A Crime a Day

This holiday season, buy one for yourself, and one for your senator. (amzn.to/2YRlWkw)

@PaulSector2814 legal.

@CrimeADay Is it a federal crime that you rarely tweet anymore?

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.

@eneightee pretty much any aircraft in flight.

@CrimeADay What is the "special aircraft jurisdiction"?

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.

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.

@FromHavilah dealer’s choice.

@CrimeADay Filter, nonfilter or menthol ?

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.

@Spen_Hays @BasedMikeLee I think the 300,000 number is low, given that I count each distinct act expressly made criminal by statute and regulation if it could be individually charged in an indictment.

@BasedMikeLee hey @CrimeADay what's your count?

1. A few years ago I wanted to find out how many federal criminal laws were on the books

@elonmusk I dedicated my book to Congress for this exact reason. And @BasedMikeLee totally gets it (as he says on the back cover!)

Too many laws & regulations

@MrKapitalist @elonmusk I’m here.

@elonmusk Is @CrimeADay still posting? He had a lot of good data on that.

21 USC §§458, 461 & 9 CFR §381.170(b)(6) make it a federal crime to sell turkey legs with the pelvic bones attached.

Happy Thanksgiving. Remember: judges aren’t back in court until tomorrow morning for first appearances.

@PowerFor15 A ball that, under the influence of its own weight, passes, in any orientation, entirely through a circular hole with a diameter of 1.75 inches (44.4 mm.) in a rigid template 1⁄4 inches (6 mm.) thick.

@CrimeADay Please define "small" in this context. Marbles? Pinballs? Golf balls? Table tennis balls? What's the line of demarcation? I must know!

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"

@adamcarolla By law, cheddar cheese, washed curd cheese, colby cheese, granular cheese, or any mixture of two or more of these may be designated as "American cheese".

Really?

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."

49 USC §5124(a) & 176.900(c) make it a federal crime to transport a bale of greasy cotton on a ship.

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.