Former Home Depot employee Michael Boyer probably couldn’t believe it either. As reported in The Detroit News:
“It sounds crazy but he was not fired for confronting or physically restraining a customer. He was terminated for involving professionals, the police, to catch someone with a shopping cart full of stolen goods,” said Joey Niskar, Boyer’s attorney.
Yeah, crazy alright. Crazy like… really stupid! Mr. Boyer has filed suit under the Michigan Whistleblower Protection Act.
Leave the poor boy alone! Grant Stranaghan, age 15, of Ulster, Northern Ireland, dared to attend school with his hair 2 inches below his collar. Gasp! Hair must not be below the collar (of course, this just applies to boys), so Grant was suspended for 3 days. Since returning on November 26, he has been kept apart from his classmates, even during breaktime. That’s 2 weeks of solitary. His pop is taking the case to the High Court.
Ms. Eunice Spry may be the worst foster mother ever. Over the course of 20 years, here is some of the abuse she subjected three foster children to:
She forced sticks down their throats.
She starved the kids for a month, keeping them in a locked room, with no clothes.
She made them eat their own vomit, and rat droppings.
She beat them with metal bars and sticks.
She made them drink bleach.
She used sandpaper on one child’s face.
She force-fed one child so much “washing-up” liquid that he could differentiate brands by taste.
She forced one child to remain in a wheelchair for 4 years after a car crash just so she could collect more money from the government.
She held one child’s hand on a hot light bulb until it turned into a “gooey mess.”
And what did Ms. Spry have to say about this?
Let’s just say that, suddenly, I’m much happier with “John.” The name? “Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.” Really. Per the Taranaki Daily News:
[Family Court Judge Rob Murfitt] was so worried about the effect on the girl [who was the subject of a custody hearing] he ordered her to be temporarily placed under the guardianship of the court so a suitable name could be chosen.
Here are some other names Judge Murfitt cited in his opinion:
At least that’s how Gaylon Linn Murphy drew it up. As reported by The LA Times:
Murphy, 52, apologized for his actions, which began when he tore a hole in his Gucci jeans during a visit to a Home Depot store. He then attempted to claim the retail price of the jeans, valued at between $500 and $1,500, from both the building supply store and a local restaurant where he had dined. The double-dipping attempt was uncovered by an Irvine detective.
Never double dip. The sentence? Mr. Murphy received three years of unsupervised probation and 30 days of community service. What did he have to say for himself?
“It was wrong. It wasn’t intentional, but it happened, and I paid for it.” Not intentional?!
What what what? Here’s the Times article.
So Peter Lees had recently broken up with his girlfriend, Gaile Stevens. She didn’t take it well. Per the Ledbury Reporter, Mr. Lees was hosting a Pagan wedding party at his house when Ms. Stevens made an appearance. Per Mr. Lees:
She was dressed as a comedy cleaning woman with rubber gloves and a broom and there was the most bizarre stuff coming out of her mouth. She was pushing people around.
She was going around in a threatening manner. I’ve never known her act like this before.
Worried about Ms. Stevens, Mr. Lees went to see her.
“The person I saw was absolutely scary like she was possessed by the Devil. There was a tattoo on her face and she was up on the bed howling and hissing.”
“It was not her. It was not my friend. It was some possessed person.”
Cue the spooky music. Later that night (around midnight, of course), there was a knock on Mr. Lees’ door. Yes, it was Ms. Stevens. Was everything okay now?
She then beckoned [him] for an embrace …
And …
“I bent towards her. She spun and hooked her teeth into my ear. Two teeth went into my lobe and shredded it.”
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! What happened to the ear lobe? Said Mr. Lees:
The missing part of his ear was never found and [Ms. Stevens] ran off into the woods.
Ms. Stevens is currently on trial for wounding Mr. Lees
So it was for Mark Pannell of Buffalo, New York. Here’s how his day went, as reported by The Buffalo News:
… at about 8:45 a.m. Saturday … deputies stopped Pannell’s car on Grand Island Boulevard near Staley Road for what is being described as minor traffic violations.
Okay. A routine stop, then …
Bad things, at least in this instance in Brigantine, New Jersey. As reported in The Press of Atlantic City:
… Kevin Dorsey, 36, was visiting his girlfriend’s West Brigantine Avenue apartment and had the .40-caliber handgun out when he somehow shot it into the floor at about 12:40 a.m. It kept going through the ceiling downstairs, then grazed the right arm of a woman who was in the first-floor kitchen.
But that wasn’t the end of it:
Some of us, like Michael Righi (and me), have a real problem with groundless intrusions into our lives, even small ones. 
(If you’re inclined to give up your rights because “you have nothing to hide, so what’s the big deal,” you might want to skip this one.) Mr. Righi was leaving a Circuit City store in Pittsburgh, after paying for his item. Per Mr. Righi’s blog, here’s what happened next:
As I headed towards the exit doors I passed a gentleman whose name I would later learn is Santura. As I began to walk towards the doors Santura said, “Sir, I need to examine your receipt.” I responded by continuing to walk past him while saying, “No thank you.”
And so did husband, who was with dad. Why? Because daughter (and wife) Stephanie Martinez was working at the Pizza Patron in Denton, Texas when her father and husband tried to rob it! It also turned out to be a bad choice because one of the employees hit dad so hard he knocked him out. Here’s a link to a tv news story, with video of the incident.
