Per the St. Petersburg Times: To prove he’s incompetent to stand trial on multiple felony charges, Robert Sinclaire Lee hid a razor in his mouth and used it to cut his wrist in court. He smeared feces on his face. And Monday, he entered a courtroom with feces hidden in…
As reported in the City News: It is a tale that could only happen in the age of the Internet and it’s become the focus of worldwide attention. A German woman has won a court battle to force an Internet service provider to reveal the names of the men who…
Sixty-one-year-old Janusz Nowak of Sosnowiec, Poland was sick and tired of people vandalizing his bus stop. So, he pasted the following notice on the pavement: “Dear Vandals – please stop destroying the bus-stop.” And guess what happened? He was arrested for vandalism! A police spokesman said: “Although the man had…
Ah yes, the happy couple. James McManus and Corina McCarthy became engaged in December 2005, and they lived… Actually, she dumped him, and returned the “relatively expensive” engagement ring. She changed her mind, again, and they got engaged, again, with the same ring. Then she dumped him, again. Mr. McManus…
True. As reported in The Knox County Times, Camden-Rockport Middle School in New Jersey has banned farting, apparently due to a bunch of superfarting eighth-graders. This is from the Fire Cracker, the school’s newsletter: Strange, but true, thanks to a bunch of 8th grade boys, intentional farting has been banned…
New Yorker John McDonald was charged with second-degree assault for attacking a cab driver in Aspen, Colorado. Why? Apparently he was pissed because the cabbie wouldn’t take him somewhere to buy cigarettes. So, said the cabbie, McDonald popped him in the face, breaking at least one bone. (What, that’s a…
Here’s a wacky story from Patna, India: Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom had arrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married the groom’s more sober brother instead, police said. “The groom was drunk and had reportedly misbehaved with guests when the bride’s…
If you’re David Binner of Doylestown, PA, the answer is: Go Fuck Yourself. Who knew there was still a place that issues $5 parking tickets? Now David, did you really think that would just slide right through? It didn’t. The police chief deemed it obscene and charged David with disorderly…
It is possible, as demonstrated by a pair of Norwegian vandals. As reported in the Fayetteville Observer: [The vandals]overlooked a small but crucial detail when they started smashing up a train station elevator: They were inside it. And the elevator at the Lillestroem Train Station, north of Oslo, appeared to…
Here are some choice 2007 legal-related highlights from an article in the Arkansas Times: Worst citation: A Little Rock bicycle rider was cited in May for shouting “Turn on your lights!” as two police cruisers sped past him on Seventh Street near the state Capitol. One of the policemen stopped…