(gentle music) - [Narrator] Back in May,
1999, David Phillips, an engineer living in Davis, California, was strolling through his local grocery
store's frozen food aisle when he noticed a promotion
on a frozen meal carton from the brand Healthy Choice. According to the promotion
he could earn 500 air miles, which are loyalty points
that can be redeemed against flights, hotels,
and certain travel expenses for every 10 barcodes from
Healthy Choice products he sent back to the company by December. Now, a lot of people ignore
promotions like this, assuming it's not worth their time, or that they'd need to
spend hundreds of dollars for the returns to
really be worth anything. However, David started
doing some mental maths and realized something, if he got this right, he and his family wouldn't have to pay for another flight in their entire lives. What had he figured out, and
what was he about to do next? Stay tuned as we take a
deep dive into this story, and many other tales of
people finding legal loopholes to get unimaginably amazing deals. (gentle music) Okay, so as David was
reading this frozen packet, he noticed the very small print stated, he could actually double
the air miles he earned, racking up 1000 air miles
for every 10 barcodes if he posted them back
by the end of the month. He wanted to fly his family
to Europe for the summer, and realized this could
be his golden ticket. Usually participating companies would offer a couple of air miles for every dollar spent with them. Now, Healthy Choice frozen
meals were only $2 each, times that by 10, so
$20 for 1000 air miles. It doesn't sound like a bad deal until you realize he needed
at least 35,000 air miles for a domestic North American flight, that's 700 bucks a frozen food
for a single one-way flight. But David realized the promotion said, it applied to any Healthy Choice product, so he went hunting for a cheaper option. A few aisles away he found
cans of Healthy Choice Soup for only 90 cents each, much better. He filled his cart with them, but David's big plan meant
he needed more, a lot more. So after loading up the soup, he headed to his local
discount warehouse store known as Grocery Outlet, and that's where he hit
the sweet motherload. Individual Healthy Choice pudding cups for just 25 cents a piece, each with their own glorious barcode. David cleared out the
whole store of pudding, but he wanted to go
even further, literally. So he asked the manager for the addresses of all the other grocery
outlet stores in the area. He spent the entire weekend
traveling all over the region, buying every last Healthy
Choice pudding cup he could get his hands
on from Davis to Fresno. He even put in an order at his local store for 60 more cases. And when he returned, there were two whole pallets of pudding with his name on them. The crazy chocolate dessert shopping spree added up to an unbelievable
total of 12,150 cups, talk about pudding in the hard work. But with them all taking up space in and around David's yard, a few nosy and judgmental locals began to think he'd lost the plot. David, however, wasn't deterred. In fact, to boast about his haul, he published photos of his stockpile onto the Webflyer's Website, a site dedicated to finding
the very best travel deals. He wrote his posts under
the username Pudding Guy, and from there an online
pudding legend was born. But David had one huge
problem on his hands, the end of May deadline
for earning double miles was fast approaching, and
there was simply no way he could tear off all 12,150 barcodes and send them off in time. So David came up with another clever plan. He packed up all the pudding and drove to two local food banks, and the Sacramento Salvation Army, where volunteers agreed
to tear off the barcodes in exchange for the
generous food donation. With all these extra helping hands, David was able to collect
every last barcode and post them to Healthy Choice. Then all David could do
was wait with bated breath. What if Healthy Choice caught
him out on some technicality? Because surely this deal
was too good to be true. Then a few weeks later, a large package arrived in
the mail from Healthy Choice. Inside were 2,506 certificates, each one awarding David
with 500 air miles. Any math whizzes watching may be able to work that
some out in their heads, but don't worry, I have a
calculator, and I can tell you that it comes out to a total
of 1,253,000 air miles. David split 216,000 air
miles between his United, Delta, and Northwest accounts, and posted the rest 1,037,000 air miles, to his American Airlines account. And by surpassing the million-mile mark, David gained advantage Gold
status with that airline, entitling him to priority
boarding, upgrades, and bonus miles for life. So taking his whole family
to Europe for this summer would've cost David
several thousand dollars in plane tickets alone. But by buying a total of $3,150 worth of putting cups instead, and claiming those 1.25 million air miles, he had effectively paid for 31 trips to Europe from North America
for less than $100 per ticket. And by donating the pudding to charity, he also claimed an $815 tax write-off, meaning each of those 31 tickets only cost David a mere 75 bucks, all that mental math paid off in the end. After buying all that pudding, David could jet set to any
sunny beach in the world for practically nothing. You'd think after buying all that pudding that David would be sick of the stuff, but he actually kept 100 cups for himself. And though his family may have
had their doubts at first, I know I would if my husband spent $3,000 on pudding over
the course of a weekend, they enjoyed memorable trips
to Italy, Peru, Mexico, and the east coast of the US. The Phillips family traveled so much that the pudding miles
have now all been used up. So not the lifetime supply
of flights he could have had, but pretty darn close, if only they had more grocery
store outlets in Fresno. But the legend of Pudding
Guy still lives on in internet legend, as a
classic tale of a smart guy who worked out how to game the system. Man, I sure would've
paid a lot more attention in math class if pudding
had been involved. (air whooshing) Home Sweet home. They say New York is the
city that never sleeps, probably because no one living
there can afford to sleep. The average cost of rent is a
staggering $4,295 per month, and that translates to roughly
$77 per square foot of space. But if you wanna know how to
afford to live in Manhattan, ask a cab driver. They don't just know the city's streets like the back of their hand, but they also know how to
hack the city's bylaws. In 2015, Oltimdje Ouattar was a cab driver who received an ingenious tip off regarding one specific property law. Taking the advice, Oltimdje rented a room at the Chelsea Highline Hotel, and then the next day he
requested a six month lease. The hotel was registered as an SRO, or Single Room Occupancy, which typically describes
a residential building for low-income tenants. To protect these tenants
from dubious landlords, New York State issued a series of laws, such as a little-known Rent Stabilization Administrative code, which dictates that SRO occupants who request a six month lease will be made permanent tenants. The room Oltimdje had requested was officially listed for $0 a month rent, meaning he now had a
rent-free room for life. But after requesting the lease, the hotel's landlord figured
out what was happening, and locked Oltimdje of the room, purposefully preventing him from becoming a permanent tenant. To claim his room back,
Oltimdje had to return to the Manhattan Housing
Court to enforce the law. After a lengthy legal battle, the judge finally ruled in his favor. One of the deciding factors
ruling against the landlord was that the year before
another cab driver had applied the exact same law. Hamidou Guira had secured a permanent room for a stabilized rent
of only $226 a month. Meanwhile, Hamidou's Buddy Joe
Stevens, another cab driver, had been living in the
hotel for the last 20 years for a similarly low amount. These housing laws apply to other hotels in New York as well, including the Waldorf
and the Marriott Marquee, and can be enforced by anyone. However, don't expect to rock up to any hotel in New York
and be given a free room. For a hotel to be subject to the code, it must have been built on
or before July 1st, 1969 and contain six or more
housing accommodations where rent prices at the
time were established to have been less than $350 per month. So unfortunately, a lot of New York's modern luxury hotels don't apply, nevertheless, Oltimdje's story is proof that you should always read the fine print as you could become the hotel guest that never has to check out. So, free vacation, travel for life or free Apartment for life,
which would you prefer? For vacations, hit that like
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even more legal loopholes that people have used to beat the system. (air whooshing) The perfect crime. Yellowstone National Park is one of America's
great national beauties, but it also comes with a ton of dangers. Park rangers will warn you about getting too close to grizzly bears, while scientists will warn you about the 500 active
geysers across the park, which shoot boiling water
up to 180 feet into the air. But there's a place even
more dangerous in the park, known ominously as the Zone of Death. Why such a worrying name? Well, that's because it's the only place in the United States where you could legally
get away with homicide because in this 50 square
mile area, no laws apply. To understand why this
legal loophole exists, first you need to know that
Yellowstone National Park actually covers three states. While 96% of the park is in Wyoming, a smaller 3% section is north in Montana, and an even smaller 1% sliver is in Idaho, and that's where the
zone of death is found. Because the majority of
the park is in Wyoming, any crimes committed in
Yellowstone's boundaries are put to trial in the United States
District Court for Wyoming. But for a crime to be punished, the defendant has to first
be given a fair trial. The right to a fair trial is enshrined under the 6th Amendment of the United States Constitution, which decrees that juries
and federal criminal cases must be made up of citizens who are from both the
district and the state where the crime was committed. But the Zone of Death, while in Idaho is complete wilderness. If a crime's committed there, there are no residents in
the area to assemble a jury. Without a fair trial,
no crime can be charged. So on a technicality, this
area is a lawless zone, and so by default, best to
avoid as a camping spot. Now, this legal loophole was discovered by Michigan State University
Professor Brian Kalt, who was writing an essay
on the 6th Amendment and the right to a fair trial. To his horror, he discovered
this glaring legal error by complete chance. He published an essay in 2005
titled, "The Perfect Crime," as a Means to Alert Congress to issue legislation to fix the Loophole. But so far, Congress has
been slow to take any action. Luckily, it seems no crimes
have been committed in the area that we know of, though
as recently as 2022, an Idaho legislature has called for the Zone of Death
loophole to be closed, and it's a surprisingly easy fix. All legislators would have to do is redraw the judicial
districts of Yellowstone, so they fell within state lines. The district Court of Idaho would then govern over the Zone of Death, and the loophole would disappear. But this still hasn't been implemented at the time I'm recording this video. So the area remains the
most dangerous place in Yellowstone or the best, if you're a professional hitman. None of you are actually hit men, right? Why do I get the feeling I'm gonna regret telling at least one of you about this? (air whooshing) Total Coin-cedence. We've all heard of making
it rain dollar bills, but what about reigning dollar coins? Ouch, whoa, that would be painful. Maybe that's why dollar
coins never took off, despite the American government's relentless attempts to launch them. One campaign to get the public
interested in dollar coins ended up backfiring so badly, people were going on
free vacations instead. But before that, why is
it that the US Treasury is so keen for Americans
to start using coins? Well, quite simply, it would
be a lot cheaper for them. In fact, it would save the US government more than $500 million a year. But surely paper is cheaper to produce than metal coins, right? Well, it actually comes down
to the lifetime of money. As bills are circulated
through the economy, they're roughed up, torn, and damaged. Eventually, they're no
longer fit for purpose, and taken out of
circulation to be destroyed. As a result, the Bureau of Printing has to print billions of
new dollars every year to replace the old currency. Up to 70% printed each year are used to replace notes
considered to be unfit for use. Dollar coins, however,
last 16 times longer than paper notes do. The lifespan of a dollar
bill is around 6.6 years, but a dollar coin can
last around 30 years, and so the US Mint has
tried a number of methods to get the public interested
in using dollar coins. In one rollout scheme launched in 2008, the Mint offered to sell
the new dollar coins at face value with free shipping, allowing the use of credit
cards to purchase the coins. Well, one science researcher, Jane Laiw, took note of this scheme
and suddenly realized that there was a major loophole here. If she got a credit card
with a high enough limit, she could, for example,
purchase $10,000 coins, then deposit the coins in the bank, and pay off the credit card. Usually banks offer rewards
for paying back credit early, or within a certain timeframe,
such as free air miles. So Jane and many other
self-proclaimed travel hackers started buying up hundreds of dollar coins on their credit cards, and
earning all these air miles. The scheme completely backfired
on the Mint's attempts to put the coins in circulation, as instead they were
building up in bank vaults. Mint officials realized there
was something going wrong when they discovered a
small amount of customers were ordering huge
quantities of the coins. The top 20 customers alone bought around $696,000 between them. One man reportedly ordered
$2.4 million worth of coins, and none of them were
entering into circulation. Eventually, by 2011, the
Mint caught onto the scheme and sent letters to the travel hackers exploiting this loophole,
imposing a strict limit of buying only 1000 coins every 10 days. The US mint may have ended this
clever free air miles hack, but dollar coins have
never really caught on with the public, most likely
because they are heavier and bulkier in your wallet than the ease of using paper bills. Besides, it's no fun having dollar coins thrown at you when you're on stage. No, wait, pretend you didn't hear that. (air whooshing) Poker Face. When it comes to gambling,
they say the house always wins. But sometimes clever gamblers can beat the house at its
own game, such as in 2010. When gamblers using the British Columbia Lottery Corporation's PlayNow website discovered a loophole
that reliably paid them $197.50 cents every time they played. As part of a promotion scheme,
new players to the site would get a $100 incentive
in their accounts. Players then deposited $100 of their own money into the account, and played a Baccarat game, betting $50 on both the
player and the banker. In Baccarat, there are only
three possible outcomes, the player's hand beats the banker's, the banker's hand beats
the players, or they tie, which happens very rarely. With their bets set, they
were practically guaranteed to win one of the $50 bets. Man, so with the winnings doubled, they won back the full
$100 they'd put down, and if they wagered the same bet again, they qualified to withdraw
the $100 deposit bonus. After a $2.50 cents service charge, the players then walked away with their $97.50 cents profit
after a few minutes played. It seemed like a huge gaffe,
but the BC lottery maintains that of all the people that
claimed the $100 bonus, 75% of them kept on gambling. However, they've never
run that promotion again, so I wonder if that bet
landed them in the red. (air whooshing) Hot Wheels. Psst, hey, hey you. You want a golf cart for free? Back in 2008, a tax loophole meant that you could get
a golf cart for free, but the catch was you
couldn't call it a golf cart. Economic stimulus legislation
passed in late 2008, created two new tax credits
for electric vehicles, including one for four wheel, low-speed, plug-in, electric drive vehicles. Yeah, just like a rolf blart. But the law specifically said
this credit did not apply to vehicles manufactured
primarily for off-road use. So a golf cart designed for
off-road use on a golf course was automatically disqualified, which is why for this
tax loophole to apply it had to strictly be called, a neighborhood electric vehicle. The amazing thing about this credit is that it could cover up to $15,000, which was 100% of the cost of a standard golf cart at the time. All he needed to do to claim the credit was to buy and take title
to a qualifying golf cart, I mean neighborhood electric
vehicle by December, 2009. So provided it had a
license, plate signal, lights, and wing mirrors, you could drive it off
down the highway for free. But given that most golf carts have a top speed of
just 15 miles per hour, that'd have caused quite a few tailbacks. The tax loophole ended with
the offer in 2009, sadly. But it's always worth
keeping track of these things as you never know when you'll find a similar tee-riffic deal. (air whooshing) Espresso Yourself. Ever since Starbucks first
opened its doors in 1971, it hasn't stopped serving coffee, be it in bean or beverage form. Today, some 60 million customers visit its 18,000 stores all
over the world every week. As a result, Starbucks came up with a loyalty card scheme
called Starbucks Gold. Members were entitled
to a bunch of benefits, including a free drink on
their birthday, free refills, and one free drink after
every 12 drinks they bought. Now, most of us might have
settled for a free filter coffee, but other customers have
used this free drink to start breaking records. Now, Andrew may sound
like an ordinary name, but it's the name of a man
who made a truly insane drink. Back in May 2014, he
marched into a Starbucks, and put a glass vase down on the counter, challenging the baristas
to make a Frappuccino. But not just any Frappuccino, a 60-espresso shot Frappuccino. The vanilla bean mocha mega Frappuccino came in at a total of $54.75 cents, but Andrew didn't pay a dime. Because Andrew, a Starbucks Gold member, had bought 12 drinks
in the days beforehand, and at the time, there
were no stipulations about what beverage gold
members could claim. So this 128 ounce
monstrosity was totally free. Though Andrew's record for the most expensive Starbucks
drink didn't last long, as it was beaten just two months later, can you guess where? Florida, it's always Florida. The woman set the new record
at $60.58 cents with her drink, also featuring 60 shots of espresso along with caramel, white
mocha, and hazelnut syrups. She also didn't pay for
this supersized drink as she used her loyalty card,
and is that a glass keg? But the infamous Florida
man reared his head, shattering the record again in October when William Lewis asked for a mega latte that featured 101 shots of espresso and a 17 pumps of vanilla syrup. The drink totaled 83 bucks and 75 cents, but William also got the drink
for free on his loyalty card. Now, all these drinks
may sound impressive, but they could also be deadly. Caffeine is a stimulant with a daily consumption limit for humans being some 400 milligrams. Meanwhile, a Starbucks espresso shot contains 75 milligrams of caffeine. So Andrew's and Florida Women's drink topped out at 4,500
milligrams of caffeine, blasting 11 times past the daily limit. Williams drink, in the other hand, totaled 7,500 milligrams of caffeine, a literal heart stopping 18
times over the daily limit. And drinking these drinks all at once could trigger a lethal caffeine overdose, resulting in irregular heartbeats, seizures, and even heart failure. Wisely, none of these creative customers drank them in one go. Andrew finished his mammoth Frappuccino over the course of five days. William, on the other hand,
split his between three friends who drank it out of
normal sized coffee cups, turning his one free drink into dozens. I imagine Starbucks management was bitter. (air whooshing) Double Trouble. Identical twins can sometimes
be so hard to tell apart that even their parents struggle. But while their parents only have to worry about calling them the wrong name, the cops have it much harder. Now in law, the saying goes,
"Innocent until proven guilty," which means in many places, in order to be punished for a crime, there needs to be proof
beyond a reasonable doubt that the person accused committed it. Any crime show fans watching will know a deciding factor
in any case is DNA evidence. But here's the kicker, identical twins also share identical DNA. And so even DNA evidence can't prove which twin committed a specific crime. This exact legal dilemma
occurred back in 2008 in Malaysia when a judge couldn't
determine which identical twin owned a stash of narcotics. Therefore, by law, they
both had to be acquitted because of the wrongness of
imprisoning an innocent person outweighs detaining a guilty person. A similar case also occurred in Arizona, the US back in 2011. The judge couldn't decide whether Orlando or Brandon Nembhard had gotten into a fight
outside a nightclub, one that ended fatally for
the other person involved. Despite DNA evidence and
abundant witnesses to the crime, there was no way for the prosecution to definitively pin the crime
on either Orlando or Brandon, they shared the same
distinguishing features, identical DNA, and most importantly, both blamed the crime on the other, and so they both went free. To this day, the police
still can't determine who committed the crime. I guess it's a twin for, sorry, a win for the twins, at least. (air whooshing) Livin' the Pug Life. New Yorkers spend on average up to 117 hours in traffic per year, that's equivalent of
being stuck in your car for over four days. So it's no wonder that most residents opt for public transport instead, with 2.4 million people
traveling daily on the subway. It's a far more convenient way to travel with people often taking their pets too. But in 2019, the New York
City Transit Authority put forward a rule that no animals may board trains or enter stations without being carried inside a container like a portable kennel. But where there's a hard rule, new Yorkers will always find a loophole. While the rule requires pets
to be inside a container, it doesn't actually define what kind of containers are valid. And so people came up with their own creative interpretations of what container was, from
backpacks to laundry bags. Though the most popular
trend for large dogs was to cut four holes
into plastic IKEA bags, so that their pooch could wear it. Flatpack pets are one of the
easiest things to assemble, simply put slot D into slot B,
and that's assembly complete. And in accordance with the rule, these IKEA dogs are
contained inside the bag. Though the fact no one seems faced by dogs wearing IKEA bags says a lot about how much weirdness
New Yorkers see every day. (air whooshing) Jerry and Marge Go Large. A lot of grandparents spend
their well-earned retirements going on cruises or learning to knit, but one grandfather who had
a serious knack for numbers spent his retirement gaming the lottery. Back in 2003, Jerry and Marge Selbee were enjoying their retirement in Michigan when a new lottery game was
announced known as windfall. In the regular Mega Millions lottery, the jackpot keeps building
until one lucky person gets all the right numbers,
and wins the big money prize. But in windfall, if
jackpot reaches 5 million and no one matched all six numbers, all the money rolled down to
the lowest tier prize winners. So anyone with tickets
matching five, four, or three numbers got a prize. Jerry discovered a brochure for this new lottery
system at the corner store. A fast thinker, it took
him all of three minutes to work out how to hack the system. Meanwhile, it takes me about five minutes just to decide what pizza to order. But Jerry was a far smarter guy than me, he realized that if he bought
$1,100 worth of tickets, that statistically he'd have at least one four-number winning ticket, which would earn him
back a thousand bucks. He crunched the numbers further, and realized he'd have either 18 or 19 three-number winning tickets, which would earn him 50 bucks each. And that means in total,
after a $1,100 investment, he'd win back a $1,900 return every time. Jerry's clever sums had
removed the luck element from the lottery entirely. Now, is just a matter of
working the odds in his favor. So when a rolldown was announced,
Jerry sprang into action. He bought $3,600 worth
of windfall tickets, and won $6,300 in return. The next time he bought 8,000 tickets, and nearly doubled his earnings. In 2005, Michigan shut
down the windfall lottery, but Jerry soon found a similar game called Cash Windfall in Massachusetts. The couple would drive over 700 miles to buy $100,000 worth of tickets at two local convenience stores. It was a steep upfront investment, but one that really paid off because in 2009, they had grossed more than $20 million in winning tickets. After ticket expenses and taxes, this was a profit of $5 million. Eventually, though the
fund came to an end, when the Boston Globe newspaper published an investigative report exposing the moneymaking scheme. Following that, Massachusetts state announced they would phase out the cash windfall lottery within a year. By January, 2012, Jerry
and Marge's windfall scheme had come to an end. Over the course of nine years, they had grossed nearly $27
million from both states, rewarding them with $7.75
million in profit before taxes. Forget going on a luxury cruise, these guys could have
bought their own yacht. But they instead chose to use the money for practical purposes, such as helping their six
kids and 14 grandkids, and 10 great grandchildren
pay for their education. And maybe that's how
Jerry got so good at math, by keeping track of his
dozens of descendants. (air whooshing) A Novel Law. They say that everyone has a book in them, an untold story they could write. But committing all those words
to paper can take an age. Although if there's one
thing that prisoners have, it's a lot of time on their hands. And according to one strange Romanian law, writing a book can get you out of jail. In Romania, a very specific law once stipulated that prisoners could have their sentences
reduced by 30 days for every scientific work they publish. In April, 2015, one Romanian
businessman behind bars, Gheorghe Copos managed
to reduce his sentence by 150 days by publishing five books. One of his books was titled, "Matrimonial Alliance as a Policy of Romanian Kings in the
14th to 16th Centuries," an impressive academic work. Meanwhile, another prisoner
wrote a 212-page book in only seven hours, which
blows away Stephen King's record for writing his 219-page novel,
"The Running Man" in a Week. Romanian Prisoners published
340 books in 2015 alone. So how on earth were these prisoners writing such well-rehearsed
academic books so quickly? Well, one historian, Catalin Parfene, solved this mystery when
he picked up George's book, and discovered it completely
plagiarized his master thesis. The book was a word for word
copy of his entire essay. This blatant plagiarism also explaining that seven-hour record as it's a lot easier to write quickly if you're not having to come
up with an original plot. Prisoners were finding
little known academic works, and just copying them out word for word, hoping no one would notice. The law remained hugely
controversial in Romania, and was finally repealed in 2016. Unsurprisingly, prisoners now spend a lot less time in the library, as Romania's legal system
has started a new chapter. (air whooshing) Squatters Delight. One of the single biggest purchases most people make in their
entire life is buying a house. With prices ranging from tens of thousands to millions of dollars, property in the US is
an expensive business. But one Texas man looked up his state laws and worked out the ultimate life hack, buying a house for only 16 bucks. To understand how, first
we need to time travel back to the 2008 financial crash. Following this, some parts of
America became ghost towns, with some people having to abandon homes they could no longer
afford the mortgage on. One man known as Kenneth Robinson found a silver lining in this
property bubble bursting. In 2011, he found a house valued at $330,000 in Flower Mound, Texas that had been abandoned
by its previous owner, and the mortgage company it
was tied to had shut down. With no one to claim the debt, the house was just sitting empty. Kenneth had done his research
on a little known law, known as adverse possession, whereby if someone were to
move into an abandoned home, they would have exclusive
negotiating rights with the original owner. If the original owner wanted
the squatter to leave, the owner would have to pay off the mortgage on the property, and under Texas occupancy laws, the bank would have to file a lawsuit against the squatter to get him evicted. All Kenneth had to do was file paperwork to the local courthouse saying he claimed
ownership of the property, which cost him a grand total of $16. Then as long as he stayed for three years, the house would be his. To advertise the loophole law to others, Kenneth created a website
known as $16 house.com, and became a local celebrity. But he remained deeply
unpopular with his neighbors who felt he should have paid
fair and square for the house. Unfortunately, Kenneth was
only able to live in the house for eight months before a judge ruled that the current holder of the Mortgage, Bank of America could a victim. Because Kenneth had boasted
about the loophole so publicly, the judge decided to
make an example of him cracking down quickly
to dissuade anyone else thinking about taking
advantage of the scheme. Nevertheless, the law of adverse
possession still applies. So you can feasibly claim
ownership of an abandoned house, just don't make the
same mistake as Kenneth and brag about it on the internet. (air whooshing) Free Willy. They say that America
is the land of the free. Perhaps in some states
it's a little too free because in the state
of Kansas, for example, it's perfectly legal to stroll down the street
in your birthday suit as long as you keep your
hands where we can see them. Any naughty behavior will obviously constitute
a criminal offense. But just walking around with
no clothes on, hey, no problem. But don't take the same
chance in North Carolina because there public nudity is illegal. But if you wanna let it all
hang out in North Carolina, there is a way around that. The state's laws preserve the right to do whatever you want on your property. That means you may not be
able to walk down the street with your buns out, but if you're standing in
your doorway completely nude, or in the backyard with nothing
on, no one can arrest you. Though I'd recommend against
it for the bug bites alone. (suspenseful music) Which of these crazy loopholes did you find the most interesting? And do you have any other clever
ways around certain rules? Legally, obviously? Let me know down in the comments below, and thanks for watching. (gentle music)
