Most cities inspect apartment buildings at least once every two years. The landlord must have racked up some heavy duty fines not fixing the elevator, especially if they had physically handicapped people living in the building.
Howard gave Penny a teddy bear with a hidden camera in it.
How were they able to send Sheldon a citation when the trafficcam saw him driving Penny’s car?
When Howard hooks up with Penny friend Christy Vanderbel *the whore of Omaha), it’s implied he does something with Penny’s stuffed bear collection. Exactly what I do not want to know.
And Raj’s deaf girl friend Emily was a gold digger, but that is more unethical than illegal.
Howard drove the wrong way on a one-way street. (Speeding?)
Penny, Bernadette and Leonard stalked and spied on Amy and her date.
Howard took Raj’s helicopter apart and couldn’t reassemble it.
Raj snooped in Emily’s apartment, breaking her nightstand.
The ticket was sent to Penny and since she couldn’t afford any more points, she ratted out Sheldon.
Sheldon gets his driving learner’s permit by bugging out the instructor. This is not the first or last time Sheldon used such a tactic to get what he wanted.
Amy also was drunk in public. And she also brought the smoking monkey from her experiment home, which is no doubt against the university’s and city’s laws about keeping wild animals and smoking .
The guys were disposing of Roger Abbott’s belongings, which were probably University property. And Raj made off with his pen, and Sheldon popped his champagne bottle.
And Penny’s brother was a drug dealer.
And didn’t Bernadette wear a wire, to spy on the other guys?
I’m sure Leonard’s mother was guilty of some crime, but I don’t know what. Child abuse? Spouse abuse?
Bernadette often offered and, I believe in some cases gave away, pharmaceutical samples. Wouldn’t this be practicing medicine without a license? (Yeah, she’s a doctor, but it’s a Ph. D, not an M.D.)
In the parking spot epi, there was a lot of law-breaking. Bernadette admitted to keying Amy’s car. Amy illegally parked in the spot (and got towed). Sheldon stole Howard’s valuable Iron Man mask.
In an episode where the guys were supposed to be working in a clean room Howard lets in a pigeon which ultimately leads to them destroying university records.
Sheldon has frequently violated restraining orders. Sheldon has a few restraining orders.
Making an explosive in an apartment building is probably illegal all by itself; Leonard is responsible for all the damage, since he created the situation - Sheldon mitigated the situation by putting the stuff in the elevator, but Leonard is the guilty party (if Sheldon hadn’t been there, and been quick to react, Leonard would be responsible for more destruction and some deaths).
Since they were assigned by the university to dispose of the property, I think they’re in the clear for that.
Todd Zarnecki hacked into Sheldon’s World or Warcraft account and stole his valuable possessions. He then steals Sheldon’s Klingon bat’leth.
As noted, fornication is not a crime. Neither is cross-dressing.
As for Dennis Kim, he found that girl himself, got himself interested, and himself followed her into debauchery. The guys were notably unsuccessful at even getting started trying to talk to a specific girl to get her interested. All they are responsible for is the “bring your daughter to work day” thing which put the two people in proximity. They had the intent but not the execution.
I doubt it. They invited him, he was working for compensation, they left him alone with her. All he did was the job he was being paid for. His only crime is not being so disgusted by her that he couldn’t do the job.
They had it set on “stun”.
In addition to the elevator, they also destroyed their apartment’s front door with their fighting robot. And then in the battle with Kripke’s they knocked off a door at CatTech. The first might be civil given being tenants, but the latter is definitely criminal.
Sheldon stole Penny’s clothes from the laundry and threw them onto power lines. Expecting her to somehow safely retrieve them. (He’d be in real trouble if she died doing that.)
Penny ruined Sheldon’s cushion for his spot with a paintball. Eventually fixed but it didn’t feel the same (until he was districted by Leonard revealing a fraud involving Chinese restaurants).
Ninja’d
RE - Sheldon throwing the clothes onto the power lines? Would this be a simple littering charge or would some more serious charge be appropriate due to the involvement of public utilities? Would it be the exact same charge if he had just thrown them out onto the street?
One more incident that that may or may not be a criminal act on Sheldon’s part. Sheldon got “something from the School of Pharmacology” in order to help Leonard woo Mrs Latham.
Leonard, Howard and Raj committed fraud by creating a dating profile in Sheldon’s name (which led to him meeting Amy).
Raj totally exposed himself in the coffee shop.
And an intoxicated Sheldon exposed himself while giving a speech.
ETA - added link
Also, would the electrified net the gang set up as a burglar trap be criminal?
Not hardly. They put everything in accurately and there was no intent to deceive for monetary gain, etc. Besides, if lying on a profile at a dating site is a crime, half the country would be in jail.