This gray haired bush pilot went to jail for 3 days because one of his passengers smuggled a 6pack of beer into a dry county.
He's currently appealing a decision to take away his plane.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2026
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The US is insane!
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Zen monks have entered the chat...
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Clapping cheeks?
One Pope dug up his predecessor and put him on trial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod
Animals have been tried.
I feel like trials during the middle ages is cheating /s
Jim Crow America has entered the chat...
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communism is when bad thing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Bruce#Obscenity_arrests
Pretty much anyone who was prosecuted using the Mann Act. Which was used to attack foreigners and undesirable minorities. Generally labeled them having girlfriends as "sex trafficking".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act#Notable_prosecutions_under_the_Mann_Act
Chaplin met Joan Barry, age 24, in 1941. He signed her to a $75-a-week contract for a film he was putting together, and she became his mistress. By mid-1942, Chaplin let her contract expire. To send her home, Chaplin paid her train fare to New York which led to his arrest.[23][25] Chaplin was acquitted of the charges.
Paid for your mistress to go home? Sex trafficking!
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A teen had downloaded music...
Reading over a few hundred years of witch trials in Europe pretty good for some absolutely batshit hysterical 'justice'.
Korean Admiral Yi got arrested and prosecuted multiple times for...checks notes...fending off the japanese invasions multiple times with his ship designs (the turtle ships) and his tactics.
Socrates, for teaching the youth to question authority.
The priest of nördlingen (germany), was tried for speaking out against the witch hunts on the popes orders to condemn the witch hunts
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j6 enpassioned "tourists"/ "hostages" got criminally convicted for "very minor incidents"
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/01/trump-justifies-j6-pardons-with-misinformation/
truly a bizarre case~