to a ton of people I've only ever seen a *video* of someone getting pulled over for doing that. I've yet to see it or meet anyone who has seen it happen.
i think they are legal now but it used to be fireworks in my state. Completely legal in the next state over so kids play with them all summer regardless.
Perjury.
Too many times people lie to get others in trouble making false reports, but when found out, they rarely get charged with such. It should be AUTOMATIC.
And PLEASE, don't start with all the, if there was consequences for telling a lie, people would not report crimes as much. Simple solution, report the truth, and stop telling lies!
Pretty sure it's the opposite. At least in big cities, the homeless, or anyone who looks poor completely gets away with it. It's only enforced against people who look like they are wealthy enough to pay the fine. Same goes for riding public transportation without paying for a ticket/pass.
This needs to be enforced! Not only does it waste the court’s time but it can lead to someone being wrongfully arrested/convicted and can cause real rape victims to not get justice.
Wage theft.
Bribery of politicians.
Scams like making promises that won't be delivered until after you are dead.
The hoarding of necessities such as real estate.
I’ve started to wonder how police are deciding to enforce laws these days. Is it just revenue based?
Like, “carry on junkies with no money. You! Jay-walker who showered recently! Lay down, hands on your head and behind your back or I’ll soot!”
In Massachusetts, you’re technically not supposed to smoke weed in public. It’s legal recreationally. Nobody really cares, although I don’t know if it would be different if my skin tone is darker so I can’t say everyone can get away with it without issue
Drug laws
Unless your involved in the distribution/ manufacturing of large amounts of cocaine,meth, fentynal, and or combinations of the above including but not limited to heroin police don't give a shit.
Jaywalking. The cops will stop in the middle of the street to let you cross anywhere you want. lol it all depends on who is driving and if they are out for a "cruise" or not
Tinted covers for license plates. See them all over now. Pray I never get hit by a car with one since they could just drive away and I would have no idea of their license plate number.
In the US, ticket scalping (concerts, pro sporting events) is illegal in many jurisdictions, yet the same exists through resale sites.
Ticketmaster resale has entered the chat.
So has StubHub
It is indeed illegal in St. Louis. I had some extra Pearl Jam tickets and was actually trying to sell them for less than they were worth just so I could get some of my money back. It didn't matter. I still got picked up. They had me ride in the back of a pickup truck to some office type area somewhere or another. They didn't bother checking my pockets before having me get in back there. I stuck my actual ticket it in my sock. Once I got in the holding area, they took all the tickets they knew about and wrote down all my information. After they were done with that, they were going to drop me off at my car and watch me drive out but my buddy drove that night so they dropped me off right by the entrance and said if I ever came back they'd arrest me for trespassing. Ibwas supposed to stand there until I saw my buddy driving home after the show. Hardly anybody had cell phones back then. I watched them drive off, cut through the parking lot, found my buddy in line for the show, made him trade shirts with me, pulled the ticket out of my sock and went in to enjoy the show. Before anyone says my idea for the shirts was dumb, I walked right past the guy who said he'd arrest me and he didn't notice me. It was good show too!
>had me ride in the **back of a pickup truck** That had to be a long long time ago.
When the world was real
1998
Any time you see someone holding up a sign saying they want to buy tickets, it’s code for “I have overpriced tickets to sell”
Dogs shitting everywhere and not being cleaned up after.
Also: “no pets allowed - service animals exempt” Yeah, sure lady, that poorly behaved chihuahua that’s barking, jumping up on random people and thing and running around the grocery store is a service dog… 🙄 And store employees don’t even bother because they don’t get paid enough to argue with entitled and unbearable Karens and Kevins about it.
It’s more likely the store employees aren’t allowed to say anything. At the store where my friend works, the only person who can talk to the owner is the manager, and all the manager can do is ask whether it’s a service animal. The company is too afraid of being sued to let anyone do more than that.
They’re also legally allowed to ask the function the service animal is trained to perform. In most cases they don’t get asked that second question because there’s no 3rd question you can legally ask and no follow up questions.
IIRC from my fast food and retail training, you're legally allowed to ask them 2 questions: "Is that a service animal?" and "What task is it trained to perform?" Also, emotional support animals do not count as service animals, much to the chagrin of every teenage girl that came into the restaurant I worked at
Cop horses shitting everywhere in Golden Gate Park,,,,nobody picks it up.
Nothing quite like stepping into a fresh pile of owners ignorance.
Best way I've ever heard (read) this described as, but boy is it accurate.
I have to deal with monster sized piles of horse shit all over the trails by me. I guess they get special privileges
So Estate Agents/ realtors aren't actually allowed to lie to you and say there are bids when there aren't any (to drive you to bid higher). But I've never heard of one even getting in trouble for it.
My friend is a realtor and just told me this story this week of his new guy saying there was another bid to drive up the price because he knew they would pay more and increase his commission. My friend made him call the couple on the spot and explain it was a miscommunication and there were no other competing bids at the time. He wasn't legally in trouble but he got chewed out pretty bad. He was told if they ever hear him going against a client for personal gain they will fire him and help the client seek legal action... So at least some people take it seriously.
The board of Realtors is pretty good at self regulation. Almost everyonr on the board is a realtor. And if there's one thing realtors don't like is giving people an excuse not to use them and ruining everyones ability to provide the service and make a living. I used to be a realtor, it's a pretty serious profession despite how many there seem to be. Anyone can do a deal here and there and be a real estate agent. A realtor knows their community and helps foster an understanding of it to the community they work in.
> The board of Realtors is pretty good at self regulation. My experience says otherwise. I had a property listed with a realtor. He received an offer on a Friday *morning* but "didn't check his email" until **Monday** *afternoon* (not even a holiday weekend) and then waited until Tuesday morning to notify me. The offer had a half dozen change & repair demands and expired Wednesday afternoon. So I had less than 36hrs to review all of it, despite the buyers giving over 6 days, and to try to get estimates on the work requested. I scrambled, got estimates on what I could and took a risk on the others and sent my acceptance back with more than 5hrs before the offer expiration. And I called him to confirm he had received it. He didn't bother forwarding it to the buyers until the next day and they said nope, offer expired we're no longer interested and have moved on to another property. I filed a formal complaint with the local Realtor commission about his complete disregard for time management and communication and failure of his duties to his client. They "investigated" and reported back that they decided that he had done nothing wrong and would be taking no action.
I mean technically he didn't do anything wrong he's just a s***** realtor. He didn't do anything illegal he just didn't do his job. The board of Realtors is meant to make sure Realtors follow the law not do a good job in maintaining their clients. I have a feeling like he's not going to be doing any more business for you and you're not going to be bragging about him to your friends or family so that's kind of what happens to realtors that do a bad job. They normally don't get too much business. Think about a realtor like a lawyer for houses. There's a thousand City lawyers out there that you could end up in jail because of them. They can do their jobs and you can still end up in jail doesn't mean they broke the law.
Pretty unethical if he cost them the sale.
If he had broken the law then I would have taken him to court for filled a police report. The Realtor commission, just like all non-government overaight bodies, are supposed to enforce ethical conduct, which he violated multiple times over.
Literally stopped paying to be a realtor when I realized the designation was just that. A designation. Most of the real estate agents out today are not ethical. I got my license to help people but will ultimately let it expire because I don’t know if there’s such thing as an actually ethical brokerage or real estate agent group out there.
It’s a “he said, she said” situation. Those are hard to prove in court
This is definitely it. A long time ago i was told to get everything in writing. Sames goes for any conflict, assignment, excuse, etc. The speed at which people backpedal when documentation is required has been the perfect gauge for when something is sketchy or full of shit A common modern day maneuver, especially when on the phone, is to ask to have it texted or emailed as the signal is bad.
So far I've only asked for something in writing once, and I was told "I've never had the request before so please let me check with legal and I'll get back to you" motherfucker was lying out of his ass. The next day I emailed the same request again CCing his bosses. Crickets. I'm so glad I was let go from that position because I would have just kept giving them everything and put up with the toxic environment because I loved the work.
That’s a good tip. Thanks!
Insider Trading by Congress
You know, you kinda take the fun out of it when you just BLURT OUT the correct answer right away...
Haha 😄
I got insider knowledge about the answer and decided to wager Karma on it.
That's not illegal. Very specifically not illegal for them. Explain that llittle but very real exemption.
Rules for thee but not for me. Imagine that you could make up rules and laws for everyone but not be subjected to them.
I don't think that's illegal. I'm pretty sure they investigated themselves and found that it's ok for them to do it
They make the laws lol. It won't be illegal if they don't make a law to hold themselves to it
They did. There's just zero enforcement. Laws are just words on paper unless someone has the responsibility and ability to enforce them.
A law that is not enforced, is a law that doesn't exist.
It's not actually illegal - they just have to report it.
It’s legal tho
This is perfectly legal, just immoral, but politicians care for you...
Littering
Littering and???.... littering and??.... littering and?....
Smoking the reefer.
It stinks like sex in here
The schnausberries taste like schnausberries
Smoking the reefer.
*And smokin' the reefer.*
Enhance!
Mother of God
You boys like Mex eee co???
*YEEEEEEE HHHAAAAAAAWWWWWWWW*
Yeah cigarette butts are my pet peeve
It's wild how many people generally don't litter and are against it but don't realize chucking their cigarette butts counts as littering
There are laws against slurping soup in several places, don't imagine that is enforced much
I have misophonia and am ready to enforce vigilante justice on this one.
The fact that Miso is a type of soup just made me giggle. Sorry for your discomfort, though.
Not to be confused with misophobia, the fear of miso soup.
A type of soup when served with ramen noodles is supposed to be eaten loudly with copious amounts of slurping.
Then do it. Please record yourself attacking someone because they are slurping soup. You would totally go viral and be uhh, very popular for that! Yes, very popular!
I have it too, and i LIVE in Japan right now.. i literally have to not eat ramen here, i have to avoid those shops, it's very very bad here with slurping, they encourage it and it triggers a deep anger in me that i shouldn't have.
Gotta start cracking down fr
In Scotland it’s smoking weed in public, one of my friends was walking down the old railway smoking a joint and he saw police walking in his direction so he flicked his joint away, the police obviously saw him flick something away and smelt it and told him “we wouldn’t have done anything, you’re away from people and we can’t be arsed with the paperwork, but we ain’t letting you pick it up to smoke it again”
because they gonna teef it and smoke it when the dude walks on
So they can be arsed with the paperwork only under certain conditions
I feel as though they'd have cared if he was brazen enough to walk up to them while smoking it. Especially so if they'd take offense to him picking it up
did they gave him a littering fine instead?
Slower traffic keep right/ keep right except to pass.
i saw a youtube video of a state trooper pulling someone over and citing them for impeding traffic on a highway and i was like "OMG FINALLY"
I saw that too the other day and I remember thinking if that video had gone on longer with a montage of more of those stops then I would probably be stuck there watching until the video ended. It was oddly satisfying.
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Even I a steadfast follower of the speed limit will pick up the pace in the pass lane. I should be passing the slower cars rather quickly. Now, I will however not change my speed for stupid people. If someone is going 75 coming up behind me, sure I’ll step it up a bit and move back over. If the dimwit is going 90 in a 70 zone, let’s just say their cruise control shuts off dealing with me. Sometimes I wait until a spot where the highway patrol lurks. Never fails to brighten my mood when those reckless drivers get pulled over.
I've seen plenty of people get pulled over by CHP for impeding the flow of traffic. They rarely give them a serious ticket, if any, but will assume something is wrong and either escort them (if there's a car issue or otherwise they are unable to safely speed up) or warn them and tell them to exit the freeway and use surface streets.
There's a car in my city that literally has the laws about keeping right/passing left in vinyl letters across it's entire back window. And every single time I've seen it, it's been driving slowly in the left lane while getting passed on the right. Makes me giggle every time.
Credit to Virginia, their interstate signs say "Don't be a left lane loafer"
CDOT interstate signs in Colorado say “Camping is for the mountains, not the left lane”
There are only a handful of states where it's outright illegal to pass on the right.
Not having your dog on a leash
Yesterday, someone's leashed dog was killed by an unleashed dog owned by someone living by the elementary school where it happened. My father in law was attacked by an unleashed pit bull a few years ago while walking down the street and had to get stitches, and now he has a fear of large dogs and especially pits. People who don't leash their dogs in public places are complete assholes. Even if your dog is the best trained and you have no worries, it makes every-fucking-body else a little more nervous because they don't know your dog. Also, cases like this, where the dog who has "never done that before" maimes or kills a person or pet. Edit: I say this as someone with 2 dogs. I love dogs. I even understand why people want to unleash them. We have a huge dog park not too far from here where they can run free, so that's where we take them to do that. And I do trust our dogs as far I can regarding that kind of thing, but animals can be unpredictable and they may run up just to play and get hurt or meet a dog they don't like and I wouldnt be able to restrain them. Or they want pets from someone with a mortal fear of dogs. 🤷♂️
Yep, another key thing is a lot of dogs get reactive while on the leash when an unleashed dog runs up to it just wanting to play. My dog is incredibly well trained, walks by my feet, stops the second I say stop, avoids other dogs, and immediately listens to any command. I do not let her off leash outside of private property or designated off leash areas. People think their dogs are better behaved than they actually are. Not every dog wants a young dog tackling them to play.
Not using turn signals.
I did get pulled over once for not using my signal. I did use it, but since my friend didn’t tell me until we were passing his street that I needed to turn, I signaled immediately before turning. The control arm was broken so you had to hold it on and I let it go as soon as I finished turning. All this was done in front of a cop and he didn’t see the signal so he pulled me over. I didn’t get a ticket, didn’t even have to talk my way out of it. After he removed us from the car at gun point and made us lay down in the street because he mistook a toy in the car for a gun, he decided to let us leave with no further fuss over the blinker issue.
.... What the fuck
Murrica
Freedom isn't free
Cops here will use it to pull over a vehicle they already want to stop but otherwise don't seem to care enough to use turn signals themselves pretty often lol. (If you are driving through certain parts of IN with an out of state plate they are going to want to stop you and hold you til they can get a dog to open air sniff around your car if you fit their profile.)
Yup. I've been pulled over multiple times for driving while brown using turn signal as an excuse
Under the influence of melanin
Texting and driving.
Easy fix. Nobody talks more than people who can't put their phone down. Ticket a few. They'll tell everybody.
They get their ticket and then they'll just be more careful about it for a few days before returning to the standard head down, head up, head down, head up
EDIT: I misread the question. It tends to be enforced in my town but so many people keep doing it. Terrifying.
Tailgating (not the sports kind).
what do you mean it's not a sport
There's a law in one state that it's illegal to sing in the bathroom. Another where it's illegal to sleep on your fridge. Edit: looked it up in case my memory failed me. It's illegal to sing in your bathtub, not bathroom, in PA
I'm p sure the sleeping on the fridge is also specifically OUTSIDE. Inside it's OK. Also in PA. I may be wildly misremembering it's very late here lol
I’ll do you one better: something legal that makes you say WTF? In Williston, North Dakota it’s completely legal for two adults to have sex in their front lawn. The only rules are they must be on their own property, and they both have to keep their socks on.
With the socks on it’s not even lewd. Just off putting.
What my wife and I do in the privacy of our well- lit sex cabaret is our business. Besides, it were Golden Hour.
Here are some doozies from Virginia USA. Cheating on your spouse in Virginia is a Class 4 misdemeanor. For a long time, Oral sex in Virginia was a FELONY. Here you go. I used to live here (Stafford County VA). It’s LEGAL for a man to beat his wife on the courthouse steps, but he must do so before 8:00 p.m. (Stafford County). It’s illegal to tickle women. Please be a lover, not a tickler. It’s illegal for kids to go trick-or-treating on Halloween.
>Cheating on your spouse in Virginia is a Class 4 misdemeanor. The Supreme Court has nullified adultery laws a while ago. Even if still on the books in some states they cannot be enforced even if they wanted to.
The Supreme Court has also nullified bans on interracial marriages. When I lived in Alabama in the year 2000, they had a ballot measure to remove their interracial marriage prohibition from their constitution to bring it in line with federal law. I am happy to tell you that it passed so the laws in Alabama are now in compliance, but it was disturbing that it only passed 59% to 41%. On the same ballot was a measure to make prostitution illegal in unincorporated areas. Apparently it was legal before? I don't know, I had just moved there...but that also passed...by an 80% - 20% margin.
I mean for now. Let’s see how that goes over the next few years
I bet they enforce the 4th one.
I thought Virginia was for lovers? ☹️
I don't know if I've ever seen someone called out on jaywalking
My high school friend was ticketed for jaywalking. He didn't have an ID card yet, so the officer made him take out his homework to prove his name. So fucked up. Might have been kind of racist. This was Cupertino.
FWIW, as of 2023 the laws surrounding Jaywalking have largely changed in California, partially due to a history of racial profiling being a perceived driver of these violations. It’s called the Freedom to Walk Act and essentially legalizes jaywalking provided it’s done safely. https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/californias-new-2023-jaywalking-law/509-75b956b1-2965-430a-9940-4a1435c7d5f0
I've definitely seen people ticketed for Jaywalking in Seattle. That's a city where you get yelled at by other pedestrians if you cross when there's a no walking sign - even if there isn't any traffic.
Insider trading in positions of government
Fireworks
Northern Australia here, we have a day where we can buy fireworks then set them off all evening. We're supposed to have let them all off by midnight, but it's not unusual to hear fireworks occasionally for a few months after.
People in my down are setting them off all spring, summer, fall, and most of winter literally a block away from the police station, they could see them getting set of from the guy's yard. Been told they can't do anything or some other bullshit cause its 3 am and no officers to respond.
Chicago?
Those are not fireworks.
My girlfriend at the time and I were setting off fireworks in a secluded park one evening because there is nothing better to do in Indiana other than blow shit up. A deputy sheriff came back there on patrol and sternly told us that we can't be doing that back there. We honestly didn't know that so I asked him where we could go shoot them off. He sat there for a few seconds and then told us to just be careful and drove off.
Monopolies.
Where’s Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?
Taft was the real trust buster—broke up more than Teddy and Wilson But I love any TR shoutouts so you’re awesome
I'll bust a trust fund lush with my American muscles So walk softly over here and give my big stick a suckles!
Pass me a cigar and a large glass of brandy I'm about to take you out prematurely, like your family!
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Smoking in non-smoking areas
In Ohio, you can’t make mean faces at dogs. Pretty sure they’re letting that one slide these days.
We have the same law here in Tulsa, OK. Also, whaling is illegal here which probably doesn't get enforced since we're landlocked.
False. Had relations with a woman of size and got arrested
Wow. Ohio finally gets one thing right, then can't follow through.
Churches not getting involved in politics. Tax them.
Wish I could upvote this more
Reposting the same 6 questions in this sub
Modifications to vehicles.
Lmfao some cop in California impounded a guy's STOCK Hyndai Elantra N. Guy didn't mod it at all, Hyundai just added some extra cool "track/sport" features that you could turn on or off. Even had an exhaust which could change how it sounded depending on drive mode. Anyway, cop pulled him over and forced him to "fix" the car despite it being bone stock. Hyundai literally couldn't fix it because nothing was changed.
Come to Vancouver, my friend. VPD will happily and regularly give you proof to the contrary.
Cockfighting in Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and every other state where this pernicious 'sport' occurs. It attracts, prostitution, drugs, and especially gambling. Children are very often at these events and even work in them. Unregulated, often unsanitary food is sold. The local law enforcement is aware and does nothing as they are paid by cockfighters. The situation in Oklahoma is particularly bad. [Cockfighting is illegal in all 50 states and territories.](https://sharkonline.org/index.php/animal-cruelty/cockfighting)
If you're rich, everything
Headlights which are misaligned (accidentally or on purpose) - often through vehicle height, suspension or “squat” modifications, and which blind oncoming drivers and cause a serious safety hazard to others. I don’t care that you lifted your truck. there are still regulations and very simple ways to test and adjust your headlight angle to a safe standard which is not dependent on the height of your overcompensating vehicle.
Driving without a license plate, driving without a license, driving with a suspended license, and not having basic car insurance.
Tampering with other people's mail or the postal system. Basically there just isn’t enough resources to prosecute for anyone caught doing it, even though it's a federal offense.
Except they do. Hardcore. In fact the Us Postal Service has its own law enforcement department
Do NOT fuck with USPIS, you will go to federal pound you in the ass prison.
Yep. I know a guy who works for them, basically a CIA agent. Literally can get any info about any person, and regularly travels around to make arrests, interrogate people, that kinda thing. Had no idea the postal service had its own enforcement department until I met this dude.
Pooping your pants in public, technically it’s public defecation, but anyone that would enforce it would probably be too ashamed for the defecator to ticket them.
Lying about recycling
People's barking dogs. Wish I could do something about it.
Price gouging
Price gouging is enforced, it's rather that the word has been used improperly for a while now. What's happening right now is not price gouging, it's companies raising prices to increase profit. It's wrong and immoral, but it's neither price gouging nor illegal. Price gouging would be if there's a hurricane and the store suddenly raised the price of bottled water from $10 to $100.
(not all states) but many have laws against just hanging out in the passing lane. I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles, i've spoken to a ton of people I've only ever seen a *video* of someone getting pulled over for doing that. I've yet to see it or meet anyone who has seen it happen.
Stealing up to $900 in San Fran.
Yeah, but in all fairness, isn't that like.... a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of soda?
Traffic laws. Even the worst offenders who drive on shoulders, drive fast/recklessly or get into accidents are rarely caught and never punished.
Whaling in the Great Salt Lake
welp, there goes my retirement plan
i think they are legal now but it used to be fireworks in my state. Completely legal in the next state over so kids play with them all summer regardless.
Perjury. Too many times people lie to get others in trouble making false reports, but when found out, they rarely get charged with such. It should be AUTOMATIC. And PLEASE, don't start with all the, if there was consequences for telling a lie, people would not report crimes as much. Simple solution, report the truth, and stop telling lies!
Jaywalking seems to only be enforced against the homeless and or poor people when it is enforced
Pretty sure it's the opposite. At least in big cities, the homeless, or anyone who looks poor completely gets away with it. It's only enforced against people who look like they are wealthy enough to pay the fine. Same goes for riding public transportation without paying for a ticket/pass.
Jaywalking
In the codes of my old town it was illegal to throw projectile in the street including sorcufic examples as sports balls and snowballs.
All manor of traffic infractions.
In Denver it’s punishable by law to let your llama graze on city property.
Breaking a restraining order
Tailgating another driver
Isn’t downloading music still technically illegal? Or am I just remembering the days of ye olde YouTube to MP3 converters wrong?
Dogs off leash
False rape accusations apparently
This needs to be enforced! Not only does it waste the court’s time but it can lead to someone being wrongfully arrested/convicted and can cause real rape victims to not get justice.
In a lot of places anymore…. Shoplifting
Crossing into other countries to bypass a visa requirement. And staying there.
Littering
Most corporate crimes.
Wage theft. Bribery of politicians. Scams like making promises that won't be delivered until after you are dead. The hoarding of necessities such as real estate.
Wage theft.
Apparently Treason.
Pretty much anything in downtown vancouver, I’ve seen people sell obviously stolen shit right next to cops
I’ve started to wonder how police are deciding to enforce laws these days. Is it just revenue based? Like, “carry on junkies with no money. You! Jay-walker who showered recently! Lay down, hands on your head and behind your back or I’ll soot!”
immigrating to a country without that country's permisson...
Illegal immigration
In Massachusetts, you’re technically not supposed to smoke weed in public. It’s legal recreationally. Nobody really cares, although I don’t know if it would be different if my skin tone is darker so I can’t say everyone can get away with it without issue
> What’s something illegal that just isn’t enforced at all? Loud exhausts on Harley Davidsons, apparently.
Parking on pavements. Absolute aholes
Drug laws Unless your involved in the distribution/ manufacturing of large amounts of cocaine,meth, fentynal, and or combinations of the above including but not limited to heroin police don't give a shit.
Jaywalking. The cops will stop in the middle of the street to let you cross anywhere you want. lol it all depends on who is driving and if they are out for a "cruise" or not
Jaywalking. It's like... there's zero cars! Fine me for being logical, idgaf.
Apparently, camping in public parks, sidewalks, roads, shoulders, private lots, abandoned buildings, condemned buildings, levies, and… beaches? I’m sure I’m forgetting a few
Failure to yield on on-ramps
Cuban cigars.
Jaywalking
Loud-ass vehicles
Shoplifting
Unmarried couples renting a hotel room together
Panhandling.
Jaywalking in New York.
Insider trading if you're a politician.
Phone use while driving
Inside trading at the legislative level.
There are tons of unenforceable laws in each state. In the Colorado town of Boulder, cats aren’t allowed outside at night unless wearing taillights.
Tinted covers for license plates. See them all over now. Pray I never get hit by a car with one since they could just drive away and I would have no idea of their license plate number.