Local couple here got arrested when their neighbor taped them having sex. Yes, you read that right. Not the peeping tom. The victims of the voyeur were arrested.
Comedian Lenny Bruce was repeatedly arrested and prosecuted for "obscenity" for using swear words in his comedy act. All things that would be considered fairly tame and normal comedy today.
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".
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!
That is weird but people like Chuck Berry with the 14 year old needed to be taken down. Same for R Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell, Diddy.
I was hoping they would get that shithead Congressman from FL too, honestly.
Yes, it's a sex trafficking law. Many of the most prominent examples, especially the older ones, were junk. They arrested the world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson because he had a white girlfriend. For 'sex trafficking' her.
Originally the 'white slavery' act (prostitution aka 'white slavery' was a common term around the late 18th-early 19th-century). Anyone accused of violating this bill was basically being accused of being a pimp.
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
I dont remember where that was but animals got put on trial for treason or smth
Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan were trialed and prosecuted for conspiricy of trying to rid the Habsburg from Croatia and Hungary, they gave themself up after two failed attempts to get any outside support. Emperor Leopold even was content to give them their freedom. But the nobility still followed threw with the trial and execution
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Canconda@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 24d
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.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alaska-seize-pilots-plane-6-pack-beer-supreme-court-jouppi-rcna588498
luthis@lemmy.nz · 14 pts · 24d
The US is insane!
fargeol@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 24d
In Belarus, a one-armed man was charged for clapping.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43690734
SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 24d
It was just the plane landing.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 2 pts · 24d
Zen monks have entered the chat...
[yeah, i'm milking the gag]
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 24d
Clapping cheeks?
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 23 pts · 24d
One Pope dug up his predecessor and put him on trial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod
Animals have been tried.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial
Canconda@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 24d
I feel like trials during the middle ages is cheating /s
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 11 pts · 24d
Jim Crow America has entered the chat...
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 23d
They hung an elephant in 1916. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(elephant)
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 23d
I wouldnt say power plays are bizzar though
RBWells@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 24d
https://www.deseret.com/1991/7/19/18931619/florida-couple-arrested-after-a-neighbor-tapes-sex-act-through-window/
Local couple here got arrested when their neighbor taped them having sex. Yes, you read that right. Not the peeping tom. The victims of the voyeur were arrested.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 3 pts · 23d
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 24d
Comedian Lenny Bruce was repeatedly arrested and prosecuted for "obscenity" for using swear words in his comedy act. All things that would be considered fairly tame and normal comedy today.
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
Paid for your mistress to go home? Sex trafficking!
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 24d
That is weird but people like Chuck Berry with the 14 year old needed to be taken down. Same for R Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell, Diddy. I was hoping they would get that shithead Congressman from FL too, honestly.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 24d
Yes, it's a sex trafficking law. Many of the most prominent examples, especially the older ones, were junk. They arrested the world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson because he had a white girlfriend. For 'sex trafficking' her.
Originally the 'white slavery' act (prostitution aka 'white slavery' was a common term around the late 18th-early 19th-century). Anyone accused of violating this bill was basically being accused of being a pimp.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 8 pts · 24d
A teen had downloaded music...
SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 24d
Reading over a few hundred years of witch trials in Europe pretty good for some absolutely batshit hysterical 'justice'.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 23d
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
I dont remember where that was but animals got put on trial for treason or smth
Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan were trialed and prosecuted for conspiricy of trying to rid the Habsburg from Croatia and Hungary, they gave themself up after two failed attempts to get any outside support. Emperor Leopold even was content to give them their freedom. But the nobility still followed threw with the trial and execution
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 24d
A pigeon was arrested for spying and served 8 months before being released
https://news.sky.com/story/pigeon-suspected-of-being-chinese-spy-released-by-police-in-india-after-being-detained-for-eight-months-13061486
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 23d
Spectral evidence used to be a thing accepted where you could make up a story about how a ghost told you what really happened
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 24d
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~