The election for mayor of New Orleans is coming up soon. You might think someone would have to be crazy to want to be the mayor there right now. You might be right — luckily, there are plenty of candidates…
Not sure if "Comical Case Names" deserves its own category, but if so this one, filed in San Francisco on April 17, will be in it: Alan Death; Demetri "Mimi" Death v. Graves & Co., et al., CGC-06-451316 (filed Apr….
Back in 2002, portly Canadian high-school student Ghyslain Raza made a video of himself (after class) imitating a Star Wars character, using a golf-ball retriever as a "lightsaber." He then made the poor decision to leave the videotape lying around. …
In a ceremony Wednesday morning, law-enforcement officers in Homeland Security Region 6 celebrated the fact that additional resources had been provided to secure Region 6 against terror attacks. So you al-Qaida members who were planning to attack northern Alabama, beware:…
In Los Angeles last week, 82-year-old Mayvis Coyle blatantly held up traffic while she shuffled across Foothill Boulevard with her cane. Coyle later claimed she did not have enough time to get across the five-lane boulevard before the light changed. …
Lee Paige, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and current DEA agent, was making a gun-safety presentation to kids at the Orlando Youth Minority Golf Association on April 9, 2004. I know you know what comes next. Bear with me. This…
Lawyers for Joey Fatale, "the 4-foot, 4-inch New Yorker who heads the all-dwarf KISS tribute band MiniKiss" — that’s a quote — sent a cease-and-desist letter to a rival band leader who Fatale accuses of stealing his idea. His idea…
The persecution of the psychically gifted continues. Judge Florentino Floro, who until recently presided over a jurisdiction in suburban Manila, was removed from the bench on "administrative grounds" because of prejudice against those who have the ability to see the…
Divorces are much cleaner and easier under Islamic law than in the West. If you are a man, of course. Under Islamic law, a man only has to say the phrase "I divorce you" three times (within a relatively short…
The local government of Tangerang, a comically named suburb of Jakarta, Indonesia, has been trying to crack down on prostitution and address other moral issues for the past several years. The Tangerangian city council’s laws first sparked protest in February…