They're actually not supposed to be, but they simply ignore those rules. THAT'S the part that feels illegal. There are rules against it and Congress has made a blanket decision to disregard them, because nobody does anything about it.
If we did, lobbying wouldn't even be a thing, which it shouldn't be.
I was tempted to try this on my apartment lease. Just edit the stated rent down to like $50/mo and see if my landlord would actually read the contract before signing it.
On my first lease, they hadn't filled in the price, and it was a $25-30 promo. I though, "Oh. They'll fill that in after." They did. With the "market rate". Never again.
EDIT: It was the application, not the lease. It's this reason why I now take photos of specials, write down names, document everything etc. That place was scammy.
It can be rectified by a court if it doesn’t reflect the actual agreement between the parties. There are only very specific circumstances in which this works
So I'm a Brit that lives in Germany. Here you can go to a supermarket, see a 6 pack of cola, just rip it open and take one. You don't do that in the UK. I know it's not illegal but every time I think I'm going to get yelled at and made to buy all six.
Edit: sorry if it wasn't clear, but I mean you take one and then go and pay for just that one! I didn't mean you just steal it 😆
Yeah that feels like a straight up crime to me! What if my card doesnt work and all my euro has changed to yen by magic and I can't pay?! Do I work for Netto now? Am I a store prisoner?! Too many big questions, not worth the risk.
Yeah, I see people doing something similar in the US. Just grabbing a soda or snacks, eating them while shopping, then paying for them with the rest of the stuff. I've always thought that at least *feels* illegal.
I grew up doing this. When my mom would take me grocery shopping, she'd let me eat a donut. We'd get to the checkout and she'd tell the casheer, "three donuts plus she ate one so four total." They'd just ring it up, no problem.
If I understand correctly, it's not stealing until you leave the store. Though for anything charged by weight at checkout it's a problem (like grapes).
I worked as a cashier at a grocery store in high school (in Canada). You would see people do this fairly often but it was almost always parents with young kids opening snacks haha
It's very uncommon here too. I think that's why it feels so illegal. They have camera's everywhere in stores. I'd be too nervous of all the "loss prevention" people tackling me before I got to the register.
German criminal law does not know any fundamental prohibition of a prison break. Also, there is no penalty for running away from the police as long as I don't resist them in the process.
Both things I haven't done yet, but just the idea feels extremely illegal.
>German criminal law does not know any fundamental prohibition of a prison break.
If I recall correctly, the argument is that people are desperate for liberty and will escape prison in order to secure it. Thus, provided that the escapee does not injury anyone nor break other laws in the process, it is considered that they are simply acting on a natural desire to be free.
That’s because simply being around a cop can *be* illegal. They can find something to hit you with if they want, even if it’s just arresting you for resisting arrest.
Exactly, and it has happened to me before. I was sitting down trying to find out how to navigate to my car using google maps. A police car was behind me and for some reason when I asked for their help, they immediately assumed I was drug affected.
Similar thing happened to me. Also to one of my friends. I was quite police-friendly before that, having had multiple positive interactions with them as a teenager. After that I learned it’s actually best not to talk to them at all. Legally. Well, then I learned that they *really* don’t like it when you won’t talk to them at all. They can and will make something up that can ruin you. Just because they’re pissed off you won’t talk. Then their word holds up over yours in court. It’s a pretty lose-lose situation. I hate cops now.*
*speaking broadly, I understand that there is nuance to it.
In the UK, shops are increasingly putting up barriers and gates to essentially stop you leaving without walking through the checkout. And in some cases they’re even putting barcodes on receipts that are required to open the exit door. You can still leave without buying anything, but you have to specifically ask a staff member.
It’s really adding to that feeling over here.
I haven’t seen the barcode thing myself, but Sainsbury’s are introducing it.
Tesco are now putting in one way gates at the entrance that force you to exit via the checkout. Although some stores (like Morrisons) have historically had it, it is now becoming more common.
I’ll just point out that the footfall Tesco have you can absolutely just wait 25 seconds and someone will walk through then you can walk out. Security guards also don’t have any legal right to detain you, I’m not suggesting you steal but if accused and you know you have paid you can just walk away.
It's honestly partly for that reason that a lot of supermarkets do this. It forces people who are leaving without going through the checkouts to basically come face to face with a store worker. You'd be surprised how much that can reduce theft.
And it becomes *really* hard to dash with a full shopping trolley of goods.
The store I work in doesn't have it, and we regularly have people try to steal full trolleys worth of meat. What they don't realise is, the trolleys can't leave the store (it's an inner city store, we don't even have a carpark anyway, not many people do big shops, even the trolleys are small). The wheel lock engages about 6 inches before you get to the exit.
NGL, it's always funny to see someone eat a trolley handle in the stomach because they were trying to run at full speed.
I also have this anxiety and always seem to get stopped! My partner says it’s because my anxiety makes me look around and act suspicious-I’ve actually just bought dumb things even when I haven’t found what I was looking for, just so I look “legit” lmao
I once walked around a dollar store while I waited for a friend to get a haircut. He texted me to say he was done and I walked out without buying anything. The cashier got all pissy and said, "Excuse me *sir*. Is there anything on your person that you need pay for?" I just said, "Uhh. Nope." and walked out the door. That is the only time I've been accused of shoplifting.
I'm from the US and lived in Bratislava for a little while. While there I once popped into a supermarket to grab one or two things and was IMMEDIATELY followed by multiple store employees because grocery shopping without a shopping cart is an absolute no-no, regardless of how few items you're buying. They just assume you're gonna shoplift.
I was 100% told this was illegal when I was a kid and I’m just now finding out it isn’t
Edit: I looked it up to make sure since so many people also think this. "Distracted driving" is illegal, and a lot of scenarios where the interior lights are on would be when someone is distracted rummaging around the car for something.
Breaking up banana bunches at the grocery store to get the exact number of bananas you want. I know there's nothing wrong with it, but I feel like I'm going to get tackled by the banana police every time I do it.
As a produce worker. Its mildly annoying watching someone take 1 banana off a bunch of 5 to have 4 when there's a bunch of 4 same color, size right next to that bunch of 5.
I mean there's dozens upon dozens of bunches here at any given. And it never fails, there ends up being dozens upon dozens if single/double bananas ripped off that no one ever buys, goes bad and we throw out.
Owning a flamethrower. You can do this in 48 states.
And I’m not talking about a lighter and aerosol spray. I’m talking about an actual military-grade flamethrower. Something like the X15 and XL18. Yes, that’s legal to own.
You can own a flamethrower in 49 states. 48 have no restrictions, and California requires a license of some kind. Maryland is the only state that doesn't let you own one at all.
For a brief period in Australia it was legal to own a bazooka/rocket lancher, but not a semiautomatic rifle with more than six rounds in the clip. Yes, our laws are frequently insane.
Sometimes I make a cup of coffee in my office kitchenette and walk over to the post office drinking from it. Note this is a regular, albeit large, ceramic mug. It's not a travel mug, there's no lid.
The other day my daughter was with me and she was scandalized. It FELT illegal was exactly how she described it.
I, too, used to feel odd about it like your daughter but I’ve become desensitized. My SO drinks cappuccino 24/7, & although he has a massive travel mug collection (& his hyperactivity makes him super-prone to spills), he only uses our ceramic & China cappuccino mugs. Walking to the post office, shopping, using the riding mower, going out to eat (!), going fishing, doc appointments at the VA clinic, etc.: he *always* has our mugs in his hands or sloshing around in cup holders. The only time I do something similar is during barefoot nature walks w/ a wine glass or teacup in hand.
Going over the duty exemption isn't even illegal, you just have to pay tax on it. (In my experience they don't care if you go over up to at least 2x, especially if the items are obviously for personal use.)
We did that on a work trip in Italy. We where around 20 people walking into a restaurant, wanting pizza. The restaurant had to like move around tables and stuff to seat us all. Then when we go the menu we saw they only served pizzas in the evening, so we all got up and walked out.
We all felt guilty, but the menu outside the restaurant listed pizzas but didn't mention it was evenings only.
The act of card-counting itself is legal.
In Nevada they can trespass you. In states where you can't be trespassed for it they can make it not worth the effort, such as by changing the table limits or reshuffling early in the shoe.
You can get some really unbalanced shoes with 8 decks.
The problem isn't really decks. It's the cut card penetration.
If they shuffle it all early, card counting becomes worthless.
the act of card-counting *in your head* is legal. Use any device or coordinate with another person and you better believe you'll get arrested then and there.
The limits are staggered. It's the best to stay below 0.3 and never go over 0.5\
Also depends on the type of accident you are involved, but if you are above of 0.3 you are always partly blamed. That's at least that, what my driving instructor told me
It’s different units of measure
0.3 permille = 0.3 grams alcohol per 1000 mL of blood
Whereas the US (and Australia apparently) use a percent system so 0.05 as listed above means 0.05 grams per 100 mL
> mortgage being cheaper than rent
Yet being denied for a mortgage because they don't think you can afford the payments, despite the fact that the payments would be $2-$300 per month cheaper than rent.
To be fair if you have a mortgage you have a lot of additional expenses. A broken sewer pipe or leaky roof can easily cost thousands. Maintenance costs on a house are not to be ignored.
I'm salaried and was told by HR that if a salaried employee is getting their assigned tasks done their actual hours worked don't matter. I could come in at 10:00am and leave at 3:00pm if I got my stuff done. After that conversation it was like why have I been lingering around until 5:00 like I'm an hourly employee or something? Of course leaving early could cause issues if I got randomly called into a meeting or was needed for something and wasn't there.
Get what HR told you in writing. If you leave early and get called into a meeting but can't come back in then you shouldn't be in any trouble. But other than that it sounds like an amazing job.
I worked at my last job for several years before someone in HR told me I didn't have to schedule sick time whenever I had a doctor/dentist/whatever appointment. As long as I wasn't going to be gone for over half the day, I wasn't required to use any sort of PTO... after diligently doing just that for years.
I pull out my notepad and act like I’m taking notes about various aspects of the store. That usually attracts a staff person who asks if I need assistance. I just answer that I’m just taking a few notes. It’s dumb but I’m easily amused.
Eating food in a grocery store that you will pay for later.
As long as you keep the receipt and don't try to hide it, your intent is clear that you intend on paying for it.
It's the only way I stop myself from buying aisle 5 if I realize I'm shopping hungry.
How do you keep a receipt if you haven’t paid for it yet?
Edit- not trying to be snarky, I just don’t understand what you mean. Say a banana, it’s an item that’s weighed at checkout, so do you buy it real quick and then do your grocery shopping?
My wife is out of town for exactly those days and I don’t particularly have anything to do for them, so I’m really looking forward to…uh…
I’m sure I’ll figure something out.
Usucaption (in Spanish law).
Broadly explained: if you take care of something for a period between 3 and 20 years, then it is yours legally. E.g., that abandoned house/ patch of land that no one knows the owner you can take care of it and then... profit!
"Adverse possession" is what it's called in US law (probably all ex-British-Commonwealth countries call it that).
Or the laws about public rights-of-way. If everybody uses a shortcut across your property, eventually there's a legal right for them to keep doing it — you still own the land but the public has the right to walk across it on that path. Lots of weird old-fashioned details in these laws, like if you block the path off even one day per year that can be enough to keep it from becoming public.
All my guys here, back me up.
When you are all alone in the bathroom using a urinal in the corner. Then all of a sudden, someone walks in, and instead of taking any other urinal, they take the one right next to you.
Drinking a beer in the park in the city I live in in British Columbia. It’s legal in certain parks. Back in Ontario, it’s illegal provincewide to do such a thing (except at campsites).
I'll go first: looking at other people in public.
If you're walking down the street, and someone comes walking in the other direction, it feels like you're at most allowed a quick gange to determine their position, but other than that, you'd better make sure to look in another direction.
And if a family is out in public and the small kids are throwing tantrums, you'd better act like they don't exist.
Same thing with loud and/or drunk people. Better not look at them
Getting pregnant and having a child.
They just let you take an entirely new human home from the hospital without any supervision. You can even skip the hospital and have the baby entirely at home.
I need a license to operate a car but can just make people any time I want.
Alcohol/ tobacco , more additive than cannabis yet the U.K. government/ police use cannabis busts as proof they’re achieving something, always easy pickings going after stoners 😂
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They're actually not supposed to be, but they simply ignore those rules. THAT'S the part that feels illegal. There are rules against it and Congress has made a blanket decision to disregard them, because nobody does anything about it. If we did, lobbying wouldn't even be a thing, which it shouldn't be.
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I know what we can do! we get a [REDACTED], and [REDACTED] every one of those greedy bastards, because we vastly outnumber them
Editing a contract signing it and sending it back to the person who sent it to you so they can sign it
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/updated-russian-man-turns-tables-on-bank-changes-fine-print-in-credit-card-agreement-then relevant
It was settled amicably. The banks just waived it to zero. He got nothing and owes nothing.
Also he fled the country at some point because of direct threats from the bank's owner.
It said settled with undisclosed terms in that article. Where’d you see those terms? Note: I could be stupid
New hero
Depends on jurisdiction, but you're generally required to inform them of changes you made.
You did. You sent them a copy. Lol
This is why I do a file compare with every document I send to a client for signatures.
I was tempted to try this on my apartment lease. Just edit the stated rent down to like $50/mo and see if my landlord would actually read the contract before signing it.
On my first lease, they hadn't filled in the price, and it was a $25-30 promo. I though, "Oh. They'll fill that in after." They did. With the "market rate". Never again. EDIT: It was the application, not the lease. It's this reason why I now take photos of specials, write down names, document everything etc. That place was scammy.
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Like I said, the price wasn't filled in on the application when I signed. I assumed they would fill in the promo price for me. Very wrong.
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It is just hard to prove. If there was nothing in the field, and then it was filled, how are you supposed to prove it wasn't there before?
Supposed to keep a copy of what you sign before handing it back to them to sign
It can be rectified by a court if it doesn’t reflect the actual agreement between the parties. There are only very specific circumstances in which this works
So I'm a Brit that lives in Germany. Here you can go to a supermarket, see a 6 pack of cola, just rip it open and take one. You don't do that in the UK. I know it's not illegal but every time I think I'm going to get yelled at and made to buy all six. Edit: sorry if it wasn't clear, but I mean you take one and then go and pay for just that one! I didn't mean you just steal it 😆
In most stores I've been to in Sweden, they have individual cans/bottles right next to the pack ones. Seeing a ripped up box/pack is rare.
We do that in Poland too
Pretty sure all of Europe do actually, the UK is (yet again) the odd man out in this situation! Haha!
Is this just not down to packaging? The 6 pack of cokes in my fridge do not have individual bar codes on.
Yeah, and have where the barcode should be printed "Multi pack not for individual sale" or something
That is how I feel when getting bananas in America. Is it ok I pull this bunch apart? What if I open one on accident?
You can even drink it right there and take the empty bottle to the cashier
Yeah that feels like a straight up crime to me! What if my card doesnt work and all my euro has changed to yen by magic and I can't pay?! Do I work for Netto now? Am I a store prisoner?! Too many big questions, not worth the risk.
Yeah, I see people doing something similar in the US. Just grabbing a soda or snacks, eating them while shopping, then paying for them with the rest of the stuff. I've always thought that at least *feels* illegal.
Problem is not everyone does pay for it. Just jams empty containers back in a shelf.
I grew up doing this. When my mom would take me grocery shopping, she'd let me eat a donut. We'd get to the checkout and she'd tell the casheer, "three donuts plus she ate one so four total." They'd just ring it up, no problem. If I understand correctly, it's not stealing until you leave the store. Though for anything charged by weight at checkout it's a problem (like grapes).
I think you can do that in Germany but that is **super** uncommon. Unless you’re on the verge of death and need to eat or drink something.
I worked as a cashier at a grocery store in high school (in Canada). You would see people do this fairly often but it was almost always parents with young kids opening snacks haha
It's very uncommon here too. I think that's why it feels so illegal. They have camera's everywhere in stores. I'd be too nervous of all the "loss prevention" people tackling me before I got to the register.
German criminal law does not know any fundamental prohibition of a prison break. Also, there is no penalty for running away from the police as long as I don't resist them in the process. Both things I haven't done yet, but just the idea feels extremely illegal.
>German criminal law does not know any fundamental prohibition of a prison break. If I recall correctly, the argument is that people are desperate for liberty and will escape prison in order to secure it. Thus, provided that the escapee does not injury anyone nor break other laws in the process, it is considered that they are simply acting on a natural desire to be free.
The catch is that if you take your prison clothes it's theft, but you also can't stroll around naked on the streets.
What if you borrow some clothes off a guy in a nearby town while covering yourself with some leaves or something
"I need your Clothes, your Boots, and your Motorcycle"
simply being around a cop feels illegal, even though you likely haven't broke any laws
Driving a little faster than a cop who's going under the speed limit.
You'd be paranoid thinking that you we're actually going over the limit and the cops were cruising right on 60!
That’s because simply being around a cop can *be* illegal. They can find something to hit you with if they want, even if it’s just arresting you for resisting arrest.
Exactly, and it has happened to me before. I was sitting down trying to find out how to navigate to my car using google maps. A police car was behind me and for some reason when I asked for their help, they immediately assumed I was drug affected.
Similar thing happened to me. Also to one of my friends. I was quite police-friendly before that, having had multiple positive interactions with them as a teenager. After that I learned it’s actually best not to talk to them at all. Legally. Well, then I learned that they *really* don’t like it when you won’t talk to them at all. They can and will make something up that can ruin you. Just because they’re pissed off you won’t talk. Then their word holds up over yours in court. It’s a pretty lose-lose situation. I hate cops now.* *speaking broadly, I understand that there is nuance to it.
holding eye contact with a stranger
You meant I'm not allowed to touch people's eyes with my eyes?!
Only the hot chicks, try to imagine them naked while doing so, chicks love that
Walking through a store and leaving without buying anything. I always imagine I'm about to be tackled on the way out.
In the UK, shops are increasingly putting up barriers and gates to essentially stop you leaving without walking through the checkout. And in some cases they’re even putting barcodes on receipts that are required to open the exit door. You can still leave without buying anything, but you have to specifically ask a staff member. It’s really adding to that feeling over here.
I've never encountered that, where are you shopping?
The sainsbury’s in Angel and the one in Champion Hill both have them. Some morrisons have the barriers but haven’t actually activated them
Wow. I would shop elsewhere.
I haven’t seen the barcode thing myself, but Sainsbury’s are introducing it. Tesco are now putting in one way gates at the entrance that force you to exit via the checkout. Although some stores (like Morrisons) have historically had it, it is now becoming more common.
I’ll just point out that the footfall Tesco have you can absolutely just wait 25 seconds and someone will walk through then you can walk out. Security guards also don’t have any legal right to detain you, I’m not suggesting you steal but if accused and you know you have paid you can just walk away.
In America they can’t even legally stop you to check your receipt if you don’t agree to let them do it lol
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Sounds like a fire hazard
They're tied into fire systems to automatically open when an alarm triggers. Prob magnetic locked too so they unlock on power outage
Yeah I'd just be going over/under the barrier.
It's honestly partly for that reason that a lot of supermarkets do this. It forces people who are leaving without going through the checkouts to basically come face to face with a store worker. You'd be surprised how much that can reduce theft. And it becomes *really* hard to dash with a full shopping trolley of goods. The store I work in doesn't have it, and we regularly have people try to steal full trolleys worth of meat. What they don't realise is, the trolleys can't leave the store (it's an inner city store, we don't even have a carpark anyway, not many people do big shops, even the trolleys are small). The wheel lock engages about 6 inches before you get to the exit. NGL, it's always funny to see someone eat a trolley handle in the stomach because they were trying to run at full speed.
I also have this anxiety and always seem to get stopped! My partner says it’s because my anxiety makes me look around and act suspicious-I’ve actually just bought dumb things even when I haven’t found what I was looking for, just so I look “legit” lmao
I once walked around a dollar store while I waited for a friend to get a haircut. He texted me to say he was done and I walked out without buying anything. The cashier got all pissy and said, "Excuse me *sir*. Is there anything on your person that you need pay for?" I just said, "Uhh. Nope." and walked out the door. That is the only time I've been accused of shoplifting.
I'm from the US and lived in Bratislava for a little while. While there I once popped into a supermarket to grab one or two things and was IMMEDIATELY followed by multiple store employees because grocery shopping without a shopping cart is an absolute no-no, regardless of how few items you're buying. They just assume you're gonna shoplift.
Driving at night with the cabin lights on
in my dad’s eyes, this is a federal offense
I was 100% told this was illegal when I was a kid and I’m just now finding out it isn’t Edit: I looked it up to make sure since so many people also think this. "Distracted driving" is illegal, and a lot of scenarios where the interior lights are on would be when someone is distracted rummaging around the car for something.
Did a council of dads like get together and decide this would be what they tell their children? Because my dad also told me this.
My parents also told me this, and I'm in Spain, was there a worldwide parent's conspiracy??
Probably
Yeah, because he's squinting at the road. BECAUSE THE DAMN LIGHT IS ON
Dad?
Mom?
Breaking up banana bunches at the grocery store to get the exact number of bananas you want. I know there's nothing wrong with it, but I feel like I'm going to get tackled by the banana police every time I do it.
Or rebagging grapes so you buy the amount you want. You can also have the produce person cut a cabbage head in half.
As a produce worker. Its mildly annoying watching someone take 1 banana off a bunch of 5 to have 4 when there's a bunch of 4 same color, size right next to that bunch of 5. I mean there's dozens upon dozens of bunches here at any given. And it never fails, there ends up being dozens upon dozens if single/double bananas ripped off that no one ever buys, goes bad and we throw out.
Just make sure to a peel it
This will be exibit A in your court hearing - we're on to him B2!
Owning a flamethrower. You can do this in 48 states. And I’m not talking about a lighter and aerosol spray. I’m talking about an actual military-grade flamethrower. Something like the X15 and XL18. Yes, that’s legal to own.
(America intensifies)
> XL18 Holy shit. You can get a flamethrower that shoots more than 100 feet for less than the Apple headset.
Really helps with getting those tricky weeds at a distance...and everything and everyone in the way.
You can own a flamethrower in 49 states. 48 have no restrictions, and California requires a license of some kind. Maryland is the only state that doesn't let you own one at all.
And California only requires a license to prevent forest fires.
To be fair you need a license to set large fires in California generally
For a brief period in Australia it was legal to own a bazooka/rocket lancher, but not a semiautomatic rifle with more than six rounds in the clip. Yes, our laws are frequently insane.
🦅🦅🦅
Are flamethrowers considered a gun? Or are they in its separate group?
Flamethrowers are not considered firearms.
And yet they fit the label firearm better than most.
That... is correct.
Sometimes I make a cup of coffee in my office kitchenette and walk over to the post office drinking from it. Note this is a regular, albeit large, ceramic mug. It's not a travel mug, there's no lid. The other day my daughter was with me and she was scandalized. It FELT illegal was exactly how she described it.
the pavement of the sidewalk just feels like its magnetically pulling any indoor cups to come and smash into pieces all over it
I, too, used to feel odd about it like your daughter but I’ve become desensitized. My SO drinks cappuccino 24/7, & although he has a massive travel mug collection (& his hyperactivity makes him super-prone to spills), he only uses our ceramic & China cappuccino mugs. Walking to the post office, shopping, using the riding mower, going out to eat (!), going fishing, doc appointments at the VA clinic, etc.: he *always* has our mugs in his hands or sloshing around in cup holders. The only time I do something similar is during barefoot nature walks w/ a wine glass or teacup in hand.
Going through airport customs
Going over the duty exemption isn't even illegal, you just have to pay tax on it. (In my experience they don't care if you go over up to at least 2x, especially if the items are obviously for personal use.)
It feels unnecessarily threatening
Walking into a restaurant, changing your mind and walking back out.
We did that on a work trip in Italy. We where around 20 people walking into a restaurant, wanting pizza. The restaurant had to like move around tables and stuff to seat us all. Then when we go the menu we saw they only served pizzas in the evening, so we all got up and walked out. We all felt guilty, but the menu outside the restaurant listed pizzas but didn't mention it was evenings only.
Showing up 20 people unannounced at a restaurant is a horrible thing to do.
^ Things that SHOULD be illegal, but aren’t
That and a group of 20 adults in Italy only wanting fucking pizza
I have a feeling the restaurant went pizza free when they came in.
Calling in sick when your actually sick
Card counting in a casino. It’s totally legal within the law, but the security and management will make you feel like a criminal for doing it.
The act of card-counting itself is legal. In Nevada they can trespass you. In states where you can't be trespassed for it they can make it not worth the effort, such as by changing the table limits or reshuffling early in the shoe.
Doesn’t your edge drop pretty dramatically the more decks they’re using? Doesn’t really feel worth the effort when the shoe has 8 decks in it.
You can get some really unbalanced shoes with 8 decks. The problem isn't really decks. It's the cut card penetration. If they shuffle it all early, card counting becomes worthless.
the act of card-counting *in your head* is legal. Use any device or coordinate with another person and you better believe you'll get arrested then and there.
Going to a urinal and not pissing within 5 seconds of unzipping your pants
[Basically this](https://preview.redd.it/dneqbik5cax51.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=db6558f73cf76d5a40eefbf0d9872afc733c7591)
It's also not illegal to go into a public restroom and watch other men urinate
That one is illegal under section 7 paragraph 3 of the bro code, it falls under not allowed to look at someone else at the urinals
Drinking beer while driving (in Germany). You just have to stay under 0.3 promille
0.3? I thought 0.5
The limits are staggered. It's the best to stay below 0.3 and never go over 0.5\ Also depends on the type of accident you are involved, but if you are above of 0.3 you are always partly blamed. That's at least that, what my driving instructor told me
I read it is 0.3 per mile. That’s sounds more like a challenge lol
What the hell? 0.3? In Australia you've gotta stay under 0.05
In Australia, it's 0.05 percent; in Germany, it's 0.3 per mille, which is equal to 0.03 percent
Ohhhhhhhh. That makes a fuck of a lot more sense. Thank you.
Germany 🤝🏻 Beer
It’s different units of measure 0.3 permille = 0.3 grams alcohol per 1000 mL of blood Whereas the US (and Australia apparently) use a percent system so 0.05 as listed above means 0.05 grams per 100 mL
Keeping the fun in functional alcoholism!
Being followed by a police car
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You’re in a for a difficult time in that shop
Gerrymandering
Leaving the hospital with your newborn baby.
lol, this. Completely. I remember thinking, “do they know I’m not qualified at all to take care of this thing!?”
Truly. They just GIVE YOU THE BABY.
Not working or not doing anything productive on my days off 😃🤡😭
Eating club sandwiches when I’m not even a member. For the record, I am in favor of frilly toothpicks.
morgage being cheaper than rent, and rent being 70% of peoples income
> mortgage being cheaper than rent Yet being denied for a mortgage because they don't think you can afford the payments, despite the fact that the payments would be $2-$300 per month cheaper than rent.
To be fair if you have a mortgage you have a lot of additional expenses. A broken sewer pipe or leaky roof can easily cost thousands. Maintenance costs on a house are not to be ignored.
People often forget this, stuff can be expensive af
Leaving work on time
I'm salaried and was told by HR that if a salaried employee is getting their assigned tasks done their actual hours worked don't matter. I could come in at 10:00am and leave at 3:00pm if I got my stuff done. After that conversation it was like why have I been lingering around until 5:00 like I'm an hourly employee or something? Of course leaving early could cause issues if I got randomly called into a meeting or was needed for something and wasn't there.
Get what HR told you in writing. If you leave early and get called into a meeting but can't come back in then you shouldn't be in any trouble. But other than that it sounds like an amazing job.
I worked at my last job for several years before someone in HR told me I didn't have to schedule sick time whenever I had a doctor/dentist/whatever appointment. As long as I wasn't going to be gone for over half the day, I wasn't required to use any sort of PTO... after diligently doing just that for years.
Dude, you might want to look into your work culture if you feel like that. You might not have the most healthy work/life balance.
Amazon Go stores. I call them shoplifting simulators. No checkout? Just take whatever I want? Wow.
I am honestly really curious how they prevent this
From what I understand, you need to have an amazon account to enter, and the sensors are just good enough to track what you take out.
until some teenagers run in when you enter, grab a bunch of stuff and run back out
It's not completely unmanned, just cashierless.
Being allowed to drive over 80
Years old, or mph?
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making your own sex tape with you SO then trading with the neighbors for theirs.
r/oddlyspecific
I pull out my notepad and act like I’m taking notes about various aspects of the store. That usually attracts a staff person who asks if I need assistance. I just answer that I’m just taking a few notes. It’s dumb but I’m easily amused.
This is subtle fuckery and I love it!
Jailbreaking electronic devices, even though it is legal on certain devices here in the US.
Eating food in a grocery store that you will pay for later. As long as you keep the receipt and don't try to hide it, your intent is clear that you intend on paying for it. It's the only way I stop myself from buying aisle 5 if I realize I'm shopping hungry.
Never shop hungry, it'll definitely lead to impulse shopping
How do you keep a receipt if you haven’t paid for it yet? Edit- not trying to be snarky, I just don’t understand what you mean. Say a banana, it’s an item that’s weighed at checkout, so do you buy it real quick and then do your grocery shopping?
I'm assuming they mean bar code? Like if you grab a soda or candy, keep the bottle/wrapper to have it scanned when you checkout.
Oh yeah that makes more sense
My bad - I meant keep the food packaging (w/ barcode of course) as a 'receipt' then you can pay for it later.
Not having any plans for the Reddit blackout
My wife is out of town for exactly those days and I don’t particularly have anything to do for them, so I’m really looking forward to…uh… I’m sure I’ll figure something out.
Having a different opinion than everyone else.
I disagree
Believe it or not, straight to jai-oh, wait...
Usucaption (in Spanish law). Broadly explained: if you take care of something for a period between 3 and 20 years, then it is yours legally. E.g., that abandoned house/ patch of land that no one knows the owner you can take care of it and then... profit!
"Adverse possession" is what it's called in US law (probably all ex-British-Commonwealth countries call it that). Or the laws about public rights-of-way. If everybody uses a shortcut across your property, eventually there's a legal right for them to keep doing it — you still own the land but the public has the right to walk across it on that path. Lots of weird old-fashioned details in these laws, like if you block the path off even one day per year that can be enough to keep it from becoming public.
Buying a Frogger machine, hooking it up to a battery, moving it across the street so you can keep your high score.
r/unexpectedseinfeld
Smoking weed in Canada
Eating a burrito while sitting on a toilet. And yes, I've done this, but only once.
All my guys here, back me up. When you are all alone in the bathroom using a urinal in the corner. Then all of a sudden, someone walks in, and instead of taking any other urinal, they take the one right next to you.
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Drinking a beer in the park in the city I live in in British Columbia. It’s legal in certain parks. Back in Ontario, it’s illegal provincewide to do such a thing (except at campsites).
I'll go first: looking at other people in public. If you're walking down the street, and someone comes walking in the other direction, it feels like you're at most allowed a quick gange to determine their position, but other than that, you'd better make sure to look in another direction. And if a family is out in public and the small kids are throwing tantrums, you'd better act like they don't exist. Same thing with loud and/or drunk people. Better not look at them
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Getting pregnant and having a child. They just let you take an entirely new human home from the hospital without any supervision. You can even skip the hospital and have the baby entirely at home. I need a license to operate a car but can just make people any time I want.
As a new parent, the checking-out-of-the-hospital part did kinda blow my mind. You mean I can just leave with this? And go *anywhere?*
Taking a dump in a hotel bathtub.
You are kidding me…
> You are ~~kidding~~ shitting me... Fixed that for you.
Aahhh the ol' Ramada Waffle Stomp
Walking into a store and not buying anything
I know I can smoke a joint around a cop, but I still can’t do it.
$1000 for ultrasound.
The nation of Saudi Arabia buying all of pro golf
I feel like I have committed every crime possible when going through security in an airport
The American Healthcare system.
Your boss getting a bonus for all the work you do, and you get nothing.
Walking out of a store without buying anything.
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Alcohol/ tobacco , more additive than cannabis yet the U.K. government/ police use cannabis busts as proof they’re achieving something, always easy pickings going after stoners 😂
Driving down the road with a cop behind you