What’s something that is legal but feels like it should be illegal?

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1. In most cases, trespassing isn’t a criminal offence, it’s just a civil one.

2. Parking on someone else’s driveway and stopping them being able to use the parking spot on land they own is a civil offense so the police won’t get involved.

3. Refresh browser tools when buying high demand tickets.

   I do prefer ballots but you can only play the game out in front of you.

4. Using a VPN feels like it should be illegal. Thankfully, it isn’t (yet!).

5. Taking items out of other peoples trolleys at the supermarket.

6. My cannabis prescription. After years of self medicating as an alternative to GP-prescribed pain medication, it is still very surreal talking to a doctor about it and being able to legally medicate in public.

7. England is behind most of the developed world in this; hitting children.

   (Scotland and Wales have the right idea!)

8. Single use vapes

9. Walking into a shop and leaving without buying anything.

10. Child beauty pageants.

11. “Dating” a 16 year old when you’re 48.

12. Recycling this thread

13. Ordering a coffee in a busy pub-pub at 9pm on a Saturday.

14. Driving without a passenger-side wing-mirror. Technically, you only need *either* the rear-view *or* the passenger-side mirror to be functional

15. It baffles me how it’s illegal for anybody to watch pornography under the age of 18, meanwhile it’s legal to actually have sex itself at 16

16. When there’s a queue in the left lane at a round about, so you go in the right lane and go all the way around to skip the queue.

17. Crossbows.

18. Companies sending all your transaction details to credit reference agencies.

19. Corporations hiding profits in shell companies, saying there was no profits and therefore nothing to pay taxes on.

20. My 16yo girlfriend. /jk

21. Politicians lying. Should be booted out.

    Mind you, we’d be having by elections every week if that happened

22. British food.

23. Marriage proposal

24. Forcing people to hand over their data in return for competitive pricing in shops.

25. Politicians having second jobs

26. Riding a motorcycle in nothing but pants and a helmet