San Francisco Jury Struggles With Whether Bear Was “Disturbed”
Hard to define, but you know it when you see it.
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Washington Honking Case Taken Up by State Supreme Court
I am very pleased.
Balloon Parents to Plead Guilty
They will apparently not be charged for their reality-TV-show appearances, unfortunately.
Jury Finds Florida Man Was Not “Too Fat to Kill”
Edward Ates "looked down and shook his head in court" as he listened to the jury's verdict against him on November 6. As he did, his ponderous jowls wobbled slowly from side to side. Or, at least, ponderous and wobbly jowls would…
Chicago Courts Rejecting Evidence Gathered by Laser
The Chicago Tribune reports that judges in Cook County, Illinois, have been dismissing speeding tickets issued to drivers whose speed was measured with laser guns rather than boring old radar. The traffic court has taken the position that evidence gathered…
Indicted Financier and Bank Regulator Were “Blood Brothers,” Plea Agreement Says
James Davis, formerly the CFO of the Stanford Financial Group, pleaded guilty in August to fraud and conspiracy charges in a deal with federal prosecutors. The Stanford Financial Group was either a $7 billion financial-management company or a "massive Ponzi…
Korean Woman Passes Driver’s Test on 950th Try
It seems like only yesterday that Cha Sa-soon was failing her 775th written driver's test, but in fact it was February. Cha, a 68-year-old grandmother from South Korea, had been taking the test every two days or so starting sometime…
Alleged Car-Stealer Charged With Stealing Car to Get to Hearing on Car-Stealing Charges
The California Highway Patrol got a report of a stolen car on November 3 and were able to track it down quickly because it was equipped with LoJack. They found it parked near a courthouse in Vallejo, about a 30-minute…
Latest Bad Disguise(s): Drawing on Your Face With a Sharpie
I have to go back and make sure my numbering is consistent, but I think these would be Bad Disguises Numbers 6 and 7: I am going to count these as two Bad Disguises even though they are fundamentally based on the…
Colonel Sanders Appears at UN to Seek Membership for Grilled Nation
Turns out he was not invited and the UN is still trying to figure out how he got in.