Originally Posted by Japhydog
One has done nothing illegal by choosing to buy, then buying, a ticket. Are you going to charge a husband/father with interfering with the screening process for doing the same thing to help his wife and children through the checkpoint?
"Interfering with the screening" process cannot be so vague and all-encompassing as to include buying another ticket on the same flight. Maybe I wanted a seat open next to me. Maybe the airline put me in coach and I decided I might want first, then later decided against the extra expense. Maybe I just wanted a trip to the airline lounge and this was a good way to trick them.
As many of us demanded in the previous thread regarding altering a boarding pass -- show me the statute. If you don't have a statute or a regulation, you cannot convict me of a crime. Thankfully, that's how it still works in the United States of America. (Excepting of course Guantanamo.)
N.D.C.C § 12.1-24-01. The statute provides:
1. A person is guilty of forgery or counterfeiting if, with intent to deceive or harm the government or another person, or with knowledge that he is facilitating such deception or harm by another person, he:
a. Knowingly and falsely makes, completes, or alters any writing; or
b. Knowingly utters or possesses a forged or counterfeited writing.