I have a question and I hope you answer. If you're sued let's say for a billion dollars. All you have is a car and house that aren't even paid off. You end up just declaring bankruptcy? I guess they could take your assets but there's no way you can possibly afford to pay that back in your lifetime. They can't take all your money because then you won't be able to work to pay them anything right? Like Rudy Giuliani how was this play out if he were convicted for the civil lawsuit?
So, in which states is it illegal for all of you felons to vote? I mean, that's the consequence of these laws, right, there are states where no one has the legal right to vote... Of course, I am innocent of all charges.
"average person breaks 473 laws a day" factoid actually just statistical error. average person breaks 0 laws per day. Criminal Georg, who lives in a prison and breaks over 1,823,020 each second, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
fun fact for this supposed 0 average and 1 outlier story to be true, this person would have to break 155,238,600,000 laws per day or: 6,468,275,000 per hour / 107,804,583.333... per minute / 1,796,743.05556 per second That was a surprisingly good guess well done
Can you do a video on the Collosi case? That's wild to consider how you put all that together. 1. Overheard that they were betting 2. Encouraged them to bet more 3. Swat team on game day 4. Killed for "resisting" during the Swat event
Back in middle school there would often be art students breaking down and crying in the hallway after their brand new (and typically very expensive) markers were confiscated. Most of them were never able to get their markers back :(
Guess I was lucky. I may have been horrendously bullied in middle school, but no one ever really messed with my art stuff, especially not the teachers. That’s just cruel.
@@mkfjn1 same but my pic isn’t even from anything. I think it’s a stock photo of a bee I stole from a random animal generator website. I don’t own this image, I have no attachment to it, and I have plenty of good pics on my phone I do actually own but I chose this.
When I was homeless, I had to panhandle to survive, and there was one cop that would *always* threaten to arrest me and/or ticket me for panhandling because of the sit-lie law, even though I was panhandling on private property, and I sat in the same spot, leaned up against the building(which is not included in the sit-lie laws) and the building security guard constantly had to remind the cop that I have permission to be there and its a private building. I literally held a sign, I didn't say anything, or do anything, but yet one cop bugged me for MONTHS over something I literally wasn't doing, it only stopped when a different cop befriended me and I told him about the other cop, and he would come check in on me daily to make sure no other cops were bugging me and that I was alright(I met him because I was assaulted)
I feel like that case of the guy befriending Cullosi to make him bet over the legal amount just to "bust him" and have him die in the process is one of the most corrupt things I've ever heard an officer do
Dog, read high price or chasing the scream. There have been numerous worse cases in the US such as cops posing as bf/gf to a mark, asking them to buy drugs, and bring it to their workplace, not even to bust the person, but to bring down the whole organization they work for. It's wild what people will do to uphold the status quo.
nop. there was also that time where a detective made a person with the mental state of a 5 year old "confess" to a serial killing. that person was then sentenced to death and executed just because the detective wanted fame.
My 'favorite' was the Baltimore cops who covered up their drug running operation by framing innocent people for their own actions...including murder. I may not think ACAB is correct...but man, there sure are some cops who fit the description.
That’s not exactly disproving their point Laws are generally stupid because a bunch just not get repealed or have weird interpretations no one actually accepts For example a good chunk of people disagree that ideas should be treated like private property because they exist in completely different areas so we shouldn’t define @stealing” ideas like characters (IP) like we define stealing property because no matter how often he’s used you can never run out of darth maul (no matter how much Lucasfilm milks him)
Laws are made because they need criminals to make money..they need criminals to gain power..they need criminals to keep democracy ..Without criminals then prosecutors lawyers, law makers judges and cops etc wouldn’t have a occupation..without criminals Mayors governors and other politicians etc wouldn’t have much to promise you, the more laws they create the more crimes are made, the more arrest are made which lead to power for the so call good guys…why you think instead of actually trying to find solutions to fix crime, they just create more laws? Because they’ll use the worse scenarios that happened with the crime that was made and scare the people to believing everybody who commit these crimes are the same..like illegally carrying a firearm, one out of every 1000 illegal firearm is actually used in a crime or a shooting..the rest are carried for protection for people who was denied or was too young or had a felony due to carrying a firearm under age…Most gun felonies never was convicted of any violent crimes…never was convicted of any discharge of the firearm.:.simply carrying..and living in a community they live in who can actually blame them for Cathy ..but they still get the same treatment as those who use firearms in crimes ..because the government don’t understand the difference between a criminal and a person who broke a law in order to protect their life…But the more criminals the more money and power..same reason why most prosecutors try to find white suburbans when prosecuting a crime that’s common in the inner city….because since they don’t experience the common problems in the inner city..they’re going to likely find the person guilty because they truly believe he’s a criminal due to what they was taught..Because the prosecutors job is to find you guilt rather you’re innocent or not..that alone shows that it’s not about innocent or guilty it’s about who can tell the better story..Because more guilty cases equals more pay and more power
I know I'm hella late to this but as someone who actually really enjoys mirror etching, I thought I'd explain since I didn't see anyone else do it. Etching cream is a substance you can apply to glass or mirrors (I'm sure other things but this is what I learned it on) and, when applied properly, gives you a foggy look and allows you to make designs and the like.
The way it was explained to me was you take the markers that are made for car windows with the foam tips and replace the original paint with paint mixed with etching liquid. Then you can tag on glass and the paint can't be washed off
And then of course punish the people who can't afford housing by outlawing sleeping on the streets. And then presumably walk home with money-stuffed sacks from private prison corporations who were helped rake it in.
@@chuckyxii10 If the cities intentionally hiked the price, then they ought to pay back the difference to the people who were overcharged when the price is made reasonable. I mean I guess that would take a lot of tax money, and the only way to get that money which seems remotely fair would be to hike taxes for whoever profited off the price hike, who pretty clearly have the government in their pocket already, meaning that's out too, but hey, I can dream, can't I?
Right? I so want a tiny house because I absolutely don't need/want anything bigger. But apparently they're going to shove the "American dream" home down my throat whether I want it /can afford it or not.
Nobody seems to understand that if there is zero legal restriction, Hong Kong pod houses will become the norm for a lot of cities, and they’ll just stay the same price anyway
@@RabidDog20 That still sounds like a market problem. I'm restricted from building a tiny house on my own for cheaper than a "Hong Kong pod house," because what? Competition is bad now, and I'm forced into a monstrosity that I don't need want? Sounds like a lazy, thinly veiled excuse to keep poor people from owning their own houses and forcing them to rent.
By definition, it most definitely is. The man was making legal bets with friends. The detective went out if his way to connect with the guy and then convinced him to bet higher just to arrest him. I hope the mans wife got paid
@@andrewt.5567 This is incorrect. You need to commit a crime on your own. If a LEO tells you that you should commit a crime, and even gives you the opportunity, motive, or tools necessary, that absolutely is entrapment.
Should it be? Probably! Would the legal system consider it entrapment? Probably not! Also the amount of fury in my system after hearing that someone died in that raid could probably be used as a renewable energy source
No. It's only entrapment if the detective convinces him to do something he would not have otherwise done. If the guy wasn't involved in gambling at all because he didn't believe in gambling, but the detective talked him into it, or if the detective said "you should make a bigger bet," and the guy said "that's a bad idea, betting that big is illegal" and the cop badgered him into it, that's entrapment. But if all the detective did was got him to do something he never had any objection to, that's not considered entrapment, not should it be.
Since the detective coerced him into betting over $2k, which was something he wouldn’t have done normally (hence the coercion), he was entrapped. Hope his family got a good lawyer.
one thing I love about this channel is the brutal honesty about how messed up the system is. "Lots of cities and states like to fight the high cost of housing by making it harder to build more housing". Then again, I'd be surprised if any competent lawyer wasn't acutely aware of the abundance of systemic failure in this country.
At the same time, you really don't want it to be legal to cram people into what are basically broom cupboards with a toilet. That's how you get (even more) epidemics.
Those same lawyers are all tacitly supporting the same corruption. Over legislating makes a good market for those in law. Remember what table they eat from.
Part of me thinks the "Netflix password sharing" is so varied and conflicted in the courts because the lawyers and judges involved can think of at least five people in their life who do it, or have been involved in it themselves.
It's also nebulous because members of a household legally share a single account. When we upgraded our mobile plan, we got 2-screen Netflix included. But my wife signed on first, so the Netflix account is on her user id. But she has a user profile and I have a user profile. We also have the standard "Kids" profile - even though we have none at home.
Let's say a friend that has shared their Netflix password is also their bank account password, awful security decisions aside, does that give the friend permission to go on their bank account and look at their friends finances? There's no real legal distinction for using a password to access Netflix online vs your Bank online (although if you take money out you may violate more things)
Or how about lets say your friend shares their Netflix password with you and you then use that password to upgrade their account costing them more money each month, if there is no identity verification component is that illegal? And if there is is it illegal for a husband to upgrade the account on his wife's behalf when it's in her name? I'm not saying there can't be solutions but the laws/rulings would have to get very technical in ways they currently avoid doing
@@Zevoxian well I think that you are impersonating someone else when you use their information to access their info without their express permission, so you probably couldn't do the first thing. If it isn't, then fine I think that is a risk trade you do when giving away your password The second is probably some form of theft, as you are using someone elses money for your own benefit because you are using the screen share system as well right?
I just wanna say, as someone who isn't a lawyer, but did take a cybersecurity course in college, the "Lawyer-speak in 3, 2, 1" made me very confused, followed by total understanding as soon as the words Computer Fraud and Abuse Act appeared, because we also covered the CFAA in my *Ethics in IT* course.
Considering they tracked down moonshine runners to tax the moonshine (Moonshiners migrated down the Appalachian Mountains avoiding the IRS), yes, Treasury Agents (sometimes called "T-men") were very tenacious. Watch the movie _Greased Lightning_ about a moonshine runner who became the first Black man in stock car racing.
"[He'd] only been a [policeman] for a few days but already he had absorbed one important and basic fact: it is almost impossible for anyone to be in a street without breaking the law." - Terry Pratchett
@@telectronix1368 haha nice, I've always loved that one because there's a similar saying amongst motorcycle riders. 'There's fast riders & old riders but no fast, old riders' ... I wonder which came first, Pratchett's version of the joke or the saying
@@J_Stronsky Probably Sir Terry's. Or at least he didn't hear the motorbike quote before coming to the same idea. (Honestly I can't imagine him seeing a thought like that and just copying it wholesale. It would get transformed into something even more bizarre.)
@@telectronix1368 almost everything Terry Pratchett wrote was a reference or a callout to something. He almost certainly knew about the phrase beforehand
9:34 Wifi equipment usually defaults to requiring a password to join. If you intentionally change settings to allow anyone to join without a password and don't post signs restricting who's allowed or something, isn't any access to the network authorized?
My home country, Finland, made connecting to unsecured Wifi networks explicitly legal to stop debates over that question since it was felt that a typical person wouldn't necessarily even realize they shouldn't do it if one was within the range of their device and the device offered to connect to it.
I remember an odd loophole when a long distance trucker was charged for drinking in his truck. He was parked and the semi had a sleeper. So he argued and won (I think) that while parked, a semi with sleeper becomes the same as a RV. So drinking and having open alcohol in the vehicle was legal.
Truck drivers have a higher standard, you must blood test a .00, even a .01 is illegal for someone driving a commercial vehicle on a CDL. So unless one plans to sleep off the drinking overnight, no more driving for commercial truck drivers.
@@Carahan I wonder if that would hold (or has held) up to an appeal challenge. Demanding a 0.00 result is unreasonable since it should fail a “rational basis” test in my opinion. There should have to be some evidence of actual impairment by a significant portion of people at 0.01 for that to be legit.
@@Carahan not quite. The maximum allowable bac for commercial drivers is .04, half of a noncommercial driver, regardless of the type or nature of the vehicle being operated (personal vehicle or work vehicle). The law also requires a minimum of 10 hours between the consumption of alcohol and the operation of a commercial vehicle.
@@Carahan That's the point, its illegal to drink in or have an open bottle of alcohol in a vehicle even if you're not planning to drive it. It sounds like the guy had finished his distance for the day and was having a beer or something before bed.
@@justins8802 the drinking limit in the Czech Republic is 0. If you drink you cannot drive at all. Which is interesting because the Czech Republic has the highest consumption of beer in the world!!
I'm not a judge so I can't give my input, but since it's so commonplace in this country and the taxpayers don't like to waste their money on literally the American population as a whole, it's overlooked. I would have been arrested for using public wi-fi years ago.
6:07 But “warming up the car” is not idling, it’s bringing the coolant, oil, and Freon up to operating standards. If this proses is skipped and the vehicle is forced into operation multiple times then damage can occur to the systems that require that fluid including; - Rapid expansion of flexible hoses causing lacerations and cracks - Steel lines heating up too quickly causing cracks and in rare cases explosions - the radiator, condenser, trans cooler, and water pump developing leaks - The exhaust manifold gasket developing leaks - Turbo/supercharger failing - the HPCR failing - rapid engine wear - oil pump failure And a few more Pre-start your cars, it’s not idling as long as your moving after 15 minutes.
Etching cream is an acid you can put on glass to dissolve it. You can permanently etch a design into glass and the only solution is to remove and replace that piece of glass. It's super super scummy and expensive so that is pretty fair to make harder to obtain.
Not to mention those of us walking dogs who sit down to give the dog water or to give the dog a rest. I often go on very long walks and take a little 10-15 minute break after every mile. When it's 90+ degrees (Fahrenheit) out there, those breaks are the difference between a great and healthy walk and heat stroke affecting me and/or my dog. We sit on the edge of the sidewalk. I had NO idea I might be arrested for it!
Yeah, that one is lame. Even if I'm sitting on the sidewalk, as long as I can move, I'm not blocking it. "Excuse me, sir." "Oh, sorry about that" *moves* No need to make a criminal case about it.
I always knew that sharing a Netflix account (or any other online subscription) was technically illegal, but that law is almost completely unenforceable because there's no easy way to prove that multiple people are using the same account.
how would it be illegal? you create the account for your immediate family / household. Just because someone goes on a trip or to college or something doesn't break up that household.
In the late 90's, a cop in NYC hit me in the leg with a nightstick. He said that I could not sit on _his_ sidewalk. He then told me to get up and start walking. The way he spoke and opened the interaction with violence made me think he was going to seriously hurt me so I just scampered off and sat down somewhere else.
@@streettrialsandstuff it should. And cops swear an oath to the constitution. But at the end of the day, they have a badge and a gun. And that means they can do whatever they want. They simply think and act like they are above us because, legally, in terms of what they can get away with, they are.
I think if that would go to court, it would come down to semantics. I can see the case for them moving you, because they might want to prevent homeless sleeping there, but at the same time you have a good case that you were just taking a break or were waiting for someone, which is totally legal. Still no reason to open a conversation with violence.
I like how you just casually edged into the entire discussion about suburban zoning by talking about effective the tiny house bans but didn't even comment on the other range of Byzantine regulations that in practice force suburbia to be car focuses. You should totally do a suburban zoning episode ^_^
I can't believe Devin got a law license after breaking so many laws himself. For example, did you know he gives out false statistics an average of 473 times a day?
I was once threatened by a cop for the crime of standing near my own parked car (not idling either). In my old home state of Vermont, it's illegal to reverse a car on any road, so backing out of or into a driveway or parking space is illegal.
Hopelessness? I was expecting you to say Homelessness. As a person experiencing hopelessness, I am shocked and appalled by such laws regardless of the people they target.
@@efulmer8675 fwoah thats brutal. man the united states really does not like poor people or giving support to poor & helping them get up. low ages etc. amazing how you have to tip waitresses and waiters and stuff. in other countries they're not allowed to accept tips and get paid accordingly.
10:45 I think when they say etching cream they’re talking about mirror etching cream. We put some on mirrors in art to make the glass all icy and we put designs on them that we didn’t etch over
What this video was suppose to teach: here are some surprising laws you have have broken. What I learned: cops really don’t have anything better to do with their time other than convincing doctors to break the law, watching a “suspicious” man check his email everyday, and busting kids who own art supplies .
-We live in Northern Nevada. My mother's 1985 Jeep Wagoneer has to be warmed up for several minutes in cold weather. Enough time for her to go back in the house and get her stuff ready to go. But, my 2000 Lincoln LS only needs to warm in the mere minutes. Long enough for me to sit in the seat, buckle up, put my purse and stuff where they belong, set my radio, put my cell phone, in etc. And I'm pretty fast and doing those things. Barely a couple of minutes. It was amazed at how fast the RPMs go back down to 1,000, when I first got the vehicle, almost two years ago. At its age, it still has less than 50,000 miles on it! -He befriends Caluso so that he could get him to accept a bet of over $2,000? Unless it was a an official undercover ... whatever, approved by his boss, that sounds almost like entrapment. And it most definitely should not have lead to anybody's death. I understand the need for gambling laws. Laws should be taken seriously. If you don't, make sure that they are worth breaking. But, just on the information given, his was not serious enough to cause a death over. It wasn't like they were doing a raid on a murderer, rapist, or underage sex ring, or something. Well, I hope his family had grounds for a lawsuit of an unlawful death (or some equivilent) for that one! -Illegal for minors to own paint products? In Fernley, NV, my mother has been carded multiple times (she is in her 60s) because she bought a bag of grapes from a Fernley, NV Wal*Mart. .......! The self-check-out program is dumb sometimes. It's grapes, not an aerosol can of whipped cream, okay? -I agree, you don't F$&@$ with the IRS, Welfare, Social Security, etc. LIke if you do lie about your income to Welfare and they find out, they might cut you off (or much worse). Then, what happens next time you lose your job? You're screwed! And they will find you!
"Like most Americans, I've idled my car, shared my Netflix password, and pretended to be a model online in order to defraud someone. Believe it or not, technically I'm a criminal!" One of the examples isn't like the others, is my point.
I used to work at an art supply chain in California, and those laws against selling certain supplies to minors were a HUGE pain in the ass. Management actually eventually decided to stop stocking spraypaint altogether because it was too much of a hassle. Totally ridiculous to have cashiers at an art supply store carding people just for buying paint.
(UK here) A few months ago I was asked for my ID when buying superglue (for the purpose of assembling models cast in resin). I was surprised because I very rarely get asked for my ID anymore when I buy alcohol. I'm very clearly not a minor. I'd like to see anyone under the age of 18 with a beard this big.
@@dylantowers9367 You obviously haven't met me. I had a full beard by the age of 16 and frequently got mistaken for a college student. I remember one occasion the police visited my house while friends were over after suspecting one of them had thrown eggs at passing cars (they hadn't but apparently witnesses said they'd gone to my house) and upon seeing me after talking with them for a while immediately started asking me questions like I was the owner or head member of the household (i.e. "were you watching these kids, are they your son's friends, etc."). To be fair, my friends had also trolled them by getting me after they asked to see someone who lived there (because they were already amused the police found them suspicious). They were flabbergasted when I said I was the same age. Always makes me chuckle thinking about it.
@@idontneedaname318 I don't want to go back to that, that's all. The legal minutiae w.r.t. Trump always bored me because it became increasingly clear through his term that he wasn't going to be successfully prosecuted or impeached, despite evidence of corruption, incitement of violence, etc.
These are starting to sound like the parodies of that anti-piracy ad. You know: "you wouldn't steal a car... downloading movies is stealing". Then "you wouldn't download a bear"
The final law about sitting or lying down on sidewalks also affects certain physically disabled people. For example, I have a physical disability that can flare up at any moment, especially if I've been walking or standing for an extended period of time (which can be as short as 5 - 10 minutes or less). That combined with chronic pain in the legs worsened by standing and walking for an extended period of time means I often end up sitting on the ground to catch my breath, particularly since I use forearm crutches as opposed to a wheelchair as forearm crutches provide me more freedom.
Does the catfishing law apply to me when I'm role playing in Lord of the Rings Online as a 4305 year old female elf from Lothlorien and I enter into a relationship with a 4365 year old female elf from Mirkwood when I'm actually a 17 year old male human from Atlanta?
@@TonyHammitt I believe it would not break the law no matter the place he is, since it is a made up character from a fantasy world that can not be mistaken for a real person and no profit can come from it. Also it is highly unlikely that anyone would believe that such person is real never mind trusting him enough to give him money. (I don't know if that's how it is. If it's not and this is considered catfishing/impersonating something is going really bad with the current law system. Imagine getting arrested for role-playing a 4305 year old female elf. It would be hilarious and disappointing at the same time.
9:00 - Did the detective face ANY consequences for their part in convincing the Optometrist to bet more than £2000 and then get them killed when they called SWAT?
I just looked it up, it doesn't appear so. It happened back in 2006, the family got a two million dollar settlement in 2011 and the swat officer who shot him was suspended without pay for three weeks. The police department was also heavily criticized for overusing their swat team however I'm not sure if anything came of that.
"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood..." James Madison, Federalist 62
*Me suffering chronic pain/fatigue, unable to sit down because it's illegal* Sounds like hopelessness to me To take the exaggeration further, if i were to sit on the sidewalk because of my disability and get "caught" , would i be able to sue for discrimination? Joking aside, these laws are inhumane and ripe for abuse
Yeah, brilliant police cooperation. Also, not that costly: The guy who shot the victim got 3 weeks suspension _without pay_ . Collegues protested that this was a way too harsh punishment. Starting to deal with killer cops as what they often are in those cases: murderers might be a good idea.
18 year old me heated up my car at 4 AM for an opening shift in my driveway and just so happens that a cop was in my neighborhood for the first time ever in my 15 years of living there. I didn't get a fine or anything, but I did get a talking to. Idk I feel like I should be able to turn my car on in my own driveway for 5 minutes at 4 AM in the middle of Kansas winter, but that's just me.
I read up on the Sal Culosi case and it's one of the most DISGUSTING things I've ever read. He was killed while unarmed and cooperative, with a shot straight through the heart. The detective had purposefully pushed him on betting more and more just to make him guilty of a crime he wouldn't have otherwise committed. The detective also kept calling and intimidating the friends of Sal for months after he was murdered. The police department made a false report stating that the homicide was completely involuntary and accidental, while private detectives hired by the family concluded that that was impossible. In the following year, the SWAT agent was suspended for three weeks, and collegues of his said that was "way off the charts". A THREE WEEK SUSPENTION WAS OFF THE CHARTS FOR THE MURDER OF AN UNARMED HUMAN. The more I read the more nauseated I became... In the end, NOBODY served any time, and the family had to settle for money. An unarmed man was purposefully killed after being pushed to a tiny crime by someone he trusted, and NOBODY went to jail. If this isn't the sign of a terribly broken system, I don't know what is.
I've thought about running for local office... For the main reason of getting rid of unnecessary laws. I think while there used may have been created out of attempts to do good, they can become a way to exert control over people
Imagine if we required lawmakers to review and reapprove laws every 7 years. If you can't get your work done and review the laws before they expire, you had to many laws and you need to be more selective in the future.
Yeah, that completely depends on what laws you think are 'unnecessary'. Taking away laws about not cursing in public, ducks needing to wear a diaper, or some other crazy things, sure. Taking away laws that force businesses not to discriminate against people, laws against stalking, or age of consent laws? Not so much.
12:14 this had been challenged in my nation ... because the sell of an used item i bought it's not exactly really income if i buy it full price and sell it as used... maybe in america too
I know it'll never happen both because of the amount of work it would take and how convenient the current state of affairs is, but it would be nice if every 25 years or so there was a mandatory review of all laws on the books and old or outdated ones get the chop. Or modernized if there aren't more current laws that handle things better. Having laws passed 50 years ago ( or longer! ) that are no longer relevant to society today still be upheld in court and used to go after people is pretty disgusting.
That's not even a very hot take. It's one of those things that a year ago, I would've sworn was a conspiracy theory, but just look at the war on drugs. Criminalizing drug addiction was a way to criminalize being poor and non-white. Just look at the fact that white addicts would tend to get much lighter sentences, while marijuana dispensaries tend to be owned by white folks while black dealers are still penalized.
Having so many laws means it is effectively impossible for anyone to know, let alone observe, all of them, potentially criminalising everyone. So many laws also make it impossible to enforce them all, ensuring that the decisions made by law enforcement about which laws to enforce against whom are necessarily political. This is how to enforce a system of entrenched structural inequality while pretending that everyone is equal under the law.
Giving the system too much credit. It really just gross incompetence. After the rich break even more laws and depending who is in power they pay for it.
There are also the "disorderly conduct" laws that most (all?) states have passed that are so purposely vague that you can be arrested for basically any reason if the police want to. They might not get a conviction, but it does make it legal for them to arrest you and take you to jail for a day or two. Once you're in jail though, they can pull all sorts of other BS to force you to capitulate or they will F-up your life. The problem is mostly legislative incompetence and corruption combined with the fact most normal people don't realize how ridiculously corrupt our entire police system is because they never get anything more than a traffic ticket and so don't know how it works. So there isn't public attention on the issue and it never gets fixed.
Hanlon's Razor applies here: "Never assume malice in instances where ignorance or incompetence or sufficient explanations." The police force as a whole is not actively trying to be political or racist or a problem - they're just trying to do their job: enforce laws and serve the public. Do they make mistakes? Absolutely, we all do. Are those mistakes sometimes costly to someone, something, or themselves? Absolutely, they have a lot of responsibility. Are they all actively seeking to screw everyone over that they meet, shoot every single person of color for no reason, allow every single white-collar criminal get away with it, and watch the world burn? No, that's a gross understanding of what actually happens.
My favorite law you've broken: If you read the law literally enough, it's illegal to board or disboard a train from a center platform in Illinois, unless there's an additional set of boom gates
I remember before casinos in Victoria, a suburban house was raided by police and a roulette wheel seized. Some of the gamblers were indignant as it was a fund raiser for a community club.
12:30 these laws also target a specific subset of the disabled, those who do not require a wheelchair but cannot stand or walk for extended periods of time. What does the Americans with Disabilities Act say about that?
They usually have exemptions for medical needs otherwise they would be charging people who have collapsed from a heart attack with sitting or laying on the sidewalk.
As far as I'm aware mileage refers to the distance a vehicle can cover on a full tank of gas. This is used in my country (New Zealand) despite the fact we measure with the metric system.
Remember watching a cop reality show, where the State Troopers always asked "When was the last time you smoked marijuana?". Obviously a trap, if you say ten years ago, they would use your "Confession" as an excuse to search your car. Now they can ask "When was the last time you played bet on sports?" And seize your money in your wallet as an Asset Forfeiture.
As covered by this Lawyer well in depth. NEVER TALK TO THE COPS EVER ON ANYTHING WHICH INCLUDES NEVER ANSWER ANY QUESTION THEY ASK EXCEPT DO YOU WANT A LAWYER YOU SAY YES AND YES TO INVOKING YOUR RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT. see video it very convincing. If you want to cooperate do it though a lawyer.
I got asked "twice in a row" how much alcohol I had consumed tonight." As the answer was none, (I was merely a little tired,) I answered none, both times. It occurred to me that they do this to get people who WERE drinking and LIED the first time to crack and come clean. Most interesting.
@@mysticmistress6101 From what I gather it's a mistake to expect them to be reasonable. I've heard of people getting permanently banned from the whole country for saying they've had weed before when asked by officials at the border to Washington, where it's supposed to be legal and you'd think the officers would have no business asking.
As someone who lives up north, not warming up your engine can potentially DAMAGE your car! So getting a fine for it would probably cause protests. Since engine coil can actually freeze at -20F, And last winter it was -40F! Many cars actually use heater plugs to keep the oil liquid so warming up the car is easier, but it’s a major pain to install them! In addition, If you don’t warm up your car, the windshield will almost always frost over on the inside when driving, making it impossible to see! Not to mention it’s hard to drive while shaking and shivering with gloves on!
8:59 If he had no intention to break the law in the first place and was persuaded to do so by a law enforcement officer, does that not count as entrapment? What happened to the detective after he basically contributed to the murder?
That is entrapment, yes. But I do believe that entrapment is legal in USA, and other similar despotic countries. Entrapment is only illegal in civilized countries.
@@Tjalve70 Whether entrapment is legal or not is totally separate from whether you can use entrapment as a defence or not. There's always exemptions, like if an undercover cop buys drugs to prove someone is selling drugs... the undercover cop is not equally liable for drug dealing. This is due to the mens rea component of guilt.
Ultimately, whether it was entrapment or not is a question for the courts, where the issue will never go because the victim is dead. There is a blurry line between what is entrapment and what is simply undercover participation in escalating criminal activity, and we don't have nearly enough details about this case to guess where this falls.
@@spyone4828 That's because entrapment is not a crime, it is a defence. Just like "mistaken identity" is a defence, it's not a crime for the police to mistakenly identify you but if they do it's a valid defence. it seems in Europe (supposedly the only "civilised" place in the history of the universe) the bias in matters of justice is overwhelmingly recriminatory. When presented with injustice the natural response is "people must be punished for this injustice" rather than "people subjected to this injustice must not be punished".
@@Tjalve70 No entrapment is not legal in USA and will result in a conviction overturned. Problem is there is no criminal statue against the cops entrapping you in many cases thus you get acquitted after the extreme hassle yet the cops suffer nothing. This a case of it's illegal but so what.
Can you do one about lawyers who've been disbarred for extreme and/or petty ethical reasons and explain what it means for a lawyer to have been through it socially among their peers?
Same goes in aviation - by most common interpretations, it is a practical impossibility to fly an airplane from point A to point B without violating at least a few regs.
care to explain/give an example? Also, to be fair, it is technically physically impossible to fly a plane in a (literal) straight line from/to most start/end locations anyways. (yes, I know this isn't what you meant)
FYI, (if nobody else has mentioned it), "glass etching cream" is used to etch patterns into glass. You can see how this stuff could be used to make graffiti on peoples' wondows.
It would be pretty funny if someone went to leave their house for work in the morning and the windshield just has dicks etched into it. Totally illegal, since it's damaging property, but it would be difficult for most people not to chuckle about it.
12:36 "Critics of these laws obviously point out that they are basically designed to attack people experiencing hopelessness" How dare lawmakers attack my right to collapse in hopeless despair on a sidewalk!
Pretty sure he said "homelessness". But regardless, the problem is that those laws do nothing to help people, just punish them for being unfortunate. That's neither helpful nor fair, just a way to easily ignore human misery.
@@Nimelennar True. Also, it seems everyone also heard "hopelessness". But as you said, he likely intended to say "homelessness", or at least was referring to it.
@@remy4379 When those people have options if fine to enforce. When they don't do what the public actually wants done kill them. If I was Tyrant I'd actually propose that to local areas give homeless a place to stay or kill them I figure it would almost always be kill them. Then as Tyrant I'd tear down all the buildings in the area, seal off the area and tell them if your not in legal buildings by tomorrow you die too.
As to “law” number 10, when I was 22 or 23 I got fined $50 by a cop who saw me sitting on a subway staircase. The citation was for “obstructing pedestrian traffic.”
@@xxGreenRobloxthe argument to that would be if there was an emergency. Like the Mitch Hedburg joke “if someone is flammable, they are not blocking a fire exit” or however that joke goes, but in truth they very easily can be, which could cause people to get trampled as has happened before. Even if there isn’t an emergency, you ever tried to walk down stairs that have people sitting on them? It’s not really as easy as just “walk around them” when theres people coming up the stairs as you’re going down.
This video has the same energy as when I was interviewing a catholic pastor and he said "everyone's been excommunicated at some point in their life without knowing it"
My fiancee was shocked when i told them that technically they had been excommunicated twice, then we had more tequila and laughed about not being Christians
While watching 'You Definitely Broke These Laws' you mentioned etching cream. Etching cream is a white cream that looks a bit like white school glue. Artist that use this medium create a negative image that they attach to glass. They fill the blank areas with the etch cream which will create a frosted image when the cream is rinsed off. Because this actually creates indents in the glass; the glass can't just be buffed out. It needs to be replaced. This type of vandalism can get very expensive to fix.
"The cop found this suspicious." Nothing better to do but to bust someone for something that even the owner didn't care about. That's how useless cops are. Stealing public wifi. Jesus.
In my opinion but perhaps not the law running a non protected Wifi should by default be considered a public service. Put a password on it and that changes even if the password is publicly know like for a cafeteria I tend to visit that have big sign giving out the password.
@@michaelpettersson4919 Agreed, the law should explicitly address unsecured networks to prevent spurious allegations of liability without having to agree that you totally read the terms of service that you totally didn't read.
Etching cream is an acidic cream used to etch glass. While this is usually used to decorate glassware, you can see how it could be used to deface windows, windshields, and other stuff
@@Makatea That was the shooter... the "undercover cop/friend" did not get any punishment, he is actually recorded to continue his investigation and threaten friends and family of Sal Culosi.
@@etherealicer Yes, qualified immunity really has to go, otherwise bad cops will continue to shot innocent people with impunity. I wish Devin made a video about this.
I'd like more on this Culosi case. I've heard it before, and heard some others who have heard it say that story sounded an awful lot like a case of entrapment (Culosi apparently only violated that law he may or may not have never heard of because he was convinced by an officer). Would that actually fall under entrapment in court, or are the courts unforgivably messed up?
Probably wouldn't come to court because he is dead now, and was never actually prosecuted... ...plus qualified immunity? I am not a lawyer so I'm just speculating.
@@dclark142002 Yeah, so I guess the courts are unforgivably messed up for not charging the guys who killed him (did he even threaten them in any way when they did?) for murder.
I live in Phoenix back when spray paint was caged and only sold to those over 18 I never noticed a lot of graffiti. Now that it is more accessible it is a huge problem from vandalism of cars to walls to well just everything.
Reminds me of the book "Three felonies a day" though it's not necessarily about how often you break the law, but rather how if someone wants you arrested, they'll find something to charge you with.
👮♂️ How many of these laws have you broken?
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None as I am not american.
Yay that's like a cheat code
I have a question and I hope you answer. If you're sued let's say for a billion dollars. All you have is a car and house that aren't even paid off. You end up just declaring bankruptcy? I guess they could take your assets but there's no way you can possibly afford to pay that back in your lifetime. They can't take all your money because then you won't be able to work to pay them anything right? Like Rudy Giuliani how was this play out if he were convicted for the civil lawsuit?
So, in which states is it illegal for all of you felons to vote? I mean, that's the consequence of these laws, right, there are states where no one has the legal right to vote...
Of course, I am innocent of all charges.
None that applies to me as I've never visited the US 😆
I refuse to comment on the accuracy of these allegations without my lawyer present.
a sentence everyone (in the US) should practice and memorise
Alright. Uh, what's your lawyer's name?
@@KezanzatheGreat overruled, I wanna know where *this goes
*Edit for the record, changed a [u] to an [I] in thus, turning it into this.
@@alm2187 Phoenix Wright
Lol
"average person breaks 473 laws a day" factoid actually just statistical error. average person breaks 0 laws per day. Criminal Georg, who lives in a prison and breaks over 1,823,020 each second, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
can't believe the statisticians made such a bad mistake
cookie clicker reference?
fun fact for this supposed 0 average and 1 outlier story to be true, this person would have to break 155,238,600,000 laws per day
or: 6,468,275,000 per hour / 107,804,583.333... per minute / 1,796,743.05556 per second
That was a surprisingly good guess well done
@@kiweping5 It wasn't a guess, I went and did (very shoddy) math on this
@@PretzelLunar Absolutely.
Can you do a video on the Collosi case? That's wild to consider how you put all that together.
1. Overheard that they were betting
2. Encouraged them to bet more
3. Swat team on game day
4. Killed for "resisting" during the Swat event
Pretty sure that was Entrapment and the person would be acquitted if brought to court. But it doesn't matter now since they're dead.
I second this! This case sounds so crazy, I tried looking up the details myself but didn't come up with much.
I want more details too.
Yeah that sounds pretty bad
That sounds disgusting as all hell imo
Feels like an Unholy union of Entrapment and Murder (for lackof a better word)
Back in middle school there would often be art students breaking down and crying in the hallway after their brand new (and typically very expensive) markers were confiscated. Most of them were never able to get their markers back :(
Cut to John McClane muttering about California...
Well that's robbery right there.
Guess I was lucky. I may have been horrendously bullied in middle school, but no one ever really messed with my art stuff, especially not the teachers. That’s just cruel.
Confiscation is THEFT.
Wait, a detective got a man killed by convincing him to break the law and sending a SWAT team to his house? WHAT?
And don't be surprised if that detective has a medal sitting on their shelf that they were awarded with because of that.
For gambling no less.
The police have killed for less than a $2k infraction. Have to wonder about our law enforcement system.
I guess you could say that breaking the law is bad for your health.
@@___LC___ I think you're missing the point, the cost is not the surprising part here
Morons: "If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear!"
Lawyers: _"You have something to hide. _*_Shut up."_*
Pretty much, it's never up to you whether or not you have anything to hide.
Props. Great comment.
I may not have done anything illegal, but it's no one else's business how often I watch bisexual dwarf nun porn.
@@MrMartinSchou I… I agree I think you should hide that fact
Cops (& Lawyers?): Anything you say *CAN & WILL* be used against you!
Let us be real, there is one law most of us have definitely broken: copyright law.
I think just my profile pic violates copyright law
Which proves that copyright law is, at best, overreaching its bounds.
@@victorbukowsky7496 don't put evidence of that in writing.
@@mkfjn1 same but my pic isn’t even from anything. I think it’s a stock photo of a bee I stole from a random animal generator website. I don’t own this image, I have no attachment to it, and I have plenty of good pics on my phone I do actually own but I chose this.
No, I definitely don't have an entire infrastructure set up for that at home, including 40TB of storage.
When I was homeless, I had to panhandle to survive, and there was one cop that would *always* threaten to arrest me and/or ticket me for panhandling because of the sit-lie law, even though I was panhandling on private property, and I sat in the same spot, leaned up against the building(which is not included in the sit-lie laws) and the building security guard constantly had to remind the cop that I have permission to be there and its a private building.
I literally held a sign, I didn't say anything, or do anything, but yet one cop bugged me for MONTHS over something I literally wasn't doing, it only stopped when a different cop befriended me and I told him about the other cop, and he would come check in on me daily to make sure no other cops were bugging me and that I was alright(I met him because I was assaulted)
I feel like that case of the guy befriending Cullosi to make him bet over the legal amount just to "bust him" and have him die in the process is one of the most corrupt things I've ever heard an officer do
Yup, and no justice was served; in fact the same swat team that killed him nine years later killed another innocent person.
Dog, read high price or chasing the scream. There have been numerous worse cases in the US such as cops posing as bf/gf to a mark, asking them to buy drugs, and bring it to their workplace, not even to bust the person, but to bring down the whole organization they work for. It's wild what people will do to uphold the status quo.
nop. there was also that time where a detective made a person with the mental state of a 5 year old "confess" to a serial killing. that person was then sentenced to death and executed just because the detective wanted fame.
My 'favorite' was the Baltimore cops who covered up their drug running operation by framing innocent people for their own actions...including murder.
I may not think ACAB is correct...but man, there sure are some cops who fit the description.
That was literally a murder
Americans “I love living in this free country”
Also Americans * can’t sit on the pavement *
I mean if a law isn't enforced, is it a law?
@@R8Spike It's enforced whenever it's convenient for the people in power~
Ahh the American delusion.
@@HiddenDarkHM
It’s like jaywalking it really isn’t enforced anymore
@@RealGalaxyGamers Say that again in Germany. 😁😂
When you accidentally break the law hundreds of times a day, the law is the problem.
Did you miss the next sentence where he said he made that statistic up?
That’s not exactly disproving their point
Laws are generally stupid because a bunch just not get repealed or have weird interpretations no one actually accepts
For example a good chunk of people disagree that ideas should be treated like private property because they exist in completely different areas so we shouldn’t define @stealing” ideas like characters (IP) like we define stealing property because no matter how often he’s used you can never run out of darth maul (no matter how much Lucasfilm milks him)
Laws are made because they need criminals to make money..they need criminals to gain power..they need criminals to keep democracy ..Without criminals then prosecutors lawyers, law makers judges and cops etc wouldn’t have a occupation..without criminals Mayors governors and other politicians etc wouldn’t have much to promise you, the more laws they create the more crimes are made, the more arrest are made which lead to power for the so call good guys…why you think instead of actually trying to find solutions to fix crime, they just create more laws? Because they’ll use the worse scenarios that happened with the crime that was made and scare the people to believing everybody who commit these crimes are the same..like illegally carrying a firearm, one out of every 1000 illegal firearm is actually used in a crime or a shooting..the rest are carried for protection for people who was denied or was too young or had a felony due to carrying a firearm under age…Most gun felonies never was convicted of any violent crimes…never was convicted of any discharge of the firearm.:.simply carrying..and living in a community they live in who can actually blame them for Cathy ..but they still get the same treatment as those who use firearms in crimes ..because the government don’t understand the difference between a criminal and a person who broke a law in order to protect their life…But the more criminals the more money and power..same reason why most prosecutors try to find white suburbans when prosecuting a crime that’s common in the inner city….because since they don’t experience the common problems in the inner city..they’re going to likely find the person guilty because they truly believe he’s a criminal due to what they was taught..Because the prosecutors job is to find you guilt rather you’re innocent or not..that alone shows that it’s not about innocent or guilty it’s about who can tell the better story..Because more guilty cases equals more pay and more power
@@newbiz3496 Conspiracy theorist
See, the word accidentally is the problem
I know I'm hella late to this but as someone who actually really enjoys mirror etching, I thought I'd explain since I didn't see anyone else do it. Etching cream is a substance you can apply to glass or mirrors (I'm sure other things but this is what I learned it on) and, when applied properly, gives you a foggy look and allows you to make designs and the like.
The way it was explained to me was you take the markers that are made for car windows with the foam tips and replace the original paint with paint mixed with etching liquid. Then you can tag on glass and the paint can't be washed off
@@tylergorbach4980You can already do that with Grog paint 🤔
"Lots of cities and states love to fight high housing costs by making it harder to build more housing" My MAN
And then of course punish the people who can't afford housing by outlawing sleeping on the streets.
And then presumably walk home with money-stuffed sacks from private prison corporations who were helped rake it in.
@@chuckyxii10
If the cities intentionally hiked the price, then they ought to pay back the difference to the people who were overcharged when the price is made reasonable.
I mean I guess that would take a lot of tax money, and the only way to get that money which seems remotely fair would be to hike taxes for whoever profited off the price hike, who pretty clearly have the government in their pocket already, meaning that's out too, but hey, I can dream, can't I?
Right? I so want a tiny house because I absolutely don't need/want anything bigger. But apparently they're going to shove the "American dream" home down my throat whether I want it /can afford it or not.
Nobody seems to understand that if there is zero legal restriction, Hong Kong pod houses will become the norm for a lot of cities, and they’ll just stay the same price anyway
@@RabidDog20 That still sounds like a market problem. I'm restricted from building a tiny house on my own for cheaper than a "Hong Kong pod house," because what? Competition is bad now, and I'm forced into a monstrosity that I don't need want? Sounds like a lazy, thinly veiled excuse to keep poor people from owning their own houses and forcing them to rent.
"So what're you in for?"
"Killed 10 guys in cold blood. You?"
"Sat on the sidewalk."
"*GASP*"
I know. It sounds like from Mel Brooks Robin Hood.
Litterin'
And they all moved away from me on the Group W bench.
They let just anyone in gen pop these days.
It's only illegal because of TB my city's law on it dates back to the early 1900s
@@julietardos5044 And creating a nuisance.
When it comes to the detective who convinced the man to bet more that $2000, isn't that considered entrapment?
The cop has to do more than just suggest it. He would need to be overbearing on it.
By definition, it most definitely is. The man was making legal bets with friends. The detective went out if his way to connect with the guy and then convinced him to bet higher just to arrest him. I hope the mans wife got paid
@@andrewt.5567 This is incorrect. You need to commit a crime on your own. If a LEO tells you that you should commit a crime, and even gives you the opportunity, motive, or tools necessary, that absolutely is entrapment.
Should it be? Probably! Would the legal system consider it entrapment? Probably not! Also the amount of fury in my system after hearing that someone died in that raid could probably be used as a renewable energy source
No. It's only entrapment if the detective convinces him to do something he would not have otherwise done. If the guy wasn't involved in gambling at all because he didn't believe in gambling, but the detective talked him into it, or if the detective said "you should make a bigger bet," and the guy said "that's a bad idea, betting that big is illegal" and the cop badgered him into it, that's entrapment. But if all the detective did was got him to do something he never had any objection to, that's not considered entrapment, not should it be.
Since the detective coerced him into betting over $2k, which was something he wouldn’t have done normally (hence the coercion), he was entrapped. Hope his family got a good lawyer.
If they do I expect they'll be more likely to sue for shooting him dead when unarmed and posing no threat than they will for entrapment.
they got $2 mil for wrongful death, i believe. still not enough -- the fairfax county police department has no business existing.
one thing I love about this channel is the brutal honesty about how messed up the system is. "Lots of cities and states like to fight the high cost of housing by making it harder to build more housing". Then again, I'd be surprised if any competent lawyer wasn't acutely aware of the abundance of systemic failure in this country.
And at the same time they try to get rid of the homeless without giving them a way out.
At the same time, you really don't want it to be legal to cram people into what are basically broom cupboards with a toilet. That's how you get (even more) epidemics.
Those same lawyers are all tacitly supporting the same corruption. Over legislating makes a good market for those in law. Remember what table they eat from.
I mean technically they always have 2 ways out of the streets
Death and the corrupt prisons
I never said they were reasonable
"Being acutely aware of the abundance of systemic failure in this country" is an occupational hazard of being a lawyer!
Part of me thinks the "Netflix password sharing" is so varied and conflicted in the courts because the lawyers and judges involved can think of at least five people in their life who do it, or have been involved in it themselves.
It's also nebulous because members of a household legally share a single account. When we upgraded our mobile plan, we got 2-screen Netflix included. But my wife signed on first, so the Netflix account is on her user id. But she has a user profile and I have a user profile. We also have the standard "Kids" profile - even though we have none at home.
Let's say a friend that has shared their Netflix password is also their bank account password, awful security decisions aside, does that give the friend permission to go on their bank account and look at their friends finances? There's no real legal distinction for using a password to access Netflix online vs your Bank online (although if you take money out you may violate more things)
Or how about lets say your friend shares their Netflix password with you and you then use that password to upgrade their account costing them more money each month, if there is no identity verification component is that illegal? And if there is is it illegal for a husband to upgrade the account on his wife's behalf when it's in her name?
I'm not saying there can't be solutions but the laws/rulings would have to get very technical in ways they currently avoid doing
@@Zevoxian well I think that you are impersonating someone else when you use their information to access their info without their express permission, so you probably couldn't do the first thing. If it isn't, then fine I think that is a risk trade you do when giving away your password
The second is probably some form of theft, as you are using someone elses money for your own benefit because you are using the screen share system as well right?
If you are sharing outside your house to avoid having to pay the premiums it seems this should be illegal if netflix does not openly permit it.
"You definitely broke these laws"
"So about Catfishing" Devin what do you think your audience gets up to?!
Cool profile! AND greetings from Germany
Are U a fox? If Not Im gonna call a swat Team on you. Catfishing is annoying, Im Just looking for a fox to date, the Internet is harsh
@@heinrichwinter9861 That's a Red Panda.
Catfishing, apparently.
@@qwpon oops
I just wanna say, as someone who isn't a lawyer, but did take a cybersecurity course in college, the "Lawyer-speak in 3, 2, 1" made me very confused, followed by total understanding as soon as the words Computer Fraud and Abuse Act appeared, because we also covered the CFAA in my *Ethics in IT* course.
"I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? No thank you!"
The Joker
Classic!
Considering they tracked down moonshine runners to tax the moonshine (Moonshiners migrated down the Appalachian Mountains avoiding the IRS), yes, Treasury Agents (sometimes called "T-men") were very tenacious.
Watch the movie _Greased Lightning_ about a moonshine runner who became the first Black man in stock car racing.
@@ginnyjollykidd it's a reference to Al Capone who got arrested on tax fraud
"Everything's a sin. Have you ever sat down and read this thing? Technically, we're not allowed to go to the bathroom" -Reverend Lovejoy
Reverend who clearly doesn’t actually believe in God
This quote is really familiar but for some reason I can't remember where it's from and "lovejoy" isn't ringing any bells...
@@DarkShadows713 It's the Simpsons
uneek35 I've never watched the Simpsons so I must've heard or read someone else referencing it. Thanks though!
Not a bathroom. You have to do it outside, and bring a shovel with you, but I think that rule only applies if you're at war.
Seriously.
"[He'd] only been a [policeman] for a few days but already he had absorbed one important and basic fact: it is almost impossible for anyone to be in a street without breaking the law."
- Terry Pratchett
"You can be an fast guard,
or you can be an old guard.
But you can't be a fast, old guard."
- Crpl Nobby Nobbs.
@@telectronix1368 haha nice, I've always loved that one because there's a similar saying amongst motorcycle riders. 'There's fast riders & old riders but no fast, old riders' ... I wonder which came first, Pratchett's version of the joke or the saying
@@J_Stronsky Probably Sir Terry's.
Or at least he didn't hear the motorbike quote before coming to the same idea.
(Honestly I can't imagine him seeing a thought like that and just copying it wholesale. It would get transformed into something even more bizarre.)
@@J_Stronsky It used to be World War One pilots that were old or bold but never both.
@@telectronix1368 almost everything Terry Pratchett wrote was a reference or a callout to something. He almost certainly knew about the phrase beforehand
9:34 Wifi equipment usually defaults to requiring a password to join. If you intentionally change settings to allow anyone to join without a password and don't post signs restricting who's allowed or something, isn't any access to the network authorized?
My home country, Finland, made connecting to unsecured Wifi networks explicitly legal to stop debates over that question since it was felt that a typical person wouldn't necessarily even realize they shouldn't do it if one was within the range of their device and the device offered to connect to it.
Anyone: "I'm a law abiding citizen!"
LegalEagle: I'm about to ruin this man's entire record.
Bomb goes off in the courthouse before legaleagle can even respond...
(Reference to the movie law abiding citizen😉)
@@danielchrisronan2281 I still cant believe that ending
Me: I was raised Anarchist and abide no laws.
I wasn't a law abiding citizen when I started, but now I'm even less of one
lol i only did 1 of these my record is still fine
I remember an odd loophole when a long distance trucker was charged for drinking in his truck. He was parked and the semi had a sleeper. So he argued and won (I think) that while parked, a semi with sleeper becomes the same as a RV. So drinking and having open alcohol in the vehicle was legal.
Truck drivers have a higher standard, you must blood test a .00, even a .01 is illegal for someone driving a commercial vehicle on a CDL. So unless one plans to sleep off the drinking overnight, no more driving for commercial truck drivers.
@@Carahan I wonder if that would hold (or has held) up to an appeal challenge. Demanding a 0.00 result is unreasonable since it should fail a “rational basis” test in my opinion.
There should have to be some evidence of actual impairment by a significant portion of people at 0.01 for that to be legit.
@@Carahan not quite. The maximum allowable bac for commercial drivers is .04, half of a noncommercial driver, regardless of the type or nature of the vehicle being operated (personal vehicle or work vehicle). The law also requires a minimum of 10 hours between the consumption of alcohol and the operation of a commercial vehicle.
@@Carahan That's the point, its illegal to drink in or have an open bottle of alcohol in a vehicle even if you're not planning to drive it. It sounds like the guy had finished his distance for the day and was having a beer or something before bed.
@@justins8802 the drinking limit in the Czech Republic is 0. If you drink you cannot drive at all. Which is interesting because the Czech Republic has the highest consumption of beer in the world!!
LegalEagle: ”You Definitely Broke These Laws”
*Objection: Speculation!*
Overruled
I'm not a judge so I can't give my input, but since it's so commonplace in this country and the taxpayers don't like to waste their money on literally the American population as a whole, it's overlooked.
I would have been arrested for using public wi-fi years ago.
Weirdly I've never done none of these, but ive probably done many others which were not included in the video
That ain't illegal
6:07
But “warming up the car” is not idling, it’s bringing the coolant, oil, and Freon up to operating standards. If this proses is skipped and the vehicle is forced into operation multiple times then damage can occur to the systems that require that fluid including;
- Rapid expansion of flexible hoses causing lacerations and cracks
- Steel lines heating up too quickly causing cracks and in rare cases explosions
- the radiator, condenser, trans cooler, and water pump developing leaks
- The exhaust manifold gasket developing leaks
- Turbo/supercharger failing
- the HPCR failing
- rapid engine wear
- oil pump failure
And a few more
Pre-start your cars, it’s not idling as long as your moving after 15 minutes.
This hasn't been true since the days of carburetors.
Etching cream is an acid you can put on glass to dissolve it. You can permanently etch a design into glass and the only solution is to remove and replace that piece of glass. It's super super scummy and expensive so that is pretty fair to make harder to obtain.
Interesting.
@@DwAboutItManFr uhhhhh
So, do you advocate for similar controls over rocks? As they can irreparably damage glass, as well.
Yea all my crafter friends who make custom etched tumblers are real scum of the earth...
that is a terrible argument. the guys comment about rocks, however, is not.
“You’ve broken these American laws”
Can’t catch me from across the pond, suckers!
You got a license for that comment, guv?
@@averagejoey2000 do you got a liscence for that reply?
@@fireflare908 let me see your reply license, buddy
@@nostalgicake1983 right here buddy, you got a reply liscence for that though?
@@fireflare908 Do you have a license for asking other people for their licenses?
"Sit-Lie ordinance"
Ah yes criminalization of the homeless.
And being disabled!
hopelessness...
Not to mention those of us walking dogs who sit down to give the dog water or to give the dog a rest. I often go on very long walks and take a little 10-15 minute break after every mile. When it's 90+ degrees (Fahrenheit) out there, those breaks are the difference between a great and healthy walk and heat stroke affecting me and/or my dog. We sit on the edge of the sidewalk. I had NO idea I might be arrested for it!
Nice pfp lol
Yeah, that one is lame. Even if I'm sitting on the sidewalk, as long as I can move, I'm not blocking it. "Excuse me, sir." "Oh, sorry about that" *moves* No need to make a criminal case about it.
I always knew that sharing a Netflix account (or any other online subscription) was technically illegal, but that law is almost completely unenforceable because there's no easy way to prove that multiple people are using the same account.
Or you get fined more for multiple devices (not bad)
@@dakotawilliams4337 Yeah, what if I'm just a computer collector who logs into Netflix from a different device each day?
🤔
Idk
@@InventorZahranfrom different locations at the same time under different profiles?
It wouldn’t really be that difficult to prove
how would it be illegal? you create the account for your immediate family / household. Just because someone goes on a trip or to college or something doesn't break up that household.
12:40 "...people experiencing hopelessness..."
You know, he's not wrong. I frequently lay down on the ground when I feel hopeless.
In the late 90's, a cop in NYC hit me in the leg with a nightstick. He said that I could not sit on _his_ sidewalk. He then told me to get up and start walking. The way he spoke and opened the interaction with violence made me think he was going to seriously hurt me so I just scampered off and sat down somewhere else.
So I wonder, does freedom of speech allow you to say something like "this ain't your sidewalk, pig"?
@@streettrialsandstuff The law of "bigger army diplomacy" says you can't.
@@streettrialsandstuff it should. And cops swear an oath to the constitution. But at the end of the day, they have a badge and a gun. And that means they can do whatever they want. They simply think and act like they are above us because, legally, in terms of what they can get away with, they are.
@@streettrialsandstuff it absolutely does, if you don’t care about becoming the next police brutality case
I think if that would go to court, it would come down to semantics. I can see the case for them moving you, because they might want to prevent homeless sleeping there, but at the same time you have a good case that you were just taking a break or were waiting for someone, which is totally legal.
Still no reason to open a conversation with violence.
I like how you just casually edged into the entire discussion about suburban zoning by talking about effective the tiny house bans but didn't even comment on the other range of Byzantine regulations that in practice force suburbia to be car focuses.
You should totally do a suburban zoning episode ^_^
@ 2:48 i learned from one of his other videos that the "model" does not own that photo.
...as he later states...
I can't believe Devin got a law license after breaking so many laws himself.
For example, did you know he gives out false statistics an average of 473 times a day?
This is on the internet so more than 473 people can see this a day.
40% of all people know that.
@@ndschau Only 0.01% of Players know this fact
'Cause he counted criminal georg.
I was once threatened by a cop for the crime of standing near my own parked car (not idling either).
In my old home state of Vermont, it's illegal to reverse a car on any road, so backing out of or into a driveway or parking space is illegal.
I’m very annoyed by New Jersey’s “head-in parking only” city lots. What, why? Totally less safe to mandate that.
That's BS, how are you supposed to back into a driveway or parking spot then?
@@tylerthomason5594 it's one of those many laws that technically exists, but doesn't get enforced, except as an excuse to harass people.
@@tylerthomason5594 you don’t. You drive in
Ew
Hopelessness? I was expecting you to say Homelessness. As a person experiencing hopelessness, I am shocked and appalled by such laws regardless of the people they target.
So...you have a home but no hope? :-/
That is a very common problem, yes. Vice versa as well.
Edit: For example, most suicides occur at home.
@@efulmer8675 Sadly, I'm very familiar with it.
Hopeless job market? Been there. As long as we don't start enacting "right to work" laws, it won't get even more hopeless. *cough* PragerU *cough*
@@efulmer8675 fwoah thats brutal. man the united states really does not like poor people or giving support to poor & helping them get up. low ages etc. amazing how you have to tip waitresses and waiters and stuff. in other countries they're not allowed to accept tips and get paid accordingly.
10:45 I think when they say etching cream they’re talking about mirror etching cream. We put some on mirrors in art to make the glass all icy and we put designs on them that we didn’t etch over
"You bet it might possibly theoretically do that!"
He is speaking the language of lawyers
"It's all mights, possiblys, and theoreticallys?"
(Raises gun) "Always has been"
In other words, "It depends."
Allegedly, yes.
What this video was suppose to teach: here are some surprising laws you have have broken.
What I learned: cops really don’t have anything better to do with their time other than convincing doctors to break the law, watching a “suspicious” man check his email everyday, and busting kids who own art supplies .
That's uninironically a good lesson to learn
Well yeah what else are they supposed to do, protect people?
For anyone else who's wondering: Etching cream is an acidic liquid used for highlighting cuts made into a glass surface.
Came to post this. Thanks Papa.
Thanks, I learned something today! 👍
It's better to wash the itch with soap
Yeah, and it's used for graffiti a lot in some areas. In San Francisco pretty much every window at street level has a tag etched into it.
Lol was going to post this, I use it a lot to decorate glass for computer cases
-We live in Northern Nevada. My mother's 1985 Jeep Wagoneer has to be warmed up for several minutes in cold weather. Enough time for her to go back in the house and get her stuff ready to go. But, my 2000 Lincoln LS only needs to warm in the mere minutes. Long enough for me to sit in the seat, buckle up, put my purse and stuff where they belong, set my radio, put my cell phone, in etc. And I'm pretty fast and doing those things. Barely a couple of minutes. It was amazed at how fast the RPMs go back down to 1,000, when I first got the vehicle, almost two years ago. At its age, it still has less than 50,000 miles on it!
-He befriends Caluso so that he could get him to accept a bet of over $2,000? Unless it was a an official undercover ... whatever, approved by his boss, that sounds almost like entrapment. And it most definitely should not have lead to anybody's death. I understand the need for gambling laws. Laws should be taken seriously. If you don't, make sure that they are worth breaking. But, just on the information given, his was not serious enough to cause a death over. It wasn't like they were doing a raid on a murderer, rapist, or underage sex ring, or something. Well, I hope his family had grounds for a lawsuit of an unlawful death (or some equivilent) for that one!
-Illegal for minors to own paint products? In Fernley, NV, my mother has been carded multiple times (she is in her 60s) because she bought a bag of grapes from a Fernley, NV Wal*Mart. .......! The self-check-out program is dumb sometimes. It's grapes, not an aerosol can of whipped cream, okay?
-I agree, you don't F$&@$ with the IRS, Welfare, Social Security, etc. LIke if you do lie about your income to Welfare and they find out, they might cut you off (or much worse). Then, what happens next time you lose your job? You're screwed! And they will find you!
A nice reminder that law and morality are not the same thing.
Thanks!
Sitting on the sidewalk? Jail.
Shared a Netflix Password? Jail.
Bought Sharpies? Believe it or not, right to jail.
Apparently everyone who has ever been to a parade should be in jail, including my toddler, as most people sit on the sidewalk lol
😂😂😂 parks and rec!!!
"Like most Americans, I've idled my car, shared my Netflix password, and pretended to be a model online in order to defraud someone. Believe it or not, technically I'm a criminal!"
One of the examples isn't like the others, is my point.
Yeah, I can't believe you actually idled your car! You monster! 😱
10:14
3:07
Isn’t it considered hacking to access a say under a false pretax?
I had heard that it’s technically illegal to use a false name on any website.
I used to work at an art supply chain in California, and those laws against selling certain supplies to minors were a HUGE pain in the ass. Management actually eventually decided to stop stocking spraypaint altogether because it was too much of a hassle. Totally ridiculous to have cashiers at an art supply store carding people just for buying paint.
(UK here) A few months ago I was asked for my ID when buying superglue (for the purpose of assembling models cast in resin). I was surprised because I very rarely get asked for my ID anymore when I buy alcohol. I'm very clearly not a minor. I'd like to see anyone under the age of 18 with a beard this big.
@@dylantowers9367 You obviously haven't met me. I had a full beard by the age of 16 and frequently got mistaken for a college student. I remember one occasion the police visited my house while friends were over after suspecting one of them had thrown eggs at passing cars (they hadn't but apparently witnesses said they'd gone to my house) and upon seeing me after talking with them for a while immediately started asking me questions like I was the owner or head member of the household (i.e. "were you watching these kids, are they your son's friends, etc."). To be fair, my friends had also trolled them by getting me after they asked to see someone who lived there (because they were already amused the police found them suspicious). They were flabbergasted when I said I was the same age. Always makes me chuckle thinking about it.
Would love to see your take on the Activision Blizzard lawsuit, esp given the latest that ABK HR destroyed evidence about harassment complaints.
Anything would be better than another Trump video.
@@discountchocolate4577 Given how many laws Trump has broken you could have a whole channel and probably never run out of content.
virtual legality has a video on it
@@discountchocolate4577 you say that he's been doing trump videos often, after trump left office he hasn't rlly done many other trump videos
@@idontneedaname318 I don't want to go back to that, that's all. The legal minutiae w.r.t. Trump always bored me because it became increasingly clear through his term that he wasn't going to be successfully prosecuted or impeached, despite evidence of corruption, incitement of violence, etc.
These are starting to sound like the parodies of that anti-piracy ad. You know: "you wouldn't steal a car... downloading movies is stealing". Then "you wouldn't download a bear"
I would totally download a bear.
@@zyffyr same
The final law about sitting or lying down on sidewalks also affects certain physically disabled people. For example, I have a physical disability that can flare up at any moment, especially if I've been walking or standing for an extended period of time (which can be as short as 5 - 10 minutes or less). That combined with chronic pain in the legs worsened by standing and walking for an extended period of time means I often end up sitting on the ground to catch my breath, particularly since I use forearm crutches as opposed to a wheelchair as forearm crutches provide me more freedom.
I break the law every time we need to restock our ambulance at the hospital. We just call it borrowing.
YOU CANT RESTOCK AMBULANCES WITH PEOPLE PROEGYASSASSIN101 WE'VE TOLD YOU THIS 30 TIMES THATS SOMEONES GRANDMA LEAVE HER ALONE WHERE ARE YOU TAKING HER
Your ambulance company can't afford supplies? What's the massive bill going towards?
The fact there's any conflict here at all just points to how badly broken our system is.
@@Zakmmr Fattening the pockets of the ceos since most ambulance services in America are privately run businesses
It is technically borrowing. The hospital will get the supplies back when you bring someone, using said supplies, to the hospital.
Does the catfishing law apply to me when I'm role playing in Lord of the Rings Online as a 4305 year old female elf from Lothlorien and I enter into a relationship with a 4365 year old female elf from Mirkwood when I'm actually a 17 year old male human from Atlanta?
I did NOT expect to see my favorite game mentioned in these comments. Right on!
Depends on whether it's a role-playing server
@@TonyHammitt I believe it would not break the law no matter the place he is, since it is a made up character from a fantasy world that can not be mistaken for a real person and no profit can come from it. Also it is highly unlikely that anyone would believe that such person is real never mind trusting him enough to give him money. (I don't know if that's how it is. If it's not and this is considered catfishing/impersonating something is going really bad with the current law system. Imagine getting arrested for role-playing a 4305 year old female elf. It would be hilarious and disappointing at the same time.
Yes. Elves must be at least 5000 years old to date 😋
👮♂️👮♀️👮 dusts off the Elf Offender Registry
@@GinnyFan765 I'm on Treebeard as Ve and Vel.
9:00 - Did the detective face ANY consequences for their part in convincing the Optometrist to bet more than £2000 and then get them killed when they called SWAT?
I’d be willing to bet 2 grand that he didn't but, well, I don't want to be killed either...
@@nadinewesterveld5597😂 Epic.
I mean, that's textbook entrapment, and apparently his part in it is publicly known, so I'm sure he got a week's (paid) suspension.
@@jakepullman4914 if that much.
I just looked it up, it doesn't appear so.
It happened back in 2006, the family got a two million dollar settlement in 2011 and the swat officer who shot him was suspended without pay for three weeks. The police department was also heavily criticized for overusing their swat team however I'm not sure if anything came of that.
"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood..." James Madison, Federalist 62
"people experiencing hopelessness"
Can confirm. When I feel hopeless I become compelled to lay supine on a sidewalk somewhere
The beginning of your life of crime.
if you pass out on the pavement is it illegal, I got bad pneumonia and almost passed out glad i didn't git arrested
Go lay in the middle of the street for that extra drop of self loathing
*Me suffering chronic pain/fatigue, unable to sit down because it's illegal*
Sounds like hopelessness to me
To take the exaggeration further, if i were to sit on the sidewalk because of my disability and get "caught" , would i be able to sue for discrimination?
Joking aside, these laws are inhumane and ripe for abuse
it said homelessness but it seems its making it illegal for homeless people to exist on non private property -in urban areas-
Remember they can't sue for entrapment if they're dead.
Yeah, brilliant police cooperation. Also, not that costly: The guy who shot the victim got 3 weeks suspension _without pay_ . Collegues protested that this was a way too harsh punishment.
Starting to deal with killer cops as what they often are in those cases: murderers might be a good idea.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
- Cardinal Richelieu
18 year old me heated up my car at 4 AM for an opening shift in my driveway and just so happens that a cop was in my neighborhood for the first time ever in my 15 years of living there. I didn't get a fine or anything, but I did get a talking to. Idk I feel like I should be able to turn my car on in my own driveway for 5 minutes at 4 AM in the middle of Kansas winter, but that's just me.
I read up on the Sal Culosi case and it's one of the most DISGUSTING things I've ever read. He was killed while unarmed and cooperative, with a shot straight through the heart. The detective had purposefully pushed him on betting more and more just to make him guilty of a crime he wouldn't have otherwise committed. The detective also kept calling and intimidating the friends of Sal for months after he was murdered. The police department made a false report stating that the homicide was completely involuntary and accidental, while private detectives hired by the family concluded that that was impossible. In the following year, the SWAT agent was suspended for three weeks, and collegues of his said that was "way off the charts". A THREE WEEK SUSPENTION WAS OFF THE CHARTS FOR THE MURDER OF AN UNARMED HUMAN. The more I read the more nauseated I became... In the end, NOBODY served any time, and the family had to settle for money. An unarmed man was purposefully killed after being pushed to a tiny crime by someone he trusted, and NOBODY went to jail. If this isn't the sign of a terribly broken system, I don't know what is.
There had to be some motive for that. He witnessed or overhead something he shouldn't may be? Why else would police go to such lengths... Very sus
"How do I know you're really the person in your profile pictures?"
"I'm not a catfish."
(Will the "I'm not a cat" guy ever be not funny?)
I've thought about running for local office... For the main reason of getting rid of unnecessary laws.
I think while there used may have been created out of attempts to do good, they can become a way to exert control over people
Imagine if we required lawmakers to review and reapprove laws every 7 years. If you can't get your work done and review the laws before they expire, you had to many laws and you need to be more selective in the future.
Yeah, that completely depends on what laws you think are 'unnecessary'. Taking away laws about not cursing in public, ducks needing to wear a diaper, or some other crazy things, sure.
Taking away laws that force businesses not to discriminate against people, laws against stalking, or age of consent laws? Not so much.
@@bluedragonfly8139 Imagine all the resources we could free up for dealing with the substantive laws if we eliminated the nonsensical laws.
Did the cops arrest you overthrowing the standing government?
@@bluedragonfly8139 of course, we would do a Twitter poll lol (joke)
Seriously though, I understand your point, and yeah, silly stuff shouldn't exist.
12:14 this had been challenged in my nation ... because the sell of an used item i bought it's not exactly really income if i buy it full price and sell it as used... maybe in america too
Hot take: laws everyone breaks are there for the government to be able to arrest anyone they don't like.
It's the Al Capone principle.
This is a lukewarm take at best.
Most of these can't even get you arrested
I know it'll never happen both because of the amount of work it would take and how convenient the current state of affairs is, but it would be nice if every 25 years or so there was a mandatory review of all laws on the books and old or outdated ones get the chop. Or modernized if there aren't more current laws that handle things better. Having laws passed 50 years ago ( or longer! ) that are no longer relevant to society today still be upheld in court and used to go after people is pretty disgusting.
That's not even a very hot take. It's one of those things that a year ago, I would've sworn was a conspiracy theory, but just look at the war on drugs. Criminalizing drug addiction was a way to criminalize being poor and non-white. Just look at the fact that white addicts would tend to get much lighter sentences, while marijuana dispensaries tend to be owned by white folks while black dealers are still penalized.
Having so many laws means it is effectively impossible for anyone to know, let alone observe, all of them, potentially criminalising everyone.
So many laws also make it impossible to enforce them all, ensuring that the decisions made by law enforcement about which laws to enforce against whom are necessarily political.
This is how to enforce a system of entrenched structural inequality while pretending that everyone is equal under the law.
Giving the system too much credit. It really just gross incompetence. After the rich break even more laws and depending who is in power they pay for it.
There are also the "disorderly conduct" laws that most (all?) states have passed that are so purposely vague that you can be arrested for basically any reason if the police want to.
They might not get a conviction, but it does make it legal for them to arrest you and take you to jail for a day or two. Once you're in jail though, they can pull all sorts of other BS to force you to capitulate or they will F-up your life.
The problem is mostly legislative incompetence and corruption combined with the fact most normal people don't realize how ridiculously corrupt our entire police system is because they never get anything more than a traffic ticket and so don't know how it works. So there isn't public attention on the issue and it never gets fixed.
Hanlon's Razor applies here: "Never assume malice in instances where ignorance or incompetence or sufficient explanations."
The police force as a whole is not actively trying to be political or racist or a problem - they're just trying to do their job: enforce laws and serve the public. Do they make mistakes? Absolutely, we all do. Are those mistakes sometimes costly to someone, something, or themselves? Absolutely, they have a lot of responsibility. Are they all actively seeking to screw everyone over that they meet, shoot every single person of color for no reason, allow every single white-collar criminal get away with it, and watch the world burn? No, that's a gross understanding of what actually happens.
Or its just an effect of bureaucracy
My favorite law you've broken: If you read the law literally enough, it's illegal to board or disboard a train from a center platform in Illinois, unless there's an additional set of boom gates
Nice to know that I am not breaking a 65th law by getting on/off a ducking train
I remember before casinos in Victoria, a suburban house was raided by police and a roulette wheel seized. Some of the gamblers were indignant as it was a fund raiser for a community club.
12:30 these laws also target a specific subset of the disabled, those who do not require a wheelchair but cannot stand or walk for extended periods of time. What does the Americans with Disabilities Act say about that?
Excellent point! Have to totally agree that this seems like it should be covered. Especially when there are long blocks with nowhere to sit
@@sarahtey9935 or bus stops that have no bench and the next bus will be 30 minutes later. I can’t stand for long times.
They usually have exemptions for medical needs otherwise they would be charging people who have collapsed from a heart attack with sitting or laying on the sidewalk.
@@Robert-Wilson me either!
"Your mileage may vary" Wouldn't idling your car have the same mileage for everyone? 0 miles?
your not a lawyer... your an engineer! sooo much worse :-) Good catch if this was reddit I'd say +1 now get out
Depends on the slope and if the wheels are locked right
I interpreted that as, your mileage per tank would decrease due to excess idling.
As far as I'm aware mileage refers to the distance a vehicle can cover on a full tank of gas. This is used in my country (New Zealand) despite the fact we measure with the metric system.
Lets not let pedantry get in the way of a good pun ;)
Remember watching a cop reality show, where the State Troopers always asked "When was the last time you smoked marijuana?". Obviously a trap, if you say ten years ago, they would use your "Confession" as an excuse to search your car. Now they can ask "When was the last time you played bet on sports?" And seize your money in your wallet as an Asset Forfeiture.
As covered by this Lawyer well in depth. NEVER TALK TO THE COPS EVER ON ANYTHING WHICH INCLUDES NEVER ANSWER ANY QUESTION THEY ASK EXCEPT DO YOU WANT A LAWYER YOU SAY YES AND YES TO INVOKING YOUR RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT. see video it very convincing. If you want to cooperate do it though a lawyer.
I got asked "twice in a row" how much alcohol I had consumed tonight." As the answer was none, (I was merely a little tired,) I answered none, both times. It occurred to me that they do this to get people who WERE drinking and LIED the first time to crack and come clean. Most interesting.
Lol hope they ask me this in Texas. “When did you last smoke marijuana?” “Uhh last week… in California… where it’s legal” oof
@@mysticmistress6101
From what I gather it's a mistake to expect them to be reasonable. I've heard of people getting permanently banned from the whole country for saying they've had weed before when asked by officials at the border to Washington, where it's supposed to be legal and you'd think the officers would have no business asking.
@@jaschabull2365 they’d be fined or sued for detaining you based on something you did legally in a place that isn’t under their jurisdiction
As someone who lives up north, not warming up your engine can potentially DAMAGE your car! So getting a fine for it would probably cause protests. Since engine coil can actually freeze at -20F, And last winter it was -40F! Many cars actually use heater plugs to keep the oil liquid so warming up the car is easier, but it’s a major pain to install them!
In addition, If you don’t warm up your car, the windshield will almost always frost over on the inside when driving, making it impossible to see! Not to mention it’s hard to drive while shaking and shivering with gloves on!
8:59 If he had no intention to break the law in the first place and was persuaded to do so by a law enforcement officer, does that not count as entrapment?
What happened to the detective after he basically contributed to the murder?
That is entrapment, yes.
But I do believe that entrapment is legal in USA, and other similar despotic countries.
Entrapment is only illegal in civilized countries.
@@Tjalve70 Whether entrapment is legal or not is totally separate from whether you can use entrapment as a defence or not.
There's always exemptions, like if an undercover cop buys drugs to prove someone is selling drugs... the undercover cop is not equally liable for drug dealing. This is due to the mens rea component of guilt.
Ultimately, whether it was entrapment or not is a question for the courts, where the issue will never go because the victim is dead.
There is a blurry line between what is entrapment and what is simply undercover participation in escalating criminal activity, and we don't have nearly enough details about this case to guess where this falls.
@@spyone4828 That's because entrapment is not a crime, it is a defence. Just like "mistaken identity" is a defence, it's not a crime for the police to mistakenly identify you but if they do it's a valid defence.
it seems in Europe (supposedly the only "civilised" place in the history of the universe) the bias in matters of justice is overwhelmingly recriminatory. When presented with injustice the natural response is "people must be punished for this injustice" rather than "people subjected to this injustice must not be punished".
@@Tjalve70 No entrapment is not legal in USA and will result in a conviction overturned. Problem is there is no criminal statue against the cops entrapping you in many cases thus you get acquitted after the extreme hassle yet the cops suffer nothing.
This a case of it's illegal but so what.
"I just made that up, but it's probably close to the truth."
Epic.
How much you wanna bet Lionel Hutz used that phrase as a defence one time?
ah, you've been taking statistics and probably courses I see. As the quote goes 'There's lies, damned lies, and statistics'
It's such a great quote.
37.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
@@rockets4kids Interesting
Can you do one about lawyers who've been disbarred for extreme and/or petty ethical reasons and explain what it means for a lawyer to have been through it socially among their peers?
My mom shared her Netflix password with me... because I'm 12 and can't really get my own... OH NO THEY'RE AFTER ME!
Same goes in aviation - by most common interpretations, it is a practical impossibility to fly an airplane from point A to point B without violating at least a few regs.
care to explain/give an example?
Also, to be fair, it is technically physically impossible to fly a plane in a (literal) straight line from/to most start/end locations anyways. (yes, I know this isn't what you meant)
Do elaborate
Like which ones? You can't possibly mean obstacle clearance, in the reg itself it exempts take offs and landings
taking into account all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a plane should be able to fly from A to B
FYI, (if nobody else has mentioned it), "glass etching cream" is used to etch patterns into glass. You can see how this stuff could be used to make graffiti on peoples' wondows.
It would be pretty funny if someone went to leave their house for work in the morning and the windshield just has dicks etched into it. Totally illegal, since it's damaging property, but it would be difficult for most people not to chuckle about it.
@@voshadxgathic 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
12:36 "Critics of these laws obviously point out that they are basically designed to attack people experiencing hopelessness"
How dare lawmakers attack my right to collapse in hopeless despair on a sidewalk!
Pretty sure he said "homelessness". But regardless, the problem is that those laws do nothing to help people, just punish them for being unfortunate. That's neither helpful nor fair, just a way to easily ignore human misery.
@@remy4379 I'm pretty sure he meant to say "homelessness," but there's a clear 'p' sound in there.
@@Nimelennar True. Also, it seems everyone also heard "hopelessness". But as you said, he likely intended to say "homelessness", or at least was referring to it.
@@remy4379 When those people have options if fine to enforce.
When they don't do what the public actually wants done kill them. If I was Tyrant I'd actually propose that to local areas give homeless a place to stay or kill them I figure it would almost always be kill them. Then as Tyrant I'd tear down all the buildings in the area, seal off the area and tell them if your not in legal buildings by tomorrow you die too.
As to “law” number 10, when I was 22 or 23 I got fined $50 by a cop who saw me sitting on a subway staircase. The citation was for “obstructing pedestrian traffic.”
Well of course why would people be able to walk around somebody sitting down
@@xxGreenRobloxthe argument to that would be if there was an emergency.
Like the Mitch Hedburg joke “if someone is flammable, they are not blocking a fire exit” or however that joke goes, but in truth they very easily can be, which could cause people to get trampled as has happened before.
Even if there isn’t an emergency, you ever tried to walk down stairs that have people sitting on them? It’s not really as easy as just “walk around them” when theres people coming up the stairs as you’re going down.
Judge: You have been charged with 5 accounts of manslaughter and 3 accounts of arson. How do you plead?
Me: 0:30
Lmfao
"Have you ever breathed?"
Then you have broken the law!
Theft of oxygen, book ‘em.
damn you. posted the same thing. lol
@@Ed20942 Breathing? Believe or not, jail.
This video has the same energy as when I was interviewing a catholic pastor and he said "everyone's been excommunicated at some point in their life without knowing it"
Priest*
Fun fact: Physically assaulting the pope will get you automatically excommunicated
My fiancee was shocked when i told them that technically they had been excommunicated twice, then we had more tequila and laughed about not being Christians
1:05 😂😂
"I'm shocked that gambling is going on in here."
"Your winnings. Sir"
"Oooh, thank you very much.
Okay everyone out"
I wonder how many judges have had various assistants break that password law in the course of their duties
A billion.
I live in Australia and none of these laws apply to me, but I just love watching LegalEagle
You might have some really odd laws yourself.
Dutch here: same 😊
@@NareshSinghOctagonnope
@@nishant54 ,so the outright banning of video games,which is censorship of media,not odd?
Same from Russia
This had to be one of the video titles the AI suggested for him. :D
Tom Scott?
@@GayIncel they both did it
While watching 'You Definitely Broke These Laws' you mentioned etching cream. Etching cream is a white cream that looks a bit like white school glue. Artist that use this medium create a negative image that they attach to glass. They fill the blank areas with the etch cream which will create a frosted image when the cream is rinsed off. Because this actually creates indents in the glass; the glass can't just be buffed out. It needs to be replaced. This type of vandalism can get very expensive to fix.
"I broke the law 'cause the law's broke..."
Doesn't quite have the same zing to it.
was that gonna be a parody song of "i fought the law" ?
"The cop found this suspicious."
Nothing better to do but to bust someone for something that even the owner didn't care about. That's how useless cops are. Stealing public wifi.
Jesus.
How useless SOME cops are. That's just a serious pet peeve of mine.
In my opinion but perhaps not the law running a non protected Wifi should by default be considered a public service. Put a password on it and that changes even if the password is publicly know like for a cafeteria I tend to visit that have big sign giving out the password.
@@michaelpettersson4919 Agreed, the law should explicitly address unsecured networks to prevent spurious allegations of liability without having to agree that you totally read the terms of service that you totally didn't read.
Don't you know that criticism of cops is illegal and punishable by death? No ask a cop.
What happens when someone uses someone else'e IP address to utter death threats?
Some problems have to be nipped in the bud BEFORE they happen.
"You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime." -- Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet secret police.
Etching cream is an acidic cream used to etch glass. While this is usually used to decorate glassware, you can see how it could be used to deface windows, windshields, and other stuff
People in argument:
I am a law abiding citizen
LegalEagle:
Hold my law degree
8:50 Is this not entrapment? Please tell me this agent was charged and convicted.
Well he got 3 weeks of suspension _without pay_ - way too harsh commented his cop-buddies.
@@Makatea That was the shooter... the "undercover cop/friend" did not get any punishment, he is actually recorded to continue his investigation and threaten friends and family of Sal Culosi.
@@etherealicer Yes, qualified immunity really has to go, otherwise bad cops will continue to shot innocent people with impunity. I wish Devin made a video about this.
I'd like more on this Culosi case. I've heard it before, and heard some others who have heard it say that story sounded an awful lot like a case of entrapment (Culosi apparently only violated that law he may or may not have never heard of because he was convinced by an officer). Would that actually fall under entrapment in court, or are the courts unforgivably messed up?
Probably wouldn't come to court because he is dead now, and was never actually prosecuted...
...plus qualified immunity?
I am not a lawyer so I'm just speculating.
@@dclark142002
Yeah, so I guess the courts are unforgivably messed up for not charging the guys who killed him (did he even threaten them in any way when they did?) for murder.
Legally probably wouldn’t be considered entrapment
I live in Phoenix back when spray paint was caged and only sold to those over 18 I never noticed a lot of graffiti. Now that it is more accessible it is a huge problem from vandalism of cars to walls to well just everything.
"opps we made too much money today"
"no entrance fee anymore, it's free people", "let me buy you a pint"
Haha if only
"Could sharing your Netflix password actually break federal law? You bet it might possibly, theoretically do that!"
Legal Eagle, "It depends"
Reminds me of the book "Three felonies a day" though it's not necessarily about how often you break the law, but rather how if someone wants you arrested, they'll find something to charge you with.