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On the evening of June 14th, Carreon told Forbes that he didn't know what was wrong but he'd find something. “California code is just so long, but there’s something in there about this.” That evening around 9pm he donated $10, and then filed his suit the very next day claiming he had been misled.


Sadly, he's probably right. Many estimates suggest that the average American is unknowingly committing multiple felonies every day due to vague criminal statutes.


Try getting a definitive list of state or federal laws. No such list for the Feds and most states.


I have the list:

  1) Don't do anything an agent of the government doesn't want you to do

  2) Don't do anything a future agent of the government won't want you to do 
And they say the legal system is complex!


Yeah, because he needed standing to request an emergency restraining order. It would be much harder to prove damages if he wasn't involved.




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