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Category Archives: Lighter Side
New Jersey Family Sues Landlord, Claims House is Haunted
A New Jersey family is suing their landlord (to be allowed to break their lease), claiming the house they rented is haunted. What intrigues me about this is how they expect to prove their case without finding some friendly ghost willing to testify. Of course if this were a television … Continue reading
Posted in Lawsuits, Lighter Side, Strange Lawsuits, Weird World Of Crime
Tagged ghosts, lawsuits
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The Boiled Bunny Award: Oral Surgery Category
I hate to blame the victim, really I do… but when you dump your girlfriend, a dentist, for another woman, and then make an appointment with her a few days later for oral surgery… Okay, maybe you have no reason to expect that she’s going to remove all your teeth … Continue reading
Take Your Child To Work Day
In honor of Take Your Child to Work Day, this from the CJA archives: May 31, 2006: Possibly believing that last Thursday was Take Your Child to Work Day, an Ohio man has been charged with child endangerment after bringing his two-year-old along when he broke into a house. When … Continue reading
Posted in Lighter Side, Weird World Of Crime
Tagged burglary, stupid criminals, Weird World of Crime
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Eyewitnesses and Guns, Nazis and Politics, Teenagers and (Parental) Sex, and Stupid Criminals and Facebook
The Gun Makes the Man: According to a new study, witnesses remember people holding guns as being taller and more muscular than they really are Florida Teenager Calls Police to Report Mother Having Sex The American Nazi Party now has its own registered lobbyist on Capitol Hill: Godwin’s Law takes … Continue reading
Man Proposes To Girlfriend in Courtroom, Where She’s Being Sentenced For Trying to Kill Him
No, not a repeat of this story. Gregory Todd, a chef in Hull, England, was stabbed so severely by his girlfriend, Tiffany Baillie (in his back, while he slept) that he sustained injuries to his colon, a kidney, and his pancreas, needed emergency surgery to survive, and required a three-month … Continue reading
Lindsay Lohan Sues Songwriter for Ruining Her Reputation (and more Friday Morning Miscellany)
Poisoned Websites: a list of “Hunger Games” and “Titanic” websites you’ll want to avoid 7 Rules For Recording the Police – and how not to get arrested for doing it The Tale of the Tombstone: the fight over Lee Harvey Oswald’s grave marker Lindsay Lohan is suing Pitbull, a rapper … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities, Don't Be a Victim, Lawsuits, Lighter Side, Polls, Stay Out of Jail, Weird World Of Crime
Tagged First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, lawsuits, malware, police, polls, privacy, recordings, satire, web sites
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Mother Faces a Year in Jail For Making Her 10-Year-Old Walk 4.6 Miles to School
When Jonesboro, Arkansas mother Valerie Borders goes to court on April 30, she’ll face child endangerment charges and a possible year-long jail sentence (and/or a $1000 fine) for ordering her 10-year-old son, Nequavion, to walk 4.6 miles to school after his school bus privileges were suspended — for a fifth … Continue reading
Thursday Morning Miscellany: The 51-year-old juvenile offender, Rick Perry’s painkillers, and hipster sunglasses for defendants
Alicyn Packard is suing Belvedere Vodka for negligent infliction of emotional distress and misappropriation of likeness, claiming the image was taken from a comedy video produced by her company, and was used without her permission (some reactions to the ad itself). New Jersey Police Solve 1976 Murder — but because … Continue reading
Posted in Lawsuits, Lighter Side, Weird World Of Crime
Tagged cold case, juvenile offenders, lawsuits, murder, politics, Rick Perry
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Friday Afternoon Miscellany: March 30, 2012
“But officer, the Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away!” Why Batman was pulled over by traffic cops last week Homeless People Used as Human, Walking Wi-Fi Hotspots… but is there anything really wrong with this? Is anybody bothered by the fact that time and again, Justice Kennedy … Continue reading
”I May Be Crazy But I’m Not Stupid” and More Monday Morning Miscellany
The line is supposed to be “I may be crazy but I’m not stupid,” but Susan Cole got it backward: The 54-year-old Colorado woman showed up in court last year pretending to be mentally unbalanced, in order to get out of jury duty, and then a few months later bragged … Continue reading
Posted in Court Rulings, Lighter Side, Weird World Of Crime
Tagged jury duty, media, pejury, polls
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