How’d they afford the sock?
from the streets
By holding the penny stick in your had for reinforcement and beat someone for a sock.
You know how you end up with socks that don’t have a mate?
Write a note on it and use that note to rob a bank. That’ll give you more time than killing someone.
Write the robbery note on the sock, then go nuts after showing it to the teller?
Beat someone to death with it while storming your country’s top government building trying to overthrow said government.
Just add some treason/insurrection on top.
We already had that in the US. Turns out, not as illegal as you might think.
It is, but the punishment just isn’t let them hang in the gallows type of thing that some people were hoping for.
use a stack of the pennies to replace a big fuse in a important location.
Use a stack of pennies to derail a train full of chemicals.
How are we ranking legality? Is it severity of punishment, or financial cost of the crime?
Yes.
Thinking outside the box? That’s a beating
One dollar bill? Believe or not, straight to a beating.
We have the best beatings in the world, because of dollar bills.