
How to Become a Federal Criminal
An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In this " excellent book for people who like to start sentences with 'Did you know thatā¦'" ( The New York Times ), discover the most bizarre ways you might become a federal criminal in Americaāfrom mailing a mongoose to selling Swiss cheese without enough holesāwritten and illustrated by the creator of the wildly popular @CrimeADay Twitter account. Have you ever clogged a toilet in a national forest? That could get you six months in federal prison. Written a letter to a pirate? You might be looking at three years in the slammer. Leaving the country with too many nickels, drinking a beer on a bicycle in a national park, or importing a pregnant polar bear are all very real crimes, and this riotously funny, ridiculously entertaining, and fully illustrated book shows how just about anyone can becomeāor may already beāa federal criminal.Whether you're a criminal defense lawyer or just a self-taught expert in outrageous offenses, How to Become a Federal Criminal is "an entertaining and humorous look at our criminal justice system" ( Forbes ).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: By Mail
- Chapter 2: With Animals
- Chapter 3: With Money
- Chapter 4: With Food
- Chapter 5: With Alcohol
- Chapter 6: On Federal Property
- Chapter 7: On the High Seas
- Chapter 8: In Other Ways
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes
- Copyright