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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:52 AM
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I want to break a law. Help me decide which one to break.
Edited on Wed Apr-28-04 09:54 AM by Screaming Lord Byron
Moral Laws, Criminal Laws, Religious Laws, Protestant, Catholic, Judaic, Napoleonic, Roman, bring 'em on. I'm an equal-opportunities felon.
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kiahzero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:53 AM
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1. Religious laws
Wear a poly cotton blend. Just for kicks, ask a fundie if you need to be stoned.

Bonus points if you get 'stoned' later. =D
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chenGOD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:54 AM
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2. Everybody must get stoned...n/t
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:55 AM
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4. Good start. I may be committing multiple offences as we speak.
Start flinging the pebbles, peeps!
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Sticky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:55 AM
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3. I say religious law
I think you should eat meat this Friday. :evilgrin:
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:56 AM
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8. Good God! Dare I? Dare I take a Roast Beef sandwich
Edited on Wed Apr-28-04 09:57 AM by Screaming Lord Byron
and stand in front of Bishop Fred, my satanic face lit up with glee as the gravy drips down my criminal chin? DARE I?
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cheezus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:59 AM
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12. Easter Sunday marks the end of lent
what a stupid law. you ever seen how many catholics there are in red lobster on a sunday night during lent?

some sacrifice
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:00 AM
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13. They threw me out of the Church after I gave up Catholicism for Lent.
:shrug:
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candy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:08 AM
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14. How do you know they're Catholics?
Just curious.What does a Catholic look like?
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:13 AM
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16. Don't be silly.
They all wear their purple Catholic Capes. Sheesh!
:crazy:
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Sticky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:25 AM
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18. I have the tall hat to match my robe
but carrying that tall gold upside-down whirleyweeder gets really heavy. :-)
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:34 AM
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19. Yeah, luckily thats only for high holidays though, thank god.
And I mean that quite literally.
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:49 PM
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47. I vote for the 6th (or at least the 9th) Commandment
Not that I have personally.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:55 AM
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5. Gravity
just stand in a pail & pick it up off the ground. or run off a cliff without realizing what you've done and you can keep running (don't look down, tho)
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:57 AM
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9. Yeah, it works for that Roadrunner guy, so why not me?
That's a pretty realistic show, I guess.
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AJ BENDER Donating Member (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:55 AM
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6. The Drug Laws !
They say you evil Sweet Leaf but I know It ain't so !

:hippie:
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:58 AM
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11. Maybe as part of a larger smorgasbord of criminal acts, perhaps?
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:56 AM
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7. Religious Laws - Less Effort!
They're so pervasive you could practically break one by farting quietly in your living room.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:58 AM
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10. And I already covet my neighbours ass! Perfect!
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candy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:10 AM
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15. Murphy's Law
Make sure everything goes right today!
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:14 AM
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17. I'll put that beside the Law of Diminishing Returns, then.
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:37 AM
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20. try dumblaws.com
http://www.dumblaws.com/ for listings of all kinds of stupid laws. I'm sure there is something there for you to break. Please do break laws in Texas. We use the death penalty for everything down here.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:41 AM
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21. Good Canadian one - You can't pay for a fifty-cent item with only pennies
Who knew?
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 11:15 AM
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31. Why, hell...
You can't pay for a fifty-cent item with a bloody DOLLAR these days! Har!

:evilgrin:
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 11:29 AM
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34. Badoomsh!
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Champ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:37 PM
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41. Woah get a load of my state laws
Edited on Wed Apr-28-04 12:39 PM by Champ
Arizona State Laws
Hunting camels is prohibited.

Any misdemeanor committed while wearing a red mask is considered a felony.
There is a possible 25 years in prison for cutting down a cactus.

Donkeys cannot sleep in bathtubs.
A class 2 misdemeanor occurs if one places a mark upon a flag which is "likely to provoke physical retaliation".

It is illegal to manufacture imitation cocaine.

When being attacked by a criminal or burglar, you may only protect yourself with the same weapon that the other person posseses.
It is unlawful to refuse a person a glass of water. (actually not a dumb law if you read "why does this law exist"

You may not have more than two dildos in a house.

City Laws
Glendale
Cars may not be driven in reverse.
Globe
Cards may not be played in the street with a Native American.
Hayden
If you bother the cottontails or bullfrogs, you will be fined.
Read the rest
Mesa(Where I live)
It is illegal to smoke cigarettes within 15 feet of a public place unless you have a Class 12 liqueur license. :crazy:
http://www.dumblaws.com/states/states.php?State=Arizona
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:45 PM
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43. Any misdemeanor committed while wearing a red mask is considered a felony.
I've been waiting years for legislation like that. Now, finally, I can sleep at night.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:43 AM
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22. Go on, rip that tag off the mattress!
I dare ya!
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:45 AM
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23. Ooh. That's seriously felonious!
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:51 AM
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24. Here's one - Illegal to pretend to practice witchcraft in Canada
Law: It is illegal to pretend to practice witchcraft.
Country: Canada


Citation: 365. Every one who fraudulently

(a) pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration,

(b) undertakes, for a consideration, to tell fortunes, or

(c) pretends from his skill in or knowledge of an occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner anything that is supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found,

is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

R.S., c. C-34, s. 323.

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ZenLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:57 AM
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26. That law protects witchcraft!!
Key word in the law is 'pretend'

So authentic witches can practice legally, but charlatans are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 11:04 AM
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28. How would you prove witchcraft in court?
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ZenLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 11:27 AM
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33. That's not my flame war.
Posit that question down in the Astrology Forum Meeting room. Such conundrums are not for me to hypothecate.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 11:29 AM
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35. Yeah, it was just a glib comment, I don't want to go there down there.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:56 AM
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25. How About a Challenge? Break the Law of Gravity!
:-)
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 11:05 AM
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29. Well, if Superman will volunteer to spin the earth backwards
we may be onto something.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 11:02 AM
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27. Mosaic Law
Wear something polyester or a knitted blend
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 11:06 AM
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30. Yup. It's an easy one. And not my first offence either!
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 11:17 AM
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32. Well, you could go to wisconsin and..
Edited on Wed Apr-28-04 11:21 AM by JonathanChance
http://www.dumblaws.com/states/states.php?State=Wisconsin

Camp in a wagon on a public highway.

Wave a torch around in the air.

Throw rocks at railroad cars.

Serve a butter substitute in one of our state prisons.

Make limburger cheese without a master cheesemaker's license.

Go to LaCrosse and tie up your horse on Third Street or play checkers in public.

Go to Milwaukee and play a flute and drums on the streets to attract attention.

Go to Racine and Wake a sleeping firefighter.

Go to Sheboygan and swim in the Fountain Park Fountain or water your lawn in such a way as to annoy your neighbor.

Go to Sun Prairie and let your cat enter a cemetary or hit a vending machine if it eats your money.

Go to Wauwatosa and reserve a city meeting room under a false name, or spit on the sidewalk.

(not from dumblaws.com)
Use a Little Cleo Wig'l lure(The one with the topless woman on it) in Marinette County while fishing. (It's considerd an "obscene lure").



Or you can break laws of fashion....

Lets see.. you could wear brown shoes with a blue suit, wear braces (Suspenders) and a belt at the same time, or wear white shoes after Labor Day.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 11:30 AM
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36. Make limburger cheese without a master cheesemaker's license.
And how many times have we been caught out there, hmm?
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:43 PM
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42. Twice.
My sentence. Two weeks of eating no cheese with the exception of Velveeta. (shudders)
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:45 PM
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44. Ew. Harsh.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:00 PM
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37. Let's see you break the inverse square law!
See if you can be more intensely visible the farther away you are! I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!
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Mr.Green93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:03 PM
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38. buy something on Ebay and not pay
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:46 PM
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45. Already did. Still it was only some Kerry Buttons for $2 a pop.
No-one's gonna bother about that, are they?
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:04 PM
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39. You should break Newton's Second Law of Thermodynamics.
That would be cool.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:48 PM
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46. Third maybe, fourth at a push, but second?
That would be tough.
I'd have to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow, discombobulate the whadyamajig, make a nice pot of tea, and whistle 'Hey Jude' backwards. Tricksy.
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:33 PM
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40. Come to Texas...
we'll work on breaking every single sub-clause of the indecency law. ;)
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:49 PM
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48. Oh yeah!
Grrrrrrr! Baby, Yeah!
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