THE PURGE?

I'd be stealing merchandises.
...seriously.


FREE CONSOLES AND VIDEOGAMES?

also food :X

and probably some art supplies.
Provided I don't die along the way.

Pffft. Middle class and upper class people always think the poor are after them.

It's guilt mentality. The poor are mostly concerned with living their lives, secondarily, they'd probably like revenge on people who personally screwed them over. Like that lawyer who bailed on them, or that banker who convinced them to take a loan against their better judgement.

Also, actual rich people have a bunch of concerns (like general joblessness and the resulting loss of purpose, and lovelessness since they can never be sure their significant other loves their money and not them) that are totally alien to most of us. Poor people don't want their wealth, they just want enough to stop struggling.

There's an expression, "The rich have more to fear from the other rich, than from the poor." A poor person can hold them at gunpoint, and they can be like "Oh noes, I'll give you everything." Their life is more important than their current money, and they can easily give all their pocket money. In a few weeks, they can get that back from stock dividends or whatever. Other rich people know about swiss bank accounts and such, and can do elaborate schemes to trick people out of massive amounts of money. And if you happen to be married to a greedy person, they might kill you for the insurance.

Unless it's the Most Dangerous Game or Nazi Germany, most people in general aren't going around shooting folk just for the heck of it. It doesn't matter that there aren't repercussions, it's not that much of a thrill.

In all likelihood, no rules for twenty four hours? You'd (A) waste the entire time thinking about what to do, (B) more likely spend it doing really kinky things (multiple partners, children, same sex when it'd be illegal, animals, other stuff) than theft or murder, since sex is much more more satisfying than either, (C) spend the entire time setting up your own personal country so they couldn't reimpose rules on you, or (D) use it as an excuse to have "casual dress" (crossdressed/nudist/some sort of so bizarre it should be illegal costume on all the time) day, or (E) all of the above except A, plus a few reckless stunts like skydiving with no parachute just a bunch of padding.

I would collect 7 magic crystals and revive an ancient evil that would lay waste to this world.

I'd get in my car and drive god damn fast for the hell of it, since I won't have to worry about Ontario's stupid Street Racing law (>50kmph, you lose your car and license).

On the topic of the film, it looks like another one of those dumb movies where average people suddenly undergo immediate infantilisation and lose all rational thought as soon as central authority disappears. THe premise posits that crime is a result of some kind of pent-up negativity, which is just flat out wrong and stupid.

On the topic of real world application, so many people would hunker down for those 12 hours that very little crime would actually be done. It doesn't take long for your factory to be ruined beyond repair, your shop to be robbed to the point of bankruptcy, or your family to be physically/mentally scarred for life. The most you'd get out of this "purge" is a few anarchists throwing rocks through windows and one or two hitmen's jobs made easier.

Smash some windows and try to start-up the third, and final chapter, of the Vancouver Riots 2013 (maybe, if people do it right this time, we might actually win the Stanley Cup for a change! The key was HOW you smash the windows, not the cars, dummies. <_<)