Just a quick follow-up to "Baby Indicted" (April 4): Photo: Agence-France Presse, Getty Images He's apparently being fingerprinted by Steve Carell, and frankly this would have made a lot more sense if it had been on an episode of The Office….
You did what?
It’s about time we started holding infants responsible.
As I've mentioned, and as many of you noticed independently, for some time the only thing Amazon found in response to a search for "emergency sasquatch ordinance" was The Booty Call Kit ("The Emergency Kit For When Booty Happens!" which…
"As far as I know," said the plaintiffs' lawyer, "this is the first time in the world that the notion of emotional damage in connection with a pop star has been recognized." He meant legally recognized, because who hasn't suffered some sort…
Here's a good example of that proposition: Design patent D697,706 was, for some reason, issued last week to someone in Brooklyn. It claims only the ornamental design of the handle, not the umbrella part or the whole creepy assemblage. Ridiculous patents…
From the police blotter in Jefferson County, Colorado: Suspect yells "hot dog," throws one. On December 26 an employee of Subway … told Jefferson County sheriff's deputies that he was in the store when a man came in and yelled…
Well, a cause of death. The victim's death in this Oklahoma case was attributed to "blunt force trauma to the head and asphyxiation," and I'd be willing to bet that blunt-force trauma was the real culprit here but the report does say that…
I have no sympathy for bullies, who are usually criminals in training. Still, you wouldn't expect to see one get sued for "pantsing" someone. If that did happen, you wouldn't expect to see the plaintiff be awarded $161,000. And if…
Not this one, anyway. Reporters were able to track down Thamsanqa Jantjie, the guy who appeared at first to be doing the sign-language interpretation for the Mandela memorial service but who turned out to be … not doing that. See "Sign-Language Interpreter…