Maybe this won’t help Johns everywhere, but 9 Johns in Pennsylvania had a real good day. The “Johns” I am referring to are the customers of prostitutes. What’s the cause for celebration? As reported by lehighvalleylive.com,
Riegelsville’s Craig Cardone and 8 others, accused of soliciting prostitutes, are getting their cars back. The should never have been seized in the first place. Easton’s childish and petty ordinance only added insult to injury.
You can read more (very little) here.
Yup. A 20-year-old construction worker named Cory Bishop got a ticket for having “indecent” stickers on his car. Where are things apparently going so well that they have time to write tickets for such a harmless “offense?” Harrisonville, Kansas. Per the Kansas City Pitch, here’s what the stickers said:
Imports are like tampons. Every pussy has one.
Spark plugs are for Pussies.
Stroke this Bitch.(with an illustration)
Bishop fought the ticket and … lost. But …
… the prosecuting attorney eventually threw out the charge against Bishop…
That’s not it, though.
On September 5, the ACLU’s new chief counsel and legal director, Doug Bonney, fired off a letter to Harrisonville Mayor Kevin Wood questioning the ordinance. He cited case law that upholds citizens’ right to display language that others deem “vulgar.” He suggested the city at least amend the measure. “The current ordinance’s ban on display of ‘indecent’ signs on private property is unconstitutional and cannot stand,” Bonney wrote. “We would like to work with the City to resolve this problem.”
Here’s betting that law won’t be on the books very long. Click here for the source.
Ojai, California’s loss is Ashland, Oregon’s gain? Ms. Jennifer Moss, as reported by The Oregonian …
…often pedaled a bicycle around Ojai in a hemp G-string and flower-shaped pasties to promote Earth-friendliness.
Live and let live, right?
Not only is it illegal for men to go topless in Easton, Maryland, it’s illegal for “any person.” What about babies? What about boys? Here’s the law:
Sec. 18-9. Required dress, upper torso, penalty.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, whether male or female, to appear upon the streets, sidewalks and highways, or in any public building of the Town of Easton unless he or she is wearing a shirt, blouse or similar article of wearing apparel designed to cover the upper torso of said person.
It’s 2:30 a.m. in Hartman, Arkansas. Do you know where your 12-year-old is? No worries. He’s just drinking your beer, with his 10-year-old friend, then taking the truck out for a spin. Why? Per the AP, to find a girl they met at the rodeo! Here’s what happened:
The boys made it about 10 miles before the 12-year-old lost control of the truck… the truck hit and jumped over a guardrail, sending it careening 50 feet down a steep hill into a forest.
Incredibly, neither boy was seriously hurt. Clark James, who lives near the crash scene, was a little surprised when he heard someone banging on his door.
“I opened the door and the first thing (the 12-year-old) said to me was, ‘I’m drunk and I had a wreck,'” James said. “I looked at him and I thought ‘You’re kind of young to be out drinking. And you sure shouldn’t be driving.'”
The 12-year-old is facing drunk driving, plus a few other charges (like, maybe driving without a license?)
So if you’re a neighbor of 15-year-old Ryan Bowen, you could always move. (One poor family did.) But what do you have to do to get the court to issue an ASBO (Anti-Social Behavior Order) against you? And to take the unusual step of naming you? (The ASBO imposes a curfew, prevents Ryan from associating with certain people, and imposes other restrictions on his behavior.) As reported in The Herald Express, here are some of the allegations the court heard before imposing the ASBO:
Police legal adviser Mr Quinn told the court that Ryan was a ‘complete thug – and that’s putting it mildly’. He added: “He may not yet be 16 years, but in his short life he has terrorised the people of Teignmouth and the surrounding area. He seems to have no redeeming features.
He targeted vulnerable neighbours, subjecting them to obscene and racial abuse, threatening their children and attacking their cars and homes.
Ryan went to one woman neighbour’s workplace and subjected her to an abusive attack there.
Ryan fired a BB gun at people, pushed used condoms through their doors, walked over their cars, and jumped up and down on them.
One family had finally moved because they could no longer take the abuse and intimidation meted out by Ryan and his friends – only to be subjected to more abuse when they ran into the teenager in a Tesco store. “He was not satisfied to drive them out of their home. He still approached them and abused them,” said PC Colley.
Ryan would ride a mini motorbike around the area until 11.30pm and midnight – kicking out at parked cars as he went.
Hoochiemama. It’s no wonder that “Devon and Cornwall Police’s legal adviser Peter Quinn told magistrates …: ‘Police and the authorities have become increasingly aware of what a force for evil this boy is.'”
Usually nothing. But there are exceptions. Per the Chicago Tribune:
A DeKalb lawyer was suspended for 15 months Thursday for arranging to have a female client perform nude dances for him in exchange for credit on her legal fees, a state commission said.
Here’s how it started:
About a month ago, Oscar Reynolds Jr. was acquitted of robbing the Liberty Bank in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Guess what Mr. Reynolds was doing this past Tuesday? He was robbing that same bank! Unlike the first time, where he was acquitted because he could not be positively ID’d, smart money says Mr. Reynolds will see the inside of a cell this time. Why? Per The Jonesboro Sun:
In a police interview Reynolds “admitted to entering the bank with a gun and committing the robbery.”
Doh! And …
“There also was money found under the mattress in the bedroom where Reynolds was [hiding]. One of the bills found had a serial number that was logged by the bank as being stolen.”
“A firearm was found in the adjacent apartment that matched the description of the gun that the suspect used.”
To read more (just a bit) click here.
So this woman, Briana “don’t make me pounce on you” Pouncy, told her live-in boyfriend Joseph Boykins to do the dishes. He didn’t. When she came home to a sink full of dirty dishes, it was on. They argued, and she told Mr. Boykins to leave. When he refused, it got ugly. Per the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
… police say she bit her boyfriend, broke a picture frame across his face [causing visible cuts] and swung at him with a sword …
Yikes. She’s out on $10,000 bond.
Should spitting really be criminalized? “Yes,” said the powers that be in Cincinnati. Here’s a law that was passed in 2006 as part of the “Neighborhood Quality of Life Unified Code”
Sec. 1601-27. Spitting in a Public Place.
No person shall spit upon any sidewalk, street, highway, alley, the floor of any bus used for public transportation, theater, railway or public transportation depot or platform or the floor of any school house, church or public building of any kind.
Whoever violates this section is guilty of spitting in a public place, a minor misdemeanor.
Is it ever enforced? At least once, anyway. As reported by kypost.com, a Ms. Davis was busted for “flipping the bird” and spitting on the sidewalk. But that’s not why she was put in jail.
Police also found Davis had two outstanding warrants.
Oops.
