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travisp on July 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Oatmeal fights back, snaps photo of cash, send...

Sadly, he's probably right. Many estimates suggest that the average American is unknowingly committing multiple felonies every day due to vague criminal statutes.

protomyth on July 2, 2012 [–]

Try getting a definitive list of state or federal laws. No such list for the Feds and most states.

jrockway on July 3, 2012 | [–]

I have the list:

  1) Don't do anything an agent of the government doesn't want you to do

  2) Don't do anything a future agent of the government won't want you to do

And they say the legal system is complex!

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