No Good Deed Goes Unpunished # 174
On April 29, a group of canoers, or canoeists, or canoe wranglers, or whatever you call people who canoe (if "canoe" is a verb), tried to help out when they saw a woman fall or jump from the Perrine Bridge…
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Paris Hilton Will Lead The Very Simple Life for the Next 45 Days
Paris Hilton, who you may have heard of, was sentenced to 45 days in jail today after violating her probation for a drunk-driving arrest last year. Her license was suspended at that time, but she was driving again in January…
Further Details Emerge on $65-Million-Pants Lawsuit
We learned more this week about the lawsuit by a D.C. administrative law judge against his diabolical neighborhood dry cleaners, who allegedly lost or stole or set fire to or irradiated or otherwise acted tortiously towards a pair of pants…
Mr. Peepers Survives Vehicular Assault
Dramatic rescue preserves Peepers from fleeing felon.
Magicians Make Lawsuit Appear Out of Thin Air
The AP reports today that a group of forty-nine Japanese magicians have sued two broadcasting networks for allegedly revealing the secrets of various coin tricks in programs that aired last year. In a press conference, magician/plaintiff Shintaro Fujiyama told reporters…
ATRA Offers to Buy Plaintiff New Pants (Presumably for Less Than $65 Million)
The other day I mentioned the story of the judge in D.C. who has claimed $65 million in damages in a dispute over a pair of pants. In today’s D.C. Examiner, the president of the American Tort Reform Association says…
Long-Distance Relationship Made Easier by Multiple Car Thefts
Love conquers all, or at least the ignition systems of older Toyota Camrys and Nissan Sentras. Police in Los Angeles say that Antonio Moreno of Inglewood, desperate to see his girlfriend in Santa Barbara and without a car of his…
Youthful Terrorist Apprehended
I have obtained from Slate Magazine’s "Hot Documents" file a copy of this police report, which recounts the details of a difficult arrest in Highlands County, Florida, in March. An excerpt: When I approached [the perpetrator] she crawled under the…
Lawyer Seeking $65 Million for Pants-Related Fraud
It’s the principle of the thing, probably.
Indian Warrant for American Gigolo
A court in Jaipur, India, has ordered the arrest of Richard Gere for kissing actress Shilpa Shetty at an event in New Delhi that was intended to promote AIDS awareness. Mostly, it has ended up promoting the facts that India…