Banjo Wielded
I concede this one is at least slightly off-topic, but I'm going to post it anyway. It's breaking news from my hometown of Kansas City: Charges filed in Overland Park banjo self-defense case Police say the Monday banjo blow to…
Crime and Punishment
High-Risk Anti-Theft Strategy Pays Off
This is not a strategy that I can recommend, but it did work this time. When Russell Stuart heard his car start up in his driveway very early one morning, he realized it was being stolen and reacted immediately. "I…
One Wounded in Man-Bat Fracas
What is the world coming to when a man can't take the steps necessary to defend his home and family from mammalian invaders? Ask Cedric Newton, who was charged last week with reckless discharge of a firearm simply for trying to…
Burglar/Entrepreneur Breaks In, Holds Garage Sale
Police in Sarnia, Ontario, said they had arrested the man who broke into a home there in June and then spent the day holding a garage sale in which he sold off the owner's property. The homeowner, Greg Kemmis, was…
Banana Seized
There are the usual unfortunate banana-related puns in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's report on this incident, and I am sparing you those, but it does contain the excellent sentence: "The banana costume was seized as evidence." The incident also involved shotgun-brandishing and…
Convicted Terrorist’s Demand for High-Fiber Diet is Rejected
Let's all shed a tear, shall we, for Terry Nichols, who is not only serving a life sentence for conspiracy and manslaughter in the Oklahoma City bombing but is also subjected to a diet unconstitutionally low in fiber. That's what Nichols argued, at…
Proposed Law Would Make It Illegal to Hoot After 11 P.M.
Fed up with noisy visitors, the city council of Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, appears likely to pass an ordinance that would make it illegal to, inter alia, hoot between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. or at any…
Update on the Fraudulent Photoshopper
Daryl Simon seems to have included his bogus charity photos in an appendix to his sentencing memorandum, but I was unable to find that on the court’s docket. It may not have been posted yet, but that seems odd given…
TIP: Photoshopping Self Into Charity Photos Not Likely to Result In Lighter Sentence
In a final effort to put his fraud skills to good use, Daryl Simon tried to scam the court that was about to sentence him by offering fake documents and pictures to support his bid for leniency. Unfortunately for him,…
Adultery Still a Crime in New York
I saw a post on Boing Boing the other day about a list of "dumb laws," which the poster was not sure were real. They weren't, or at least there were no citations, which always makes me skeptical – there…