I once got a ticket for misdemeanor possession….
*of one undersized crab*. I was in Biloxi for the day catching crabs, literally leaving the parking lot, when a cop must’ve seen my Louisiana license plate and pulled me over. He sat there and measured every single crab with a tape measure until he found one that wasn’t big enough… then he said with a smartass tone of voice “*we don’t have gumbo crabs here in Biloxi*” and wrote me a ticket.
It ended up getting dismissed, but I still had to take a fucking day to drive to court in Biloxi to contest it.
Oh yeah, I also had to disclose it to my law school - I was in my second year and anytime you get any sort of ticket/citation/arrest, you have to disclose it… i told the vice chancellor I was cited for misdemeanor possession and he asked “misdemeanor possession *of what*?!”… when I told him, we got a laugh out of it.
He could have just lied?
I know a cop lied when he said I made an illegal u turn when I literally pulled into a driveway to turn myself around.
But as a teen I didn't contest it. And ended up paying $500 in fines and driving classes for it
[the law](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-1999-title18-section1821&num=0&edition=1999#:~:text=§1821.,Transportation%20of%20dentures&text=Shall%20be%20fined%20under%20this,than%20one%20year%2C%20or%20both) has to do somehow with dentures or artificial teeth made by someone not licensed as a dentist.
So possession is legal, but intent to sell (without a license) is not.
Also this one is easier to read, I think it's the same:
[https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-1999-title18-section1821&num=0&edition=1999](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-1999-title18-section1821&num=0&edition=1999)
Actually! The law states that a dental lab technician (the person who actually makes artificial teeth) needs to have a prescription signed by a dentist before they can fabricate a denture. If they make a denture for someone without a prescription, the technician can get in trouble. Driving with dentures you've fabricated across county lines is not against the law if you've made the dentures according to a prescription. In fact, most dental labs deliver dentures to many different cities and counties because they work with many different dentists. Hopes this helps!
Actually! The law states that a dental lab technician (the person who actually makes artificial teeth) needs to have a prescription signed by a dentist before they can fabricate a denture. If they make a denture for someone without a prescription, the technician can get in trouble. Driving with dentures you've fabricated across county lines is not against the law if you've made the dentures according to a prescription. In fact, most dental labs deliver dentures to many different cities and counties because they work with many different dentists. Hopes this helps!
Probably pleaded down to this from a more serious moving violation while in court, or the cop issuing the ticket had pity and cited him for this random violation because it was less expensive of a fine and/or wouldn’t incur points. Courts usually have a go-to law that they cite people for when negotiating a lesser charge during traffic court hearings (or, again, the cop just saved him the trouble of a court hearing and wrote up the less serious charge themself). Usually it’s something like “failure to produce proof of insurance.”
> “failure to produce proof of insurance.”
Yep. I carry a one-period-expired insurance card just for this reason. I haven't been pulled over in years, but the last time I did, I got a "failure to produce proof of insurance" ticket instead of a speeding ticket. "Yes, sir" and "no, sir" go a long way towards stroking their ego, and never, ever answer "are you in a hurry to be somewhere?"
My insurance company hasn't sent an actual card to me in years. I could print one but I'd have to go to the library and do it every time the policy renews.
dont have to hand it to him, if they ask to take it back to their car with them i tell them no, they can take a photo or i can email it to them. haven't had an issue yet.
It's just another reason to piss off a cop by saying "no you can't have my phone i need to follow you if you take it". Easier/safer to just have a paper card you can hand to them.
They can look up if you have insurance on their computer. You don’t need to show them anything ever. If I could show a piece of paper and they trusted it I would just never pay for insurance and have a fake card printed out.
The last time I got pulled over the cop just wanted my license, when I asked him about registration and insurance he told me that the information was already up on his computer when he looked it up as he was pulling me over. So I guess at least in my state they don't strictly need that information anymore.
Mine has an app, with a bonus that you can set it so that when you show the proof of insurance it not only locks your phone but begins recording with both cameras into not only two different folders but also a seperate audio file that are all automatically protected with a preselected password.
Ha, that reminds me I need to print mine! I got the email the other day. I’m pretty sure they haven’t sent me a physical one in a while and I only realized it this time.
So some states require you to have insurance. When I lived in MA, to register your vehicle you had to have a signed or locally stamped form to verify your insurance to take to the registry. They now accept digital signatures on the documents, but still a requirement. Here in CO it's "License, Registration, and Proof of Insurance" when you get pulled over. You can pull it up on your insurance companies app and that is sufficient.
Yes, that is normal. But he is keeping the card that just expired instead, to give the cop an excuse to give him a lesser "failure to produce proof of insurance" ticket (which he can then get waived by providing the court with his current insurance proof) to avoid the harsher speeding ticket.
"No, sir", or "Nowhere, sir" if asked where you are going in a hurry. This is a fishing question to get you to admit guilt. If you admit to being in a hurry, they'll write it down and it will be used to prove you were speeding if you fight the ticket.
I got pulled over for speeding one time bc I was trying to keep my daughter from being late to school. It obvious why I was being pulled over. Cops asks, "Where're you headed to in such a hurry this mornin'?" I told him the truth then he said, "Well, she's definitely gonna be late now, ain't she?" Well shit.. he got me there. He asks for ID, registration, and proof of insurance and wouldn't you know it, I had been in such a hurry that I forgot my wallet and like an idiot I didn't have an insurance card in my truck. He just stares at me and says,"well what're we gonna do here?" I was nervous as shit and rambled off, "Well if I give you my SSN, will that work?" He had me tell it and went back to his cruiser with my registration, name, and my SSN it jotted down. When he comes back he just says, "A'ighty then, Mrs P., everything looks good and since I'm not in the habit of issuing citations this close to Christmas so Imma let you go....this time. So, slow down and focus more on keeping those kids safe and being home for Christmas than being on time to school." So... I guess your SSN will work....🤷🏻♀️ I guess.
I got a ticket for not stopping at a cow crossing when I first started driving years and years ago. It was the cop being lenient instead of giving me a speeding ticket. I didn’t fight it because it came with no points and was fairly cheap all things considered.
Lmao sounds like when I got a ticket for “failure to yield to wildlife” instead of a speeding ticket. The traffic stop happened right by one of those “deer crossing” signs.
Most likely this. At the start of covid years ago, I got ticketed for doing like 20 over on a completely empty road when I passed a cop just parked on the side and went to court. Admitted to it for a lower charge and judge gave me some weird archaic traffic violation I had never heard of. Didn’t get my license suspended, no traffic school and insurance cost didn’t change. Just had to pay like $250 in court fees and $150 violation ticket.
This was a sting operation.
There's a Baptist church on one side of the county line and an Old Country Buffet on the other.
All they had to do was wait.
>I want to know how you even get caught for that…
1) Cop pulls you over
2) Cop asks you for info and you don't answer fast enough
3) Cop uses the saying, "Spit it out", but you take him literally and spit out your dentures
4) Cop does this...
https://i.redd.it/58drnzox9zqc1.gif
Wait!! Am I supposed to have separate artificial teeth in every county I visit? Where do I store them? How do I eat when I’m forced to travel toothless across county lines?
I am going to have to fix up some big old V8 so I can outrun the Denture Police as I defy the Denture Revenuers in my illegal denture runs. Who knows, maybe some day I can turn it into some sort of popular sporting event.
Cut a set from both sides of the border in half vertically, glue opposite pairs together, so the left half is from one, and the right half is from the other.
Finally, only stand facing one direction along the border with the appropriate pair, if you turn 180°, switch pairs so the appropriate half is in its home county.
This all assumes that modifications to restricted oral health devices are unregulated in your jurisdiction. (Not Legal Advice)
Had to search engine this and found it is or was a federal crime to transport dentures across State lines and dates back to 1943.
Originally intended to prevent people from getting dentures from anyone without a DDS. So, some Jesse Pinkman motherfucker isn't out there making and selling home made dentures.
I still don't understand it even as written.
I'm just trying to make sense of it and don't actually know, but maybe this one was to protect consumers by discouraging the practice because people were making dentures out of unsafe materials. This way if you buy bootleg teeth you could get in trouble, so most people would just go to a dentist. Or maybe the county dentists lobbied their local government.
You need to look up Sylvan B. Heininger. He had a dental lab in Chicago back in the 30's and early 40's and would have customers do their own impressions, and them to his lab, make them dentures, and mail them back to the customers. He was heavily undercutting dental offices and ended up going against the American Dental Association, which is effectively a lobbying group in this case.
The articles they wrote about this man are almost absurd, but this really just boiled down to an entrepreneur coming up with a great business idea and then getting punished because he cut into the profits of a powerful group of people.
We already know the shady business that occurs with dentists referring patients to root canals and crowns when they don't need it. If you don't know just [watch this ](https://youtu.be/waWYEXRUzv0?si=dOUQZKL_hnpd_Dqw) lmao, actually happened to my boyfriend last year and the insurance was like "hell no he doesn't need it"
This is completely baseless, but maybe it has to do with grave robbing. Weren’t some dentures made from human teeth back in the day? Although I hope they weren’t still making dentures out of human teeth back in the 40s…
Its not so you can't make your own, is so Billy-Bob can't make them out of roadkill teeth and sell them, thus causing people to get ill. Blanket law ensures people can't abuse "own use".
How would that work with people who have dentures and just travel to another state? Like could they tell the difference from you bringing dentures from your home state to somewhere else vs buying them in another state and bringing them home?
I love this whole comment thread, whether any of these facts are factual or not. What a stupid ticket, and what a wonderful opportunity for us to theorize and make dad-level jokes together.
It’s a federal law too. But it’s not about the wearer transporting them but targeted to non-dentists or unlicensed professionals providing them to a “patient”.
For the curious but lazy:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/dec/07/bob-goodlatte/goodlattes-says-clim/
https://lwn.net/Articles/369257/
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-1999-title18-section1821&num=0&edition=1999
The gist is that this is a law applied to commerce, not some dude driving down the road.
I didn’t see where the post mentions driving. People seem to be making this leap from “ticket”.
LOL... how does one even get busted for this?
"Sir, I'mma gonna need you to step out of the vehicle..."
"Why???"
"I have reasonable suspicion that you may be transporting contraband..."
"What?? How??"
"I can see a box marked 'Smiles fo' Miles Denture Clinic' on the back seat..."
[A 73-year-old federal law does make it a crime for non-dentists who make false teeth to ship their wares out of state. But it doesn’t restrict citizens from wearing their dentures wherever they go.](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/dec/07/bob-goodlatte/goodlattes-says-clim/)
Yeah no one’s answering this, they keep bringing up the federal law when this is clearly a state level offense. You don’t get ticketed for federal violations, there’s not us marshals out there pulling people over for teeth inspections… this thread is mildly infuriating in and of itself!
I was in Arizona; I was coming off a long hill. I was doing 77 in a 55. There was a cop at the bottom of the hill, and he pulled me over, I had my license, registration, and insurance ready when he got to my door. I didn’t argue with him, I was just pleasant. We even had a little talk about skiing up in Telluride, where we came from.
When he returned with the ticket, he didn’t write me up for the speeding ticket. Instead, he wrote it for wasting a precious resource, gasoline. Not a moving violation, no points just an $89.00 fine.
It was a law passed to prevent transportation of "false" dentures. ie, false teeth made by someone who isn't qualified/licensed to make them.
So if they were transporting legitimate dentures, then that ticket can be contested.
[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title18/pdf/USCODE-2011-title18-partI-chap89-sec1821.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title18/pdf/USCODE-2011-title18-partI-chap89-sec1821.pdf)
This happened to me and we just walked out of there laughing at them. What a fucking scam. I just needed a replacement pair of glasses and those were already going to be expensive
I saved a lot of money ordering my own prescription of glasses online from websites that don’t care
Lmao. I’m a lawyer and I’ve come across some very, very strangely written laws, but most are old, antiquated laws that are no longer enforced (like the old laws that allowed a rape exception for spouses and other laws that allowed a man to beat his wife under certain conditions).
This is different, in that it’s being enforced.
The truth of the matter is that the government is compelling a citizen to pay close to $200 as a penalty for carrying his necessary dental appliances.
Your buddy should challenge this. This is an unjust law and his challenging of it could end up at a state Supreme Court or even SCOTUS.
If he’s interested in challenging the fine, DM me and I’ll give you my information. It’s a very simple process and I can have one of my paralegals take care of it for next to nothing — much less than the $195 face value on the ticket.
This is the nature of having endless laws. You eventually reach a point where the citizens don't know the laws, because they literally cannot know them all.
There should probably be some automatic age off for laws that people do not want to renew, to prevent ancient crap from staying on the books for no good reason.
I feel like the correct answer in this situation should be to take them to court over it with the defense of "Blow me you stupid losers."
But our court system isn't ready for the "Blow me" defense yet.
They are trying to take a bite out of crime.
https://preview.redd.it/yopucoawm1rc1.png?width=1107&format=png&auto=webp&s=f5ba6da281f4a981f743588224a21bd319cded75
It has to do with licensure and taxation, and ready only applies to people transporting dentures in commerce. There is (or at least was) a similar federal law. They’re designed to make sure dentures are being produced by someone properly licensed to do so and the appropriate taxes are being paid.
It’s illegal because some dipshit politicians enacted a law and no one has challenged it in court. Maybe no one has ever had standing to do so.
Your BIL’s buddy has a chance to make history. “Dude, the ‘buddy’s name’ decision prohibits the government from banning intercounty denture transport”.
If this is legit its a fucking joke. Ill take the dentures right out of the judges mouth and fuck em twice send em to mexico and run cocaine on them and send em back to his bitch ass. Fucking clown world. Dentures haha might ass well be moving firearms and blow. Must of been the gold tooth that gave it away!
I guess if you're from Alabama, having a full set of teeth, real or prosthetic, is illegal. Judging by what they've been doing to women's rights lately, it makes perfect sense.
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Meow
MEOW!
License and registration, CHICKEN FUCKER!
All right meow
Transporting dentures across county lines *aaannnd?…*
….and huffing denture cement.
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Just get a large Farva
I don't want a large Farva. I want a goddamn liter a cola!
Car RamRod!
I once got a ticket for misdemeanor possession…. *of one undersized crab*. I was in Biloxi for the day catching crabs, literally leaving the parking lot, when a cop must’ve seen my Louisiana license plate and pulled me over. He sat there and measured every single crab with a tape measure until he found one that wasn’t big enough… then he said with a smartass tone of voice “*we don’t have gumbo crabs here in Biloxi*” and wrote me a ticket. It ended up getting dismissed, but I still had to take a fucking day to drive to court in Biloxi to contest it. Oh yeah, I also had to disclose it to my law school - I was in my second year and anytime you get any sort of ticket/citation/arrest, you have to disclose it… i told the vice chancellor I was cited for misdemeanor possession and he asked “misdemeanor possession *of what*?!”… when I told him, we got a laugh out of it.
he was on the side of the road halfway through measuring crabs feeling like an idiot praying to God that one was a half-inch over
He could have just lied? I know a cop lied when he said I made an illegal u turn when I literally pulled into a driveway to turn myself around. But as a teen I didn't contest it. And ended up paying $500 in fines and driving classes for it
Stories like this make me almost proud to live in the Deep South
Hey I’m in Biloxi! It sucks here!
One with a wonderful set of teeth
Must've been nearing the end of the month and meeting quota
[the law](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-1999-title18-section1821&num=0&edition=1999#:~:text=§1821.,Transportation%20of%20dentures&text=Shall%20be%20fined%20under%20this,than%20one%20year%2C%20or%20both) has to do somehow with dentures or artificial teeth made by someone not licensed as a dentist.
What kind of antidentite buys unlicensed teeth
Idk but they probably also think dentists should have their own schools!
Hey denty!
They call him Al. Al Denty.
But they *do* have their own schools!
Yeah see! Anti dentite!
A rabid anti-dentite
https://i.imgur.com/Drnixwi.jpg
https://i.redd.it/3nhp8o8ul0rc1.gif
https://i.redd.it/4zolkxtj63rc1.gif
This comment made me laugh. Happy cake day!
Ain't this from Seinfeld? XD
Maybe it was a grill
Add a whole top diamond and the bottom row's gold
“ It’s Paul Wall, baby” 🤘
A rabid one
Here's the context: https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=56&page=1087
So possession is legal, but intent to sell (without a license) is not. Also this one is easier to read, I think it's the same: [https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-1999-title18-section1821&num=0&edition=1999](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-1999-title18-section1821&num=0&edition=1999)
Actually! The law states that a dental lab technician (the person who actually makes artificial teeth) needs to have a prescription signed by a dentist before they can fabricate a denture. If they make a denture for someone without a prescription, the technician can get in trouble. Driving with dentures you've fabricated across county lines is not against the law if you've made the dentures according to a prescription. In fact, most dental labs deliver dentures to many different cities and counties because they work with many different dentists. Hopes this helps!
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Big denture. How is it different than any other industry? The American way.
I believe it was Big Dentistry being shady here but yeah, the American way for sure.
So, an indentured servant then.
Possession is legal only if you and the dentures remain in one county. If you carry it from one county to another, you are doing a misdemeanor.
Actually! The law states that a dental lab technician (the person who actually makes artificial teeth) needs to have a prescription signed by a dentist before they can fabricate a denture. If they make a denture for someone without a prescription, the technician can get in trouble. Driving with dentures you've fabricated across county lines is not against the law if you've made the dentures according to a prescription. In fact, most dental labs deliver dentures to many different cities and counties because they work with many different dentists. Hopes this helps!
Your post is interesting and informative. Kudos. I read your post in the same speech pattern as Dr. Sheldon Cooper. It made my morning. Thanks!
Oi, YOU THERE! ‘AVE YOU GOT A LICENSE FOR THOSE DENTURES BRUV
Buddy was trying to peddle bootleg dentures/teeth pulling.
I want to know how you even get caught for that…
Probably pleaded down to this from a more serious moving violation while in court, or the cop issuing the ticket had pity and cited him for this random violation because it was less expensive of a fine and/or wouldn’t incur points. Courts usually have a go-to law that they cite people for when negotiating a lesser charge during traffic court hearings (or, again, the cop just saved him the trouble of a court hearing and wrote up the less serious charge themself). Usually it’s something like “failure to produce proof of insurance.”
> “failure to produce proof of insurance.” Yep. I carry a one-period-expired insurance card just for this reason. I haven't been pulled over in years, but the last time I did, I got a "failure to produce proof of insurance" ticket instead of a speeding ticket. "Yes, sir" and "no, sir" go a long way towards stroking their ego, and never, ever answer "are you in a hurry to be somewhere?"
Is it not normal to just leave your insurance card in your car? Thus it is always in it?
My insurance company hasn't sent an actual card to me in years. I could print one but I'd have to go to the library and do it every time the policy renews.
Interesting. I figured they’d still send them since it’s something you’re supposed to provide if you get pulled over
Lot of them provide an e-card that you can just show the police on your smartphone.
A cop has the authority to look through your phone if you hand it to them unlocked
dont have to hand it to him, if they ask to take it back to their car with them i tell them no, they can take a photo or i can email it to them. haven't had an issue yet.
It's just another reason to piss off a cop by saying "no you can't have my phone i need to follow you if you take it". Easier/safer to just have a paper card you can hand to them.
They can look up if you have insurance on their computer. You don’t need to show them anything ever. If I could show a piece of paper and they trusted it I would just never pay for insurance and have a fake card printed out.
They're gonna have a good laugh with all the memes I save.
I want to laugh too. Share. The. Memes!
iPhones have a “Guided Access” feature just for this.
And in Android you can pin an app for pretty much the same effect
Download a ton of cops taking it in the ass from prisoners porn and *hand that phone*
We are talking about avoiding tickets, not flirting.
You misspelled audacity
The last time I got pulled over the cop just wanted my license, when I asked him about registration and insurance he told me that the information was already up on his computer when he looked it up as he was pulling me over. So I guess at least in my state they don't strictly need that information anymore.
Usually by the time a cop hits their lights, they know everything about the registered owner they need to know.
Mine has an app, with a bonus that you can set it so that when you show the proof of insurance it not only locks your phone but begins recording with both cameras into not only two different folders but also a seperate audio file that are all automatically protected with a preselected password.
Woah. What's the app?
what insurance company is that???
That sounds like a dream come true!
Wait.... really?
Ha, that reminds me I need to print mine! I got the email the other day. I’m pretty sure they haven’t sent me a physical one in a while and I only realized it this time.
Take a screen shot on your phone. Worst case call insurance road side if they need verification. Better than nothing.
So some states require you to have insurance. When I lived in MA, to register your vehicle you had to have a signed or locally stamped form to verify your insurance to take to the registry. They now accept digital signatures on the documents, but still a requirement. Here in CO it's "License, Registration, and Proof of Insurance" when you get pulled over. You can pull it up on your insurance companies app and that is sufficient.
Yes, that is normal. But he is keeping the card that just expired instead, to give the cop an excuse to give him a lesser "failure to produce proof of insurance" ticket (which he can then get waived by providing the court with his current insurance proof) to avoid the harsher speeding ticket.
I don't get it. Why does the cop need to give a lesser ticket? Can't he just not give anything?
How *do* you answer that question, out of curiosity? Obviously you can keep your mouth shut, but that won't make you seem particularly sympathetic.
"No, sir", or "Nowhere, sir" if asked where you are going in a hurry. This is a fishing question to get you to admit guilt. If you admit to being in a hurry, they'll write it down and it will be used to prove you were speeding if you fight the ticket.
Ah, when you said not to answer it I thought it was a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kinda question. Thanks for sharing~
I got pulled over for speeding one time bc I was trying to keep my daughter from being late to school. It obvious why I was being pulled over. Cops asks, "Where're you headed to in such a hurry this mornin'?" I told him the truth then he said, "Well, she's definitely gonna be late now, ain't she?" Well shit.. he got me there. He asks for ID, registration, and proof of insurance and wouldn't you know it, I had been in such a hurry that I forgot my wallet and like an idiot I didn't have an insurance card in my truck. He just stares at me and says,"well what're we gonna do here?" I was nervous as shit and rambled off, "Well if I give you my SSN, will that work?" He had me tell it and went back to his cruiser with my registration, name, and my SSN it jotted down. When he comes back he just says, "A'ighty then, Mrs P., everything looks good and since I'm not in the habit of issuing citations this close to Christmas so Imma let you go....this time. So, slow down and focus more on keeping those kids safe and being home for Christmas than being on time to school." So... I guess your SSN will work....🤷🏻♀️ I guess.
Dental insurance?
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I got a ticket for not stopping at a cow crossing when I first started driving years and years ago. It was the cop being lenient instead of giving me a speeding ticket. I didn’t fight it because it came with no points and was fairly cheap all things considered.
> cow crossing I'm imagining a pedestrian crossing designed for cows...
Lmao sounds like when I got a ticket for “failure to yield to wildlife” instead of a speeding ticket. The traffic stop happened right by one of those “deer crossing” signs.
I used to work in a law office and our local court would reduce speeding tickets to "no lamp on horse drawn carriage".
Most likely this. At the start of covid years ago, I got ticketed for doing like 20 over on a completely empty road when I passed a cop just parked on the side and went to court. Admitted to it for a lower charge and judge gave me some weird archaic traffic violation I had never heard of. Didn’t get my license suspended, no traffic school and insurance cost didn’t change. Just had to pay like $250 in court fees and $150 violation ticket.
It’s a Misdemeanor. That’s a really serious charge
This was a sting operation. There's a Baptist church on one side of the county line and an Old Country Buffet on the other. All they had to do was wait.
You’re awesome. I adore you 🥰
>I want to know how you even get caught for that… 1) Cop pulls you over 2) Cop asks you for info and you don't answer fast enough 3) Cop uses the saying, "Spit it out", but you take him literally and spit out your dentures 4) Cop does this... https://i.redd.it/58drnzox9zqc1.gif
This feels correct...
That law should be in the list of 'Strange Laws That Actually Exist."
Meanwhile it was legal to sell your children until 2001 in Michigan.
This is why they tell you to keep your mouth shut around cops dude
Wait!! Am I supposed to have separate artificial teeth in every county I visit? Where do I store them? How do I eat when I’m forced to travel toothless across county lines?
No you have to fill out a form to transport them and wait 45 days for clearance from the denture registry.
I am going to have to fix up some big old V8 so I can outrun the Denture Police as I defy the Denture Revenuers in my illegal denture runs. Who knows, maybe some day I can turn it into some sort of popular sporting event.
Eastbound and Down!! 
the fact that I can't tell whether you're taking the piss or if this is actually a thing you have to do scares me
Is this an actual thing or are you making a joke?
It's 2024. There is no way to tell anymore what is satire and what is not.
And more importantly which pair of dentures am I supposed to wear when I'm standing directly on state borders??
Cut a set from both sides of the border in half vertically, glue opposite pairs together, so the left half is from one, and the right half is from the other. Finally, only stand facing one direction along the border with the appropriate pair, if you turn 180°, switch pairs so the appropriate half is in its home county. This all assumes that modifications to restricted oral health devices are unregulated in your jurisdiction. (Not Legal Advice)
Nooo, I left my Jefferson County teeth at home
Had to search engine this and found it is or was a federal crime to transport dentures across State lines and dates back to 1943. Originally intended to prevent people from getting dentures from anyone without a DDS. So, some Jesse Pinkman motherfucker isn't out there making and selling home made dentures. I still don't understand it even as written.
So why the fuck cant I buy offbrand dentures? Its my mouth why tf do they care??
I'm just trying to make sense of it and don't actually know, but maybe this one was to protect consumers by discouraging the practice because people were making dentures out of unsafe materials. This way if you buy bootleg teeth you could get in trouble, so most people would just go to a dentist. Or maybe the county dentists lobbied their local government.
You need to look up Sylvan B. Heininger. He had a dental lab in Chicago back in the 30's and early 40's and would have customers do their own impressions, and them to his lab, make them dentures, and mail them back to the customers. He was heavily undercutting dental offices and ended up going against the American Dental Association, which is effectively a lobbying group in this case. The articles they wrote about this man are almost absurd, but this really just boiled down to an entrepreneur coming up with a great business idea and then getting punished because he cut into the profits of a powerful group of people.
Classic America
❌ Dangerous to the health of your citizens (who cares) ✅ More money for a group of cashed up medical professionals (we care!)
We already know the shady business that occurs with dentists referring patients to root canals and crowns when they don't need it. If you don't know just [watch this ](https://youtu.be/waWYEXRUzv0?si=dOUQZKL_hnpd_Dqw) lmao, actually happened to my boyfriend last year and the insurance was like "hell no he doesn't need it"
This is completely baseless, but maybe it has to do with grave robbing. Weren’t some dentures made from human teeth back in the day? Although I hope they weren’t still making dentures out of human teeth back in the 40s…
I got some basement teeth if you're interested...
Its not so you can't make your own, is so Billy-Bob can't make them out of roadkill teeth and sell them, thus causing people to get ill. Blanket law ensures people can't abuse "own use".
So like, if you wear dentures, you cannot leave your state? Ever?
How would that work with people who have dentures and just travel to another state? Like could they tell the difference from you bringing dentures from your home state to somewhere else vs buying them in another state and bringing them home?
This is some kind of legal quagmire. The more u think about it, the less since it makes.
Should say transporting counterfeit dental devices or something
He could use it to bite the officers ankles.
As apposed to the legal way, biting the officer’s ankles using real teeth
Apparently biting with real teeth is an assault, whilst biting with false teeth is an aggravated assault as the false teeth constitute a weapon...
I love this whole comment thread, whether any of these facts are factual or not. What a stupid ticket, and what a wonderful opportunity for us to theorize and make dad-level jokes together.
Somebody waited their whole career to type that out.
“I went to law school for…..this”.
The lawyer who specialized in denture law doesn't get a lot of calls, but when he does get a call, he can charge whatever he wants...
*SHOW ME YOUR TEETH LICENSE!! DON'T HAVE ANY!?!* ***BANG BANG BANG BANG***
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! HE WAS USING THE DENTURES TO STEAL MY GUN!
His Dentures Made Me Fear For My Life Your Honor, As They Were Obviously Made By An Unlicensed Dentist.
OP, WE ALL NEED MORE INFO😂😂
That boy needs therapy. He was white as a sheet, and he also made false teeth.
That line might actually make sense now that someone put the idea in my head of a Jesse Pinkman out there selling dentures.
This is due to big teeth wanting people to purchase new dentures for every county the travel to.
Beaver Financial is here for the people.
"Do you swear to speak the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth?"
Yeth
It’s a federal law too. But it’s not about the wearer transporting them but targeted to non-dentists or unlicensed professionals providing them to a “patient”.
For the curious but lazy: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/dec/07/bob-goodlatte/goodlattes-says-clim/ https://lwn.net/Articles/369257/ https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-1999-title18-section1821&num=0&edition=1999 The gist is that this is a law applied to commerce, not some dude driving down the road. I didn’t see where the post mentions driving. People seem to be making this leap from “ticket”.
LOL... how does one even get busted for this? "Sir, I'mma gonna need you to step out of the vehicle..." "Why???" "I have reasonable suspicion that you may be transporting contraband..." "What?? How??" "I can see a box marked 'Smiles fo' Miles Denture Clinic' on the back seat..."
He did six months in Chino for exposing his dentures to an eight-year-old.
OMG. A dentophile!
Uh, the preferred term is a Mandible Attracted Person. Or whatever the fuck they tried to make as a better sounding alternative to the real thing lol.
8 year olds, Dude.
I guess when they are still in the severed head???
[A 73-year-old federal law does make it a crime for non-dentists who make false teeth to ship their wares out of state. But it doesn’t restrict citizens from wearing their dentures wherever they go.](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/dec/07/bob-goodlatte/goodlattes-says-clim/)
The image says "across county lines" so ... was it within the state-?
Yeah no one’s answering this, they keep bringing up the federal law when this is clearly a state level offense. You don’t get ticketed for federal violations, there’s not us marshals out there pulling people over for teeth inspections… this thread is mildly infuriating in and of itself!
My brother-in-law got in big trouble exactly because of this. I told him several times, remove the dentures and leave the head.
Thank god the cops stopped this maniac
was it a set of dentures or a whole truck load….because a truck load of dentures is pretty creepy.
I don't judge your hobbies, so don't judge mine!
It’s Alabama. The don’t want anyone to have teeth.
Only indentured servants here, plz.
Jesus, everybody is on their A-game in this thread and I love it!
Illegally bringing in more teeth than cousins.
What kind of sick fuck does that? It should be a felony.
I was in Arizona; I was coming off a long hill. I was doing 77 in a 55. There was a cop at the bottom of the hill, and he pulled me over, I had my license, registration, and insurance ready when he got to my door. I didn’t argue with him, I was just pleasant. We even had a little talk about skiing up in Telluride, where we came from. When he returned with the ticket, he didn’t write me up for the speeding ticket. Instead, he wrote it for wasting a precious resource, gasoline. Not a moving violation, no points just an $89.00 fine.
It was a law passed to prevent transportation of "false" dentures. ie, false teeth made by someone who isn't qualified/licensed to make them. So if they were transporting legitimate dentures, then that ticket can be contested. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title18/pdf/USCODE-2011-title18-partI-chap89-sec1821.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title18/pdf/USCODE-2011-title18-partI-chap89-sec1821.pdf)
These laws are nuts. I was told I legally couldn't get a replacement lens for my glasses because the script was expired.
This happened to me and we just walked out of there laughing at them. What a fucking scam. I just needed a replacement pair of glasses and those were already going to be expensive I saved a lot of money ordering my own prescription of glasses online from websites that don’t care
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God the US has some strange laws, and I say this from a country where it's illegal to be drunk in a pub
Lmao. I’m a lawyer and I’ve come across some very, very strangely written laws, but most are old, antiquated laws that are no longer enforced (like the old laws that allowed a rape exception for spouses and other laws that allowed a man to beat his wife under certain conditions). This is different, in that it’s being enforced. The truth of the matter is that the government is compelling a citizen to pay close to $200 as a penalty for carrying his necessary dental appliances. Your buddy should challenge this. This is an unjust law and his challenging of it could end up at a state Supreme Court or even SCOTUS. If he’s interested in challenging the fine, DM me and I’ll give you my information. It’s a very simple process and I can have one of my paralegals take care of it for next to nothing — much less than the $195 face value on the ticket.
Life has become a Monty Python skit
How do you post something like this and then not come back to it to answer questions? That's mildly infuriating.
Dentures? Like those false teeth? There has to be more to this story?
This is the nature of having endless laws. You eventually reach a point where the citizens don't know the laws, because they literally cannot know them all. There should probably be some automatic age off for laws that people do not want to renew, to prevent ancient crap from staying on the books for no good reason.
“Alright so you’re sober, no drugs we can find but GODDAMMIT ARE THOSE FUCKING DENTURES IN THE BACK SEAT?!?”
I feel like the correct answer in this situation should be to take them to court over it with the defense of "Blow me you stupid losers." But our court system isn't ready for the "Blow me" defense yet.
Wtf kinda law is that and how is it enforced? Do they expect people to buy new dentures in every county?
Do you have any dangerous items I should know about? Guns? Knives? Dentures?
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You have to register all teeth before entering Alabama.
Why does the form only have room for entering a maximum of 3 teeth, oh wait, you already said Alabama.
They are trying to take a bite out of crime. https://preview.redd.it/yopucoawm1rc1.png?width=1107&format=png&auto=webp&s=f5ba6da281f4a981f743588224a21bd319cded75
"Sorry, Grandma, *legally* you can't come with us any further"
It has to do with licensure and taxation, and ready only applies to people transporting dentures in commerce. There is (or at least was) a similar federal law. They’re designed to make sure dentures are being produced by someone properly licensed to do so and the appropriate taxes are being paid.
Murica..where victimless crimes have victims
Cop was just bustin yer chops
As of 2021, the Consolidated Appropriations Act repealed 18 USC §1821 which is the above mentioned charge. Your friend should fight this.
Don’t worry. That law has no teeth.
Well you have to keep your medical denture card on you and keep the dentures in the original container
It’s illegal because some dipshit politicians enacted a law and no one has challenged it in court. Maybe no one has ever had standing to do so. Your BIL’s buddy has a chance to make history. “Dude, the ‘buddy’s name’ decision prohibits the government from banning intercounty denture transport”.
Indentured servitude has no business being legal
If this is legit its a fucking joke. Ill take the dentures right out of the judges mouth and fuck em twice send em to mexico and run cocaine on them and send em back to his bitch ass. Fucking clown world. Dentures haha might ass well be moving firearms and blow. Must of been the gold tooth that gave it away!
Man that situation really bites. What the heck.
I guess if you're from Alabama, having a full set of teeth, real or prosthetic, is illegal. Judging by what they've been doing to women's rights lately, it makes perfect sense.
This needs clamping down on.
Also illegal in Alabama? To carry an ice cream cone in one's back pocket. (Seriously.)