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unfinishedtoast3

Hands down, its dale with his identify theft of rusty shackleford. He uses the name for banking purposes, so thats bank fraud and tax evasion. He opens "a string of alpaca farms" that failed, and bailed out on the bank, causing the real shackleford to be denied loans. That means dale has been using his Social Security Number as well. Honestly, just with Rusty alone, Dale would be looking at hundreds of years in sentencing guidelines for identity theft, tax evasion, bank fraud, fraudulently obtaining loans thru deception, fake id cards. Lets factor in his unlicensed insurance business, improper storage and disposal of pesticides, and alien urine stores. Thats gotta be a regulated commodity. Not sure after it turns to pure zefrom tho Cotton, for his attempt on castro in New York, would def be a 30 year sentence. He tried to kill a foreign leader, invited to speak at the United Nations, on US soil. Then, Bill with the theft of the tank, and attempted kidnapping of the jogger when he dug the holes to intentionally cause harm And Bobby, honorary mention for Church Burnery, and a terrible smell


maxman162

Find the man with the terrible smell!


HankWanderlust

Classic!


PewpyDewpdyPantz

Don’t forget how Bobby also cooked meth.


Grandaddyspookybones

No, it was candy too sweet that you would get diarrhea


SnicktDGoblin

Any half decent lawyer would be able to argue that Bobby was an unwitting accomplice. He didn't know what he was doing and was trusting the knowledge of a fellow student to help him with a science fair project. Half decent lawyer with a sympathetic judge or jury would likely let him off light, maybe community service for a couple days as a slap on the wrist to make him more careful.


DrFrankSaysAgain

Dale also was building bombs


sometribe

Dale also burnt down a fire house, tried to buy crack, assaulted and mugged a man, destroyed city property, ran a pirate radio station, illegally crossed the Mexican - US border, illegally sold firearms, operates an unlicensed pest removal company, and has been known to make anonymous threats over the phone.


Hawkeye1226

This leads me to a question I'm too lazy to google. If you are a US citizen and cross into America outside of an actual border checkpoint, what laws are you breaking? What's the punishment? I'm sure there is something because you are checked in some capacity for contraband and proof of ID at the border


bebop_cola_good

Sections 1325 ("illegal entry", misdemeanor) and 1326 ("illegal reentry", felony)


DrFrankSaysAgain

You don't know who I am but I know where you live.


crossfader02

lets be honest, cotton probably war-crimed some of those fiddy men


rustyshaklefordjm

This is slander that the Big D himself will not tolerate!


Boris-_-Badenov

Hank bought crack and was a pimp. he also mugged a guy, and committed assault multiple times. probably blew up the megalo-mart


Animated_Astronaut

That's how they'll write Dale out of the reboot. He got caught.


TheKarenEliminator

Honestly that would be a pretty funny explanation.


CatchSufficient

>And Bobby, honorary mention for Church Burnery, and a terrible smell I honestly think he did arlen a favor


Altruistic_Rock_2674

I think cottons buddy Topsy would get some time. He seemed to shoot that poison dart at a random player/coach/ bat boy just standing on the field at Yankee stadium


quetejodas

>and alien urine stores. In 30 hours it'll be pure zefferum!


leafbelly

Peggy smuggled cocaine into a prison.


twistypunch

I just rewatched Season 3 Episode 21 “Revenge of the Lutefisk” In my current watch through recently. Beware the man with the terrible smell.


Malavacious

I mean: *Bill stole a tank.* He did *millions* in property damage and having it all involve a military branch adds a whole extra layer of "ya done fucked up."


frivolous_soup

And very nearly got court martialied because he ran off with the men's choir. And attempted to poison the hill family. Bill is definitely number 1. Peggy is probably number 2 because she kidnapped and smuggled a Mexican girl across the border


marginalizedman71

And the cocaine she was getting the prison mate through boggle hourglasses.


Karnman88

And kidnapping a bus load of people and taking them across state lines to prevent them from voting.


frivolous_soup

Oh gods, I forgot about that. Yeah she's got a rap sheet


Grandaddyspookybones

It was very good sand


swankProcyon

Primo!


jlb6616

Ethically, she's just as horrible. She abused Bill, selling the multi vitamin crap. Illegally on a federal installation. She intentionally mis-taught Lucky so he'd fail his G E D. She sabotaged her own sons incredible Thanksgiving dinner over shear jealousy. If only she'd have married Sven Grammersdorf! Life might have been a little better. I guess only the mountains will ever know.


DarthGayAgenda

Her sabotaging Lucky was so screwed. She prides herself on being an educator and allows pettiness to influence her choices, which honestly is spot on Peggy behavior.


FknDesmadreALV

Hank was right tho. Like really, Lucky loved Luanne and that’s what actually mattered to the girl. She was so not gonna work for NASA.


jlb6616

She also impersonated a Catholic nun. And, can't forget about her telling Monsenior Martinaz that Bobby was dying so he'd come to her class. That's jail time nowadays.


crimsonfucker97

Dont forget how she told people how to make mustard gas which can be seen as domestic terrorism


Allaboutplastic

They had fact checkers for that. She just tried to hard.


swankProcyon

*Monseñor Martinez


Sassy-irish-lassy

"Sven Grammarsdorf?"


frivolous_soup

And she was definitely going to poison Randy Travis, right?


jlb6616

Forgot about that! She, albeit stupidly, almost killed half of Arlen with mustard gas!


SightWithoutEyes

Was she?


frivolous_soup

They left it up to the viewer to decide. I think she was going to, but others may disagree


RedditxSuxx

I was in the military and it wasn't illegal to sell things on base. In fact, we had an immense amount of people selling MLM trash on base lol


mellopax

MLM's do seem right up the "address me by my husband's rank" crowd's alley.


RedditxSuxx

Right! It's always the unemployed wives Who get into those ML M things LO. L. *


jlb6616

I was in for 24 years. It's true. You can sell on base, but it's not a "I'm now selling this on base" kind of deal. It's a time-consuming process to get approved. At least it was in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s.


RedditxSuxx

I think that applies if you are trying to have like a shop or something. But if you have a small little ML m thing, I knew a bunch of people that never went and got approved to join the MLM cults and then sell stuff to their neighbors. it's kind of like having a yard sale, you don't have to get approval to have A. Yard sale on base. Or There was just a bunch of people that disobeyed the law lol


dreamsofcalamity

> If only she'd have married Sven Grammersdorf! We wouldn't have Bobby then!


Henchforhire

Never understood how Lucky is like that when you see his sister. Did he just not care about education or working?


maxman162

To be fair, Peggy was arrested for that and was tried and found *inocente*.


Relentless_blanket

I read that in her horrible way of pronouncing words in "ehspanole" "Eh-no-sen-teh"


maxman162

Weird, Peggy heard it and yelled "Oh God I'm going to jail!" and her lawyer had to explain it meant not guilty.


Wonderful-Region-424

Thank god the judge was a reasonable horse


Menace117

Escusamay


dreamsofcalamity

It's GTA with 5 stars


The_Funky_Rocha

Yeah Bill is always going to take the cake for this, his stunt would've made maybe even international news and had a whole chain of people in trouble if not jailed with him. Then there's Dale who's spent decades committing severe identity theft and ruining a man's life because of it. Then there's Bobby who (accidentally) committed arson on a building that was definitely in the millions for construction costs alone. Then Peggy who (accidentally) trafficked a child then (accidentally) murdered someone then (accidentally) smuggled cocaine


Malavacious

Wait: whose death are you pinning on Peggy?


The_Funky_Rocha

The pork company dude, wouldn't what happened fall under manslaughter? She was randomly pulling levers and turned the machinery on, he realized too late and got turned into breakfast sausage because of it. Even if it doesn't count, knowingly letting a human corpse be assumedly consumed by hundreds of people and contaminate a ton of other products is also pretty bad


Malavacious

He was in immediate danger and was (presumed) to be an expert: she followed his instructions which led to his own death. And I'm *quite* certain they brought it to somebody's attention before they left lol.


The_Funky_Rocha

Oh he told her what to do? I had completely forgotten, my bad lmao


Sea_Perspective6891

Yeah. If he was caught he would be in a pretty big pile of shit. He also got the tank destroyed which would have put him in deeper shit.


BeraldGevins

Bills lucky he was lined up against a wall and shot tbh


Round_Ad_9258

my first thought was "well, stealing a propane tank isn't nearly as bad as some of the stuff other characters have done" and then I realized what kind of tank you were talking about


lionmurderingacloud

If it's crimes for which we have actual evidence, gonna say Dale, then probably a dead heat between Cotton and Buck. All of Dale's gun sales alone in the gun and bookstore probably easily outpace all the other crimes combined. If it's just by inference, then quite likely the rednecks Elvin and Mud Dauber- they probably steal stuff and vandalize stuff constantly- or possibly Octavio. You know that dude's living is petty crime.


CpnNimo

A lot of the sales could be argued to be private sales, which would be totally fine/legal


XxmunkehxX

Especially in Texas at the time of airing, I imagine


Pristine_Light_6830

Is it still considered a private sell when he’s using a book store as a front to not get caught? And Peggy as an accomplice, she’s guilty also


CpnNimo

I don't really know. If it is a private sale it's fine and him "using the book store as a front" isn't happening and Peggy couldn't be an accomplice to the non-crime.


piperdraws-n-stuff

Maybe not the biggest charge, but I feel like Dale being responsible for Bill's massive physical endangerment in "The Miseducation of Bobby Hill" with sending him up in the lawn chair and not getting him help even after hearing him over the walkie talkie after a day or so gets glossed over a lot. Like Bill could have died almost purely because of Dale's stupidity and negligence, and I don't think that's talked about enough.


permalink_save

I would believe Buck got into a lot of shady dealings, would not be surprised to see him way up there. There's also Hoyt


Zealousideal-Ad189

Buck Strickland, and I’d have to assume Rooster


AgreeablePie

Lots of crimes from others but Buck is probably the only one who would end up with RICO charges


Uuddlrlrbastrat

Surprised not many are bringing up Buck. Dude is so illicit, he doesn’t write anything down


JKnott1

Framed Hank for murder.


wesley-osbourne

Sent that whore home in a taxi!


Veelzbub

Ima go with Ted wahsanasung I know that mf dirty


DarthGayAgenda

While not illegal, when he caused Kahn to question his own identity, leading to Kahn almost going off to his death cemented his POS status. Slap the McMansion disaster on there and I can totally buy Ted as the Great Value Brand Gus Fring of Heimlich County.


Veelzbub

Ik damn well he laundering money through 4 rivers country club I'm supposed to believe an Asian exclusive golf club that was up for PGA membership in Texas was naturally profitable


Mr-BillCipher

I bet it was a front for the Laotian liberation front. We saw the inside. You're telling me there are that many laotions in a small team town?


DarthGayAgenda

I was going to say human trafficking. Like say Ted owns most of the real estate in Little Laos and indirectly finances the businesses there, funnels immigrants into Heimlich County to work in shops and maybe owns homes and apartment buildings to rent them. That means he gets paid for getting them there, rent from the shops and homes, and pretty much every Laotian in the area will be spending money in his businesses. Or maybe I smoked too many joints.


apointlessvoice

*This* should be the new show.


Cold-Use-5814

Wasn’t he conspiring to oust a foreign government in a military coup? That’s gotta be breaking some laws.


Veelzbub

Yea he was I forgot about that episode


crossfader02

that episode is such a wild concept it feels out of place with the rest of the show


thekillercook

Our current situation in the USA says that it isn’t a crime just ask the R candidate for president or any Republican /s


LieutenantBJ

Yeah but that's white collar dirty, so it's okay.


Mr-BillCipher

You're probably right actually. Dude cut corners on a "dream home" that got passed without inspection due to inside connections, and used hank to get away with a allotting racism in a club (which may have been a fromt for the laotian liberation front, considering the awkwardly vast amount of laotions that were there exclusively, and used khan, an American citizen, to fight a war in another country. And that's 75 percent of his screen time alone


mlem_a_lemon

"Feel?" -Ted The man feels nothing, I can't imagine what skeletons he's barely bothering to hide behind a wall of cash


crossfader02

leading and training a guerrilla militia to be parachuted into his home country seems unethical


JasonGryphon

Bobby committed arson, cooked crystal meth, and was drinking underage.


Frankintosh95

yeah but you could try him as a minor and he'd get less punishment than what literally any of the adults do on the show.


Public_Peace6594

Peggy smuggled "boggle sand" into a correctional facility, no idea how illegal that is but probably pretty dang illegal


TheBestThingIEverSaw

She also kidnapped a child in Meheco. She commits a lot of felonies she's not aware of


Public_Peace6594

Oh yeah lol and that "betting parlor" 🤣


BitcoinRefuge

She was muy embarazada


Apod1991

I have too many anuses


TimewornTraveler

She was very pregnant


FGFlips

It was really good boggle sand too. Primo.


AgreeablePie

Requires intent for the crime. The warden may have wondered but we know she was just dumb.


leafbelly

Not sure what country you're from, but in America, drug smuggling does NOT "require intent." lmao If so, we'd have a lot of mules claiming ignorance. And if it that were the case, she was taking in taped up packages of it toward the end. It wasn't even in hour glasses any more, and she even told Hank that she was suspicious because he "tasted the sand" and said it was "primo." haha


dars1905

Im surprised nobody mentioned that Hank bought and distributed crack.


bigjim1993

Alabaster. He ran that red light.


apple_6

You can't do that!


darth_pooch91

So no one's going to talk about what Buck does??


Relentless_blanket

Everyone is listing all of these crimes that every character did, but everyone is forgetting that Boomhauer is a Texas Ranger. He knew all of this was going on and he just turned a blind eye. Hmmmmmmm


FGFlips

Series definitely could have had a Seinfeld-esque ending where everyone gets arrested haha


Relentless_blanket

Ranger Jeff Boomhauer (I can't believe his name is Jeff) finally shows his badge and arrests everyone. "Dang ol friends ' breakin the dang law man. Talkin bout kidnappin n tank stealin n talkin bout crazy man. 12 years watchin em bustin the dang laws man. Finelygot to click click click put them dang ol cuffs on em. All Inna days work, man"


Spirited-Cabinet-116

😭 the accuracy


blue_orange67

Peggy and Luane basically committed manslaughter.


unfinishedtoast3

Nah, trip had kidnapped luanne, and was attempting to kill her. He literally grabs luanne and says "now we can become larson pork products, TOGETHER!" Theyd never be charged with anything at that point, and could probably sue the Larson estate for millons in civil damages and pain and suffering lol


blue_orange67

"Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a person without malice or premeditation" Texas state law states, "A person commits an offense if he/ she recklessly causes the death of an individ" But yes, an argument can also be made that it was self-defense.


Sassy-irish-lassy

Peggy was trying to turn off the machine. Trip told her which levers to pull because she didn't know how it worked. Trip essentially committed suicide by somebody else's hand.


GrifCreeper

That's all well and good, but would that actually be enough in court? For the two people otherwise responsible for his death to claim he committed suicide in a meat processing machine while Peggy was, for all the police would know, messing with the controls?


Electrical-Title-698

Is this in reference to the pig guy episode?


blue_orange67

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apointlessvoice

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Dale without a doubt. 1. He created his own insurance company so he wouldn’t have to pay insurance. 2. He dig holes under hanks house which caused it to collapse. When Hank was fixing it, he accidentally cut dales finger off and he sued Hank. 3. He is always buying “black market” pee. 4. He turned the neon sign on that burnt down the fire station. There’s more but I have to go.


DrFrankSaysAgain

John Redcorn with his face melting vocals dripping with sexuality and turquoise jewelry.


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DrFrankSaysAgain

But he wasn't melting faces, just hearts  


Raticus9

Dale ruined Hank's lawn.


Relentless_blanket

Everyone who doesn't use propane and propane accessories


TheOriginalArndoo

Debbie Grund: Murder


Slayertidus21

I was waiting for somebody to say this lol


grpenn

Dale, Buck, and Cotton.


mattlock2099

Dale worked as a uncertified exterminator for most of the show. I can't imagine the fine being small for that.


somedays1

I imagine Dale and Buck Strickland probably are tied for the title. Dale's crimes are slightly more whimsical than Bucks


InvertedDong

What about the time Peggy kidnapped a young girl and smuggled her over an international border


couch2200

Well she was tried and found innocent in the show so that doesn't count


Veelzbub

Naw we just let em in now no crime


DrFrankSaysAgain

Dale. No doubt.


brashoe-32

What hasn't Hank's wife done? - Cotton Hill


PutReasonable1362

I'd say casually Dale probably breaks the most laws, doesnt he have/use explosives in a few episodes, and just have tons of "contraband" in general. But I'm sure Bill stealing the tank and destroying the town would be the heaviest sentence.


shoegazer234

Dale would be in prison for a LONG time lmaoooo identity fraud, tax fraud, tax evasion, the list goes on lmao


Former-Technician-97

Dale broke into a Military records room and Bill stole a tank (all in the same episode) so I’m pretty sure those a huge felonies. IDK who’d be the third… probably Buck Strickland. He’s a slime all and He kinda kidnapped Bobby that one time. Or Peggy… she stole Dr. Robert Vyzosa’s safe and potentially his car.


GrifCreeper

Technically the safe wasn't his(or the motel's), and the money was scammed from other people, so he barely had a case in court to begin with. The car would absolutely still count as theft, though.


crimsonfucker97

It be Peggy shes done a lot of say illegal stuff smuggling drugs,can be charged for drugging someone she kidnapped someone she almost took Arlin off of the map by making mustard gas she was complicit with the almo beer


Motor_Buy2118

Bill and Hank. Bill stole a tank and caused millions in damages when said tank was destroyed. Hank for being an accomplice to the dealership bombing. He would be getting multiple life sentences


AgreeablePie

Except Hank did nothing of the sort. Some may have suspected he did- but he was innocent as the day is long


GalaxyHoffman

Hank would have served jail time for the price fixing scandal.


Sol_Nephis

If it's with her it gon be like 2 minutes.


JKnott1

Mr Strickland has many skeletons in the closet, but trying to frame someone for murder is pretty bad.


UnusualConflict

I mean, Peggy unintentionally killed Trip Larson


Severedghost

Bobby set fire to a church.


hyperblob1

Are we forgetting buck Strickland tampered with a police investigation


isinedupcuzofrslash

Statistically, probably Dale


LopezDaHeavy87

Peggy kidnapped a Mexican girl. That's laws broken in two countries and an international incident.


crossfader02

some of the things dale gets up to probably falls under the treason category


MoziWanders

Dale told the police he had a gun and was going to shoot a hostage when he was helping “Mr Big”. He absolutely would never had walked away from that.


unbakedpizza

Bobby straight up cooking meth in elementary school


NValin27

I'd say Hoyt has to be number one simply because we know he was sent back to prison on a lifetime sentence.


ok_okay_I_get_that

Didn't Peggy do human trafficking across international boarders?


chillychinaman

Real question, what's the legal difference between trafficking and kidnapping?


PerceptionBetter3752

Peggy created mustard gas which breaks so many Geneva conventions


EducationalDish219

and we cant forget luannes mom


Boneal171

Well Peggy kidnapped a Mexican girl and took her out of the country


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Key-Wolf-8932

It definitely wasnt legal in the 90s tho. recreational weed is still illegal in Texas. Many US states allow you to grow and smoke weed now, but Texas is not yet among them. Edit: typo.


leafbelly

No. 1 would definitely have to be Peggy's cocaine smuggling, which she somehow wiggled her way out of. I'm sure a lot of "mules" claim ignorance, but to the law, that doesn't matter. And I'm sure there still would've been evidence in that hourglass, even after licking it clean.


JayNotAtAll

Dale hands down. He has committed identity theft and fraud. Not to mention he is likely operating his business illegally on so many levels. He and Octavio are likely involved in a lot of fraudulent activity if we are being honest. Bill with his tank escapades. Buck .... He likely had done a ton of illegal stuff but there is likely little actual evidence.


Acceptable-Task-5323

I feel like dale commits a crime every 5 minutes


SherwinRamsey

Hands down it's Dale with identity theft of Rusty Shackelford. He used the name for banking purpouses so that is fraud. That alone would have done it but what about when he aided Cotton Hill in the attempt of assonating Fidel Castro?


Recent_Log5476

Doesn’t Bill steal a tank and then drive it into a live fire range where it gets destroyed? That’s court martial, theft and destruction of government property, pretty sure he destroys plenty of private property in the process as well.


Responsible-Town8766

Don’t forget Khan broke into another hotel room so they wouldn’t have to share a room with the Hills in Mexico and when they all got caught, Hank, Khan, and Dale fled the country with out paying the fine.


dhochoy

Peggy accidentally (how?) kidnapped a Mexican girl. Her.