Criminal Mind, The


Judge Orders Prenda Law Group Beamed Out Into Space

For full coverage of the Prenda Law debacle, let me refer you to Popehat, where Ken has been following it closely for a while now and has written many excellent posts on the saga (with help from, among others, Cathy Gellis). As a…


Well, at Least He Wasn’t Texting

Here's your headline of the [insert appropriate time frame]: Witnesses: Man drove 90 mph with genitals hanging out the window It looks as though an alleged reign of terror may be coming to an end, after three of what police…



Bad Disguise #7: Bucket on Head

The first problem here is that while a bucket will indeed conceal your face, and quite effectively, that's also where your eyes are. (In both senses: in your face and inside the bucket.) That is, the bucket cannot perform the…


How to Finally Get Some Work Done: Kidnap a Handyman

I guess it was more the false imprisonment that got the work done. The kidnapping per se didn't happen until the end of his "shift." The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a couple in Santa Clara (south of SF) was arrested this…


Man Charged With Aggravated Weirdness

A 23-year-old man was arrested in Oregon on November 26 after "acting suspiciously" in a bank. "Acting suspiciously" is not illegal, normally, but it sounds like they are making an exception in this case. Employees said the man entered the bank wearing…



Two Charged With Halloween Robbery; Fairy Still at Large

Be on the lookout On Friday, police in Marin County, California, said they were still looking for the third participant in an home-invasion robbery on Halloween, in which a mother-daughter team allegedly robbed a marijuana dealer at gunpoint. According to…