Dude (Horace Bordelon) robs a bank in California, the same one he robbed 7 years earlier. His defense? As reported in The San Francisco Chronicle: He robbed the bank only so he could return to the routine of prison life, so he didn’t actually intend to steal any money. Brilliant…
Legal Juice
Not Your Average Fetish
So here’s what David Aston, married (but not for long) father of two, likes to do in his spare time, as reported by the Oxford Mail: Oxford Crown Court heard Aston twice stripped naked from the waist downwards, crouched on all fours on a towel in woodland near Bicester and…
If Guinness Book Had A Category For Peeping Toms …
There is no doubt that a recently arrested 46-year-old Canadian man would be in the book. (His name has not been released.) As reported at canada.com, he was arrested after “an apparent bungled break and enter.” His real purpose was soon revealed. He was carrying a digital video camera and…
Sex And Knife Play?
No, I wouldn’t normally think of them together either. Catherine McCoubrey and her boyfriend did, though. As reported in the Winnipeg Free Press: … the couple had been drinking alcohol and were engaged in so-called “rough sex” when the boyfriend asked McCoubrey to carve a heart-shaped symbol on to his…
Wo. You Don’t Want To Catch This Judge On A Bad Day
It would appear that Maryland District Court Judge Bruce S. Lamdin had a lot of bad days. The excerpts below are from the opinion released yesterday by the Court of Appeals of Maryland. As stated in the opinion, “… Judge Lamdin expressly admitted that he made each of the comments…
Not The Best Landlords
Certainly it’s natural to want to maximize one’s real estate investment. But we are still, for the most part, a nation of laws. San Francisco landlords Kip and Nicole Macy apparently didn’t care much about the law. They were trying to clear out a 6-unit building they bought in San…
What Is The Punishment For Firing A Gun In The Air?
Daniel Ranallo can tell you, because he did it in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, and got busted. As described by Judge Pursel, per The Morning Call: This is a bizarre case where the defendant was wandering around with a gun looking for someone and firing the gun in a public place. So…
So Much For Customer Service!
In a Fairfax County, Virginia Food Lion, a customer and a Food Lion manager got into an argument over the use of certain coupons. It goes without saying that coupon use is a very contentious issue. So perhaps it’s not surprising that the manager then knocked over the customer’s grocery…
Okay, So Maybe Working In A Nursing Home Isn’t The Best Job, But …
Warning: Brushing your teeth will not be the same for a little while after you read this. As reported in the Evening Telegraph, nursing home worker Nina Strange …dip[ped] a toothbrush into bath water, in which a patient had just defecated, before using it to brush the 75-year-old woman’s teeth.…
65-Year-Old Living With Mom Wigs Out
So maybe it’s only a little strange that 65-year-old Tad Gunter is living with his 85-year-old mother, Margery Gunter. Actually, it’s really nice if he’s taking care of her. What do you think, nice or strange? Margery Gunter told deputies that her son, Tad Gunter, has been acting weird for…