A Crime a Day
@CrimeADay
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In 1982, DOJ attempted to count the total number of federal crimes. The WSJ said 'Since then, no one has tried anything nearly as extensive.' Until @CrimeADay.
Joined July 2014
This holiday season, buy one for yourself, and one for your senator. (
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Here you can see that Amy is simply following the technique described in my book, How to Become a Federal Criminal, in reverse.
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21 USC §§331, 333, 343(g) & 21 CFR §133.195(a)(1) make it a federal crime to sell "swiss cheese" without holes in it.
just had to manually make holes in this swiss cheese because my kid refuses to believe it’s swiss unless it has holes 😃
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18 USC §32(a)(1) makes it a federal crime to willfully destroy, disable or wreck any aircraft flying in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States.
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16 CFR § 1632.4(a)(2) requires mattress testers to use the NIST SRM 1196a cigarette, which goes for about $400/carton, but there is currently a wait list for them.
@CrimeADay Filter, nonfilter or menthol ?.
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15 USC §1192(a), §1196, 16 CFR §1632.3(c) & §1632.4(d)(2)(iv) make it a federal crime for a mattress maker to sell a tufted mattress without first burning 9 cigarettes on the tufted part of a bare mattress, with each cigarette burning down into the depression of the tufts.
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21 USC §§458, 461 & 9 CFR §381.170(b)(6) make it a federal crime to sell turkey legs with the pelvic bones attached.
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Happy Thanksgiving. Remember: judges aren’t back in court until tomorrow morning for first appearances.
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15 USC §§1263(c), 1264 & 16 CFR §1500.19(b)(3)(i) make it a federal crime to receive in interstate commerce a small toy ball without a warning that says: "this toy is a small ball".
Gift safe toys this holiday season! Never gift toys with small parts to children under 3.
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21 USC §333 & 21 CFR §165.110(b)(4)(iii)(A) & (c)(3) make it a federal crime to sell bottled water with more than 0.2 milligrams of cyanide per liter, unless the label says "Contains Excessive Cyanide.".
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49 USC §5124(a) & 176.900(c) make it a federal crime to transport a bale of greasy cotton on a ship.
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15 USC §§ 6304(1) & 6309 make it a federal crime for a boxer to participate in a boxing match unless a physician has certified that each boxer is physically fit to safely compete.
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18 U.S.C. §§ 842, 847, 27 C.F.R. §§ 555.29 & 555.215 make it a federal crime to have trees that are 10 feet or shorter around the building where you keep your explosives.
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21 USC §§601(n)(7), 610, 676 & 9 CFR §319.762 make it a federal crime for a tongue spread seller to try to improve the spreadability of their tongue spread by adding non-tongue meat fat in such a way that it detracts from the tongue character of the tongue spread.
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16 USC §1338(a)(6) & 43 CFR §9264.7(a)(8) make it a federal crime to take a wild free-roaming horse off federal land and use it in a rodeo.
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7 USC §§8313, 8306, 9 CFR §§93.310 & 93.300 make it a federal crime to try to sell your quarantined zebra while it’s still in quarantine.
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21 USC §676 & 9 CFR §317.8(b)(5)(ii) make it a federal crime to sell a 1-pound or smaller package of sliced bacon if the transparent bacon preview window is located more than five-eighths of an inch from the top or bottom edge of the package.
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46 USC §11501(4) makes it a federal crime for a seaman to willfully disobey a master’s command while at sea.
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21 USC §§1037(b)(4), 1033(a)(2)(D) & 1041 make it a federal crime for the operator of an egg plant to let someone leave their egg plant with eggs that were colored with an unsafe color additive.
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