Twitter Quick Facts – Crime Twacts

Plenty of criminal and law related facts this week in celebration of crime week. Hope you like them.

What the Fact?

• You’re 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA than in France.
• Two thirds of the world’s executions occur in China. http://goo.gl/1qHS
• Almost one in five known organised criminal gangs are involved in the importing, modification or supply of guns.
• About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole.
• Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught.
• There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
• In New Jersey, Judge William Camarata denied a couple the right to adopt a child because they were atheists.
• Theft, disorderly conduct, armed robbery, assault and rape all statistically increase during a full moon.
• In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.
• The United States puts 0.7 % of its population in Prison – a vastly higher percentage than any other nation.
• In the Maldives, there are more than 2 jails for every 1000 people.
• In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
• Oral sex is illegal in Singapore unless it leads to intercourse. http://goo.gl/sBbF
• Women make up more than 10% of the prison population in only six countries:Thailand,Qatar,Paraguay,Costa Rica and Singapore.
• In Alaska it is illegal to give alcoholic beverages to a moose.
• In Texas the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica is banned, as it contains a formula for making beer at home.
• In Pennsylvania if horse refuses to pass a car on the road, the car owner must take their car apart and conceal the parts in nearby foliage.
• An embezzler in Thailand,sentenced to 865 years in jail, was lucky enough to get his sentenced reduced to just 576 years.