Alfred Hightower had been on the run since 2007, when a warrant was issued for his arrest on drug-dealing charges. Hightower was apparently from Kokomo, Indiana, but had fled to Canada. His downfall, though, was that he spent a…
Here are my selections for the best of 2009’s worst. As was the case last year, all nominations and selections were determined though a complex and scrupulously fair process which involved me drinking and then picking the ones I liked…
I guess we are now a full week into 2010, so I'll just do one more of these. "Woman Says Boss Made Penis Puppets," read this headline. She alleged the puppetry involved, among other things, animal shapes including a goat and some…
After I posted about the guy who set a hand grenade on the jury box during a closing argument, Ken of the excellent Popehat blog reminded me of the hand-grenade paperweights once sent by a law firm to 500 potential clients as part…
In November, Pressler and Pressler, a collections firm in New York, dragged the wrong "Mark Hoyte" into court and then tried to blame him for not proving the firm wasn't wrong. "You didn't send any written proof of [your] claim…
Before listing the top stories of 2009, I feel the need to purge all the various notes and partial drafts I have involving stories that I thought had potential but didn't quite get posted during the year. Many of these…
Hope you had a good New Year's Eve, and that you didn't have to spend it in jail. On the other hand, if you were hoping to spend it in jail because you preferred that to spending it with your…
I am busier than I expected today, mostly because I was apparently the only one stupid enough to actually come into the office on December 31. But I did want to post one final post of the year, although, as you…
The Smoking Gun, the nation's top source of remarkable mug shots (among other things), has posted its selections for the top 20 of 2009. As you can see, that one is only #10. Link: The Smoking Gun
New York resident Raina Kumra has sued the White Slab Palace restaurant in Manhattan, alleging that she was hit by a 150-pound moose head that fell off the wall above her during a party. The moose head, which sports antlers over…