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** The movie explores a very difficult conundrum - if you are sent to jail wrongfully and kill another inmate while in detention, are you legally accountable for that crime that would have never happened if the wrongful sentence hadn't been given in the first place? Keep in mind that the accused here has limited mental capacities and ability to tell right from wrong.
* Played for absurdity in ''[[Dogma]]'', when the angel Loki murders an entire board of directors for being idolaters and for their various personal sins, except for one member of the board [[Guilt by Association Gag|who turns out to be a pure soul]]. He then threatens to murder her for not saying "God bless you" when he sneezed. {{spoiler|Bartleby talks him out of doing so.}}
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* Played for laughs in ''[[Mystery Team]]'', where sneaking into movies, sticking fingers into pies and taking two milks at lunch are [[Serious Business]]
* ''[[Horrible Bosses]]'': Dale got drunk at a bar that was next to a playground, and committed public urination. It was night, and there were no kids there, but he's still a registered sex offender.
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* The [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] song ''Don't Download This Song''.
* Inverted in the Arlo Guthrie song "[[Alice's Restaurant (music)||Alices Restaurant]]". Littering is what kept him out of the army, and out of Vietnam, quite possibly saving his life.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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== Western Animation ==
* In [[Danny Phantom]]'s [[Bad Future]] Episode, Danny cheats on his CAT test. Indirectly causing his friends and family to die. Which causes him to ask his nemesis for help. Which prompts his nemesis to remove his ghost half from him. Who then kills his human half. And then becomes just about the most evil villain the series ever had.
* There's that [[Bad Future]] Episode of ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' where he turns into the fearsome Darkwarrior Duck, ruling St. Canard with an iron fist and levying harsh punishments on even the most minor offenses. Lifetime imprisonment for jaywalking, maybe... or was it littering? Either way it was probably moot, Darkwarrior considered having ''high cholesterol'' a crime.
* One episode of ''[[The Batman]]'' has [[The Joker]] begin dressing as Batman and assaulting people who commit minor infractions ([[Crowning Moment of Funny|And his Batmobile is a go-kart...]]). Security camera footage shows a guy missing when he tries to throw a can behind his back into a trash can, the Joker swoops in on him and drags him screaming into the shadows. In that same Batman cartoon, The Joker poisoned the mayor's wife for having too many items in the express checkout lane at a supermarket.
* In one episode of ''[[COPS (animation)|COPS]]'', the new Justice Unit police robots are seen from the very beginning to be very hard on very small offenses. "Crime: Jaywalking! Verdict: Guilty! Sentence: Four years hard labor!" They dole out similar sentences on a guy whose hat blew off in the wind ("littering") and a guy who parked illegally. Later, when Berserko and Ms. Demeanor rob a bank, the Justice Units let them go and claim the overwhelming evidence as "circumstantial" - as we see, the Justice Units were a plot by the Big Boss to get free rein to do whatever he wants.
* The justice system in [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] pretty much is this trope. If you litter, if you have no front license plate, IF YOU RUN A STOP SIGN; you better believe they will be ready to take you to jail.
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