What's the most serious law you've broken?

Being in the presence of weed, in March, 1968.

That was when mere possession of an ounce or less was potentially a felony, and punishable by up to a year in prison.

I don’t know if the punishment for just being in the presence would have been as severe, because the judge dismissed our cases before they went to trial.

I can’t think of anything that fits the bill of being “morally right” but still illegal that I’ve done.

To answer without that requirement: Being fired is about the worst that would have happened.

@Apparently_Im_The_Grumpy_One Or…“no one’s business but yours?”

I know not a lot of people are going to answer this, but I’ll choose to participate in my own question.

I’m only going to be partially brave and answer with what maximum sentencing would have been, which is 10 years.

Breaking copyright laws for years. Or more percisely, downloading and uploading torrents.

OK so I break the law. But firstly, there’s no law banning torrenting in my country, so technically it isn’t illegal here. Secondly, I don’t have money to spend on books, movies, games… everyday! And thirdly, there are so many products that can never make it to my country’s market, so torrenting is the last resort. And beside, who knows there are people out there that are in the same situation as me? So I think I’ll become an online “Robin Hood” sharing some rare materials on the net for everyone.

If I was to be caught, I would take whatever sentence they gave me. After all I’m just doing people a favor.

Denise Law, she was a virgin & then…

Probably illegal file-sharing of copyrighted books/movies/music/tv, although I haven’t done this in many years and I’m opposed to it. There was a time that I actually had convinced myself that it was morally acceptable. In reality, I just wanted more stuff and didn’t want to pay for it.

I can’t think of any law that I’ve broken because I thought it was morally right, nobody’s business or wouldn’t hurt anybody but myself. I’ll admit to having broken laws in my lifetime, but none that meet any of the above 3 criteria. I guess for me, nobody’s business or wouldn’t hurt anybody but myself would fall into the most common category, but if I admit to whatever, I don’t want to have people jumping all over me about how what I did was so awful or could potentially have harmed another one. In other words, by putting myself out to Fluther, I don’t feel like spending my Saturday defending my actions.

I may unintentionally have broken some religious laws.
That is a very serious issue in the country I live in.

Uh… public intoxication?

Smoking weed in public. I did it like almost every weekend night any time between 10pm and 4am. This was in Florida, with some of the strictest weed laws. With one conviction, it’d be a misdemeanor. $1000 fine/1 year in jail. I’d also lose my driver’s license.

Smoke marijuana, but not in public. I did, however take a little stash with me on a 2 week road trip in the southwest a few years ago. So, I imbibed as well in Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. Otherwise, it;s a mini-vacation thing for me at home, haven’t had any on hand for months now. It comes and goes.

Technically, two instances of kidnapping. Probably best to not say more.

Lying on my log book.

I was going to say shop lifting, then read the details. Now I have to think.

Well, shit. Smoking weed, in public and everywhere else!

And public intoxication. I’m reading responses in case you can’t tell.

Sorry, not sharing. The statute of limitations doesn’t apply here.

Peeing in “public”.

Busted in a stolen car. I didn’t steal it, but I was in it.

Trespassing

I’m a good girl.

My kids are all guilty of B&E. Well, they were locked out of the house and I wasn’t home. What else were they supposed to do?!

I have been in the presence of enough drugs that it would have been a felony bust. Decades ago.

Buying alcohol for minors, I guess. I’m pretty tame.

An awful lot of people in New York State have had sex with a partner under 17 years of age.

Destruction of federal property.

Oh wait…..

“morally right, wouldn’t hurt anyone else, or was no one’s business but yours?”

Well, I dunno then.

The GREAT crime in my life involved my being “molested” in my teens by a woman 10 years older than myself. It was the sort of crime about which I’d been fantasizing for years to the point of near insanity. Believe me, if there is a devil, the souls of teenage boys can be acquired in mass on the cheap for the mere opportunity to participate as accomplices in such crimes.

I drove without insurance for awhile. I’ve been driving all this time and never got in any accidents. I’ve essentially been throwing away hundreds and hundreds of dollars for no reason and it’s effing’ BS.

Thanks for sharing (or not sharing, as the case may be), guys! :) More people ended up answering than I thought, and I do appreciate it, because it seemed like a fun question to me.

Thanks for asking, @DD.

My roommates used to deal pot. We’re talking a human-could-lay-in-it-sized duffel bag of the best weed I’ve ever had.

@stanleybmanly How old were you?

@fluthernutter

Was your roommate George Jung?

@Darth_Algar Weed, dude! Not cocaine. :P

@Darth_Algar

Yes. Jung was moving a huge volume of weed cross-country (and across the border) before he ever got involved in cocaine trafficking.

@stanleybmanly What age? There is a huge difference between a 13 year old and a 19 year old.

Seems I’m the only one that could get killed for what he done. I win. :-P

^ I coulda got killed, Denise’s Dad was a pro boxer #dodgedabullet

@Darth_Algar Seems like it really was a gateway drug. :P

@fluthernutter

It was after he went to federal prison that he dropped marijuana and took up cocaine (realizing from other inmates the much larger profit potential there). I believe he said “I went into prison with a GED in marijuana and left prison with a PhD in cocaine”.

@Dutchess_III It was 2 days before my 17th birthday, and I was clueless (probably still am).

@Darth_Algar It’s crazy what inmates “learn” when they’re incarcerated. Funny in this instance. Sad, otherwise. :/