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Selling computer games to minor will get you life

Daft laws of the day
Mon Jun 04 2007, 07:53
NEW YORK has decided that people who flog adult ranked computer games to minors should be sent to jail for life.

While you do not get jail for life for selling crack to kids, or beating one up, by a strange quirk of the US Justice system, selling a game to a kid could get you locked up until you drop.

Lawmakers have decided that selling such games is now a serious crime, what over the pond they call a felony. Since New York has a three strikes rule, which was upheld in 2005, it means that if you commit three felonies, however important or not they are, you go to jail for life.

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