Court: Baseball Fan Did Not Assume Risk Associated With Hot Dog Toss
Debatable.
2011
Red Bull Is Part of Insanity Defense in Florida Case
It gives you wings, but psychosis?
Good Reason to Kill #13: Disputed Your Cow-Milking Experience
"An apparent dispute over cow milking methodology in Fort Pierce escalated into a foot chase with a machete, sending a 61-year-old man to jail, according to recently released records," begins this report from wptv.com in Florida. As so often happens…
Man Loses Cockfight
This is what you might call "payback," although in California people tend to call it "karma." A California man attending a cockfight in Tulare County died on January 30 after one of the birds stabbed him in the leg. The birds apparently are…
Video: Grandma Defeats Six Crooks With Handbag
This is fantastic. At first she seems to have thought it was a fight, and headed over to break it up or at least get a closer look. But “[w]hen I got closer to them I realised it was…
Alan Simpson on the Deficit: “Give Them the Green Weenie”
Alan Simpson, who was a senator from Wyoming and more recently a co-chair of the president's deficit commission (don't remember that? Neither does anybody in Washington) is renowned for his "colorful language." He reinforced that reputation recently by saying this…
UPDATE: City to Legitimize Mystery Stop Signs, Report Says
As I noted last year, the city of Cranston, Rhode Island, had a puzzler on its hands after it came to the city's attention that there were hundreds of unauthorized stop signs on its streets, installed by a person or…
Sarah PalinTM Having Trouble With Registration
I suppose it should not be surprising that Sarah Palin has filed an application to register her name as a trademark. But having learned that, it is not at all surprising that the application was rejected because she forgot to…
Iraqi Treasury Gets Partial Refund on Magic Wands
“Dowsing rods” might be a better term for these, but either way they were completely bogus.
Man Points Finger at Brain in Parking-Rage Incident
A British man who attacked a car with an axe and then set fire to it blamed his brain for the incident, according to a January 27 report in the Herald Express. The brain's alleged involvement was especially surprising because the…