Recently, a South Carolina judge ruled that poker is a game of skill and not a game of chance. The issue was before him because state police — apparently with little else to do — have been raiding private poker games,…
Wait, I'm reading this wrong — turns out he was the only one weeping, and the judge didn't buy his bullsh*t for a second. He got 15 years in prison. I stand corrected. O.J. Simpson did address the court this…
On January 31, a judge in Rio de Janeiro issued an order telling a group not to proceed with its plans to offer a float in the city’s Carnaval parade because the Holocaust-themed float depicted a heap of naked corpses…
One clan was apparently horning in on the other clan’s territory.
Last Friday, a court in Naples, Italy, sent trial subpoenas to Mickey Mouse, Tweety, and Donald and Daisy Duck, in what appears to have been a clerical error. The defendant awaiting trial there is charged with counterfeiting Disney and Warner…
Last week, Shannon Whisnant bought a barbecue smoker at an auction in Maiden, North Carolina (population 3,282). When he got home, he discovered he had gotten more than his money’s worth when he found a human leg inside his new…
In this outstanding clip edited from MSNBC’s coverage, O.J. Simpson’s attorney Yale Galanter is assisted at a press conference by a gentleman who seems to have recently joined the team. It appears that Galanter will provide the legal talent, and…
Eduardo Arrocha began classes yesterday at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, saying he had found a new calling. Arrocha, who has spent the last 15 years eating nails as part of a Coney Island sideshow, said it…
A British clown (a man who makes a living as a clown, not just some guy I think is a "clown" who happens to be British) was quoted this week as saying that clients’ concerns about possible liability have seriously…
Snake charming was hard enough before the government cracked down.