True story! Re: great things about Oregon, see also: physician assisted suicide, no sales tax and (in Eugene) nekkid breasts on public display in the summer.
Hooray for Oregon!
I’d like to run numbers, set up as a non-profit betting co-op, just because I hate to see all my friends blow heavy cash on lottery tickets.
I’d smoke more weed : )
If it wouldn’t get me fired, grab some really strong pain meds from the hospital and try them out. (I guess I wouldn’t have to get them from the hospital if prescription drugs were just made legally available, though…hmmmm.) I seriously want to experience what it’s like to be heavily sedated, narc’ed up, put under anesthesia…without really needing it. It might be pretty cool, and I think it would make me a better nurse, as I could relate to something that just about all of my patients deal with.
That said, I’d want it to be controlled again after a couple of experimentations–I have a bit of an addiction-prone personality and I know about the potential for abuse. Not a road I want to go down.
Oh good lord, I was just thinking about this a couple of days ago.
I have always, always, *always * wanted to heave a big-ass brick through a downtown plate glass department store window.
Man, that would be satisfying.
One must draw the line somewhere I guess. :dubious:
Sounds like you would know. Did the fine really use to be a flat $5 or is that an Urban Legend that snopes missed?
I found nothing on snopes, but a few sites that seemed to indicate that the $5 speeding tickets were legit.
Jim
There isn’t much I don’t do because it’s illegal – either I don’t want to do it anyway or its being illegal isn’t going to stop me. The only thing I can think of that really fits is tax evasion.
I’d also do more drugs, but that doesn’t have to do with legality per se, but rather availability. My friends are all squares, so I’m not exactly swimming in coke and LSD. Ditto poker: in the last five years or so the NYPD has been on a poker jihad and it’s been nearly impossible for an underground poker room to stay open; for decades prior it used to be that the cops looked the other way as long as you weren’t causing any trouble.
Go on a boob-grabbing rampage, listening to Still Ill by the Smiths?
Just kidding, female dopers (this would violate personal rights)…
I would creatively terminate a few individuals of my choosing, and offer assisted suicide services a’la Kevorkian to those who requested.
Oh, I would bitch-slap GW Bush, and then kick him in the nuts.
Never having gotten a ticket in Montana, I couldn’t tell you either way.
I have heard the $5 fines were back in the '70s, when federal highway funds were tied to 55 mph hour enforcement. I’ve also heard that it wasn’t actually a fine for “speeding” but a fine for “mismanagement of resources” ie wasting gas. No cites, just pure gossip, and we all know how accurate that can be.
Rape,murder,planting explosive devices and torturing small fluffy animals.oh and flashing to old age pensioners.
Drink (whenever, but not in conjunction with the next two), drive as fast as I want everywhere (not just the freeway, but on the little two lane backroads too), and mount some kind of gun or other device to the front of my car to get people out of my way.
Driving at sensible speeds.
Drugtaking.
Oh, I just thought of another one! Something small and really insignificant, but that I’ve always wanted to do just the same…
Roller skate through the mall at night. (Yeah, yeah, I know. Kids these days have those Heely shoes, but it’s not even close to the same experience. Besides, when the mall is closed it’s dark except for the backup lights, and there’s not a throng of shoppers to run over.)
I would use the account of of a major league baseball game without the express, prior written consent of major league baseball.
I’m dangerous.
Seriously, I might try marijuana, with the stipulation that legalizing it would also remove it from the list of legal things prohibited for those of us who hold clearances. Due to bureaucratic inertia (and cultural tenets within the national security infrastructure), there is IMO a non-zero probability that it would not be removed.
As norinew suggests, I would try it some other way than smoked.
I’d keep a flask of alcohol in my desk at work - working at the welfare office can drive you to drink. I’d also drink at the movies. Also, if pot was legalized, I’d score some for my mom and sis, who suffer from even worse migraines than I do. Hell, I’d grow my own. (They know about prop. 115, but none of us have taken advantage of it.)
I’d also find out exactly what constitutes a “creative nuisance” and do that at the mall. (is it painting people’s faces? Guerrilla theater? I have no idea.)
Buck naked in Walmart, recieving a blowjob while smoking a joint and high on shrooms.
Fuck no, I don’t know where Housewares is. I don’t shop here. :dubious:
Question: for those who actually have things they’d do if legal, what is it that’s keeping you from doing them now? Is it fear of the potential consequences of getting caught, the difficulty involved (e.g. inability to find drugs), or is it [snort, giggle] respect for the law?
(I love the dueling Google ads on the bottom of this page. Two sites are selling drug testing kits, while one other is selling info on how to beat drug testing kits.)
Another vote for smoke pot.
Actually, what’s stopping me isn’t so much the fact that it’s illegal. It’s the fact that its illegality means my employer can randomly test me for it.
I asked the question in GQ and I got some great answers.