If you've ever crossed the street unlawfully, in certain states you've committed a misdemeanor. Usually handled via a fine, if you can't pay the fine, you may end up in prison. Or if you're an 84 year old man in New York during a crackdown, I suppose [1]. So people who jaywalk are the scum of the earth now? Fascinating.

If you're a green card holder and leave the card at home, and run into a law enforcement officer, that's a $100 fine or 1 month in jail. Luckily I've got my photocopy here, ah wait, that's insufficient. Good point -- scum of the earth, I'll see myself to jail.

You can go to jail for possessing a lobster less than 3.25" long even if you found it washed up on shore, you absolute monster [3]. Have you, yourself, ever held a short lobster? Remember! Not knowing isn't an excuse either!

Nobody even knows how many federal laws there are [4]. We've tried to count them and failed a number of times. Stalin's head of secret police once said "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime" -- well, if the set of crimes in the US is un-countable, I bet you that works equally well here.

I've never met you, but I guarantee, you've accrued enough potential legal liability to spend the rest of your miserable life in prison, and yet you're out wandering around, calling others scum (in a different thread) and showing off that you've never been to prison. So what's difference? Luck I guess.

[1] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2014/01/21/84-year-old-jaywalker...

[2] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/do-i-really-need-car...

[3] https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2016/08/no/dmf-lobster-...

[4] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304319804576389...