What kind of person would sexually assault a dog, and make a boy watch? It’s difficult to fathom. As reported by the Grand Junction Sentinel:
Allegations that a former Grand Junction man had sex with a dog while forcing a 7-year-old boy to watch has astounded even the county’s top prosecutor.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Pete Hautzinger, Mesa County’s District Attorney, said after the defendant’s first court hearing Thursday.
Darren Mirren, age 16, had an interview scheduled with a commercial cleaning company. He didn’t show. When they called him, he said he didn’t know how to find the office. So they rescheduled the interview. Again he didn’t show. Prepare yourself for this: He didn’t get the job! OMG. Can you believe it? So, naturally, Darren … sued! He filed an age discrimination claim with the Employment Tribunal in Glasgow, Scotland. And he … lost. How is Darren taking it? As reported by The Scotsman:
Last night the teenager, who is still unemployed, was adamant he was in the right. “It wasn’t my fault. I was unable to get there because they didn’t give me any directions.
” “I felt it was discrimination because of my age.”
First, UFB. And second, I am just shocked that he hasn’t yet found a job. Here’s the source.
Remember that post about the woman who refused to return the “obscene” library book she checked out? (Hint: It was yesterday’s post.) So do you think she returned the book, or was sent to jail? Wrong. Neither. The city (Lewiston, Maine) decided not to pursue the matter any further. Why? As reported in The Sun Journal:
[City Administrator Jim] Bennett .. said that proceeding with that kind of legal action [having Ms. Karkos put in jail] would have accomplished nothing. Putting the matter to rest, he said, is in the best interest of the city. It saves money that would need to be spent to pursue the case in court, he said, and will keep Lewiston from becoming the epicenter of the debate over decency in publications.
Ms. Karkos was pleased, no? No.
Maine resident JoAn Karkos said she’ll take jail. And it’s not because she likes the book, “It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health.” It’s because “she claims [it] violates the city’s obscenity ordinance,” per The Sun Journal. What she’s doing is just “civil disobedience.” It’s not working.
After Karkos’ actions were picked up by the media, the library received eight copies of the sexual education book from people around the country, including parents and concerned educators, [Lewiston Public Library Director Rick] Speer said.
So, after she admitted to the Judge that she had the book, but wouldn’t turn it over, what did the Judge do? She gave Karkos a few days to turn it over – after which she will face contempt of court charges.
For a skull bong, at least in part. True, gruesome, and bizarre. Here’s the story, as reported from Texas by The Tribune:
A Kingwood teenager that took part in a grave desecration earlier this year, was sentenced Aug. 25 to 240 days in county jail for abuse of a corpse. Kevin Jones, 17, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge, according to court documents.
Jones, along with companion Matthew Gonzalez, 17, also from Kingwood, were under investigation for area burglaries of motor vehicles and credit card fraud, when Jones volunteered information that led law enforcement to the Old Negro Cemetery in Humble. During questioning, the teen admitted that he, along with Gonzalez and an unnamed juvenile, dug up the 87-year-old grave of Willie Simms, an 11-year-old boy, and used his skull as a bong – a device used to smoke marijuana.
The bizarre incident, which brought nationwide attention to the Kingwood/Humble areas, prompted Grace Church of Humble to restore the desecrated gravesite.
Jones pleaded guilty to credit card fraud Aug. 13 and was sentenced to six months in state prison.
Creepy. Very creepy. Here’s the source.
Maybe Wayne Simpson should have just called the customer who he said gave him her cell phone number. Said Wayne:
I honestly thought she fancied me. I certainly fancied her. She was gorgeous. She pulled up a chair very close to me and sat there staring into my eyes and fluttering her lashes.
Wayne then took a picture of himself in his bathtub, holding a glass of bourbon, surrounded by bubbles. He sent it to the customer’s phone, with the message “Hi, do you fancy going out for a drink sometime?”
Apparently not. She called the cops, who did not charge Wayne. Then she called his job, and they canned him. Unfortunately for Wayne, he can’t file an unemployment claim because he was with the company less than a year. He is going to sue them, though, for his lost earnings. If you want to read more, click here.
Following up on yesterday’s Legal Juice post, it appears that Captain Decker is an f-bomber himself, and an s-bomber! (The guy is probably an honorable public servant. Regular Juice readers know, though, that it irks the Juice when people make a big deal about so-called “bad” words.) As reported in the Galveston County Daily News:
In an apparent domestic dispute, Stephen Taylor complained to Dickinson police and a League City justice of the peace, accusing Decker of threatening him with profane language within earshot of Taylor’s freightened 9-year-old daughter. According to [Stephen Taylor’s] affidavit, Decker and Taylor’s ex-wife were dating at the time.
A judge on Aug. 29, 2007, issued an arrest warrant for Decker on a Class B misdemeanor terroristic threat charge.
Sure enough. Kathyrn Fridge, a 28-year-old Texas mom, as reported in the Galveston County Daily News,
went with her 2-year-old daughter and mother to Wal-Mart on Aug. 4 to buy batteries just in case Edouard left the county without electricity the following day.
As luck would have it (bad luck, that is), there were no batteries. Said Ms. Fridge to her mom:
Power corrupts, and absolute power … So maybe Italian mayors don’t have “absolute” power, but they recently obtained additional authority to enact new laws. Here are a few of them, as reported by Reuters:
In Eraclea, near Venice, building sandcastles is now illegal
In Capri, it is illegal to leave the beach area wearing a bikini.
In Forte dei Marmi, you may not cut your grass on the weekend.
In Eboli, you can be fined 500 euros (about $745 US) for public displays of affection in a car.
And in Novara, while 2 people can hang out in the park at night, 3 people hanging out is illegal.
How about this one?
Rodrigo Piccoli, 33, called national radio to protest after he was fined 50 euros for lying down in a park in the northern city of Vicenza to read a book. The mayor has since promised to drop the ban.
Buono idea , Signore Sindaco. (Good idea, Mr. Mayor.)
Australian Christian Marchesani has unambiguous contempt for speed cameras. Well, aside from the above photo, per the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
… in January Marchesani sat on the fuel tank of his motorbike and rode past a speed camera twice with his thumbs up, reaching speeds of up to 130 kilometres an hour in a 70 zone.
The birds?
In March, he rode past another camera at 117 kilometres an hour while kneeling on his fuel tank and making obscene gestures [think middle fingers].
Maybe he just had a bad few months?
At the time of the offences he was riding under suspension and serving a suspended prison sentence for similar driving offences.
Um. Nevermind. Mr. Marchesani was sentenced to 10 months in jail. Here’s the source.
