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I MK23 is illegal in California?? That makes me want to cry. I am never moving there. Ever!!
Getting a silencer for it is a little trickier, but I know a couple guys with fully legal, fully suppressed MK23s.
My scenario:
I have henchmen in every major city in the world hook up a remote email based detonator to a dirty nuke. I get on my computer and with the press of a button, I simultaneously send detonation codes to every single nuke in ONE SECOND. In one second I kill billions!!
I win!. . . Oh, and while I’m pressing the button on my laptop, my 11 year old Philipino boy is sucking me off while possessing a beer in one hand and a post ban semi-auto assault rifle in the other. Oh, and I’m smoking some crack and beating both my pregnant wives with my free hand.
To fit the revised rules, I previously place all the nukes in those cities. (We don’t have to count the crimes committed doing that)
My one second “Snap Shot” is at the moment I press the ENTER key. And since only two people can be near me, I will get rid of one of my pregnant wives. But the one I keep is now retarded. And she’s not really my wife. She’s 11 and my sex slave.
I don’t buy some of these scenarios because the actual crime is committed well in advance of the one second. I am confused that the OP stated that you could have unlimited resources and unlimited people. That would mean to me that you could easily violate every law that only takes one second to cross the line from legal to illegal. That is not a very intellectual game but it would produce the longest thread in the history of the board to cover.
Let me take a simpler, less violent approach (the redneck method) that breaks a ton of laws at the same time and only involves one person and one second. Take a muscle car and make everything on it illegal. Hotrod the engine with illegal parts, put really loud exhaust on it (be sure to remove the catalytic converter). Remove the inspection sticker, license plates, serial number plate, inspection sticker, registration etc. Tint the windows pitch black. Break the headlights, tailights, windshield, and hazzard lights. Put bald tires on it. Remove the horn. Continue until every single thing on the car is illegal but it still runs fine. Park it facing forward on a long driveway that intersects a busy street.
Find your driver. He is in the house that goes with the driveway. Unfortunately he is under house arrest at the moment. He can go in the yard but not leave his driveway or else it is a severe parole violation. Talk him into the stunt by getting him good and liquored up with 20 or so rum and cokes. Verify that his license has been revoked because of seven DUI’s in the past two years.
Now, call the local convent and tell the head nun that your friend is having a severe spiritual crisis and needs help immediately. Tell her to load up the van because this is going to take all the resources she has. She agrees.
Carry your driver to the car and put him in. Fire up the engine. This is all fine because you are still on private property. Give him his marching orders.
Stand next to the busy street and wait for the nun bus to pull up. When the nun bus heads down the street towards the house give your driver the signal. He heads straight down the driveway eventually reaching 80 mph. This is a LONG driveway and it is a souped up muscle car. Just before the nuns turn into the driveway, your convict, drunk driver in an impossibly illegal car crosses over his property line and strikes the nun bus making it explode, killing all aboard. The driver, of course, is fine because he is so drunk.
Total time from 100% legal to dozens of felonies, misdameanors, and civil infractions: .8 seconds.
Put an open container in the car (legal on private property?).
Make him naked (legal on private property?)
Put his child, with resepct to whom he has visitation rights only at his house, in the car.
Make the property line be a state line (now he’s crossing state lines with a child that he does not have custody of).
Throw in as many weapons and substances that are legal in the first state, and illegal in the second state (maybe the state line is Nevada/California – everclear, ak-47s, etc.)
Make him turn the wrong way onto a one way street at the end of the driveway.
Across a cross walk, containing a pedestrian.
Across a bike lane, containing a biker.
Against the red light.
Put a prostitute (legal in Nevada?) in the car, and have him performing the illegal (in CA) sex act while driving.
Have him toss a lit Cuban cigar out the window as he makes the turn.
Crimes on private property are still crimes. A DUI on private property is NOT LEGAL!!
Also, all the car stuff is NOT CRIMINAL. Therefore, NOT CRIMES. They are civil infractions. Punishable by fines only. Most of everything you mention are not even misdemeanors.
All you have there is about a dozen counts of DUI manslaughter. Not even a single murder charge. Your scenario is week.
I killed BILLIONS. And, though mine took previous illegal activity, none of that activity counts in my “one second snap shot”. I really don’t need to count much more, since in one second I killed BILLIONS!!
Yes, but how many laws did you break? You’ve got billions of counts of violating one law. You’re no further ahead in the game than you would be with a single bullet to the head of a single victim.
That said, I do like the idea of crossing from a permissive jurisdiction into a restrictive one. Could we use an international border, here? Or perhaps crossing from international waters into the territorial waters of the US? I’m sure there are plenty of activities and items legal for a (perhaps stateless) person in international waters, but not for a person within the US.
First of all, I need a cite that a DUI on your own property is illegal in all states. I cannot imagine that is the case. I can see it being illegal in mall parking lots and such but on your own farm? I just don’t know the laws well enough but I cannot see how I could go back to the 100 acres with many roads that I grew up on and get prosecuted for it (the cops obviously could not be there under normal circumstances but I am just saying).
Secondly, if you combine my post with Shelbo’s then we have all of the former post if you are really serious about the 1 second rule and interpret it as I do.
I also had a felony parole violation and the exploding nun bus was a MURDER 1 violation because it was a premediated act and the car was used intentionally as a weapon thank you very much. I said that many of my “crimes” were civil infractions. Those were thrown in as a bonus just because I could. I think that the real test here is to see how many infractions you can collect in 1 second only. Again, see Shelbo’s post and put it with mine and we have a winner.
okay, what adding in embassies to the mix. Find the most legally restrictive country with the most legally permissive embassy in it and cross from one to the other.
That in itself could lead to a debate of what the most legally permissive and restrictive countries.
In the case of resricted sexual acts if one was careful to “meet at the border” so to speak, could you legally recieve oral sex from a prostitute kneeling in Nevada while you yourself are standing in California? Likewise for embassies, If two embassy guards are smoking a joint and one is inside the gate and passes it to a fellow guard outside the gate, have they just transpored contraband across international boundaries?
Are there not numerous laws you can break by making a contract that’s fraudulent, misleading, for an illegal activity, etc? If so, just draw up something that says breaks all of them; it’s just a piece of paper. Sign it (and get a friend to sign off if it requires a transfer of money) and POW all broken at once.
I think assassination would be a worthy contender for this. The moment at which the sniper pulls the trigger is the moment, primarily, when he commits murder [1].
Right. Sniper in tall building fires at a passing politician, attempting to injure him [1] but actually killing him [2]. By firing the gun, he also breaks a local noise pollution law [3]. At the very start of this second, he realises that the gun is an old one and the cartridges have been greased with pig fat (in tribute to the ones mistakenly believed to have been issued to Sepoys in the army of the East India Company in 1857) the use of which to him is unclean, but he pulls it anyway [4]. By the end of this second, the empty cartridge has fallen to the ground, breaking a local litter law [5]. In attempting to injure his target, rather than kill him, he breaks an oath he has made to the Mental Terrorism Organisation, which is law according to their unique interpretation of their holy book [6]. Lastly, the killing earns him rather a lot of money via a contract, paid into his account the second a computer on the end of a satellite link hears the shot fired, so he earns money illegally or something [7]. And he’s earning it over eBay, from a guy who thinks he’s actually using a slightly different kind of rifle, so it’s fraud too [8].
4 and 6 are of course religious laws. But I bet there’s a country somewhere, where interpetations of religious laws and state laws are intended to be the same, where we could up the ante a whole lot by having people break religious laws too. Sadly I am not qualified to go much further than the unclean thing.
Actually as I understand it the East India bit would have been unclean to the soldiers because they did something to the cartridges with their mouths before loading them - bit open the packet or something. So strictly speaking the sniper may not have been doing something unclean.
Instead, he does it ALL on a Sunday, so (a) he’s working on the Sabbath, and (b) as it’s for money, it’s Sunday trading!
The best real life example: The 9/11 terrorists commited an uncountable number of murders and attempted murders in the split second the planes hit their targets. And broke a multitude of other laws.
