America Has Some WEIRD Legal Loopholes
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The reason for the Colorado law is that one can't make assumptions on what someone who is already committing a crime will do when caught. If the cops show up to a burglary they do so with guns in hand after all.
Simon! Dude, Boise = Boy-See. Not boyce, and definitely not boy-zee. Idahoans know you're not from there, if you say boy-zee. It's Boy-See.
In Montana and you can look this up it's still leagle to kill native Americans as long as there are more then seven and your in a covered wagon they are considered a raising party
@@Max_ChoochDamn shame you don’t know how to pronounce your own city name. I live near Buffalo, not Booffalo.
Simon, there was a loophole for the garage permits. You get a permit to renovate the old one. You knock down 3 walls and use the last remaining one as an interior wall. Then when the new garage is built around the remains of the old one, you demolish the last remaining wall.
We did something similar. We just replaced one wall at a time. It was stupid, but it worked.
Not sure if it works like that in Czech Republic, Soviets messed up their laws and practices really bad back in the days
Evil genius
@@roscojenkins7451 Nah, I've seen it in practice. My grandparents built a camp on a lake. Eventually the town decided no more new camps on the lake unless you had x square footage. So rich people buy these little camps and "renovate" them into massive summer cabins.
@@MiscMitz that's commonly done where i live and just commented similar. Rebovation and repair permits are much easier to get than new construction. The one place where i own a piece of property the code is like HOA level code. They have restrctions on how much of a property can be demolished or damaged before it is no longer considered an actual structure and is basically a complete loss.
We need a brain blaze blooper reel episode! That could make a great “end of year in review” kind of episode. You could sprinkle in some out of context Simon quotes too
💯% that would be awesome!!!
I am all about that! Great Idea! Yes please!
As long as they are still kept in the original episode, I'm all for it.
Isn't that every Brain Blaze🙈🙉🙊
I back this request full heartedly. It's the best request to be requested. Just look at that beautiful request. Get it done Fact Boi! Please
On the strip club story, here's a funny one for ya. We had a "Club" you could go to and see fully naked strippers (which was normally illegal if you sold alcoholic beverages). It was one or the other, booze or boobs, not both in the same place. But you could still drink beer there. They sold you your 16 ounce plastic solo cup for $3.50 and filled it with whatever beer they managed to have on hand for free. You had to purchase a new cup every time. They weren't selling beer, just the cup, so the strippers were allowed to be naked. Ahhh, good times, good times.
This is basically the same thing fraternities used to do at parties when I was in college. It was illegal to sell alcohol or have a cover charge for a party, so they would stand at the entrance selling maps to the booze.
My dad told me once about a restaurant in Utah. At the time, restaurants in Utah could serve cocktails as single-serving only. Which meant that you could buy a margarita for yourself, but if you ordered a pitcher for the table they couldn't put the tequila in it. The usual workaround was to have a liqueur store next door that sold tiny bottles, but this enterprising restaurant (in a cold part of the state) cut a hole in the wall and they had a "walk-up window" so their customers didn't have to go outside to buy their alcohol.
Same thing with ferrets in SC. Illegal to sell them. But its okay to give them away free with the purchase of a 200$ plastic water bowl.
Pesticides are what keep killing bees. Although, the bees we keep for honey aren't actually native to North America. In fact, in regard to our actually native bees, honeybees are an invasive species.
Neonicitinoids are a pesticide intended for species that harm crops, but can be absorbed by plants and expressed in nectar and pollen (in addition to leaves, flowers, etc.)
Also habitat loss.
In Washington Irving's 'A Tour on the Prairies' (1832), he describes how the advent of feral honeybees was seen as a harbinger of white settlement.
I love how bees are now fish in California
Dr. Karl Kruzelniki had the best classification of fruit and vegetables...
"If it goes with ice cream, it's a fruit. If it goes with gravy, it's a vegetable" haha
But tomatoes go with neither!
Motorhead, Nightwish & Judas Priest all sampled in one episode? As a big fan of hard rock & metal, I approve 🤘🏻
Don’t forget within temptation!
Editing this episode and being able to include all three made me very, very happy! 🤘
@@EveryFairyDiesballs to the rock (very very much appreciated btw) the fact you included multiple red dwarf clips boosted you to peak tier editor. Well done you! Well done
Respecting the law, respecting the law 😂
One of the best Simpsons moments ever.@@asukalei
In most US States, Castle Laws and Stand Your Ground Laws require a person to give proper warning and a chance for the intruder to comply. Furthermore you have to prove that you were threatened. Naturally the burden of proof for this is fairly easy to satisfy. Since a home invasion is a very threatening situation.
I am personally familiar with an incident where someone tried to abuse the local Castle Law to comit murder. It didn't fly with the police. The person was convicted of first degree murder.
Yeah, it's just kind of surprising that we don't have a consistent line on that. I'm not opposed to those laws in principle, but obviously just in the last year we've had an instance where someone fired repeatedly at (and killed) people who had driven into their driveway accidentally, and a person who rang the wrong doorbell being shot through the door. I believe both are still pending cases, but both are making arguments based on castle laws. I expect both will be found guilty of manslaughter at the least, but I think it speaks to a need for more clear and consistent legislation on the matter.
@@BruceBoydeliterally first person in the comments I’ve seen with a reasonable take
@@BruceBoyde The reason for a lack of consistency is because they are State, not Federal laws. Furthermore instances like that are more often caused by ignorance of what the law actually does. Most states with Castle Laws have better wording than Colorado's. Not exactly a high bar to beat. However that doesn't do any good if people think the law means they can shoot anyone that happens to wander near their property. Unfortunately, since media and many politicians try to say that is what Castle Laws do, people believe it to be true. And before I get any crazy political rants in response... they say that because they are stupid. Not because they are trying to be nefarious. We also have the idiots that wrote Colorado's Castle Laws, so just seems like idiots all around. Unfortunately no law can stop people from being stupid.
@@stephenwilson3274 oh yeah, I know. I'm basically just suggesting that maybe we ought to have a federal standard on that. It's literally life and death, so a well-written baseline might be good. If people wanted, states could be more restrictive but not less.
But, as you say, it's always going to be hard to account for the staggering stupidity of the average person. Believing wholesale what they see on TV and shit.
As a european, I could see the merit of such laws under certain limits.
1) The person must be inside the house/apartment, not garden or anything (otherwise kids fetching the ball would be at risk already, for example).
2) Warning needs to be given and enough time for it to be heeded. Obviously if the intruder cuts this short by going on the offensive, that's enough.
3) Nonlethal force has to be the standard, lethal only in legitimate "him or me" situations where it is more than likely you'll die if you do not incapacitate the other intruder first (and even here there is a lot that can be done without killing).
4) Anyone abusing the law or wildly overstepping it will be punished even more severely than regular killers, because they tried to use the law to get away with it, which is something that can not stand.
It obviously helps with peaceful (or at least nonlethal) resolution if not everyone and their duck has firearms, because then neither party has to assume the other is armed and ready to kill. The way it is makes intruders trigger happy as well, because they KNOW they might be shot at. Makes them bold assholes with a hair-trigger under pressure. There is little way this can go not wrong.
Local government is terrible.
My local government didn't take property taxes despite me repeatedly pestering them to and setting up the direct debit repeatedly because they weren't collecting it.
Then after a year of that they sent me letters demanding I go to their offices on a weekday to resolve it.
Had to take a day off work to go down there to resolve, which involved waiting for over an hour to be seen, then 30 minutes of arguing that I wasn't refusing or incapable of paying, they just weren't collecting the direct debit.
Eventually managed to get it resolved, but it was such a pain because they couldn't just do their job and take the money after I authorised them to take it repeatedly.
I think there's some law or rule that competent people are not allowed.
The tomato is a vegetable discussion was abused by tomato ketchup manufacturers to force ketchup on the tables in school restaurants. Frank Zappa made a lot of fun about that.
I recall a lot of school lunches that I would not have been able to get through without ketchup...
except the actual story is that FDA requirements forced schools to put 2 servings of vegetables on every student's tray, and 90% of those vegetables ended up in the trash can because institutional vegetables are the worst form of vegetables and school kids are notorious for not liking even the best forms of vegetables. so classifying ketchup (which most kids will eat despite it being vegetable adjacent) as a serving of vegetables, would create a loophole that cut the schools' vegetable waste in half.
Pretty odd to argue that it's a vegetable, simply because it goes in your salad. Like he has never had melon, orange, apple, nuts or seeds in his salad.
@@insaincaldo I like that argument, because it means bacon is a vegetable.
From what I've read, it was taxes
Another loophole during Prohibition was that alcohol could be supplied for religious purposes, such as communion wine for Catholic Churches or the Jewish obligation to drink 4 cups of wine on the 1st night of Passover. Many people abused this opportunity.
If you look closely at the 'most wanted' meme during the prohibition section, you'll notice Rabbi Fluffy from Oversimplified's video about Prohibition that I have absolutely never binged watched and didn't immediately think of while editing.
@@EveryFairyDies To be honest, I listened to this video rather than watched it, as I suspect many other people do with Brain Blaze (& Simon's other channels) generally 😝
wow. i didnt even think of that. altho its a good loophole. sinds it would be unfair for people to not get those just because they arent a part of that religion. ot would be unfair. or they would have to lie about being in that religion. same with being able to have a bible or other holy book in prison, but not another book. why should christians be able to read their book but i cant read the lord of the rings?
@@theflyingdutchguy9870 That's because in the U.S, while we have freedom OF religion, we don't have freedom FROM religion. Your beliefs are only protected as a right if they're part of a religion.
@@SaulG88 I usually have Simon stuff on in the background when I'm editing, so that's fair! So long as you enjoy, it doesn't matter what else you're doing (as long as you don't get caught!)
Lorelei is KILLING it with the editing, this was hilarious. More Lorelei, please.
Ikr, it's a treat when it's not-Sam edits Brain blaze, I love it!
Aw, thanks! ~continues bowing extravagantly~ And don't worry, I have no plans to go anywhere. These chains make it very difficult.
@EveryFairyDies You're doing a great job and I appreciate you doing your 500%. I hope the Factboi recognizes you doing the extra mile and gives you more rations down in the blazement and spare you from the rod.
@@MisF1998 ~totally not reading off a card~ Thank you but all credit must go to Simon. He is a good employer who ensures we have several full meals a day and exposure to sunlight. We who live- I mean! -don't live in this basement are undeserving of such largess.
@@EveryFairyDiesSubscribed.
The thing with bees being endangered is that everyone and their grandma thinks of honeybees, but it's a bunch of other native (often solitary) bees that are in trouble, sometimes even by being outcompeted by honeybees I believe.
I don't think any of that is the case
It's because so much land gets developed or damaged by farm pesticides that the Native bees have trouble finding their natural food sources & end up competing with the domesticated bees for theirs. On top of that, all these different bee species feeding on the same flowers when different species would normally diversify a bit more spreads disease between species.
@@rickwilliams967 You have to remember that wild honey bees are an invasive species in America. They aren't native. Their full name is European Honey Bee, after all. Killer bees (Africanized honey bees) also aren't native.
The rest of Simon’s garage is pretty self-explanatory but I have a feeling the Rubber Ducky Room will eventually wind up on an episode of the Casual Criminalist.
It preceded this BB by... a week? Two? Either way, I was clearly channeling Deniz (and a little bit of Star Trek: TNG 😂).
I was a kid adopted in Massachusetts the "formal" way and CPS there is an utter joke. They couldn't care less about the kids and put a lot in abusive homes and can't be bothered to actually follow up on reports of abuse.
A former girlfriend ran away from her foster home in Flint Michigan when she was 16. The family didn't report her missing and kept collecting checks for her support.
Eventually they did get in trouble. But only because they didn't know when her birthday was and kept trying to collect them after she was 18. She was gone for almost two years before anyone from the state noticed, despite a file full of reports claiming they'd checked to make sure she was okay.
It wasn't until she was 20, and trying to join the Army that she learned she was on a list of missing children.
Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
Simon waiting for 'back door permission' really got me. 😂
The adoption one... I guess I was 'rehomed' by my mother, but I went to my grandmother. Turned out better for me, her new boyfriend was abusive in ALL ways and my mother was becoming more physically abusive under him. I know my grandmother would not have passed any 'formal' adoption. We were poor, but she was no poorer than my mother and cps was ok with me staying with her because we I came from her uterus...
I find it sad that money is the thing keeping too many kids from good homes. I have 2 kids of my own. They're never without food, roof over their head, clothes, even get extra curriculars. The same money that I use to take care of a family of 2 biological kids wouldnt be enough for me to adopt and raise ONE kid. Background checks I get, even a basic understanding of financing I get. But if I make enough, according to the government, to raise 2 children of my own, without ANY help from welfare programs because I'm 'too rich for that' why would I be 'too poor' to afford to raise just one adopted child instead of having bio kids. Hypocrisy.
Meanwhile, “poor” people are jumping through hoops as children are separated from siblings and placed into foster homes with sickening rates of the worst abuse.
In Arizona, CPS was essentially stealing children and knowingly placing them in abusive homes.
The above sentence is a disturbingly profound understatement!
Caution: This rabbit-hole leads to the Devil’s basement!
by the sounds of that law, the strip club could have become a burlesque theater where they have "improvisational plays" that may consist of "interpretive dances that may contain nudity"
A large part of the bee loss, at least here in the states, is almond, soybean and advacado farms displacing native plant species local bees have a natural affinity to. Something happens in these areas that prevent the bees from being able to return to their hives. There was a ton of news coverage when they didn't know what was causing it. Now that they know it's money crops, they are substantially less worried about the bees.
I dont even need the context, i see a brain blaze about america, i know it will be wild 😂
On gawd 😂 😂
Another day of thanking god i have nothing to do with usa
@thombusbrexchooch650 nope
This episode has references to Motörhead, Varg Vikernes, Spinal Tap, Nightwish and Judas Priest.
I'm suspecting Lorelei is a massive metalhead.
Just a tad... 😂🤘❤
Don't forget Within Temptation.
@@theshig9618 true, I missed that! I gotta buy their new album.
@@EveryFairyDies you rock! I also enjoyed the MLP:FiM reference too ;)
@@piotrzagroba5301 Loving their new stuff, been listening to it a lot. You also rock!
The main point of Castle Doctrine is that the homeowner doesn't have to worry about any legal backlash for protecting his/her house and property.
There was a case in a different State without Castle Doctrine where a woman shot an armed intruder while her 6 year old kid was standing behind her. She was then charged with murder.
And another one where a 15 year old boy was shot for ringing the doorbell. It goes both ways.
@@zachb982To be fair, the old man who shot the teenager would have probably done it even without castle law.
@@zachb982 And the man who shot the kid was charged with two felonies for that so what's your point?
@@zachb982You're right, nobody should be allowed to defend their children because one loon committed a murder. Even if it was a felon with a shotgun intent on doing him harm you can't shoot someone for ringing a doorbell. Castle doctrine only applies to people illegally inside your home when an reasonable person would assume they were a threat of death or great bodily harm. There was a guy who shot someone for entering the wrong house, guess what, that was ruled an illegal homicide because the shooter had no reason to believe the woman intended to hurt him. People shoot others with or without these laws, the only thing these laws do is protect people who take reasonable actions to protect themselves and their families.
Simon's door story.
I had to have a sidewalk dug up to replace a broken water line and needed to know exactly where the property line was before replacing said sidewalk. I called a county office. They said I'd called the wrong county office, and to call this other county office. I called them and they said it's a city lot, talk to the city. The city gave me a printout from a pic off Google maps the size of my driver's license and told me to call the first county office and have my land surveyed.
Well Simon, as a licensed electrician in colorado I can tell you the details matter. And in a big way. If you don't make people build sh#% right they'll just slap it together 😂
This right here
I haven't watched but im gonna make a wild prediction simon will go on tangents thay mention his kids and his cottage that had a wasps nest.
very close!
foster care kids in the 80's in America... exceptially where i was.... the abuse.... the missing kids... the ... it haunts you forever. and to know how easy it was for them to do this.... and its STILL legal... makes my heart sink. i get what they are going through. and i wish i was able to stop it.
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It's not any better now. Where I'm from CPS and Karen's are just as bad as the abuse...
yal they stuck me in some pretty horrific places. im still healing from that hell. @@belialbathory2299
Simon would be flabbergasted to find out that a business open to the public is not private property in some regards, but private property in others. If you are drunk in a bar, you can be arrested for public intoxication and it doesn’t require a warrant or permission for the police to enter.
+10000000 points for the Red Dwarf references!
My brain is pretty much just heavy metal, Simpsons and Red Dwarf. 😂😂
There's a UA-cam creator who recently adopted a boy from China and about a year later she rehomed the boy after figuring out he didn't have terminal brain cancer he just ranked high on the autistic spectrum and would have had to live with her all his life. Allegedly
Dear Mr Whistler,
As a gardener, tomato not being a vegetable and being a fruit defines its growing habit, and nutrition requirements :)
Vegetables are typically more leafy and require more nitrogen, fruits are typically calciferous and require more calcium and phosphorus :)
What about potatoes 🥔?
^^^ scratch that I've just realised potatoes leafs are above ground I'm an idot 😂😂😂
@@Rob17Cotton not sure what you mean about the leaves! Almost all leaves are above ground lol! Except in extremely rare cases where plants propogate from the top, most have what is called “negative geotrophic” growth, Which means the leaves grow up.
Potatoes however are actually the roots of the plant, Is that what you meant?
The US government only classified a tomato as a vegetable so they can claim the crappy pizza they serve in US schools as a serving of vegetable instead of giving kids an actual vegetable to eat.
@@Rob17Cotton if you want some potato facts, potatoes are light feeders. You don’t really need to fertilize them like you do with corn or squash or melons!
When it comes to fruits, typically things that have seeds in them and are surrounded by flesh are fruits,
So potatoes are not the fruit, because they don’t have seeds in them, and they’re made of root material.
Also potato plants actually DO produce fruit! Certain Potato plants that are doing well, if you leave them long enough, will grow potato berries! Potato berries are poisonous to eat, but contain potato seeds! And YES potatoes can be grown from seeds!!!
A note on the last bit, Murca has quite a lot of vehemently defended laws like that. Almost like people in power and lobbyists have a personal stake. The HSLDA, a homeschool lobbying group, have been rabidly blocking all methods of ensuring the welfare of homeschooled children. Since teachers are those most likely to discover abuse, abusive parents just have to claim they are homeschooling the children and the HSLDA makes absolute certain that nobody has the legal right to check on the children.
Isn't it interesting how all the people who clutch their pearls and moan about how we have to "protect the children" don't seem to be interested in protecting the children in a physical sense, just from things like ideas. As comedian Drew Morgan said in one of his comedy specials, they do want to protect children. White children. From the truth.
I think the easiest way to avoid taxes in the US is to put a great big cross outside your business premises and call your business a church.
You joke, but businesses HAVE actually been doing that. They're associated w/a church, and use that connection to call themselves a church as well.
Yeah there’s a guy in my neighborhood who does that
No question or joke about it: The IRS even publishes a list of minimum conditions any organisation must follow to legally conform to the category of church for tax purposes, and the criteria on that list are so permissive that you might even be meeting some of them by accident, without even trying to.
Last Week Tonight on HBO demonstrated how easily this can be done a few years ago, creating a church they called "Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption", if memory serves. Unfortunately it no longer exists - they shut it down after several people sent them packages containing some rather unsanitary substances. Since one of the subjects of their preaching was a mockery of the "seed faith" that many televangelists do, you can probably imagine what those packages contained.
The Sanitarium company in NZ is church owned business, they don't pay any income tax. Recently they tried swinging their dick around and decided they had to stop supplying the retailer selling their popular product at the lowest prices because of "supply chain issues"after there was an uproar about if there's not enough to go aeound, why not reduce supply to all retailers to distribute evenly, they gave in and said they would supply that retailer again, but haven't said there would be reduced supply because they're greedy fucks. Now their ability to not pay income tax has became a prominent thought on consumers minds
to be fair, that IS easier than becoming a multimillionaire.
My favorite loophole is the casinos on the red river here in shreveport/ bossier. Gambling (except video poker) is illegal on Louisiana soil... so they just built huge riverboats and placed the casinos in them. So when ppl go to casinos here, its called "going to the boats".
Same here where I live except the ended up routing water from the river around the building so its technically a river boat? Laws are weird
So THAT'S why river boats having gambling parlours! TIL! Thank you!
We had a casino ship in Galveston that went outside the economic zone and came back. It shut down when Mississippi got gambling boats.
So that is why my grandfather always goes to Louisiana. It’s the same in Texas. They always put the boats out just beyond the reach of the Gulf Coast. Lol!
It's Sterling Colorado not Sterling Chicago. Also Murder is a very precisely defined term under the law, a more precise description is homicide. 18 U.S.C. § 1111 defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being with malice. In this case it is not unlawful it is justified homicide. And why shouldn't an inmate be able to defend themselves from violent crime the same as anyone else, obviously in this case the correctional staff were not in position to help.
Simon the bee is a fish loophole works because there's no scientific definition of a fish, from scientists point of view there are no fish.
Also bananas plants are shrubs like rosemary & not trees
That part reminded me of monks declaring beavers to be fish (so they could eat them during fasting time).
@@tubensalat1453it's facts like these that make me love humans
@@tubensalat1453 I also read an article that claimed medieval monks argued that piglet that was submerged in water and slaughtered before it got to drink any of its mother‘s milk was a fish - and thus appropriate to eat during lent - too.
@@MrAranton lol. That part with animals from water and gills didn't make into the bible? (AFAIK Jews don't eat shrimps etc. But Christians largely don't care about the parts about food - or clothing - anyway...)
Lol that's what old school cable box descramblers would say. "don't plug this into your cable box and leave running for 30 seconds and then reconnect your cable"
1:35 - Chapter 1 - Life drawing class
5:05 - Mid roll ads
6:25 - Back to the video
8:05 - Chapter 2 - Go ahead make my day
12:50 - Chapter 3 - Frogs are frogs & fish is fish
18:00 - Chapter 4 - Definitely don't do this
22:10 - Chapter 5 - The blind side
Lorelei absolutely killed it with the memes and basement jokes in this one. That last entry is disturbing to say the least....
Thanks! And yeah, I was really enjoying editing this until that last entry and I was like "...well, that ruined my day!"
@EveryFairyDies The fine print Meme was hilarious!
Thank you SOMEONE at least mentioned that! I had to pause the video for a good 2 minutes while I giggled to the point those around me wondered if I have finally lost my mind
@@llynch8056 Oh, you're too kind! ~bows extravagantly~
@@NDRogueElf Oh, stop! ~continues bowing extravagantly~
'Why are you wasting your time on this....' I ask myself that far too often.
Going off the Colorado "Make My Day" law, I guess Kentucky has a "F around and Find Out law."
If someone unlawfully enters your "dwelling" you can assume that they mean you harm, since, you know, they've already broken into your house. It pairs nicely with they castle law and no duty to retreat.
22:30 I live in Japan, and as it's the only G7 country that still doesn't recognise same-sex marrigage (or even civil partnerships), the adoption thing is still in use here. My wife's best friend is now the adopted son of his older partner (important in their case because the guy is still legally married and has children, wife won't accept a divorce). So, yeah, it's still a thing.
That clip of Adam had me rolling. I could feel it coming like a disturbance in the Force.
Great minds, my friend, great minds.
A-fish, a-fish, a-fish, a-fishy, ooh. That went wherever I did go.
The reason that they were trying to get bees classified as fish was to protect certain local species that were in danger because of the agricultural industry. One reason was the pesticides that they used but another is the fact that species of bees only pollinate certain plants. The crop that was the biggest issue was almonds which are a huge industry in CA. The local species can't pollinate them so if an area gets filled with almond fields, those bees will die out in that area which also puts the local plants they pollinate in danger.
I kind of wish everyone could learn about the "re-homing" adoption loophole, not just to prevent abuse of it, but so that those struggling to honestly adopt but being stymied by a slow and expensive system might have a chance. Get some good out of the loophole and maybe prevent some of the bad as well with more awareness.
When they talked about tomatoes being considered vegetables, I thought they were going to mention how some US schools classify pizza sauce and ketchup as vegetable servings
When I heard that for the first time I was really baffled 🙈😄 I can’t believe the food that’s served in so many American schools. I read Eric Schlosser‘s book fast food nation. Can absolutely recommend. Kinda uncovers the „dark side“ of the fast food industry and industrialized meat „production“. 🙈
my mom had these crappy wooden steps going to her trailer that were built in the 80's and were falling apart. some of her work friends donated resources and time to build some proper steps for her to use while she was going through her cancer treatment. the city government came by, took pictures and said she would be fined daily that the new steps remained. she had to jump through hoops to fight it by proving she didnt pay for anything. so annoying.
Love the little (very) subtle nod to Liam, and The Casual Criminalist!!
Great editing, Lorelei! Especially appreciate the Red Dwarf clips.
Thank you and you're welcome!
I feel like simon can play a really scary character really cinematically in some spy or FPS game with a main campaign storyline.
21:59 As Will Rogers once observed, "Well, I reckon Prohibition is better than no alcohol at all."
"Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"
Far too many politicians simply never consider the implications of the laws they make or the wording that they choose. The courts don’t help matters either. Some judges will buy any argument a lawyer presents, it seems.
To defend the house protection thing: the fear is you don't want your shit stolen so you confront them, well now that you know what they look like, you can report them and pick them out of a lineup. So them also knowing this, they might kill you so there is no witness and they can't get caught. In theory in works... until they're caught then they're in way deeper trouble. But criminals generally don't plan on getting caught. I could argue a thief isn't necessarily a murderer but a murderer could certainly be a thief.
That's why the muzzle stays down when I tell them the place is occupied. Problem is, if they are robbing an occupied home, they are likely not just a thief.
When I was 15 I started making my own beer...they still don't ask for ID when you buy the ingredients!
When we found out about rehoming of children when we were going thru our process, I was appalled, 17 years later and it the thought of it still makes me want to be sick.
Thank you Lorelei for sneaking in some Within Temptation 🖤
Edit: And Motorhead as well 🤘🏻
Edit 2: And a Varg meme 😱 Girl, you're on fire with this
Edit 3: I should really watch the entire video before commenting, lol. Floor 🖤
Edit 4: I'm going to stop with the edits now, but yay SoaD 🥰
Comment as you go, I don't mind! I love it, it's like getting to see you reacting to it in real time! And you're welcome! I am very happy with the amount of metal I was able to sneak into this video!
As an American it’s so interesting to me to see how flabbergasted Simon is that we can legally shoot someone who breaks into our homes. Like I thought that was the case in every state and seems fine to me. Seems legit that you’d be risking your life by breaking into homes with people in there.
That's such an American comment. Beyond every state that shit is not allowed in most countries. That's why the gun death toll in every other country is a lot less than america. I am glad America is so easy going about guns but can't provide free healthcare like most other civilized countries, it is a testament to the capitalist doctrine that rules america.
You also have no idea if someone breaking into your home is trying to steal your stuff or is going to do something a lot worse, not to mention that often home break ins do end in violence against the occupant who comes in at the wrong time.
Same, it seems pretty normalized to me. There was a case recently where an influencer got shot because he kept harassing a delivery driver and the delivery guy was ruled to be in the right. I felt like it made sense but now I wonder what people from outside America would think.
You should be paid for putting down a thief
When your home and safety has been violated it affects you for years
Not only that our my wife and I had spent 20 years building our rare plant collection only for some junkies to steal them and I sire as fuck know even if the useless pigs did find the thieves they wouldn't get 20 years in jail
My wife still is affected by the trauma and they do this to hundreds of people each
as someone from outside of the US (i'm from the UK), I can tell you that I think thats absolutely wild lol@@alec.mp4
"No one is purposefully exterminating bees, are they?" well Simon, tell that to the all big Farm companies spewing insecticides everywhere just to save the crops...
Castle Laws SEEM insane until you watch a few of the darker episodes of Casual Criminalist.
Editor: these clips are a thing of beauty!
As are you! Thank you!
Wow, the last time was this early to a BB video Simon was wandering about like an allegedly coked up lunatic and there was only one writer allegedly imprisoned in Simon's basement
LOL - Sam, i don't know if that was you who re-worked the meme, or just found it but it's absolutely hilarious. 10/10 sir.
That was me, Lorelei! And thank you!
Hello Simon, Colorado resident here. The “Make my day” law has quite a few stipulations. (Unless maybe you’re super rich.. idk I’m not super rich.)
So: 1. If you shoot the intruder in the back - murder. 2. You shoot the person several times when one of the wounds would probably l have incapacitated the intruder- murder. 3. Also, if you shoot a person an excessive number of times (i.e. whole magazine)- murder. 4. The intruder is unarmed- murder. 5. You shoot the intruder outside of your house (or car, or place of business in some circumstances)- murder. 6. You use an illegal gun/magazine - murder… probably some more, but I can’t think of them right now. Also, Also, I think like 67% of Coloradan’s own a firearm. Those are just the ones who have registered their weapons.
You can very easily get out of paying taxes... all you have to do is donate enough to charity to write off what you'd owe.
I highly recommend hiring a team of lawyers if you win the lottery for the sole purpose of maximizing the legal amount you can donate to lower your taxes... sending your money to st Judes or some other good charity instead of millions more war dollars.
It's how the rich people pay taxes... except they own the charities and use it to pay their friends
Assuming you live in a country that taxes lottery winnings (plenty don't).
@@Solinvicti Pfft I live in the home of the free and the land of the brave...
So I'd be handing about 60 percent of what I 'win' to the government... who is the one paying out the winnings..
Totally not a scam and way to not pay people all they win.
Editing is FABULOUS as always ❤😂
Yeah? Well so are you!
Thank you, though my editing is not nearly as fabulous as you!!! ❤🤘
As former California resident I can confirm people go out and set bees on fire for fun. Every time a new hive would pop up some body would set it on fire. In the 20 years I lived there every year I saw less bees until I could go months or even a year without seeing a single one
You just justified Colorados self defense law in your own statement “is there no crime in Colorado because surely no one would risk that”. My point exactly thank you for fully understanding your need for these kinds of laws.
Except there is still crime so it doesn’t work in that way.
pointless fact: it’s not illegal to be naked in public in England and Wales. it is however, illegal to cause offence in a public space. so as long as no one complains… 👀
Yeah it's a bit complicated but basically it comes under intention (Like if you have a history of naturism etc and if you know people will see) and is almost always leaned on the 'disorderly' side of section 5 of the POA as being clothed is the 'order' in society, also section 66 of the SOA is used in combination with section 5 of the POA.
As someone living in Colorado I'm good with our make my day law. I'm a firm believer in consequences for your actions.
Yea it's pretty easy to avoid being a victim of this. Like, not breaking into people's homes.
@@tonymorris4335like the people who gets shot through a door because they knocked on the wrong address
@@japanesehitlerAnd he was charged with two felonies for that so what's your point?
Simon what you should have done is build the new garage around the old one. Once completed, tear down the old walls one at a time.
All the extra basement lore snuck in the small prints. Lol
Every time I see a clip from Futurama in your videos I immediately go and Upvote the video.
Another great show I've watched far too many times.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing to not put a tomato into a fruit salad...
That cut to Overkill was great. I love Men At Work.
That thing about waiting a year for permits to build a garage blows my mind. First because I'm good at my job and I know the right people so it never takes me a year to get permits for anything, but also because in my local area every city and town I've ever dealt with makes it illegal to demolish or enclose a garage without having plans in place to build a new one. They don't want people parked on, or next to the road if at all possible.
OMG. That Varg meme ended me, lol. That was the last thing I would've expected on a channel like this. Well played, Sam. Well played. 🤣💀
Twas I, Lorelei, the Not-Sam! And as soon as I heard "90 stab wounds" I immediately had to open my calculator and determine how many Euronymouses that was!
Oh! Sorry about that. I didn't realize there were more editors. It makes sense now, as I haven't seen an episode with so many metal references before. I laughed a lot seeing you throw so many perfect ones in there. Great job, and you even having the thought of looking that up and calculating that is amazing. 😂 Keep up the good work! \m/ @@EveryFairyDies
@@dualityofself It's ok, I'm still kinda new in this here basement. I have yet to develop chain-callouses. And you're welcome! I always prefer that extra bit of info, so I figured others here would too!
@@EveryFairyDies Yeah, I'd imagine there's an adjustment period to your new living situation down there. At least you have company who can help ease that transition and hopefully teach you how to keep the beatings to a minimum. 😉Good luck, and keep up the good work! @EveryFairyDies
@@dualityofself Luckily I have a very supportive severed zebra head who's helping me with the transition. Dolores is great.
Babe wake up new brain blaze just dropped 🎉
Don't pretend you have anyone to tell about this, am I right Peter? 😂
Oh shit that hurt
Damn Kevin, bringing the hammer down at the end there.
Yeah, sorry about that. Probably shouldn't have ended on that one
20:33 Floor Jansen in Nightwish. Great reference by the editor.
This episode is dedicated to baby Lucy and her amazing mother! 🤘🤘🤘 Can't wait for the new album!
Kevin is superior writer than danny😂😂😂😂 11:06 damn son
Intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing to not put tomato in a fruit cup or salad
I was going to say, "Who doesn't put tomatoes in salad?" Then I realized you meant fruit salad.
Hi! Colorado here! ‘Make My Day’ is actually not all that common here, I see one in the news every other year or so. I assume it happens slightly more often than reported but actually can’t find statistics on how many times it’s actually used.
We don’t have a ‘stand your ground’ law. We also don’t have a duty to retreat either though, so effectively stand your ground is in effect.
The reason why we have Make My Day laws is not primarily for highly populated areas, we have a large amount of rural and mountainous terrain that makes anything but self defense impractical. There’s just simply not enough police to cover people reasonably in the case of an armed robbery in the woods, basically.
And don't forget, even if you have enough police they have no duty to protect you, stop someone from hurting/killing you, or stop them from stealing/damaging your property.
I love how, in one example, Simon says that when writing laws we should define things as clearly as possible and then, in the very next example, Simon gets very annoyed when Kevin defines a tomato as a fruit.
Fascinating edit Lorelei, we metalheads love your bits in the videos. Well we all knew that the USA was fucked up from the beginning
Still waiting for the perfect Metallica and Type O Negative moment(s)... watch this space.
The "Make my day" law is a thing in Texas* too, apparently it has caused a massive reduction in burglaries, murders and other heinous crimes committed in peoples' homes when they were broken into, cos nothing's a better deterrent than ending someone's criminal career before they even finished getting through the window, meanwhile here in the UK, defend your home with anything that beats the ever loving crap out of the intruder, and you go to jail cos the crim broke down in tears at how awfully they were treated in your home that they were not invited into... :P
(*Source: A friend who's a Texan, who has a gun, with hollowpoints, that make people very dead very quickly!)
Lived in Texas for a few years. It was very rare to have someone break into homes because of that law. As much as I disliked living in that state, safety was not a concern. I only knew of one guy who had a break-in, and later found out someone tipped the thieves off he would be TDY for the military for a few days.
Yep, and it’s a very good law
Citation required for your claims about UK?
@@NeilCWCampbell Being a UK resident myself and seeing plenty of (legitimate) news articles on the subject, and the fact our laws are favoured towards burglars being allowed to press charges (along with some cock & bull story of "Oh I must have mistaken their house for my own!") and residents charged and convicted for defending themselves and in some cases taking out the criminals on a permanent basis...
@@twocvbloke citation required..as a UK resident I have no idea what you talking about.. be specific 🤣😂
7:31 Love the throw back to the Rat Lawyers jokes 🤎
Liam coaches them on how to question witnesses at trial.
Stand your ground laws when worded correctly are absolutely necessary. The right to defend your home and family in your home should be ingrained in constitutions. And if there is anyone invasion… woe be to the invader.
Murder is a premeditated act. Last I checked finding someone in your home stealing your TV isn’t premeditated.
This is an area the Americans got right (when worded correctly).
As an American, I am all for the Castle Laws. I am always asked, "so, you value your stuff more than the criminal's life?" I think that it is obvious that the person who broke into my house values my stuff more than their life... Why shouldn't I as well?
Gotta agree. Sorry criminals. Some people get to live with their life choices and some people don't. Make better decisions.
Because material objects are replaceable.
Your families lifes arent
It's putting the victim's rights before the criminal's rights. I was chilling out on my couch minding my business watching Brain Blaze when a burglar broke into my house. I'm the victim here, not him. I shouldn't have to stand by while he takes my stuff.
Also, just because he isn't holing a gun doesn't mean he doesn't have one tucked in his pants or otherwise hidden. I think that's actually the main reason for the laws. You shouldn't have to pat the guy down before deciding if he's a threat to your life after he broke into your house.
it does pass a massive amount of responsibility on individuals at the last possible moment, rather than police or even society as a whole. The US (very generally speaking, i have been to the US a lot) deeply covets ‘ownership of things’ and the whole gun thing in some place so i guess, go for it?
@brainblaze6526 I think you should do an entire episode on the adoption loophole and promote it! Things like this will never change if people aren’t aware of the facts and consequences.
More of an Into the Shadows episode, but yes. 100%
Agreed 💯
I did read the entire text. That was hillarious.
Yay! Extra kudos for you! The rats say hi!
Love that you’re throwing in clips from its always sunny in Philadelphia. Great show.❤😂
Been slowly working my way through that show. Disappointed in myself for not watching it sooner.
Sam we saw the plans, blink twice if you need help!
~covers Sam's eyes so he can't signal you~
Let's go fact boy
When I lived in Colorado there were news stories of criminals using stolen cars crashing into gun stores and looting as many firearms as they could carry. So in CO it is 100% not unreasonable to assume every criminal is armed.
The idea that someone would have wound up on a list for checking out a book on wine making is ludicrous. In 1924, more than half of America lived in rural areas, hundreds of miles from the nearest public library, which was a far less robust system at that point. Also, the budget of your average local law enforcement(no FBI at that time) would never have allowed for cops to go gather up lists from the public library to drive all over hells half acre tracking down moonshiners and local wine makers, especially not with boatloads of Jameson coming ashore all over the eastern seaboard.
No offense to Sam but Lorelei nailed the editing in this one. From Simon's garage plans to explaining DnD stats with tomatoes to writer escape attempt every joke landed. Also bonus points for Nightwish and Judas Priest. Give Lorelei more work (and credit)!
The Lorelei is strong in this one
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
15:33 They kind of are; though, Simon, there are insecticides specifically for bees, wasps, and hornets.