Today, I Am a Lawbreaker: A Freakonomics Contest

Yesterday, and for much of the past year, I regularly did something that was perfectly legal.

Starting today, if I do the same thing, I am breaking a New York State law.

What is it that I’m doing?

The first correct answer earns a signed copy of SuperFreakonomics or a piece of Freakonomics schwag.

Addendum: The answer and winner are announced here.

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COMMENTS: 73

  1. Jr says:

    ok it’s a guess. texting while driving?

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  2. michael says:

    Are you referring to the Booster Seat Law (to include children under 8, previously 6)?

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  3. Andrew says:

    texting while driving?

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  4. UnsatisfiedMind says:

    Perhaps you are letting your 7 year old child ride in the car without an “appropriate child safety restraint system”

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  5. David Millar says:

    New Seat Belt Law Changes

    Is required for all children until their 8th birthday as of November 24, 2009,. (Prior to November 24, 2009, the requirement applies to children until their 7th birthday), and….

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  6. Rebecca Brown says:

    Have your under eight-years-old kids not in a car seat?

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  7. Walter Wimberly says:

    Does it have to do with the new child safety restraint laws in New York?

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  8. @davethecfre says:

    Took a charitable deduction for a gift to the U.H.O.

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