In Los Angeles last week, 82-year-old Mayvis Coyle blatantly held up traffic while she shuffled across Foothill Boulevard with her cane. Coyle later claimed she did not have enough time to get across the five-lane boulevard before the light changed. …
Lee Paige, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and current DEA agent, was making a gun-safety presentation to kids at the Orlando Youth Minority Golf Association on April 9, 2004. I know you know what comes next. Bear with me. This…
Lawyers for Joey Fatale, "the 4-foot, 4-inch New Yorker who heads the all-dwarf KISS tribute band MiniKiss" — that’s a quote — sent a cease-and-desist letter to a rival band leader who Fatale accuses of stealing his idea. His idea…
The persecution of the psychically gifted continues. Judge Florentino Floro, who until recently presided over a jurisdiction in suburban Manila, was removed from the bench on "administrative grounds" because of prejudice against those who have the ability to see the…
Divorces are much cleaner and easier under Islamic law than in the West. If you are a man, of course. Under Islamic law, a man only has to say the phrase "I divorce you" three times (within a relatively short…
The local government of Tangerang, a comically named suburb of Jakarta, Indonesia, has been trying to crack down on prostitution and address other moral issues for the past several years. The Tangerangian city council’s laws first sparked protest in February…
The government often seeks to seize the assets of suspects facing drug charges, a procedure that a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Seattle called "fairly routine." Less routine, and maybe unique, was the attempted seizure this week of…
Four words: "baby shower gone bad." That’s what the police called it. Three people were arrested on Tuesday after a fight broke out at a baby shower in Springfield, Massachusetts. Police said that Aristotle Garcia got into a fight with…
In London this week, a taxi driver (always the first line of defense in the War on Terror), alerted police to what he believed was suspicious behavior by his passenger, who he was taking to the airport. The driver had…
Reuters reports that with over 2,500 people running for 120 seats in Peru’s Congress, candidates have felt it necessary to engage in a variety of stupid stunts to get any attention at all. Some have chained themselves to railings outside…