No Quantum of Solace
About the horrible Eckert case in New Mexico.
Crime and Punishment
Plaintiff in Deming Case Was Held for 15 Hours [Updated]
Via Reason.com, here's the complaint in Eckert v. City of Deming, which I also wrote about yesterday. In general the KBO News report summarized it correctly, but there are some additional facts alleged here (in addition to more horrible details of…
Do NOT Clench Your Buttocks in Deming, New Mexico
Why not, you ask? Because it may be interpreted as probable cause to conduct an anal-cavity search. Or six. According to this KOB News report, police in Deming, New Mexico, and some doctors they convinced to help them, conducted no…
Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed UC Davis Students Is Awarded $38,000
Here’s a question for you: Of those involved in the incident below— —who would you say should receive more money as a result? the student being sprayed in the face the police officer spraying her all the students should get…
Police Called to Investigate Breakroom Jell-O Theft
The Smoking Gun reported on October 11 that a Pennsylvania man fed up with people stealing his snacks out of the refrigerator at work decided to report the matter to the authorities. According to the police report obtained by TSG, the man…
No, Twerking Is Not Illegal
These were false reports.
O.J. Simpson Actually Not Guilty of Something
At least according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
UPDATE: Hiccup Girl Convicted of Murder
Jennifer Mee originally became semi-famous in 2007 when she had hiccups that lasted for months and sometimes hit a frequency of 50 hiccups per minute. (They eventually stopped by themselves.) She became more semi-famous three years later when she was…
Canada’s Long National Nightmare Is Over: Last Maple-Syrup Pirate Arrested
"To the delight of headline writers everywhere," said The Economist last week, "it appeared a maple-syrup mob was involved" in the theft of six million pounds of the stuff from the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve last fall. Yes, that…
Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Off to Jail—So Everything Must Go!
You have until September 26 to bid on some of the personal items that former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife bought with campaign funds. Turns out you're actually not supposed to buy personal items with campaign funds, so they…