The Trainee Journalist.

This guy seems to understand the basics of the trade although he is still a student:

A student is planning to carry out a crime spree by travelling across
the United States and breaking weird local laws along the way.

Richard Smith, 23, will risk being arrested for
falling asleep in a cheese factory in South Dakota and going
whale-hunting in landlocked Utah.

He intends to
break about 40 strange state and town laws as he crosses America,
starting from the former prison island of Alcatraz in San Francisco
Bay.

His 18,000-mile journey across the
continent will end in Hartford, Connecticut, where it is illegal to
cross the road while walking on your hands.

Mr
Smith, from Portreath, Cornwall, said: "I am not really one of those
people who likes going away and sitting by a pool. I want a purpose,
and this seemed perfect."

The inspiration for his
criminal crusade came while he was playing a board game which included
details of a law forbidding widows in Florida from going parachuting on
Sundays.

He has since discovered that it is
illegal to play cards against a Native American in Globe, Arizona; to
drive around the town square in Oxford, Mississippi more than 100 times
on a single occasion; to say "oh boy" in Jonesborough, Georgia; and to
play golf in the streets of Albany, New York. He plans to challenge all
those laws.

Mr Smith, a journalism student at Cornwall College Camborne, estimates the challenge will take him eight weeks.

The real question will be what the rozzers do about it. You just never know in the US, whether there will be an indulgent smile or an ’ assume the position".  New York City, for example, has been enforcing all of the strange laws, like the one about sitting on a milk crate. Still, it’s obvious that they guy is made for the trade eh?

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  1. After he is through with that, he should come here and tour the Europe breaking silly EU regulations

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