13 Things You Thought Were Illegal But Aren’t

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6 – Owning a Tank,

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  • Arguably the pinnacle of land based combat and is also pretty much useless in any situation where you’re not going to be fired upon, so you’d think, using common sense, that it’d be illegal to own one.
  • Well you are sort of right, if there’s an activated gun on the thing that’s a no-no, but if you want one without a hefty barrel on it, no problamo.
  • This is true in quite a few countries including the US, UK and Australia; obviously military equipment is going to cost a arse-load of money, but if you’re prepared to spend six or more figures you can have a tank parked in your garage.

5 – School Corporal Punishment,

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  • That’s right in these red states in America teachers are completely within their rights to give their students a good ol’ spanking if they say something they’re not supposed to.
  • You’d think that such a thing would be pretty much universally illegal, at least in the first world, but then here we are.
  • Luckily most schools don’t practise their ‘right’ to hit children, but there are some that do, which is kinda fucked up really.

4 – Salvia,

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DCF 1.0
  • Salvia, for those of you who don’t know, contains a hallucinogen inside it’s leaves and when ingested it gives you a short, but extreme trip that some people describe as unique.
  • So since it does that to your brain the assumption would be that it’s illegal, but in the green states here and also in the UK it’s completely legal.
  • Actually studies have shown that it doesn’t really hurt you, but the problem is that if you concentrate it, it can do quite a lot of damage, it’s also used to make more harmful drugs.

3 – Firing a Missile,

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  • In South Carolina it’s legal for you to fire a missile, but only if you get a permit, but still, that’s pretty crazy, of course from their definition is loose enough to include fireworks.
  • If you don’t get a permit you will get fined, but the funny thing is that the maximum fine for doing so is $100, which seems pretty lax all things considered.
  • Obviously if you go and shoot someone or a building with a missile it’s doubly illegal and you’ll get charged for a bigger crime, but if you miss and everything goes okay? Not illegal.

2 – Cannibalism,

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  • This ones rather slippery, while it’s technically not prohibited in the USA and Australia there are laws against murder and desecrating corpses.
  • However, legally it’s considered to be the ‘nonconsensual’ consumption, meaning that if someone gave you permission to eat them after they died, or maybe they’ll just give you there arm or something, it’s legal.
  • However, the UK has outlawed it since the 1800s, so if cannibalism gives you the chills like it does me, maybe you should move there.

1 – Bestiality

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  • While in various places (some US states for instance) it’s not technically illegal to copulate with a Collie, but the judge is going to find some other crime for it, like animal cruelty.
  • However, in Finland you can fuck a duck, fist a fish and blow a boar if you want, I have no idea what’s up with Finland, but it’s been legal since 1976, it’s not like a few other places where they just never got around to making it illegal, it’s been stated that you can put your cock in a cock, so to speak.
  • So yeah Finland, you’re definitely an odd one, you should get that checked out by a professional.

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