So I'm 19 and I still live with my parents, I have a job, pay rent, help with bills and mostly buy my own food. Last month I was chilling with in friends car smokin' a blunt when a cop rolled on us. In my state weed possession is just a small fine, so i wasn't tripping. I intended to pay the fine and move on with my life. I didn't realize they would be sending me a copy of the ticket in the mail... which my mom found and opened. All hell broke loose and they said if I want to continue living in their house I would have to submit to a piss test once a month. I do want to respect their house, but I also am a rent paying tenant and an adult, so I feel what I do outside their house shouldn't be an issue. So I've started looking for a new place to live, which sucks cus it will be more expensive, but it is what it is... In the mean time i'm still smoking, I just cheated the test with U-pass Synthetic Urine, and so far it's worked. I just need to get through another month or two of saving up for a deposit and then i can have my own pad with a bong on the coffee table... you know... the dream...
@2blunts2cheef
Remind your mom that opening someone else's mail is a felony.
What follows is pretty harsh, but so is what your parents are doing to you, so you decide if you want to proceed with it...
You do so at your own risk...
If it backfires, don't come bitching to me...
If you put the following letter on some fancy linen paper with a nice formal font like "Times New Roman", "Garamond", or "Bookman Old Style" and add just a few legal clip art images, you could scare the shit out of your mom and make her think you went to see a real lawyer...
Especially if you pay some stranger a few bucks to "serve" her with the papers.
It is normal for people to have lawyers draft letters like this all the time, it's pretty standard practice, except a real letter from a lawyer will cost you at least $500, probably more.
The law quoted is real
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1702
It's actually a federal crime to open someone else's mail.
Here's the letter just in case you want to try....
Change the name of the law firm and partner name to something more convincing...
Law Offices of Jerkins, Moore, Auftin, and Partners (especially with partners, lol)
Address and phone number of "law office"
Dear Mrs. (insert mothers full name here),
Pursuant to Federal Statute 18 U.S.C. § 1702, intentionally opening, intercepting or hiding someone else's mail is a felony punishable with an accompanying fine and/or punishable for up to five years in a federal penitentiary.
My client (Insert your full name here), who is a tenant in your household is of legal age and sound mind has not given you the right (written or expressed) to open his mail and he reserves the right to pursue legal action against you for infringing on his rights.
If you would like to continue to infringe on my clients rights, please understand that out of mere principal I will have no other option but to pursue this matter in a court of law to ensure your invasion of my clients privacy does not affect his future prospects in regard to finding a new place to live.
Please be advised that I am on active retainer.
Regards,
Joeseph Seamore
Partner
This is of course a mean thing to do, but not all parents are nice people, sometimes they are down right shitheads and they need to be reminded that they are not the boss of their 19 year old son.
Gentle guidance is one thing, but forcing you through coercion is another.
If you want to "fuck up" your life it is your right to do so, as an adult...