As a daily bicycle commuter, The Juice is usually sympathetic to cyclists done wrong. Usually … Per The Santa Cruz Sentinel: [Two] boys, both 17-year-old Santa Cruz residents, went to a Mission Street music store and tried to sell [a] violin, which had been reported stolen during a car burglary…
Legal Juice
Don’t Taze My Granny!
Oh no you didn’t just taze my 86-year-old granny. They did, at least that’s one of the allegations in a Complaint recently filed in federal court in Oklahoma by Lona Varner and her grandson Lonnie Tinsley against the City of El Reno, Oklahoma and a few of its police officers.…
Yes, An Interrogatory About Beer Pong, And A Truly Awesome Response
Clearly, the attorney asking the question needs to get out more. Not so for the responding attorney. From an actual case… NTERROGATORY NO. 16: Please describe how “beer pong” is played, including the needed equipment and/or materials. RESPONSE TO INTERROGATORY NO. 16: Defendants object to this Request as vague, ambiguous,…
You Busted The Window, Repeatedly, For This?
What would you do if you had a sweet tooth, but no cashish to satisfy it? Hopefully not what this gent in Louisiana did. As reported by The Advocate: The suspected “Brownie Bandit,” a burglar with a sweet tooth, was arrested after a more-than-two-week run pilfering a Gonzales bakery of…
Whatever You Do, DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT THE CALZONES!
Really? Didn’t The Juice just tell you not to complain about the calzone? But no, you wouldn’t listen. As reported by the Sun Sentinel: Flagler County authorities say a restaurant owner pistol-whipped and beat a customer who complained that his takeout order was incorrect. Joseph Milano, the owner of Goomba’s…
An Interesting Smuggling Technique
Who would think to look inside bologna for drugs? It’s almost like you’d have to be tipped off … As reported by www.wwwlp.com: 30-year-old Juan Rodriguez of Holyoke was arrested Thursday for allegedly trafficking a kilogram of cocaine worth $100,000. According to the news release from Holyoke Police Postal Inspector…
Rage Against The Machine
Be honest. You’ve smacked or kicked a machine – a parking meter, a vending machine, a copier … But this guy took it to another level. Per The Salt Lake Tribune: A Salt Lake City mortgage company employee allegedly got drunk, opened fired on his firm’s computer server with a…
The Worst Armed Robbery Ever?
Perhaps the first rule of armed robbery is: Make sure the victim can’t identify you. Check this out, as reported by www.wcti12.com: Doris Edwards, 54, is charged with assault, armed robbery and kidnapping. She’s in the Pitt County Jail under $500,000 bond. Last Tuesday, attorney William Wooten told police one…
Clearly NOT A Cat-Lover
Lots of people don’t like cats. Probably 99.99% of those people just ignore them. But not this woman. Fortunately, the cat’s owner had a security camera that caught the whole thing on video. Per The Courier Mail: The bespectacled, grey-haired woman, who appears to be in her 50s, was filmed…
If You Arm-Wrestle This Dude, Consider Letting Him Win …
This may actually be the first case of “arm-wrestling rage.” And this was some serious rage. As reported by The Sun Sentinel: According to the arrest report, Erick Lee Blanton was visiting a home in the 400 block of Sunrise Drive early Sunday morning when he challenged another man to…