What are the most rule-breaking (non-violent) acts you've committed? (either as laws of a country/state/ city ordinance Or rules of a community, school, workplace, website, etc)
I'll start.
Laws:
Aggravated Digital Piracy. Downloading probably thousands dollars worth of content. yaRrr π΄ββ οΈ (btw, check out: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com it's blocked by lemmy.world instance btw)
I flew a drone without FAA LAANC approval, and beyond "line of sight" rules. (I checked air radar online, there were zero flights near me at such low altitudes that I was flying my drone, so zero safety issues)
I sent a string of encrypted text over Ham Radio bands as a "proof of concept" for a off-grid comucation method. (Rattlegram is an app on Android and iOS, that can convert text to audio; Secure Space Encryptor (SSE) is an open source encryption app that can encrypt a string of plaintext into a string of ciphertext (this app is called "Paranoia Text Encryption" on iOS), you can copy-paste this ciphertext into Rattlegram and sent it over Ham Radio, then reverse the process on the other end. Voila, encrypted off-grid communications) Encryption over Ham Radio is illegal, but whatever lmfao, fuck the FCC.
A lot of jaywalking, because I was feeling suicidal and didn't care. Never got a fine lol.
School rules:
Probably the most common is the no-phone rule. (don't worry, my education was fine, didn't miss anything important)
My high-school (in the USA) made you wear a tie, I often don't until staff tells me to, then proptly take it off when they are out of sight. (It's so fucking unfortable) Idk why they even have dress codes when my school was so "ghetto" af.
Workplace:
That no-phone rule again π
Oh, I used a pen and wrote marxist shit on the bathroom walls at my workplace (I'm not even a marxist, I just wanna fuck shit up). Never got caught. Statute of limitations probably expired by now, can't even sue me if they now found out who did it.
Websites: A lot of Terms of Service. A lot of community rules in forums.
In Germany when there's construction work done in a city they love to put up signs "cyclists step off your bike" while they create a temporary path for cars. Fuck no! Why would lazy turds in their pollution metal boxes have more right to use the street than me? I'll only hop off and push my bike if car drivers do the same.
Software piracy in terms of what would have been the longest sentence.
I almost cut a mechanics fingers off after he used an emergency stop as a LOTO. I would Probably not be guilty in the eyes of law or workplace safety rules but sure would have felt the worst if something bad happened.
When I was a toddler, and my parents took me shopping, as soon as I got anywhere near the part of the store/shop that had bread, I'd always end up quickly stealing a baguette, opening it, and start eating it. By the time my parents paid for everything the baguette was nearly non existent. Of course my parents paid for the baguette in the end, but I'm pretty sure it's against the rules to steal and eat one and then force your parents to pay for it. Little old toddler me didn't care about the rules!
βThen this one guy threw the ball and this other guy ran very fast towards the end of the field and caught the ball but then this other other guy knocked him overβ¦β
I used to run a socialist news letter in HS. My distribution was like... one to my friend group, one to a cool teacher, and one to someone I had a crush on. Clearly it had higher readership than NYT.
In my workplace I've got ridiculous seniority so I try and revoice concerns from more junior people. I'd be pretty okay with getting a nice big severance payout so why the fuck not. I also try to be a voice of reason when it comes to AI hype.
There is a spot my dad and I used to go fishing. It is a large lake where one side is US and the other side is Canada. On the Canada side there is a dockside store where you can buy beer, maple syrup, and souvenirs. We stopped by the store every year before camping on the US side of the lake. One day we found out there is a little hut where we were supposed to stop first to check in with customs before going to the store. Oops.
we used to go back and forth all the time on fishing trips up north. even bring back produce (wild berries picked from the islands on the other side) without going through customs. we always did have both fishing licenses, though. catch both limits that way, regardless of where on the lake you got 'em.
Definitely not thousands worth of content if the DVDs I've been seeing if certain series are to be used as a judge point, but definitely a lot of digital piracy because I ain't paying streaming prices for more than old late 2000s, early 2010s style netflix where I can get everything on one service for a real good price.
Also cannot say my piracy has done anywhere near 0.0000000000001% of the damage to the gaming industry that something like SBI or just triple AAA titles in general have self inflicted on themselves over the past few years.
Aside from the usual ones (jaywalking in particular wouldn't be atypical), I technically broke every rule in school at least once (all except two exactly once). I say "technically" because the rule-enforcement format at my school tempted classmates to snitch on each other for the smallest things. Like, did I walk into class two seconds after the bell? Did I laugh too loudly at something a classmate did that wasn't supposed to get ridicule? Did I wear the wrong socks for my uniform (and yes it was thesameuniform as you)? Anything like these would get you in trouble.
It was rumored that the moment I broke a rule more than once, I would face something more serious, like mandatory appointments or something. There were only two I broke twice. One of them was because, on one April Fool's Day, everyone wanted to pull one of those cheesy end-of-the-year-style pranks where everyone shows up in the uniform of another school, but people didn't get the memo on what uniform it was going to be, so when everyone came in that day, it looked like comic-con, and I went with a friend's (who went to another school with another uniform). The teachers just shook their head about that. The other rule I broke twice was exam cheating; first time got me caught, second time allowed me to graduate (and I didn't get caught for that, though I fear what would happen if it got out).
My most severe punishment from school and the only one I remember getting me an in-school suspension was when they asked me to help write the yearbook, and I got to the part where everyone played the "most likely to" game, and we had an entry put in as a form of dark humor (disclaimer, DON'T do this, I admit it currently but I would neither encourage it nor use the same humor today eventhoughthesamethinghashappenedbefore... also don't harm innocent people). I was in the in-school suspension for a day where they add suspenders to your uniform as their own cheesy cruel joke (their chosen mark of someone being suspended). Because the protocol works based on punishment escalation, any rule after that would've gotten me removed from the school, so it's a good thing they didn't catch me cheating on that test.
Thatβs why Iβm careful, but there have been times Iβve swung it too far when the adjustment slips, so.. very quick path from totally fine to felony.