Category Archives: Strange Lawsuits

Weird World of Crime, January 10, 2013

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Bill Bickel

It seems as if I write up this exact same story at least once a year (most recently, I believe this past July): In the January 2013 version, 19-year-old South Carolinian Austin Lee Westfall Presler (allegedly) broke into a convenience store at about 2:30am last Sunday morning, causing at least … Continue reading →

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Weird World of Crime, December 17, 2012

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Bill Bickel

(Please scroll down for the complete transcript) Hannah Sabata’s bank robbery video: Transcript: Weird World of Crime, December 17, 2012 This is Bill Bickel, Managing Editor of Crime, Justice and America magazine, and you’re listening to Weird World of Crime for December 17, 2012. We’re online at CJA.US, and you … Continue reading →

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Man Sues Over Bottle Rocket Exploding In Anus

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Bill Bickel

At an Alpha Tau Omega fraternity party at West Virginia’s Marshall University last year, Travis Hughes (according to a filed lawsuit) “decided in his drunken stupor that it would be a good idea to shoot bottle rockets out of his anus … But instead of launching, the bottle rocket blew … Continue reading →

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New Jersey Family Sues Landlord, Claims House is Haunted

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Bill Bickel

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 →

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Lawsuit of the Week: Woman Claims McDonald’s Forced Her to Become a Prostitute

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Bill Bickel

Shelley Lynn was hired by Keith Handley to work at his McDonald’s franchise in Arroyo Grande, California. He soon fired her — wrongly, she claims, and then pressured her into working at a legal brothel in Nevada. Some time during her stint as a prostitute, she married and then divorced … Continue reading →

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J’urinate! (Décision du Tribunal)

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Bill Bickel

A French court dismissed the lawsuit Thursday (March 15), and ordered the plaintiff to pay Google France 1200 euros ($1,570) for legal expenses; not because they felt he’d filed a frivolous lawsuit, but because he’d filed an badly-prepared one, suing Google France when in fact the parent company — Google … Continue reading →

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Man Sues Neighbor For Not Impregnating His Wife

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Bill Bickel

Demetrius Soupolos, of Stuttgart, Germany, is sterile; so he decided to pay a neighbor, Frank Maus, a father of two, to impregnate his wife. After seventy-two attempts over a six-month period — Maus and Frau Soupolos went about this the old-fashioned way — she still hadn’t conceived; so Soupolos threatened … Continue reading →

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The 900 Trillion Dollar Lawsuit

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Bill Bickel

Fausat Ogunbayo, a Staten Island, New York woman, is suing New York City for more than six times the 2011 Gross National Product of the United States because her children were placed into foster care due to her mental illness. Thereby, presumably, making the City’s case for it. The question … Continue reading →

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Thursday Morning Miscellany

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Bill Bickel

Using Statistics in Court (part of a BBC podcast; this is the first ten-minute segment) Sea World Sued Because ”Whales Deserve the Same Protection Against Slavery as Humans. And because the whole reason we pay for a judicial system is to subsidize PETA’s publicity stunts. Joseph Bray Has a Court … Continue reading →

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Update: Escaped Convict Sues His Hostages For Breach of Contract

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Bill Bickel

The judge dismissed the lawsuit today. Why this decision took more than a month is another question entirely.December 8, 2011: Jesse Dimmick, a murder suspect who abducted a Kansas couple while he was on the run in 2009, is now suing his former hostages for breach of contract. Well, “breech … Continue reading →

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