Last week, a 28-year-old man from Guelph, Ontario, Canada, was sentenced to sixty days in jail simply for asking seven different women to kick him in the groin. Isn’t that pretty far down the list of things that need to be…
On Friday, March 7, Bonnie Goldstein of Slate.com wrote about a furious battle going on between a Florida attorney on one side and the Florida Bar and Florida Supreme Court on the other. Any bets on how this one comes…
I guess it is understandable that some readers believe that the previous post, about a New Zealander who was sentenced to community service for falsely reporting he had been raped by a wombat, an assault that he said caused him…
Sorry, the alleged rapist was the wombat. I should have been more clear.
Tired of having rocket parts rain down on his village, a Russian shepherd is suing Roskosmos, the Russian space agency, for one million rubles after a 10-foot piece of space trash hit his property, narrowly missing his outhouse. Boris Urmatov…
Now that Canadians have a currency that can actually compete with the U.S. dollar, it looks like they may be trying to catch up to us in unnecessary lawsuits as well. Last week, the National Post of Canada reported on…
A man’s woodshed is his castle’s outbuilding. Or something like that.
Legal Pad reported yesterday that officials at SF Superior Court are trying to figure out who has to pay for damage to the courthouse apparently caused by a hit-and-run driver earlier this month. Trust me, there is no point in…
How many workers’ compensation claims have been proven false by a video showing the claimant doing something inconsistent with his claimed injury? Well, it’s probably a lot. And now it’s a lot plus one. Garrett Dalton, 41, of Naugatuck, Connecticut,…
Probably most Senate candidates from Idaho have been pro-life, but this one is Pro-Life. Literally. Mr. Pro-Life, 66, is a strawberry farmer who was born "Marvin T. Richardson." He ran for the state legislature under that name in 2004, but…