You Can Get a Year in Jail for Feeding Garbage to a Pig
Attorney Mike Chase, behind the popular @CrimeADay Twitter feed, talks about his new book, How to Become a Federal Criminal.
You can get five years in federal prison for selling llama poop, according to Title Seven of the United States Code, Section 8313(a)(1)(B).
Title 21, Part 139 of the Code of Federal Regulations prohibits the sale of spaghetti noodles that are improperly shaped.
The Swine Health Protection Act forbids feeding a pig garbage that hasn't been cooked by a garbage cooker (by someone with a garbage-cooking permit, naturally).
Criminal defense attorney Mike Chase, the man behind the popular @CrimeADay Twitter feed, has a new book titled How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender. It chronicles government power at its most arbitrary and absurd.
Reason's Todd Krainin sat down with Chase to learn the roots of his obsession with laws against improperly shaped cheese, whistling on a CB radio, and making unreasonable gestures to a passing horse.
Music: "Law and Order," by Lloyd Rodgers under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 License.
Produced, written, and hosted by Todd Krainin.
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