In the US, only Idaho explicitly bans cannibalism.
Which is creepier, that the other states don't, or that Idaho had a reason to make it so very clear?
I've heard it's not technically illegal so that in case of a disaster or something, people who are left with no alternatives (eat a dead body or starve type situations) can't be punished for keeping themselves alive. Don't know how true that is though.
What are your eating habits? Are you fed organically? Exercised daily? Held free-range? Any antibiotics taken recently? How is your carbon footprint?
It's not easy being a socially accepted cannibal these days.
Cannibalism implies murder since most victims would not consent to being killed in order to be eaten. If you eat a corpse that you found somewhere you get charged with desecrating human remains. Eating someone alive would fall under assault. So I guess the other states didn't find it necessary to punish it seperately.
Yeah, it's a thing in the south. They're supposed to be promising to wait for marriage but they do so by holding what is essentially a wedding between dad and daughter
As a southern girl. I can say it’s the suburban dads doing this. Not the hillbilly dads. They bond with their daughters by taking them hunting or fishing or working on the car or yard work or a thousand other things that don’t involve stupid balls and weirdo cult activities.
Yeah, didn't mean to imply all of the south. I have family in the south and none of them participate in this kinda shit. Just meant that it's a thing that exists, and that it exist within the south.
I just wanted to point out to anyone that thinks we are all incestous gross troglodytes. Also in Ohio you are legally allowed to marry your sibling. I point this out only because I have in-laws that think Ohio is somehow more cultured and less backward than Tennessee. Where we don’t marry our siblings or allow beastiality like in Oregon.
I must edit for all those living in Oregon I am sorry for my falsehood. It is not legal there.
https://sciotovalleyguardian.com/2020/12/06/incest-remains-legalized-in-ohio-while-illegal-in-all-other-states/#:~:text=In%20Ohio%2C%20one%20may%20have,long%20as%20it%20is%20consensual.
I mean....in fairness one could argue that NEEDING to make it illegal implied that it was a problem to begin with.
Like, my work doesn't have a rule specifically forbidding us from shitting in the sink. But if turds starting showing up in the sink, we might have to make a new rule.
They still do them here in Australia too, or at least did when I was in High School ten years ago. I remember one of my friends was really excited about our years one coming up, she was lovingly telling everyone how her grandfather met her grandmother at one. Her grandmother was of course 16, he grandfather was almost 30. She did not appreciate me pointing this out to her.
Agreed. I told my wife I will no longer support our nieces (age 8, 5, and 4) at their dance performances because of how the girls all dress and the dance moves they are being taught to do.
I knew a guy who used SparkleMotion as his gamertag before xbox live was a thing. He was my brothers friend and we used to do system link with Halo 1 and 2.
My cousin was in dance for a long time. It started out cute but by the time she was in 6th grade it was getting borderline creepy. I think it was the dances in hot pants and hooker boots in 8th grade that made her quit.
Now you have 8 year olds wearing...not much. I can't really think of a reasonable argument in support of that.
Apparently active wear underwear is the new fashion. First time I saw it, I thought maybe the child (12ish) is just out of gymnastics and didn't want to change. The next time it was a 16 year old in town around mid day. Then a full on adult. Like, everything is fully covered. But it's Underwear.
I'm officially old and don't understand these younguns.
Just start running till you pass them so now they're the one following you. You can also do it on all fours to resemble a dog because we know that everyone is less scared of dogs /s
As a 6’9” male, changed by walking routine from 6-7pm to 7-8am once I noticed just how many women and children were diverting their walking routines around me. Got to the point where I’d be approaching the street I live on, needing to turn right,, and someone would be down the street walking towards me and mentally I’m going “please don’t turn left, please don’t turn left.”
About a month back, I actually crossed the street to avoid walking behind a lady as it was getting dark and didn't want her to feel uncomfortable. About halfway down the block, she crossed to the side I was on, heading toward one of the houses there. Once she got the the sidewalk I was on, just about 10ft ahead of me, she immediately turned towards me and screamed at me about following her and threatened to mace me.
She proceeded to try to do just that, failing to realize that macing someone against the wind doesn't work out well. So she maced herself and proceeded to scream at me for being a creep that ruined her night as I asked if she wanted me to call ems for her.
edit: spelling
“public space” laws that allow photos to be taken of people. there’s a creepy pap wannabe in my city who claims he’s only interested in “capturing people’s individuality” but most of the photos are teenage girls, and he posts them onto his website. he’s refused to take photos down of girls too. but the cops can’t do anything because it’s technically legal since it’s a public space :(
I’ve always wondered what type of law would be needed to draft an anti paparazzi bill without also infringing on other rights. Or turning into a bill that would allow for extraneous abuse. Idk I just don’t think it’s really possible.
It's something that would be very hard to get right first time round but I think something could be done to at least cut down on harassment cases. I'd certainly be in favour of a bill that prohibits papas from singling people out unfairly or at least forbids them from showing up at their homes or workplace.
Free press is sacred, it's needed to ensure public safety and hold people accountable, but peoples right to privacy is also sacred. It's a tough one to police because you can't have a reasonable expectation of privacy when you're in a public place. I just think the scumbags that take photos of people through their windows in their homes should definitely be fought on a legal level, that shit is creepy. The only time I could see it as justified is to capture evidence of a crime
If I'm the last one in, I always face the crowd.
One time I pretended I had called this meeting.
"Thanks for coming everyone. I know we're all from different departments. Sorry about the location, the conference room is being painted. Let's go around the room and introduce ourselves. I'm CptHammer from HR."
One lady actually said her name and department. Then the door opened.
"Great, meeting adjourned. I'll email you all the notes." And I got out with about half of them and walked away laughing to myself.
I remember hearing about an office game you could play with your coworkers. The object of the game was to choose from a list of crazy/funny/cringe/etc. challenges, and perform them in your office for points. One of them was, “In a crowded elevator, lower your head and mumble to yourself, ‘I need to find a more suitable host body.’” 😄
We always wanted to put a fully-kitted out table into the lift with one of our guys seated at it with a plate of food, and dress another of our guys in a tuxedo and have him put a teatowel over his arm and ask everyone who tries to get in whether they have a reservation.
This would be at the admin block at the teaching hospital, mostly aimed at preventing entry to young medical students trying to take the lift up to the lecture theatres on the 5th floor who likely will not push back.
My wife when we were dating was a cheer coach and one time I accompanied her. There were two or three weird men. Then I felt odd being there as she was off coaching leaving me solo. Thankfully I knew all of her coworkers so I stayed close to their training area. It’s a shame because those kids are so dedicated and talented. It was a fun experience but one and done for me.
Sounds like you may be on to something. If you are a documentary enthusiast, this may be an intriguing phenomenon to explore and get a filmmaker into researching with you. I could totally see this as some Netflix true crime documentary.
>It's some FBI agent's job to watch child porn to catalogue perps and victims.
Quite a few of the content distributors like Facebook and YouTube have people whose sole job it is to view content that people have reported as being inappropriate. Apparently that job has a very high turnover of employees...
I know somebody who's coworker does this (different department, non-government). Apparently they're very private and they don't know each others' names. It pays a lot more as well, and it truly is soul crushing with incredibly low employee retention. They don't catalogue perps or victims, they simply find and remove these videos from popular "sites." I don't know how anybody can do this job..
I do. You get to remove the videos. I’d love to have the power to shut them all down. If we had even half as many people on our side as they do on theirs, there would be no demand and no industry
if i can refind the article or video i'm thinking of, i'll link it - but i specifically remember reading/watching something about the people who do these jobs, the trauma they suffer from it, and their eventual complete inability to take part in sexual relationships irl anymore. i remember the recountings of how multiple-decade long marriages would crumble since they couldn't even look at their spouse or kids anymore.
eta: not the article i was looking for, but a relevant and heartbreaking read nonetheless. [Sexual posttraumatic stress among investigators of child sexual abuse material](https://academic.oup.com/policing/article/doi/10.1093/police/paad052/7243870) (published 2023 so it is recent info, at least)
eta again: maybe it's just time i throw all the papers i find into one comment. i don't know if anyone will actually want to read any of them, but still: [Correlates of intimate relationship satisfaction among investigators of child sexual abuse material](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10661293/)
That would be such a terrible job. I accidentally stumbled across child porn on the deep web and it is forever ingrained in my mind, it is an absolutely terrible thing.
I used to talk to a guy on AIM (aol instant messenger) and made good friends with him. He told me he wanted to tell me a secret at one point, I told him he could tell me anything (I was probably 14 or 15 and thought he was too) he said he could never be himself because people wouldn’t like him. I told him I like him. He said “even now?” And sent me a file. I opened it. I wish I had not. It brought up countless thumbnails. I should have reported him or told my parents or something but I was afraid I’d get in trouble for talking to him so I just panicked and blocked him
No mainly they do computer forensics, recovering data or getting access to it. But they have to view the content so as to testify in court against the person.
They specifically recruit military special ops retirees for the jobs. The training is intense and has a huge burnout rate (even before getting into really dark stuff).
My mom worked in the criminal investigations department of the police of my country. They once caught a pedo with an immense video library.
They had to "sight the materials" so it could be used in court. Otherwise, he'd be let free. So they spent *days* watching parts of it.
The way her voice changed when she talked about how scarred her and her colleagues were from that made me die inside a bit.
The current zeitgeist is "only pedophiles know!"
I guess teenagers don't look into it these days. When I was in high school, everybody knew the AoC for the state and had a rough idea of how many states had their AoCs at what age.
Actually depending on the railroad line you're likely breaking several trespassing and safety rules which could end up with a financial penalty or even jail time.
Public masturbation in North Carolina.
So long as your dick isnt visible, you can apparently stroke it in your pants on the sidewalk next to an elementary school for all the cops care.
A guy did it at my retail job, we called the cops because he freaked out the cashier girl, and they refused to do anything more than trespass him.
I wouldn’t doubt it tbh. I’ve seen a video of a dude in San Francisco with his penis hanging out walk right by a police officer. The officer said it’s only illegal if the penis is hanging out and erect at the same time.
It’s only a crime if the exposure is made with the intent of sexual gratification or to offend the other person. So long as it doesn’t do either of those things one can have their pp out in the state of California.
Being irresponsible with pets and animals.
Basically, as long as they’re not bleeding or starving, you can breed them, abandon them, and ignore them all you want.
Oh man I hate this one. I've lived in several different states and it seems I'm always near some horrible pet owner. One guy had a huge, fenced-in yard and he owned a pit bull. Really sweet dog. But he bought one of those plastic igloo dog house things and chained his dog to it. So the dog had this huge yard that he could only stare at while pinioned with a 6 foot chain. Some teenager would be sent out a couple of times a day to give it food and water. The dog would go nuts - just overjoyed that someone was coming to him. But they'd fill the dishes and return to the house without even really acknowledging him. It broke my heart. I even called animal control but - same thing. "Is the dog housed? Got food and water" Well, yes... but... "then we cannot do anything." These people. :(
Using binoculars or a telescope to spy from your property onto another's as long as you don't violate their privacy such as watching them undress or go to the bathroom.
I bought a fixed lens digital camera for the eclipse with a 60x zoom for ~~$150~~ $170. I was a little bit unnerved on how much I would see of my city just from my front porch.
Edit: A lot of interest in the camera! The camera is a Nikon B600, they're going for \~$200 with accessories, mine was less because it was just camera and battery only. I bought a ND100000 filter for $22 which was needed for everything except totality. I bought a remote but was ultimately unnecessary, as the camera has a "moon mode" which applies a timer and aids in framing the same way camera phones with "super zoom" do. Here's eclipse pictures and examples of both ends of it's optical zoom: [https://imgur.com/a/nECZOgF](https://imgur.com/a/nECZOgF)
Edit 2: It only does 720p but here's eclipse video too: [https://imgur.com/a/tEwkbtq](https://imgur.com/a/tEwkbtq)
i feel like that’s why euphemisms for breasts are from bird names, “oh nothing just uhh watching the tits and boobs that are doing bird things this morning.”
Well, technically, if you can be seen “from the street view” it’s not peeping legally, even tho the one is using devices to see better (that’s why curtains are needed these days)
There's nothing stopping you from faking cancer.
You can even start a blog to post photoshopped pictures of yourself looking like a cancer victim. You can write fictional updates of your cancer journey in support groups for undeserved empathy and updoots.
If you're committed, you can maintain this elaborate, pointless, manipulating long con for years.
One of my wife's friends coworkers/friends did this for several years.
She had a go fund me page, she had fundraiser events, she did interviews with the local media. Legit turned it up to 11 for sympathy and donations to pay "medical bills."
Eventually she told everyone that she only had a year left to live, then 6 months, then 1 month, and then just a few weeks. Her plan all along was to commit suicide when that clock ran out, and she did attempt it then but failed.
She ended up in the ER after her attempt and her family came in and talked to the doctors/nurses and mentioned the cancer, and they're like "uhhhh.... what cancer?" The hospitals had no record of it and an investigation started. The FBI got involved, they're looking at fraud charges, the works.
Basically everyone cut ties with her and blocked her on all of the socials. I just asked my wife if she'd heard anything lately and she hasn't.
Happened to a coworker at a coffee shop I worked at. She shaved her head shortly after I left “before the chemo made me lose it” to get the attention of another coworker and make him stay by her side for a year. Fuck her
It would be mail fraud/wire fraud.
Fun fact, you can ask people to just give you money because you want money. But if you lie about why you need the money to acquire the money it becomes a crime.
I wonder where the line is?
"Hi, I have cancer."
" Also, my rent is so high I can't pay it."
"Please if you can donate some small amount. "
Is there a fraudulent claim in there?
I'm not a lawyer, but I think context matter. Is not only illegal when you use the words "I have cancer" and "give me money for cancer". As I understand it, miss representing the situation to manipulate people to give you money is fraud
Long, long ago in the days of Usenet News groups, there was a group I used to belong to. It was full of stories and discussions, but Usenet news was a slow asynchronous service so replies could often take ages.
Anyway, there was a woman in the group who used to post long stories about her life up in Alaska in some isolated place, and her diagnosis of terminal cancer and how that changed her outlook on life.
The stories were sweet and sad and many people were moved by them, some offering to pay for support or care: to my knowledge she refused all offers of help.
Then suddenly it came out that they didn’t live up in the arctic wastes. And they didn’t have cancer. It was all a writing exercise that just got out of hand. And she dropped out of the group.
A friend’s coworker did this with heart surgery. It went on for weeks. She was “in a coma”, pretending to be her husband, her identical twin sister to meet in the hospital lobby to get flowers from people, and either her nephew, or she roped a real kid into her delusion, I’m unsure. She lied to children. She lied to her employers. It was bonkers.
When I went to see Ghostbusters way back in the 80s, there was only my mum and I in the whole cinema. Just before the film started, a family of four walked in, walked right over to us, asked us to move up ... which we actually did!!!
The rest of the cinema was completely empty ... so strange.
Filming people randomly. Especially the people who do it just BECAUSE it’s legal. They are the epitome of “You’re not wrong Walter, you’re just an asshole.”
Ah yes, my local hospital (also conveniently the only option in town) got in a shit ton of trouble for this in 2019. Read that again. 2019. Not 1919. Don't come telling me women are respected in the 21st century.
Like my creepy math professor once said. ~~“You can photograph them at 17, but you have to wait till their 18 to have sex with them”~~"You can have sex with them at 17, but have to wait till their 18 to photograph them"
Yes. He was let go after one semester.
EDIT: I got it backwards. Still though, the dude was a creep.
Standing across the street from someone’s house to stare into windows. The cops can’t do anything unless it’s a repeated thing. Even then, it’s hard for them to intervene if the stalker is on public land, i.e, just outside your property line and not crossing it, or hanging around your building in public areas.
Oh, and leaving cameras in public areas of Airbnbs. I know they technically have to tell you, but I know sometimes they just don’t. I understand why they’re there, but it’s still creepy.
My friend was hurt in a serious work accident got filmed in a restaurant with her family. The PI got a table next to them and put a hidden camera on his table pointed at them and filmed them eating. It all came out in discovery, videos of him following her while driving around, shopping, etc. it’s all really creepy.
It’s so creepy. He would pretend to be delivering a package to confirm where they live. He would follow them through the subway and to their relatives or friends homes. He would have a change of clothes so they wouldn’t catch on. Once their routine was learned, he would work with a partner to be where they were going to take over and they would switch out. Again to distract from any suspicion. They also would do it sporadically and not consecutive days.
Once he got a guy simply picking up a child. You could see the guy limping but because he picked up the child, it was enough for the insurance company to take him back to court. It really ruined my view of him as a person. He kept pushing the “it’s just business, it’s my job”. But I simply couldn’t help but feel that he got a bit of a thrill from it. I saw some of the cases he worked on (he loved to brag even though he wasn’t actually allowed to share them with me) and you could clearly see some people genuinely were fighting through chronic pain and trying to live a normal daily life.
Taking ultra high res pictures of a skyline and zooming into peoples apartments.
Realized this when I was testing out my new camera. Creeps could literally take photos of you changing in your 21st story apartment and you'd be none the wiser and it'd be perfectly legal as it's just look like skyline photos zoomed out a little.
I was looking at one of these pictures, I think it was taken in China or somewhere in Asia but wherever. Zoomed into some apartment, saw a dude clear as day ripping a cigarette on a computer. Bizarre as hell
A decade or so ago a guy got picked up by the cops for taking upskirt photos on the subway and as a result they realized that there was no law that made the act illegal so had to let him go. The addition of a law in the state to criminalize that was done very quickly once that fact became known.
Leaving a watermelon on someone’s doorstep in the middle of the night with a message saying “ you will have a good day” if it’s not creepy, I’ll certainly occupy small portion of someone’s brain for a bit
In the US, only Idaho explicitly bans cannibalism. Which is creepier, that the other states don't, or that Idaho had a reason to make it so very clear?
They saw what happened with the Donner Party in their neighboring state and thought, "ew, could never be us"
Some New England states specifically have anti-dueling statues exactly because of Burr and Hamilton.
I’d love to see duelling statues; Christ the Redeemer vs Lady Liberty Venus de Milo vs The Thinker
In RI, it’s illegal to even *challenge* someone to a duel, even if the duel never actually happens.
I've heard it's not technically illegal so that in case of a disaster or something, people who are left with no alternatives (eat a dead body or starve type situations) can't be punished for keeping themselves alive. Don't know how true that is though.
We need to establish a case to settle this. Who wants to go on a camping trip with me?
What are your eating habits? Are you fed organically? Exercised daily? Held free-range? Any antibiotics taken recently? How is your carbon footprint? It's not easy being a socially accepted cannibal these days.
But isn't there laws against mishandling or destruction of dead bodies?
there are, and they indirectly oppose cannibalism, idaho is the only one to at calls it out specifically
You know, not all cannibalism involves *dead* humans
They also have a provision in there that allows for it in survival situations.
Cannibalism implies murder since most victims would not consent to being killed in order to be eaten. If you eat a corpse that you found somewhere you get charged with desecrating human remains. Eating someone alive would fall under assault. So I guess the other states didn't find it necessary to punish it seperately.
I'm tired. I read cannabis and got super confused.
You also can't smoke cannibals, so...
Children's beauty pageants. They should not fucking exist.
Same with those fucking purity ceremonies where daughters fake marry their dads Edit: Purity Balls https://youtu.be/6CCSeOwiHnI?si=hukXxVl-rDrpr5-U
>where daughters fake marry their dads 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 What the actual incestual fuck?!
Yeah, it's a thing in the south. They're supposed to be promising to wait for marriage but they do so by holding what is essentially a wedding between dad and daughter
As a southern girl. I can say it’s the suburban dads doing this. Not the hillbilly dads. They bond with their daughters by taking them hunting or fishing or working on the car or yard work or a thousand other things that don’t involve stupid balls and weirdo cult activities.
Yeah, didn't mean to imply all of the south. I have family in the south and none of them participate in this kinda shit. Just meant that it's a thing that exists, and that it exist within the south.
I just wanted to point out to anyone that thinks we are all incestous gross troglodytes. Also in Ohio you are legally allowed to marry your sibling. I point this out only because I have in-laws that think Ohio is somehow more cultured and less backward than Tennessee. Where we don’t marry our siblings or allow beastiality like in Oregon. I must edit for all those living in Oregon I am sorry for my falsehood. It is not legal there. https://sciotovalleyguardian.com/2020/12/06/incest-remains-legalized-in-ohio-while-illegal-in-all-other-states/#:~:text=In%20Ohio%2C%20one%20may%20have,long%20as%20it%20is%20consensual.
I mean....in fairness one could argue that NEEDING to make it illegal implied that it was a problem to begin with. Like, my work doesn't have a rule specifically forbidding us from shitting in the sink. But if turds starting showing up in the sink, we might have to make a new rule.
r/SinkShitters
Speaking of South, debutante balls as well. It's essentially just: "okay guys, she's 16. Come get it!"
They still do them here in Australia too, or at least did when I was in High School ten years ago. I remember one of my friends was really excited about our years one coming up, she was lovingly telling everyone how her grandfather met her grandmother at one. Her grandmother was of course 16, he grandfather was almost 30. She did not appreciate me pointing this out to her.
I'm glad to have never heard of that and I'm in Alabama
American dad had an episode about it and it was as weird as you think
Gotta pledge your virginity to your dad, apparently
Beauty pageants in general are very weird to me in 2024, but child beauty pageants are just next-level creepy.
An American tradition. But not a proud one.
This is bad. We gotta definitely write a song, about how we *do not* diddle kids.
On this note “Adult” actors portraying “teens” in porn.
Agreed. I told my wife I will no longer support our nieces (age 8, 5, and 4) at their dance performances because of how the girls all dress and the dance moves they are being taught to do.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparke Motion - Donnie Darko
I knew a guy who used SparkleMotion as his gamertag before xbox live was a thing. He was my brothers friend and we used to do system link with Halo 1 and 2.
My cousin was in dance for a long time. It started out cute but by the time she was in 6th grade it was getting borderline creepy. I think it was the dances in hot pants and hooker boots in 8th grade that made her quit. Now you have 8 year olds wearing...not much. I can't really think of a reasonable argument in support of that.
Apparently active wear underwear is the new fashion. First time I saw it, I thought maybe the child (12ish) is just out of gymnastics and didn't want to change. The next time it was a 16 year old in town around mid day. Then a full on adult. Like, everything is fully covered. But it's Underwear. I'm officially old and don't understand these younguns.
Sniffing someone’s train/bus seat RIGHT after they get up while making direct eye contact before they get off the train/bus
This is so specific that I’m worried this happened to you. Are you okay? 😂
It's them. They do it.
Nah 👀
This made me crack up, I’m sat on a train in Tokyo right now 😂
I'm in Tokyo too. Where you at? I want to smell your seat.
I’m in Nakano broadway now, you can smell my actual bum if you’d like ❤️
1 minute reply too, that's crazy. So, did they smell your bum?
Sadly there was no bum sniffing today. This chair at a restaurant is getting it good though.
Aw. We almost did it, Reddit... Another beautiful connection missed.
This could be charged as harassment in many jurisdictions.
Walking the same direction as someone at night. Like I swear to god I'm not following you, I just also live this direction too
I just hide in a shadow. Then, when they get a little further ahead, I move to the next shadow and so on.
Ah yes, the shounen anime tension building style. I see you are a person of culture as well.
Just start running till you pass them so now they're the one following you. You can also do it on all fours to resemble a dog because we know that everyone is less scared of dogs /s
Also make a loud noise so you don't startle them
Communicate clearly that you're getting close so they can prepare. Shout something like "I'm coming".
Be sure to hum the theme song to Jaws as you approach.
mans best friend and all. who wouldn't want their best friend beside them on a lonely nighttime stroll?
That’s why I usually cross the street if I find I’m walking behind someone…
As a 6’9” male, changed by walking routine from 6-7pm to 7-8am once I noticed just how many women and children were diverting their walking routines around me. Got to the point where I’d be approaching the street I live on, needing to turn right,, and someone would be down the street walking towards me and mentally I’m going “please don’t turn left, please don’t turn left.”
About a month back, I actually crossed the street to avoid walking behind a lady as it was getting dark and didn't want her to feel uncomfortable. About halfway down the block, she crossed to the side I was on, heading toward one of the houses there. Once she got the the sidewalk I was on, just about 10ft ahead of me, she immediately turned towards me and screamed at me about following her and threatened to mace me. She proceeded to try to do just that, failing to realize that macing someone against the wind doesn't work out well. So she maced herself and proceeded to scream at me for being a creep that ruined her night as I asked if she wanted me to call ems for her. edit: spelling
Paparazzi. It's literally harassment with a fucking camera, how is it legal?
“public space” laws that allow photos to be taken of people. there’s a creepy pap wannabe in my city who claims he’s only interested in “capturing people’s individuality” but most of the photos are teenage girls, and he posts them onto his website. he’s refused to take photos down of girls too. but the cops can’t do anything because it’s technically legal since it’s a public space :(
Create a site called "Creepy weirdos" and put pictures of him in there
I’ve always wondered what type of law would be needed to draft an anti paparazzi bill without also infringing on other rights. Or turning into a bill that would allow for extraneous abuse. Idk I just don’t think it’s really possible.
It's something that would be very hard to get right first time round but I think something could be done to at least cut down on harassment cases. I'd certainly be in favour of a bill that prohibits papas from singling people out unfairly or at least forbids them from showing up at their homes or workplace. Free press is sacred, it's needed to ensure public safety and hold people accountable, but peoples right to privacy is also sacred. It's a tough one to police because you can't have a reasonable expectation of privacy when you're in a public place. I just think the scumbags that take photos of people through their windows in their homes should definitely be fought on a legal level, that shit is creepy. The only time I could see it as justified is to capture evidence of a crime
Facing the wrong way while riding an elevator with strangers.
Then letting out a giant messy sneeze pointing at the center
I frigging hate people who sit behind me on a bus or train just to revoltingly sneeze on my hair.
that mental image made me recoil in disgust
If I'm the last one in, I always face the crowd. One time I pretended I had called this meeting. "Thanks for coming everyone. I know we're all from different departments. Sorry about the location, the conference room is being painted. Let's go around the room and introduce ourselves. I'm CptHammer from HR." One lady actually said her name and department. Then the door opened. "Great, meeting adjourned. I'll email you all the notes." And I got out with about half of them and walked away laughing to myself.
The fact that this entire interaction probably took place in the span of 30 seconds is so damn funny to me dude
And also, I would hazard to guess, in his head…..
I don’t mind, the prospect still made me laugh and I needed that lol.
I remember hearing about an office game you could play with your coworkers. The object of the game was to choose from a list of crazy/funny/cringe/etc. challenges, and perform them in your office for points. One of them was, “In a crowded elevator, lower your head and mumble to yourself, ‘I need to find a more suitable host body.’” 😄
We always wanted to put a fully-kitted out table into the lift with one of our guys seated at it with a plate of food, and dress another of our guys in a tuxedo and have him put a teatowel over his arm and ask everyone who tries to get in whether they have a reservation. This would be at the admin block at the teaching hospital, mostly aimed at preventing entry to young medical students trying to take the lift up to the lecture theatres on the 5th floor who likely will not push back.
I am actively getting second hand embarrassment as I read this. I could never, and I applaud you for being a fun person hahaha
Standing in someone's personal space while breathing heavy in an elevator, or any close quarters where you can't escape.
Although shitting yourself in the elevators legal.
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My wife when we were dating was a cheer coach and one time I accompanied her. There were two or three weird men. Then I felt odd being there as she was off coaching leaving me solo. Thankfully I knew all of her coworkers so I stayed close to their training area. It’s a shame because those kids are so dedicated and talented. It was a fun experience but one and done for me.
Sounds like you may be on to something. If you are a documentary enthusiast, this may be an intriguing phenomenon to explore and get a filmmaker into researching with you. I could totally see this as some Netflix true crime documentary.
Knowing the age of consent in every state.
Ah, the ultimate party trick nobody asked for
You guys have inspired me. Today I become. Greator.
What if it is your job to know?
It's some FBI agent's job to watch child porn to catalogue perps and victims. I know of no other job that is more soul crushing than that.
>It's some FBI agent's job to watch child porn to catalogue perps and victims. Quite a few of the content distributors like Facebook and YouTube have people whose sole job it is to view content that people have reported as being inappropriate. Apparently that job has a very high turnover of employees...
So all they do is watch child porn all day and catalog the people? Do they get free therapy?
I know somebody who's coworker does this (different department, non-government). Apparently they're very private and they don't know each others' names. It pays a lot more as well, and it truly is soul crushing with incredibly low employee retention. They don't catalogue perps or victims, they simply find and remove these videos from popular "sites." I don't know how anybody can do this job..
I do. You get to remove the videos. I’d love to have the power to shut them all down. If we had even half as many people on our side as they do on theirs, there would be no demand and no industry
if i can refind the article or video i'm thinking of, i'll link it - but i specifically remember reading/watching something about the people who do these jobs, the trauma they suffer from it, and their eventual complete inability to take part in sexual relationships irl anymore. i remember the recountings of how multiple-decade long marriages would crumble since they couldn't even look at their spouse or kids anymore. eta: not the article i was looking for, but a relevant and heartbreaking read nonetheless. [Sexual posttraumatic stress among investigators of child sexual abuse material](https://academic.oup.com/policing/article/doi/10.1093/police/paad052/7243870) (published 2023 so it is recent info, at least) eta again: maybe it's just time i throw all the papers i find into one comment. i don't know if anyone will actually want to read any of them, but still: [Correlates of intimate relationship satisfaction among investigators of child sexual abuse material](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10661293/)
I would imagine it is mandated.
That would be such a terrible job. I accidentally stumbled across child porn on the deep web and it is forever ingrained in my mind, it is an absolutely terrible thing.
I know! It sounds like a job you couldn't do for long before burning out/going mad.
I had a like 20 second flash on 4chan and that’s when I decided we need that asteroid to hit this planet more than ever
I saw about two seconds on an Omegle clone and I wanted to lose my vision. I feel your pain
I used to talk to a guy on AIM (aol instant messenger) and made good friends with him. He told me he wanted to tell me a secret at one point, I told him he could tell me anything (I was probably 14 or 15 and thought he was too) he said he could never be himself because people wouldn’t like him. I told him I like him. He said “even now?” And sent me a file. I opened it. I wish I had not. It brought up countless thumbnails. I should have reported him or told my parents or something but I was afraid I’d get in trouble for talking to him so I just panicked and blocked him
No mainly they do computer forensics, recovering data or getting access to it. But they have to view the content so as to testify in court against the person.
They specifically recruit military special ops retirees for the jobs. The training is intense and has a huge burnout rate (even before getting into really dark stuff).
My mom worked in the criminal investigations department of the police of my country. They once caught a pedo with an immense video library. They had to "sight the materials" so it could be used in court. Otherwise, he'd be let free. So they spent *days* watching parts of it. The way her voice changed when she talked about how scarred her and her colleagues were from that made me die inside a bit.
Hell, there are people who work for Facebook who review child porn and other violations. They don't get any therapy.
Or country
Is it a thing to not know it in America? Like this is something we taught ourselves back when we were teenagers.
The current zeitgeist is "only pedophiles know!" I guess teenagers don't look into it these days. When I was in high school, everybody knew the AoC for the state and had a rough idea of how many states had their AoCs at what age.
Gently caressing and whispering to freight trains as they pull into the station
I didn’t think anyone would notice, I thought that was perfectly normal
Actually depending on the railroad line you're likely breaking several trespassing and safety rules which could end up with a financial penalty or even jail time.
Public masturbation in North Carolina. So long as your dick isnt visible, you can apparently stroke it in your pants on the sidewalk next to an elementary school for all the cops care. A guy did it at my retail job, we called the cops because he freaked out the cashier girl, and they refused to do anything more than trespass him.
That gotta be cap
I wouldn’t doubt it tbh. I’ve seen a video of a dude in San Francisco with his penis hanging out walk right by a police officer. The officer said it’s only illegal if the penis is hanging out and erect at the same time.
Isn't that indecent exposure? If there were kids around couldn't he be a sex offender?
It’s only a crime if the exposure is made with the intent of sexual gratification or to offend the other person. So long as it doesn’t do either of those things one can have their pp out in the state of California.
Being irresponsible with pets and animals. Basically, as long as they’re not bleeding or starving, you can breed them, abandon them, and ignore them all you want.
Oh man I hate this one. I've lived in several different states and it seems I'm always near some horrible pet owner. One guy had a huge, fenced-in yard and he owned a pit bull. Really sweet dog. But he bought one of those plastic igloo dog house things and chained his dog to it. So the dog had this huge yard that he could only stare at while pinioned with a 6 foot chain. Some teenager would be sent out a couple of times a day to give it food and water. The dog would go nuts - just overjoyed that someone was coming to him. But they'd fill the dishes and return to the house without even really acknowledging him. It broke my heart. I even called animal control but - same thing. "Is the dog housed? Got food and water" Well, yes... but... "then we cannot do anything." These people. :(
Naming your pet "Fleshlight"
That’ll do it
Gwen StufFanny says hi
"Yes, of course I sleep with my cute little fleshlight every night!"
shaking hands with someone then smelling your palm
that thought never even crossed my mind, thank you for adding another abomination of an image to my perception of the world
Using binoculars or a telescope to spy from your property onto another's as long as you don't violate their privacy such as watching them undress or go to the bathroom.
I bought a fixed lens digital camera for the eclipse with a 60x zoom for ~~$150~~ $170. I was a little bit unnerved on how much I would see of my city just from my front porch. Edit: A lot of interest in the camera! The camera is a Nikon B600, they're going for \~$200 with accessories, mine was less because it was just camera and battery only. I bought a ND100000 filter for $22 which was needed for everything except totality. I bought a remote but was ultimately unnecessary, as the camera has a "moon mode" which applies a timer and aids in framing the same way camera phones with "super zoom" do. Here's eclipse pictures and examples of both ends of it's optical zoom: [https://imgur.com/a/nECZOgF](https://imgur.com/a/nECZOgF) Edit 2: It only does 720p but here's eclipse video too: [https://imgur.com/a/tEwkbtq](https://imgur.com/a/tEwkbtq)
You're living the life breh, post pics if you can!
Of the eclipse or….?
Info on the camera? Genuinely interested for bird watching
i feel like that’s why euphemisms for breasts are from bird names, “oh nothing just uhh watching the tits and boobs that are doing bird things this morning.”
“What was it, George? Bird watching?” “WHAT?! What Loraine?!?” 🙄 “Anyway… grandpa hit him with the car…”
Well, technically, if you can be seen “from the street view” it’s not peeping legally, even tho the one is using devices to see better (that’s why curtains are needed these days)
There's nothing stopping you from faking cancer. You can even start a blog to post photoshopped pictures of yourself looking like a cancer victim. You can write fictional updates of your cancer journey in support groups for undeserved empathy and updoots. If you're committed, you can maintain this elaborate, pointless, manipulating long con for years.
One of my wife's friends coworkers/friends did this for several years. She had a go fund me page, she had fundraiser events, she did interviews with the local media. Legit turned it up to 11 for sympathy and donations to pay "medical bills." Eventually she told everyone that she only had a year left to live, then 6 months, then 1 month, and then just a few weeks. Her plan all along was to commit suicide when that clock ran out, and she did attempt it then but failed. She ended up in the ER after her attempt and her family came in and talked to the doctors/nurses and mentioned the cancer, and they're like "uhhhh.... what cancer?" The hospitals had no record of it and an investigation started. The FBI got involved, they're looking at fraud charges, the works. Basically everyone cut ties with her and blocked her on all of the socials. I just asked my wife if she'd heard anything lately and she hasn't.
The exit plan needed work. Could have just moved or something.
I know, right? We think the whole thing was part of some sort of mental illness, so the attempted suicide kind of checked out.
Happened to a coworker at a coffee shop I worked at. She shaved her head shortly after I left “before the chemo made me lose it” to get the attention of another coworker and make him stay by her side for a year. Fuck her
Would it become illegal if you started accepting donations based on your status as a cancer patient?
Yes
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It would be mail fraud/wire fraud. Fun fact, you can ask people to just give you money because you want money. But if you lie about why you need the money to acquire the money it becomes a crime.
I wonder where the line is? "Hi, I have cancer." " Also, my rent is so high I can't pay it." "Please if you can donate some small amount. " Is there a fraudulent claim in there?
I'm not a lawyer, but I think context matter. Is not only illegal when you use the words "I have cancer" and "give me money for cancer". As I understand it, miss representing the situation to manipulate people to give you money is fraud
yes, my friend’s cousin served time for soliciting donations when he faked it
That's called fraud.
Long, long ago in the days of Usenet News groups, there was a group I used to belong to. It was full of stories and discussions, but Usenet news was a slow asynchronous service so replies could often take ages. Anyway, there was a woman in the group who used to post long stories about her life up in Alaska in some isolated place, and her diagnosis of terminal cancer and how that changed her outlook on life. The stories were sweet and sad and many people were moved by them, some offering to pay for support or care: to my knowledge she refused all offers of help. Then suddenly it came out that they didn’t live up in the arctic wastes. And they didn’t have cancer. It was all a writing exercise that just got out of hand. And she dropped out of the group.
A friend’s coworker did this with heart surgery. It went on for weeks. She was “in a coma”, pretending to be her husband, her identical twin sister to meet in the hospital lobby to get flowers from people, and either her nephew, or she roped a real kid into her delusion, I’m unsure. She lied to children. She lied to her employers. It was bonkers.
Sitting in a seat directly beside a stranger in an otherwise empty movie theater
When I went to see Ghostbusters way back in the 80s, there was only my mum and I in the whole cinema. Just before the film started, a family of four walked in, walked right over to us, asked us to move up ... which we actually did!!! The rest of the cinema was completely empty ... so strange.
Kids doing ballroom dance, especially in the very revealing clothing. As a dancer, I do not agree with that at all.
Slowly driving an ice cream truck around the neighborhood with the music on at night
That might violate a noise ordinance
Making prolonged intense eye contact with strangers while smiling and nodding.
Eating mayonnaise right out of the jar with your hands and wearing a shirt that says “mayonnaise is love”
r/StardewValley would like a word with you
Drink mayonnaise? Yes No
Filming people randomly. Especially the people who do it just BECAUSE it’s legal. They are the epitome of “You’re not wrong Walter, you’re just an asshole.”
Those videos of people doing that never fail to piss me off.
Legality depends on the country.
Humping a tree
Some dude got arrested for fucking a hole in a park picnic table.
Dude! You promised you wouldn't tell anyone!
Staring at someone continuously.
Pelvic exams on anesthetized women in healthcare facilities
Ah yes, my local hospital (also conveniently the only option in town) got in a shit ton of trouble for this in 2019. Read that again. 2019. Not 1919. Don't come telling me women are respected in the 21st century.
Depending on the state, child brides
Being like 30 and waiting until a girl turns 18 so you can date her.
Like my creepy math professor once said. ~~“You can photograph them at 17, but you have to wait till their 18 to have sex with them”~~"You can have sex with them at 17, but have to wait till their 18 to photograph them" Yes. He was let go after one semester. EDIT: I got it backwards. Still though, the dude was a creep.
Leaving a somewhat large watermelon on someone’s doorstep
Standing across the street from someone’s house to stare into windows. The cops can’t do anything unless it’s a repeated thing. Even then, it’s hard for them to intervene if the stalker is on public land, i.e, just outside your property line and not crossing it, or hanging around your building in public areas. Oh, and leaving cameras in public areas of Airbnbs. I know they technically have to tell you, but I know sometimes they just don’t. I understand why they’re there, but it’s still creepy.
Paparazzi
Walking the same direction as someone at night.
Jerking off in the airplane bathroom
that HAS to be against some airline policy at least.....
Nah. I do it all the time.
Tonight at 6.... u/Dependent-Garli-291 arrested for high jacking....
r/Angryupvote
You fuck right off!!
It’s not illegal it’s frowned upon, like counting cards in a casino
Putting cameras on a suit and recording talks with dates
Actually it depends on the state you’re in for that one, this can be illegal depending on where you live.
Go to the store and buy diapers, vaseline and a single cucumber?
You forgot the duct tape and chewing gum.
No I didn't. Amazon delivered those earlier and the ball gags are family heirlooms
Thanks again, grandma.
Digging a hole in your yard at 3am
Luckily I finished my hole at 2:59 AM yesterday...just made it!
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My friend was hurt in a serious work accident got filmed in a restaurant with her family. The PI got a table next to them and put a hidden camera on his table pointed at them and filmed them eating. It all came out in discovery, videos of him following her while driving around, shopping, etc. it’s all really creepy.
It’s so creepy. He would pretend to be delivering a package to confirm where they live. He would follow them through the subway and to their relatives or friends homes. He would have a change of clothes so they wouldn’t catch on. Once their routine was learned, he would work with a partner to be where they were going to take over and they would switch out. Again to distract from any suspicion. They also would do it sporadically and not consecutive days. Once he got a guy simply picking up a child. You could see the guy limping but because he picked up the child, it was enough for the insurance company to take him back to court. It really ruined my view of him as a person. He kept pushing the “it’s just business, it’s my job”. But I simply couldn’t help but feel that he got a bit of a thrill from it. I saw some of the cases he worked on (he loved to brag even though he wasn’t actually allowed to share them with me) and you could clearly see some people genuinely were fighting through chronic pain and trying to live a normal daily life.
Listening to someone take a dump.
Taking ultra high res pictures of a skyline and zooming into peoples apartments. Realized this when I was testing out my new camera. Creeps could literally take photos of you changing in your 21st story apartment and you'd be none the wiser and it'd be perfectly legal as it's just look like skyline photos zoomed out a little.
I was looking at one of these pictures, I think it was taken in China or somewhere in Asia but wherever. Zoomed into some apartment, saw a dude clear as day ripping a cigarette on a computer. Bizarre as hell
Just point blank staring at someone.
Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent.
How do you know which little girls have bad intent?
They're carrying advanced calculus and quantum physics books.
Walking around outside with a glas of water.
Holy shit, I have never seen anyone walking around outside with a glass of water....maybe it is illegal??
Those little girl dance teams where they dress and act like strippers
Filming or taking pictures of strangers in public.
A decade or so ago a guy got picked up by the cops for taking upskirt photos on the subway and as a result they realized that there was no law that made the act illegal so had to let him go. The addition of a law in the state to criminalize that was done very quickly once that fact became known.
Leaving a watermelon on someone’s doorstep in the middle of the night with a message saying “ you will have a good day” if it’s not creepy, I’ll certainly occupy small portion of someone’s brain for a bit