“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes

I am starting to get at feeling this list should be marked "illegal in the US".

I brought my own epilepsy meds to the hospital. The doctor asked me why and I told her because the hospital charges a ridiculous amount of money for everything. She just kind of laughed and said she couldn't disagree with me. The pharmacist has to check them out before they'll allow them to be used in the hospital, for insurance purposes of course. Can't have the ones robbing you getting sued.

Our local pharmacist is like this. If he sees doc has prescribed some brand name med he'll tell you about the cheaper generic version and let you choose. If you're on a good medical aid you take the brand name, if not you go for generic.

Not all heroes wear capes.

you are a hero.

I was the maintenance super in a nursing home in the late 1980s. Whatever I needed, whether it was a replacement outlet or switch, was 5 times as expensive if it said "medical grade".

Once again it's a backdoor way to say America sucks. I imagine one of the next ones on the list will be "It's not illegal to peer at someone through a bathroom stall gap."

What a wonderful human being. :]

Healthcare in the US is a joke. I had a sever high ankle sprain, and needed a boot. I saw what the doctor chaeged, then saw a price on Amazon, and I was pissed!

Bless you woman

I certainly think that insurance is a scheme to defraud people of affordable healthcare. Universal health insurance would only be more expensive as insurance is a for profit model. An so they will want to tell you, rather than the physician, what care you will get.

After hearing how it takes weeks or months to get a pathology report back in the UK I'll take my expensive healthcare here in the US.

Yup. If anyone in your family ever needs crutches, keep those bad boys. Chances are, eventually someone else will need them at some point.

Wow, in Canada I think I paid $25 for a pair of crutches about 7 years ago.

Thank god for people like this.

My hero.

Not heroes wear capes, in fact, most heroes are nurses. You are such an amazing human being. it's not about if it's " theft " or not, it's about you doing something to help people who are are struggling to pay for things in a country where free healthcare should exist, but doesn't.

the USA Healthcare model is a scam

Former nurse here and we've all done it especially I'd you have a patient you know will never be able to play the prescription charge and will not be able to get their meds. Although I'm the UK kids and young people still in education have free prescription . I've seen Mum's having to bring their little ones to A and E because they can't afford to feed their kids and buy over the counter meds. I'm the old days these items could be prescribed but now over the counter meds are not permitted to be prescribed. It is such a shame ,the NHS is a life saver and politicians are destroying it .

You are a good person.

The boot lickers who defend capitalism appalls me.

Well done you!

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That mark up, while outrageous, still isn't making a profit for the hospital. Handing out 50 of an item will get written off as stolen but enough of it will lead to an investigation. In 2022 US hospitals were facing billions in losses despite their fees.

Totally agree it should be legalised (under strict controls, obviously). Refusing a humane end to a suffering animal is rightly considered cruelty, so why do humans not get that same mercy when they need it?

My food stamps were cut in half in March. Now I get $126 for the entire month. My SSI is $1200. Like many other people in this country, I can only afford one meal a day. Rather ironic, as I'm morbidly obese.

Texas is a crime.

Sadly they are controlled.

Where is this a crime? In Switzerland you can't be in the drivers seat but otherwise no problem...

What about vodka, gin, beer etc etc

Varies from country to country. In the UK jaywalking is not a thing, people walk on or cross roads wherever they want, it's just their responsibility to check for traffic first before stepping out

Surely the opposite would be a crime? Where is this illegal?

I have given away so many parking tickets that have time left on them. Where I live you can get 30 mins to 1hr free depending on the car park/street

Oh the humanity!

I think this should not only be legal, but actually *encouraged* - it helps preserve old software, prevents it from being lost to history.

Entire species were hunted to extinction (Arabian Ostrich) or near extinction (bald eagle) for their feathers. They had to make possession illegal because its way too easy to shoot a bird 1/2 mile from the nearest road and then claim you found the feathers on the ground.

"Is your lemonade made out of actual lemonade?" - "Are your scout cookies made out of actual scouts?"

Where is this a crime? That's crazy.

Prostitution should be legalized and taxed, just like any other business.

Illegal or the famous US HOA?

The crime here is that there was food thrown out that could have been passed on to someone who needs it.

Worth noting that being gay in ‘most’ countries was still illegal well into the 1900’s, from memory I think it was decriminalised as late as 1996 in Germany. So to my mind we shouldn’t be pointing fingers at developing countries for their ideas, religions and beliefs because we are only talking between what 25-75 years ago when ‘we’ held similar ideas.

I see nothing wrong with this, we throw too much ok stuff away

It's clothing. It's there to keep you covered and protect you from the elements. What shape it comes in should be completely up to the wearer.

no you cannot sell alcohol without a trade certificate

Public parks have "opening hours"?

How else do you make it a Funday?

If being in a religion is okay, then not being in one should be too. Forcing people into a religion tends to have the opposite effect…

the other way around is just called business

Jesus that's a bit extreme

We have a certain religion here where I live that don't work on Sunday's. But of course they will go to church then go out for brunch afterward and make other people work even though they HIGHLY judge people who work on Sunday. I work in Healthcare there are no days off. My friends say "I better not treat them if they come in on Sunday lest I will be judged." Of course she was being sarcastic.