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#PMT-2019-0403-7658
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Having sex doggy style makes you more likely to have twins

If you have sex doggy style, you're more likely to have twins. That's a fact. If she's on top, you're more likely to have a girl. If a guy's on top, you're more likely to have a dude because you're dominant.

Fact ClaimLifeScorchingSarcastic
These are not biological facts; they are myths/humorous misinformation.
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#PMT-2019-0403-7659
Big CatBig Cat

You cannot get pregnant in a jacuzzi

Can't get pregnant in a jacuzzi. Pre-cum is a soccer player. All these are facts. These are just stone cold facts.

Fact ClaimLifeScorchingSarcastic
You absolutely can get pregnant in a jacuzzi; this is a dangerous (though funny) myth.
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Take Slip·Jan 18, 2019
#PMT-2019-0118-6812
HankHank

Prelated is the new word for wishing someone an early birthday

When you want to wish someone a happy early birthday, say happy prelated. Because his birthday is Saturday... People are with people whose birthdays are like the next day, next week, whatever, and you don't want to say happy early birthday.

The word 'prelated' has not entered the common lexicon since Hank's attempt to coin it in 2019.
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Take Slip·Jan 7, 2019
#PMT-2019-0107-9441
Big CatBig Cat

I will keep making the pinky bet until I actually lose the tip of my pinky

I'm addicted to it, and next year I'm going to pick a team to cut my pinky off if they win the Super Bowl. ... I will not stop this bet until I cut off the tip of my pinky.

Big Cat famously never cut off his pinky, despite various iterations of this bet over the years.
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Take Slip·Dec 24, 2018
#PMT-2018-1224-15654
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Australia doesn't exist

Australia doesn't exist. It's made up. If you're the king of England, would you rather just put all your prisoners on a boat, send them halfway across the world, and then pay for them to be fed? Or do you think that old king of England would have just sank that boat and just told everybody, hey, the prisoners are over in Australia now. They're fine.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Australia does, in fact, exist.
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#PMT-2018-1224-15656
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Men evolved to nut fast to avoid being killed by woolly mammoths

From a Darwinian perspective, it's actually an advantage. Guys evolved to nut fast. Right. So we can spread our seed and be more efficient so that we don't get killed when we're like having a romantic tryst by a wandering woolly mammoth or T-Rex.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Biologically inaccurate and comedic; mammoths and T-Rexes did not live at the same time, nor is this the accepted evolutionary reason for human biology.
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Take Slip·Nov 28, 2018
#PMT-2018-1128-7672
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

If you had vaccinations, your genitalia wouldn't look like cauliflower

In terms you can understand [Reggie Bush], if Kim Kardashian had gotten the Gardasil vaccine, then your dick wouldn't look like a cauliflower.

Fact ClaimLifeScorchingSarcastic
Gardasil prevents HPV, not 'cauliflower dick' in the literal sense, and the specific application to Reggie Bush is satirical nonsense.
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Take Slip·Nov 9, 2018·Grab Bag
#PMT-2018-1109-18435
HankHank

Soap can't get dirty because it cleans itself

My friend uses a bar of soap to clean his ass crack and uses it the next day on his whole body... He says soap can't get dirty, so it's fine. [Hank says] He's right. You're wrong. It's like soap cleans itself all the time because it's layers.

Scientifically, bacteria can live on the surface of bar soap, even if it is technically a cleaning agent.
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#PMT-2018-1024-8610
Big CatBig Cat

Ben Roethlisberger has used a computer less than ten times in his life

I'll say it right now. Since the day he left college, Ben Roethlisberger has sat in front of a computer less than ten times.

Fact ClaimLifeHotSarcastic
This is almost certainly literally incorrect, as modern NFL players use tablets and computers for film study, but it captures Ben's 'old school' persona.
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Take Slip·Oct 24, 2018
#PMT-2018-1024-8618
Boomer EsiasonBoomer Esiason

Cystic Fibrosis will be eradicated in 5 to 10 years

I think CF will be eradicated from this earth in about five to 10 years.

While massive breakthroughs like Trikafta have occurred, CF has not been eradicated as of 2024.
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Take Slip·Sep 10, 2018
#PMT-2018-0910-12668
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I will get a Patrick Mahomes tattoo if Big Cat eats horse poop

I'm going to get a Patrick Mahomes tattoo. You want to bet? You have to eat horse poop if I get a Mahomes tattoo?

Neither event happened.
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#PMT-2018-0829-17580
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Australia does not exist

Australia doesn't exist. Australia is not a real place... Australia was invented by the British because it was like a penal colony... airline pilots are all in on it, too... when you fly people on vacation to Australia, you just take them down to Chile, and they never know the difference.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Australia is, in fact, a real continent and country.
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#PMT-2018-0817-13483
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Salt water in the ocean is created by fish semen

It's brackish because that's where all the fish come. So when a fish jizzes... all that jizz has to go somewhere, and it just goes in the water and makes salt water.

Fact ClaimLifeScorchingSarcastic
Scientifically incorrect; salinity is caused by dissolved minerals and salts from land.
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#PMT-2018-0810-2188
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Breaking up with a long-term girlfriend for a year to 'experience things' will definitely result in getting back together

Or just tell her that you joined the military and then just leave town. Yeah, for three years. Write a couple postcards. Come back. If she cheated on you, she's a scumbag. Yeah, that's actually a very good way to tell how serious she is about this relationship. Make up a deployment.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
This is terrible advice that would objectively destroy a relationship, which is the point of the bit.
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Take Slip·Aug 6, 2018
#PMT-2018-0806-2123
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Millennials are killing drivers by not getting enough DUIs

Technically, by not getting DUIs, millennials are actually killing more drivers. Because the roads are worse now. Because your [DUI] tickets aren't going to fund the renovations.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
This is a satirical inverse of logic and not a factual claim about road death statistics.
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Take Slip·Jul 11, 2018
#PMT-2018-0711-5912
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

If red hits 10 times in a row in roulette, it's more likely to hit red again

Red's hot. Red is hot. You're taking the human element out of the wheel. Red's dominating... I'd say more like 85% [chance].

The 'Gambler's Fallacy' confirms that past independent events do not influence future probability in a fair game of roulette. The probability remains roughly 47.4%.
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#PMT-2018-0709-10015
HankHank

Loneliness is healthier if you smoke 15 cigarettes a day to make friends

loneliness has the same effect on morality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day... so if you're lonely, just smoke a bunch of cigarettes and you'll actually be healthier [because you'll make friends outside].

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Medically, smoking is never healthier, but the take is satirical.
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#PMT-2018-0627-11265
Big CatBig Cat

Short people are being weeded out by natural selection

[Speaker 3] (1:21:17-1:21:25) No, if you look back in history, the human species has gotten taller as time has gone on, so the short people have been weeded out.

While humans have grown taller on average due to better nutrition, short people are not being 'weeded out' by natural selection in a biological sense.
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#PMT-2018-0620-2346
HankHank

Real dinosaurs will be recreated within five years

A famed paleontologist, Dr. Jack Horner... came out and said that we're only five years from actually recreating real dinosaurs. Using chickens.

Five years have passed since 2018 (2023), and there are no recreated dinosaurs or 'dino-chickens' commercially or publicly available.
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#PMT-2018-0430-9679
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Filling up your gas tank more often for $20 saves you $60 compared to an $80 full tank

You're saving yourself 60 bucks because you're only paying 20. So I think Shaq's right. Yeah. Okay. All right.

Fact ClaimLifeScorchingSarcastic
The math is objectively wrong; you are spending the same amount of money for the same amount of gas over time, just in different increments.
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Take Slip·Apr 9, 2018·Whoas
#PMT-2018-0409-11552
Big CatBig Cat

Rocks are squishy until someone touches them

What if rocks are squishy until someone touches it? ... Whoa. It took you a second but now whoa that's crazy that's like they're all just a bunch of squishy starfish and then you touch it and it's hard it gets real hard.

OpinionLifeScorchingSarcastic
Geologically, rocks are solid matter and do not change state based on human touch. This is scientifically incorrect.
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#PMT-2018-0406-3855
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

We should harness the power of tectonic plates using 'Groundmills' for energy

Groundmills. We harness the power of the Earth's tectonic plates... We just put a windmill that moves. It's a giant blade. And so whenever the fault lines shift, it pushes this huge blade that makes electricity for everybody.

OpinionLifeScorchingSarcastic
Tectonic plate movement is far too slow and irregular to be harnessed by physical 'mills' in the way described.
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#PMT-2018-0330-10082
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

A child's athleticism depends on how 'athletic' the sex was at conception

I think it has more to do with how athletic the sex was when you actually were conceived. So if you're in a weird position, if you got like a leg up on a table, you're both sweating a lot, then you're going to have a really, really fast baby.

Physical activity during conception has no impact on the genetic material (DNA) provided to the offspring.
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Take Slip·Mar 30, 2018
#PMT-2018-0330-10075
Buzz WilliamsBuzz Williams

Stress makes your neck wider

I read a quote that you [Buzz] said you think stress makes your neck wider. Is that true? [Buzz:] Yeah. I got the widest neck possible then.

There is no medical evidence that stress directly increases the physical width of the skeletal or muscular neck structure.
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#PMT-2018-0302-6889
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

A signature on an item technically turns it into an open-ended contract worth infinity

I have the answer for you. It's because whatever you sign, that technically becomes a contract at that point. So if I hand you a piece of paper with my signature on it, you could, after the fact, go and fill in a contract above my signature. So it's actually worth infinity.

Fact ClaimLifeMediumSarcastic
Legally, a signature alone does not create an 'infinite' contract, and forging terms above a signature is fraud.
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#PMT-2018-0223-6216
Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

The iPhone X is a terrible phone for actual communication

I understand from people I know that are very close to me that, for instance, the iPhone, I think it's the iPhone 8 through 10, that as a telephone... They're very poor. Using this as a phone to communicate... especially like the iPhone X, it's terrible on the telephone.

The iPhone X did not have widespread reputation for poor calling quality compared to other cell phones of its time.
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Take Slip·Feb 16, 2018
#PMT-2018-0216-19256
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Russell Wilson has never actually had sex

I'm a Russell Wilson sex truther. I don't think that Russell Wilson's actually had sex. If he has, it's probably through a sheet. He's just not cool enough to have sex.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Russell Wilson has children with Ciara, making the literal claim incorrect.
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Take Slip·Jan 26, 2018
#PMT-2018-0126-18547
Big CatBig Cat

Players should be able to fight one fan per year

I would like to see them implement my longstanding idea that players should be able to fight fans. One fight a year. You get to fight any fan that mouths off to you. You get to go in there and beat their fucking ass. And if you lose that fight, you have to give your salary to the fan.

This rule was never implemented.
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#PMT-2018-0105-14040
Big CatBig Cat

The sun is a keyboard cowboy and a bitch

So the sun's like basically a little bitch, like a keyboard cowboy. Or the sun is just... We show up to its grill, and we're like, hey, say something to my face. And the sun's like, no, we're good here.

OpinionLifeScorchingSarcastic
The sun is a star and cannot be a 'bitch' or a 'keyboard cowboy.'
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#PMT-2018-0105-14042
Big CatBig Cat

I am going to do five crunches a day as my New Year's resolution

I'm going to try to do five crunches a day... Someone added it up, and it was like 1,900 crunches. I was like, oh, shit. That's way more than I thought.

Based on show history, Big Cat does not maintain his New Year's fitness resolutions.
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#PMT-2018-0102-7706
Big CatBig Cat

I will lose 15 pounds and weigh 225 by my birthday

I think I weigh about 240-ish... and I'm going to try to get to like 225 by my birthday. [February]. First, like, seven pounds come off by just me, like, not eating breakfast. So take a big dump, don't eat breakfast, boom.

Big Cat has famously never stuck to these New Year's diets.
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Take Slip·Dec 20, 2017
#PMT-2017-1220-7918
HankHank

Aliens will eventually hack the cloud and release everyone's deleted messages and photos

I've always thought that at some point in the future that every text message, Snapchat, picture message, picture they've ever taken and deleted, that's all going to end up on the internet for everyone... Aliens are about to start that. They're aliens, so they obviously know how to get to the cloud.

No mass alien hack of cloud services has occurred to date.
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Take Slip·Dec 15, 2017
#PMT-2017-1215-5897
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The city of Buffalo gets more snow on Sundays than any other US city

I'm not a meteorologist, but I'm sure that it's going to snow on Sunday up in Buffalo. That city, and I have no facts to back this up, but the city of Buffalo gets more snow on Sundays than any other city in America.

This is a hyperbolic comedic claim. Buffalo is snowy, but 'more on Sundays' is purely observational humor.
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#PMT-2017-1206-1327
HankHank

I am giving up masturbation to get an edge for my upcoming fight

I've decided to give up masturbation. So for those who don't know, Hank is actually fighting. It's a real fight, Rough N Rowdy. December 15th. I need every edge I can get.

Hank lost the fight to Tex at Rough N Rowdy 1 on December 15, 2017, suggesting the edge did not work.
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Take Slip·Oct 27, 2017
#PMT-2017-1027-8376
Billy FootballBilly Football

Viruses might actually be aliens from a meteorite

Viruses might be aliens. They might have crashed on a meteorite. No, you know why? Because viruses don't have all the facts of life. Like, life needs to reproduce. Viruses replicate. They replicate, but not like other cells. So, it would make sense that they evolved on a different planet.

This is a fringe scientific hypothesis (panspermia) but is not the consensus view of evolutionary biology.
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#PMT-2017-1027-8380
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

It is safer to be shot without a shirt on to avoid getting clothing fibers in the wound

I think it [a bullet] would pass through you cleaner. Because if you're wearing a shirt, you get the shirt fibers inside your body.

Fact ClaimLifeHotSarcastic
While fibers in a wound can cause infection, being 'safer' when shot naked is a ludicrous exaggeration of medical reality.
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#PMT-2017-1027-8382
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Drinking alcohol makes you smarter by killing your weakest brain cells first

when you drink enough, it actually kills brain cells. That's a fact... If you kill brain cells, it's targeting the smaller, weaker brain cells first. Like a buffalo herd, and if you get rid of the weak ones, then it makes your brain function more efficiently.

Fact ClaimLifeFireSarcastic
Alcohol does not selectively kill 'weak' brain cells to improve overall function; it is a neurotoxin.
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Take Slip·Oct 13, 2017
#PMT-2017-1013-18746
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

DC sports are officially cursed

As a fan of the Nationals and the Capitals, I'm beginning to think maybe somebody from DC Sports went back in time and stepped in a Kardashian or something... It's cursed. At this point we can say maybe Mark Rypien got, what's her name, the matriarch of the Kardashian family, got her pregnant and then had an abortion or something.

Incorrect. Both the Capitals (2018) and the Nationals (2019) won championships shortly after this episode.
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#PMT-2017-1004-15428
HankHank

Flushing the toilet while someone is showering can cause them to 'shower in poop'

Hank brings up a good point. It messes up the pipes. The poop gets in the pipes... You're going to be showering in your own poop, yeah. I don't want it to be fresh.

This is scientifically incorrect; plumbing systems are designed to keep potable water and sewage separate.
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#PMT-2017-0922-7870
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Tom Brady is right that drinking water prevents sunburns because fish never get sunburned

Tom Brady has actually – he's the scientist who has found the nourishing effects of water. Well, I'd like to point out that I've never seen a sunburned fish in my life, and they are just surrounded by water all the time.

Fact ClaimLifeFireSarcastic
Drinking water does not provide a biological barrier to UV radiation. Also, fish can actually suffer from skin damage and 'sunburn' if exposed to high UV, though they are usually protected by water depth.
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#PMT-2017-0915-11766
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Telescopes are just an optical illusion and don't actually get you closer

So if you reflect things enough, eventually they get really close. ... It actually gets you closer because that's the only thing that you can see. So it's an optical illusion. So you think that you're closer because it's all that your eye has in its vision.

Fact ClaimLifeScorchingSarcastic
Telescopes use lenses and mirrors to physically magnify light and bring distant objects into focus; it is not merely an optical illusion of blocking out peripheral vision.
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Take Slip·Sep 13, 2017
#PMT-2017-0913-14812
Danica PatrickDanica Patrick

Metaphysical intention can change the structure of water

It's about how intention changes water. So you'll talk to water and you'll say I love you and then there's that glass and then I hate you and you put that glass down. You tell what, it's the emotion attached to that water and it'll be from the same water source just different word association and then it shows under a microscope what it looks like with the word intention associated with it.

This is widely considered pseudoscience by the scientific community, as word association does not change the molecular structure of water.
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Take Slip·Sep 1, 2017
#PMT-2017-0901-6235
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Fall starts when August ends

This is what I consider to be the start of fall. I'm a big September 21st truther. I think that fall starts when August ends.

Fall astronomical start is usually September 21-23.
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Take Slip·Aug 11, 2017
#PMT-2017-0811-19557
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Any amount of weed up to 50 pounds should be considered personal use for Zach Randolph

I think any good lawyer will be able to get him off because there's no amount of weed that's too much for Zach Randolph to have as personal use. ... You could have like 20, I'm going to say 20 to 50 pounds of marijuana, and that should have qualified under personal use for the two of those guys.

This is a comedic exaggeration; legally, 50 pounds of marijuana is never considered personal use.
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#PMT-2017-0811-19567
Billy FootballBilly Football

Masturbation makes you gay

This is a life advice that I've gotten. I don't know if it's true. Okay. But I was once told that masturbation makes you gay.

Biologically and psychologically false.
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Take Slip·Aug 11, 2017
#PMT-2017-0811-19572
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The sun is cold because space is cold

If you got a rocket ship and you took it into outer space and you stuck your finger out the window, your finger would freeze because space is cold. So if the sun's hot, how come space is cold?

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
The sun's core temperature is approximately 27 million degrees Fahrenheit; the theory is scientifically impossible.
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Take Slip·Aug 11, 2017
#PMT-2017-0811-19575
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Tim Tebow literally cured autism by shaking a fan's hand

No, he cured autism. ... Well, he went up and shook the guy's hand, and then he went up and hit a home run. ... so he cured autism, so it's okay to vaccinate your kids.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Autism is a developmental disorder and cannot be cured by a handshake; this is a purely satirical take.
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#PMT-2017-0809-5330
Big CatBig Cat

The moon controls both the oceans and human periods

The moon controls all the earth's oceans and periods so it's just kind of it just controls all the liquids in everyone's bodies that's why sometimes when guys look at the moon they start coming. It's just gravity pulling it out of her balls.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Biologically and physically incorrect in every way.
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#PMT-2017-0804-772
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The sun is scientifically cold because space is cold

Where do you land, by the way, on our theory that the sun is, in fact, cold? I'm a fan of the space that just seems to shut everybody down. Space is cold and everyone just... When you said you were willing to hear it out, I was just going to say space is cold. That's it.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Scientifically, the sun is an extremely hot star.
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Take Slip·Aug 4, 2017
#PMT-2017-0804-777
Big CatBig Cat

Finishing a beer after being arrested for it is protected by double jeopardy

I think if you start the beer and you get arrested for drinking that beer and then you finish it and they try to arrest you again, that's double jeopardy. It is. You can't be charged twice for the same crime. If it's the same beer.

Fact ClaimLifeHotSarcastic
Double jeopardy prevents multiple prosecutions for the same offense after acquittal or conviction, but finishing the beer would be a continuing or separate act in the eyes of the law.
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