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Top 10 Bizarre Things That Are Shockingly Legal

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 17:13

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Here are ten things that you and most people would find shocking to be legal:

10. Print Your Own Money

The US dollar is in shambles, but seems to be picking up pace. Most of the volatility can be blamed on the decision to take it off the gold standard. If we went back to that, everything would be fine again! Well, if you’re that concerned about it, print your own money. Nothing in the Constitution or any other Federal law book says you can’t. The only restriction mentioned is in Article One of the Constitution, which basically says the States cannot issue their own currency, unless it is in gold or silver coins. Local governments and private citizens, however, can do as they please, as long as it doesn’t look like legal US currency. It can even be a fiat currency, meaning it’s not backed by gold or silver. Plenty of communities have printed their own money to improve cash flow during the recession, a practice that originated during the Great Depression.

9. Drinking & Driving

Driving while drunk has been considered taboo for decades, but driving while consuming alcohol was another issue that wasn’t cleared. To clear it up: You couldn’t be already drunk when you got in the car, but you could drink in your vehicle. In 1998, the federal government began to enforce Open Container Laws to stop you from openly chugging a beer bong while swerving into oncoming traffic. Six TEA-21 laws are in place to ensure Open Container Laws are enforced, but only 39/50 states follow all six of them.

8. Falsely Advertise Prices and Products

There are countless stories that arise from a business or person advertising a ridiculously low price for an item, sometimes accidentally, and being forced to honor that price because it would otherwise constitute false advertising. Advertising the price for a product, however, merely constitutes an “Invitation to treat and not a legally binding contract. Therefore, you can advertise whatever price you like and are not required to sell it at that price, nor are you even required to sell it to any person willing the actual price you set. While the majority of outrageous stories of businesses being “forced” to make good on advertisements are usually false, most businesses will honor incorrectly advertised prices (within reason) in the interest of good business. You are also free to advertise products you don’t actually have; in 1999, some wacko sued Pepsi because he had collected 7,000,000 Pepsi points and was therefore entitled to an AV-8 Harrier jet.

7. Become a Rock Star Using Someone Else’s Music

Sure, who doesn’t want to be a rock star? No talent? No problem! Under Copyright law, as long as you don’t sell an album with the song on it, you’re good to go. Live performance licensing is done under a variety of associations called “Performing Rights Organizations” who provide wholesale licensing of large music catalogs instead of bands billing for each individual time their song is played or performed. The best part? It’s up to the venues to pay these fees, not the band performing. Several tribute bands have achieved moderate success, including the Oasis cover band “No Way Sis” who charted a top 40 cover song and actually filled in for Oasis after the (real) band cancelled a show in Paris. Best examples are Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams.

6. Forced Castrations

Have you ever thought about how bizarre it is that an entire class of people – the Eunuchs and the Castrati – lived their entire lives as a victims of forced castrations? Castrations aren’t just legal, but normal in many parts of the world. In many parts of the world, homosexuality has been “treated” with chemical castration, and famed computer scientist Alan Turing willingly chose castration as an alternate to imprisonment for being gay, when homosexuality was still illegal. Many states in the U.S. still “dabble” in chemical castration as a way to get rid of molestors, with California and Florida allowing the practice in the worst child rape scenarios.