Cow Steals Milk
I assumed this was a hoax of some kind, but if it is it has fooled all the major news outlets. Not that that's especially difficult these days. Reports started to come in on Wednesday that a cow had stolen…
April 2011
Texas Bill Would Legalize Noodling
“Noodling” is also known as “handfishing,” but that still doesn’t quite convey how this works.
New Jersey Township Passes Chicken-Sex Rule
In a meeting Monday night, the governing committee of Hopewell Township, New Jersey, finally passed chicken legislation it had been working on for no fewer than three years. Among other things, the measure requires the chickens to practice safe sex….
Man Who Sued Parents for His Allowance Instead Gets 30 Days to Move Out [UPDATED]
Well, that lawsuit didn't go quite as planned. CNN reports that a 25-year-old Spaniard who sued his parents for not paying his allowance not only lost, but was ordered by the court to get the hell out of his parents' house…
Assorted Stupidity #17
The BBC reports that a Welsh police force has begun posting its responses to Freedom of Information Act requests. Among other things, its website reveals that over the past few years citizens have reported seeing 36 "big cats" or suspected big cats, 26…
The People Who Sued Themselves
Over the weekend I wrote about Lodi v. Lodi, which was not a divorce but rather one man's legal crusade against himself. I was thinking about that because I'm working on a legal-ethics presentation about conflict-of-interest rules, which is a sufficiently…
The Man Who Sued Himself
Well, one of them, anyway.
Clown-Suited Blackmailer on a Tiny Bike Gets Prison
Any two of these three elements would have justified a post on this story. But we have all three.
Assorted Stupidity #16
A woman in Vermont may be trying out a "just kidding" defense to a charge of attempted robbery, reportedly telling police that the incident at a gas station was a "joke" and a "misunderstanding." According to the clerk at the…
International Body Declares No-Wig Zone in the Netherlands
The Associated Press reported this week that at least one judge of the International Criminal Court in The Hague has told lawyers appearing before her to stop wearing wigs. There is no official dress code at the ICC, and given the wide…