… party balloons! The California Senate passed a bill banning helium-filled, metallic party balloons. Why? Per the AP, Utility company officials blame fly-away balloons for shorting out power lines and causing hundreds of blackouts in recent years. Don’t worry yet, kids. It still has to make it through the state…
… every now and then, comes around. This is one of those times. Remember the New York judge who jailed 46 people because a cell phone went off in his courtroom? (If you don’t, click here. It was outrageous.) Guess what happened to him (Niagra Falls City Court Judge Robert…
Yes, it’s a wrongful death case. William H. Waggoner, age 88, died a month after he was hit by an automatic door at a Wal-Mart in Marble Falls, Texas. Is it me, or is a case like this an inappropriate forum to try to be funny? Judge James Nowlin tried…
Remember the story about the Swedish parents who wanted to name their daughter “Metallica?” Or the Swedish transvestite who wanted to change his name to Pia? Add to that list the Swedish couple who wanted to name their daughter “Elvis.” Fuhgeddaboutit, said the National Tax Board. Why? Because … Elvis…
Two friends, Robert John (age 20) and Carl Thorpe (age 26) ran into each other in town. They had a few drinks and returned to Mr. Thorpe’s apartment to watch a DVD “featuring football [soccer] hooligans,” as reported by the BBC. [The DVD] featured footage of fans biting each other.…
Turkish barber Sabri Bogday has been sentenced to beheading for “using God’s name in vain,” as reported by the Los Angeles Times. It happened “during an argument with a neighbor, who later complained to police.” Why is the judge you get so important? The [Arab News Daily] quoted a lawyer…
… you will probably think about this story. Over several months, this guy noticed that some of his food kept disappearing. So he had cameras that transmitted images to his cell phone installed. As reported by the AP: One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home Thursday after…
Judges have to put up with a lot of crap, day in and day out, and deal with it, on the record. I’m not sure how long I would last. Judge Mark Chow of King County, Washington made it from 1991 until just recently. As reported in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:…
As reported in The Cincinnati Enquirer: A Columbus man has been charged with crawling under a table at a library on University of Cincinnati’s campus, spraying a substance from a syringe on a woman’s shoes and then photographing them. Dwight Pannell, 43, was booked into the county jail Wednesday on…
Oh yes she did. Stefanie Woods stole a 9-year-old girl scout’s cookie money! And, she just pleaded “no contest” to skipping out on a $25.84 bill at Denny’s. As reported by WPBF-TV, here’s what Ms. Woods had to say for herself about the Denny’s case: “All I can say is…