r/IsItIllegal

New York

There was a radio station event doing a ticket giveaway at a local business for a FREE concert. Free ticket to a free concert (there are a small amount of paid VIP tickets). The staff member left a stack of the tickets unattended at a table and may or may not have taken more than the 2 tickets they were handing out per person. In the ticket it states “no cash value” and also states on the ticket “the show is free”. There were a few upset people that saw me. Can I get in legal trouble? Petty larceny??

For the sake of argument, it’s realistic enough that the dogs think I’m a giant cat.

I‘m also an Olympic running champion so they probably won’t catch me.

A year ago I was staying at a hotel for a company event, and the hotel had a fence that went around the perimeter of the property, with the exception of an open gate in the front for cars/pedestrians.

I was walking back to the hotel from the bars heavily intoxicated from a work event, and I decided that rather than walk all the way around the building, I would just hop the fence as a shortcut.

Waiting for me on the other side of the fence was a police officer in his car. He got out, yelled at me to walk over to him, and demanded to see an ID. I pulled out and gave him my room key (my drunken rational was that the room key would prove we were allowed to be there) and then gave him my ID when he repeated the question.

He questioned us for a while and gave us a hard time. Eventually, when he had determined that we were in fact allowed to be there and that we had not broken any trespassing laws, he told us that he would go easy on us and condescendingly told us to go to our hotel rooms and stop causing problems.

My question is; was anything I did actually illegal or warranting his response? I do not believe I was trespassing because I was allowed to be there, public intoxication is not illegal in the state we were in, and while hopping the fence was suspicious, I was not being loud or disorderly. I understand the reaction he had before he knew we were staying at that hotel, but his response after he determined we were guests there seemed unnecessary.

Was there any crime I actually could have been convicted of in this case?

a close buddy of mine is having a birthday soon, and his childhood best friend and i are trying to figure out a birthday prank for him to wake up to. i have, in my amazon cart, 35 funny bumper MAGNETS all with different sayings like “don’t honk, i’ll cry” and “hot girls hit curbs”.

would it be illegal if the childhood best friend and i covered his car with these magnets for him to wake up to on his birthday?

i’m opting for magnets so he can take them off without any damage to his car, but i don’t wanna spend the money if it’s illegal.

The title is essentially the question, but here's a little background & timeline:

My soon-to-be ex husband and I filed for divorce in September 2025.

In November 2025, I had a routine physical. When I was at the doctor's office, they were having trouble verifying my insurance via the information that I provided, and I said maybe I have the wrong number, the number from my old plan when I was taking insurance through my job instead of his. I thought they had resolved it but in early December-ish, I received a bill for over $300 for this routine annual visit.

Fast forward to March 2026, my attorney asked me if I was still on his plan or if I have gotten my own coverage (this was relevant to the financial affidavit process). I said I believe he has removed me from coverage, but I missed my open enrollment period so I will have to wait until the divorce is finalized to in order to get back on the coverage with my employer. They respond saying that he informed his attorney that he still has me on his coverage and will continue to do so until the divorce is finalized. I tell me attorney that, in that case, it is confusing that I received a $300+ bill for a physical. That was the end of the conversation.

Fast forward to today, May 2026, I was supposed to have a dentist appointment tomorrow morning. They ask me to confirm my appointment and to provide my insurance information to update their system. I tell them I will have to check and see if I have the card at home, and if not I will have to reschedule (to avoid another situation like my doctor's visit). They ask if I know which insurance company it is. I tell them the company and explain that it my husband's plan, we are separated, and I have no access to information online to look it up. Then they ask who is his employer. I tell them where he works. They are able to look it up for me and inform me that my coverage term ended on October 31, 2025.

So my question is, is he allowed to remove me from health insurance coverage without my knowledge or without discussion? Although there sort of was discussion, in March, when he said that I am still covered even though I'm now finding out that I actually was removed in October? But as of March he told his attorney that I am still covered? Not sure there is any action to take and it likely won't affect the divorce anyways, but I'm almost fuming that I have unknowingly been without health, dental, and vision insurance for over 6 months.

I recently joined a zoomed meeting and halfway through the host put up a cover page with the word 'Confidential' on part of it. I hadn't been made aware anything would be confidential, there was no disclaimer, there were no ndas, nothing to indicate such leading up to it. Just suddenly part of the topic of discussion was "confidential". I don't agree that the information relayed should be withheld - but am I legally obligated to refrain from repeating that info?

I was recently called by a telmarketer and he asked me if I was in the global shipping/trade business and I jokingly said that I im in the golbal stuff and when he asked me what I trade I said that I trade coke as a joke and then he said that this was recorded and will be sent to the Interpol. So can I get into international trouble for this?

Hi, I'm not a lawyer and English is not my first language,

so please bear with me.

I wrote a short personal declaration stating that I claim

prior rights over my own face, voice and digital likeness,

and that I do not consent to unauthorized AI-generated

replicas of me.

I added this sentence at the bottom:

"I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of

the United States that the foregoing is true and correct."

(28 U.S.C. § 1746)

My questions:

1. Is it legally okay for a regular person to sign

this kind of declaration for themselves?

2. Does this sentence create any legal risk for me

personally if I sign it?

3. Is there anything I should NOT include in such

a document to stay out of trouble?

Thank you for any help. Location: Washington State, USA

Location: Oregon

I was sent a census form and I am going back and forth about whether or not to fill it out. It says that I am legally required to fill it out, but I have never heard of forms like this showing up 6 years after the census was already concluded. It seems legit, but my case worker with the local disability services says it sounds like a scam and I'm getting mixed results online. It is also asking weird questions that I learned in college were not allowed to be asked. I am incredibly wary of this current administration and am worried about filling out certain demographic information to hand to the current federal government. So I guess the questions I need answered are thus:

1. Is this a scam?

2. Am I legally required to fill this out?

3. What is the punishment if I don't fill this out?

4. What are they allowed to ask?

5. What would the punishment be if I only filled out the questions I'm comfortable with?

6. What do I do if they show up at my door?

7. Should I get a lawyer?

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: This is the statute they are claiming: Title 13, U.S. Code, Sections 141, 193, and 221. And they are claiming it was also changed by Title 18 to impose a penalty for refusing to comply.

Title sums it up. For YEARS I have been getting texts about a 40 acre parcel for sale (in an adjacent town) asking for more information.

I do not know the address for this property, where it is listed for sale, or how my phone number is involved. I have had this number for over a decade. None of the numbers texting me want to tell me where they are getting this info. Is it (legally) okay to give them information about the property that I am not 100% sure is true? I am not looking for moral guidance and I am at my wits end. Thanks !

Last July a friend of mine died tragically and unexpectedly.

Her sister set up a GoFundMe fundraiser citing the twin goals of helping to pay for her cremation and memorial service. While I couldn't make a large donation, up until about 6 weeks ago I was steadily donating $20, $25, or $30 from nearly every paycheck to the fundraiser. I sent emails to the sister several times through the GoFundMe site, each time asking her if the family intended to have a memorial service for my friend once the financial goal of the fundraiser had been met. I kept checking but never found any notice anywhere of a funeral being held for her

About 6 weeks ago, the sister contacted me on messenger and told me that my friend's cremation and funeral service had already taken place last September. She went on to explain that the family had kept it private because they did not agree with my friend's lifestyle (she was a drug user and they did not want to chance any of her--in their opinion--sub-human druggie friends showing up to pay their respects at her funeral). Fine. Although disappointed, I truly don't have an issue with the family choosing to grieve in private and not make any public announcement regarding her funeral. I am positive that my friend would not have agreed with that decision--she had more compassion than that, but thats irrelevant. What I have a problem with is all those months AFTER the funeral, after the reasons for starting the fundraiser in the first place had been resolved, that my friends sister kept it active and kept taking my money. How is that not fraud? I feel like the sister should have stopped taking my donations after K's funeral, or at the very least answered the first email I sent her letting me know it was all over and done instead of milking the fundraiser for a little extra fun money. And am I being a jerk for wanting the money back that I have donated since last September? In the field I work in ethical behavior is both an absolute necessity and a top priority, and this feels unethical to me. Perhaps it's not considered fraudulent for her to keep the fundraiser active and keep soliciting donations to help pay for funeral services that occurred months ago. I feel foolish, however, like I have been lied to and duped because had I known my friends funerary needs had been met I would have not continued to donate. I'm sure the sister knew that and left it up specifically so she could continue to take donations under what amounts to false pretences.