Assorted Stupidity #144
In this edition: a legal-ethics update, a fairly crazy West Virginia case, and a reminder that only in Monopoly will there be a bank error in your favor.
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Dispute Resolved With Power Saw Will Be Re-Resolved in Court
Well, it was *temporarily* resolved with the power saw, at least.
Assorted Stupidity #141
In this edition: a sovereign citizen, other bad semi-lawyers, campaign-fund stealers, and people who forget to turn off their webcams.
Assorted Stupidity #134
In this edition: the president’s lawyers say some words, the risks of using Zoom in legal proceedings, a Florida man wants his job back, and a donkey gets arrested for gambling.
Judge Asks Attorneys to Wear Shirts, Get Out of Bed for Videoconferences
Seriously? Yes.
Assorted Stupidity #83
In this edition: Twitter crime, logo revision, autolitigation, and yet more security panic.
Attempted Firebombers Thwarted by Window, Lamppost
The video caption below will tell you most of what you need to know, but here's a little more detail. For reasons that remain unclear, these two gentlemen attempted to firebomb an English pub one night in May 2008. They devised…
Video: Grandma Defeats Six Crooks With Handbag
This is fantastic. At first she seems to have thought it was a fight, and headed over to break it up or at least get a closer look. But “[w]hen I got closer to them I realised it was…
Reckless-Driving Acquittal Again Shows Proofreading Is Not Just for Dorks
It is for dorks, but it’s not *just* for dorks.
Google Maps Blamed for Invasion
Bad enough that Google Maps allegedly caused a woman to be hit by a car because its route told her to walk along a highway and failed to warn her that said highway posed certain risks (namely cars). Now it…