Man Charged Again With Faking Disability to Get Diaper Changed
Yes, “again.”
Criminal
NOTE TO SELF: Rob Only Banks Where They Don’t Know You by Name
Normally I group short items like this one for posts in the “Assorted Stupidity” series, but I’m gonna do a series of them independently today as an experiment. For one thing, this would allow me to alert you to certain…
Seismologists Convicted of Not Predicting Earthquake
Still dumb. (The Italian justice system, not seismologists.)
Bad Disguise #6: Amateurishly Bandaged Accident Victim
According to KOMO in Des Moines (via Boing Boing), Joshua Pinney walked into a Bank of America branch there on June 26, said he needed a new debit card and explained his utter lack of resemblance to the picture on his ID…
Berkeley Boys Busted for Bird Beheading [Updated]
This: We are one of the most selective law schools in the nation. Of the more than 7,000 prospective J.D. students who apply annually, Berkeley Law enrolls about 270. In choosing our students, we don’t stop at brilliance. We drill…
Two (More) Reasons Not to Bring Drugs to Court
1. You Are There for a Probation Hearing on Drug Charges This is not the first time someone has put drugs in the little box they give you at the X-ray machine, but it's the first time I'm aware of…
BREAKING: MAPLE SYRUP FOUND
Multiple sources (e.g., Montreal Gazette) are reporting that at least some of the maple syrup that disappeared from a warehouse last month has been located. See "Who Stole the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve? And How?" Lowering the Bar (Sept. 14, 2012)….
State’s Chemist Admits “Testing” Drug Samples by Looking at Them [Updated]
"I intentionally turned a negative [test result] into a positive a few times," said the woman at the center of a state drug lab scandal in Massachusetts. The actual number is probably somewhere between "a few" and 34,000, which is…
GOOD IDEA: Test Police Response Time by Walking Around With an RPG
This person was not intended to look like, as one 911 caller put it, a guy "wearing a dress with a torpedo on his shoulder," but even people who did finish high school had some concerns when they saw him…
No RUI Charge for Florida Drunkard
As I mentioned in this followup to the Kentucky case last week, whether or not it is illegal to ride a horse while under the influence depends on state law, and there are other things the rider could be charged…