Last Monday, Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine pardoned Grace Sherwood, who was described as "Virginia’s only person convicted as a witch tried by water." So I guess she may not have been the only person Virginia has tried that way, but…
In May, the Democratic Party chose not to nominate anyone to run against GOP Rep. Eric Cantor for his seat in the 7th Congressional District in Virginia, rather than nominate Brad Blanton, who I guess was the only person who…
Two Boulder teenagers, Robert Hibbs and Brad Boville, were arrested on July 6, 2006, for "menacing" people and possessing LSD and marijuana. Probably they had done more than just "possess" it, I would guess. That's because they had taken up a…
Authorities in Grand Junction, Colorado, said they would "keep in touch" with a man who reported 12 checks had been stolen out of his checkbook in April. The man told police that he found the checks missing after he had…
As in Who Not to Steal From, #165, the answer here is also "The judge presiding over your criminal hearing." In #165, the item stolen was the judge’s gavel, which has a certain special comedy to it, but there the…
Students at Stillwater High School in Minnesota were excited at first to learn that a 17-year-old British duke would be attending their school for the year. Their feelings changed after student journalists who had planned to do a feature on…
To be fair, the officer was interfering with his tiny-motorcycle riding.
Still inexplicable more than a decade after it happened.
I believe I reported a while ago on the case of John Hopwood, British motorist and speeder who was ticketed after a camera caught him driving 48 mph in a 30-mph zone. Hopwood did the obvious thing: go get your…
As many of you know, I have long had two primary goals for this enterprise: to provide some entertainment for myself and other attorneys (and friends of attorneys) slogging away at their various billing stations, and to be cited as…