“Drive Over The Speed Limit”: 37 Illegal Things Everyone Still Does
Laws are meant to give society structure, set standards for behavior, and help keep people safe. But just because they’re written down doesn’t mean everyone follows them.
One Redditor asked: What is something illegal that almost everyone does anyway? The answers ranged from minor slip-ups to rules you might not even know existed. Scroll down to see what they shared, and decide for yourself if these “offenses” are terrible or not so bad.
Just remember, this isn’t an endorsement—be responsible with your own choices.
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I don’t know about illegal, but I’m in my twentieth year of my winrar free trial.
Copyright/IP/TOS. SO many things rely on violating some kind of copyright or IP, or a term of service deep in a contract no one read. Granted, I do it very intentionally, but if YouTube, or the internet in general, had to rely on the word of actual IP law, nothing would exist online but text, and a good portion of that would be illegal.
Example, years ago the internet was full of websites where people wrote out guitar tabs for songs, unofficial, made by some guy online, a bunch of numbers and dashes showing you how to play a copyrighted song on guitar. The RIAA decided that was not legal, now all of the websites that don’t pay them money, again to post text documents that are entirely numbers and dashes some guy guessed is the correct way to play a song, shut down.
E: 2-2–2-4-5–5-5-4-2-2 There, I broke the law.
Driving behavior in big cities is often more illegal than legal. Speeding, failing to signal, aggressive driving, failing to yield, phone use/distracted driving… And that’s just one traffic light to the next for many drivers!
Texting/looking at phone while driving.
Everyone is against it, but pick any random car and look…odds are good you will see someone doing it, or doing the look up look down thing.
And checking at red-lights counts as texting/driving. The law in my state, and in most other states, doesn’t differentiate between the car moving and the car being stationary.
So you a******s doing it at red lights are still breaking the law in addition to not paying attention when it turns green.
“Oh the speed limit is 65? Better go 85 and then be annoyed at people who are going 75”.
A lot of comments here have a skewed view of “almost everyone”. I think speeding is probably the only true answer. (Weed is legal all over the place and also done by a minority of ppl. Most ppl wouldn’t know how to pirate a movie. ).
Not giving your true birthday when you verify age on a website. (Eg, just plugging in 01/01/1980.) Violation of federal hacking laws, because you’re given fraudulent information to access a protected computer system.
Driving like f**king maniacs and endangering everyone else to gain mere seconds.
LEAVE EARLIER if you’re in a rush. It’s crazy how it didn’t bother me that much before, but now that i have a child, if somebody endagers while my child in the car by driving like a maniac, it makes me unreasonably angry at them.
Fail to pay use tax.
For those who don’t know, you typically owe use tax on items you buy from outside your state if you haven’t paid sales tax on them. Not that anyone ever pays – the ONLY instance I’ve ever seen it paid involved a quasi-governmental agency paying it.
Jaywalking. At least in the small tourist town I’m from. Drives me up the wall because traffic is always bad during high season and avoiding clueless drivers who aren’t from here AND meat-and-skin based obstacles at the same time is hard as hell. Especially when they hide behind cars to jump in front of you outside of a crosswalk. It’s like these people go on vacation and decide “I’d like to get ran over and die today.”
Rant over thank you for listening.
Not telling the IRS about that money you found on the street or wherever. If it was a gain, they want to know.
Insider Trading. Overvaluing assets on loan applications.
