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[Lord Dakoth]

Greetings to the less sane members of the Bay12 community. I must admit, it's been a while since I ventured this deep into the lower parts of the forum.

I'll be to the point.

Did you know that it's illegal in New Jersey to wear a bulletproof vest while attempting to commit murder, burglary, or a number of other heinous crimes?

I kid you not.

Wow. Just wow.

[Morrigi]

Wrong forum.

[Lasander]

Hm, not sure what this has to do with DF but it is illegal to wear bulletproof armor while committing a felony here in Oklahoma as well.

Its also illegal to raise a red flag and the Communist Party is banned along with bear wrestling. *shrug*

[smjjames]

Hm, not sure what this has to do with DF but it is illegal to wear bulletproof armor while committing a felony here in Oklahoma as well.

Its also illegal to raise a red flag and the Communist Party is banned along with bear wrestling. *shrug*

Probably means a red flag as in the soviet flag rather than rasiing a red flag as in something suspicious or not right or a warning.

[Lord Dakoth]

Oops. Moved.

[Lasander]

Hm, not sure what this has to do with DF but it is illegal to wear bulletproof armor while committing a felony here in Oklahoma as well.

Its also illegal to raise a red flag and the Communist Party is banned along with bear wrestling. *shrug*

Probably means a red flag as in the soviet flag rather than rasiing a red flag as in something suspicious or not right or a warning.

No, The red flag is associated with anarchy which why it was banned--I think.  I dont remember the law off the top of my head.

[Duke 2.0]

 Unlawful to wrestle bears?! Remind me not to move there, I'll have nothing to do all day! And least a bear breaks into my home I'll have to cheapen the fight by arming myself to make it constitute as not wrestling. Although those bears I trained to fight with knives might work fine...

[Cthulhu]

What's so weird about that?  They're toughening the penalty if the criminal takes measures to make himself more able to commit crime.

Instead of an assault charge, you get an assault charge and an illegal paraphernalia charge.  Makes perfect sense.

[Doomshifter]

I hear it's illegal to bring harm to a butterfly in the state of California. I think.

[Lord Dullard]

Well, this actually isn't that surprising. Wearing a bulletproof vest or whatever makes you considerably more dangerous to police if you decide to get into a gunfight with them, and it'll be an additional charge they could throw at someone who committed a robbery/murder/whatever in order to maximize the legal penalty. Plus, it discourages other loonies from doing the same thing because they'll know it carries a legal penalty beyond whatever other insane behavior they're going to do, and most robbers and such probably do consider these things (maybe not murderers).

What really boggles my mind is that up until recently in history suicide has been illegal in many/most parts of the world.

[Muz]

I heard it's also illegal to be in possession of a firearm when committing murder and robbery. Can't be sure with the gun laws in the USA, though.

[ChairmanPoo]

...On the other hand, wearing a bulletproof vest also makes it more likely that you will make it ALIVE, whether they charge you afterwards or not.

So, yeah, if I was going to rob a bank, I'd take the bulletproof vest and risk the addittional penalty, thank you very much.

[Neonivek]

The reason why it is illegal to wear a bullet proof vest while attempting murder, burglery, or other crimes has little to do with them wanting to disuade people from wearing them.

It is to make it easier to not only procecute them for a crime but to also add extra time to the sentence.

So you see someone break into someone's house wearing a bullet proof vest but a gun cannot be found? Well instead of getting them on a minor theft charge now you have something with the strength of armed robbery.

[ChairmanPoo]

How would it make it easier to prosecute them for a crime? If they can prove you were attempting murder, then you already have a case. And if you can't prove that, then you werent committing any felony anyway...

[Jude]

and the Communist Party is banned

Huh? That seems blatantly unconstitutional and like it would have been challenged long ago