Darren Lloyd Bean of San Diego has won his struggle to change his name legally to "Darren QX Bean!" The "QX" is pronounced "Lloyd." I know this because according to the court’s opinion, Bean (the change hasn’t taken effect yet)…
Robert Cusack was sentenced to five and a half months in prison for smuggling a variety of endangered species into the United States from Thailand in 2002. In addition to the four birds of paradise and 50 rare orchids that…
The Parent’s Day Council of South Carolina, which is affiliated with the Washington D.C.-based American Family Coalition (did you know your family was part of a coalition? bet you didn’t), said that it would implement background checks in the future…
Thanks to those who attended (live or by videoconference) the first Lowering the Bar Traveling Road Show, International Mideast Peace Conference and Petting Zoo last Friday. It appeared to be well-received, as few objects were thrown and those that actually…
I really have no idea what category to put this one in. Earlier this week, a new political party was registered in the Netherlands by a group of Dutch pedophiles, who evidently feel oppressed by the fact that even in…
A man in Germany trying to end it all just made it even worse for himself when he miscalculated his jump. He meant to jump under a train, but timed his jump too late and so he instead crashed through…
Miyoko Kawahara, better known (at least in Japan) as "Mrs. Noisy," was sentenced today by a court in Nara to one year in jail for causing a nuisance that harmed nearby residents. Mrs. Noisy, for some reason, constantly screamed insults…
Not sure if "Comical Case Names" deserves its own category, but if so this one, filed in San Francisco on April 17, will be in it: Alan Death; Demetri "Mimi" Death v. Graves & Co., et al., CGC-06-451316 (filed Apr….
Four words: "baby shower gone bad." That’s what the police called it. Three people were arrested on Tuesday after a fight broke out at a baby shower in Springfield, Massachusetts. Police said that Aristotle Garcia got into a fight with…
I was pleased to see that none of my Springfield (Mo.) relatives were involved in this story, which involves a man who apparently went door-to-door there last week offering tattoos. Now, if I were going to let a stranger who…