A good Samaritan in Germany got arrested this morning after he saw what he thought was a broken-down vehicle by the side of the road and stopped to help. The vehicle was not only in good working order but was…
Guess what? It’s a California story. Some of you may know about California’s "Proposition 65," passed by the voters in 1986 and intended to help consumers by requiring warnings of any known exposure to a variety of chemicals that the…
Wanting to slap fellow passengers (and their crying babies) is entirely understandable, but here’s a reason to stop and think before you do it. A US Airways passenger was arrested yesterday after he threw a "mid-air temper tantrum" on a…
Here are the factors that lead me to believe both that Patrick Allain wants to go to jail and that he will soon be able to realize that dream: He was arrested for drunk driving on Monday night. It’s his…
Originally I wrote “aggregated flatulence,” and that was probably also correct.
Snake charming was hard enough before the government cracked down.
The normally sensible Walter Olson and Ted Frank have suffered a serious lapse in judgment and agreed to let me "guestblog" for the next week or so on their well-known blog, "Overlawyered," which chronicles the high cost of our legal…
A former IBM employee has sued the company after he was fired for inappropriate use of the Internet during work hours. (It wasn’t for reading blogs, not that you would do that during the workday.) James Pacenza admitted that he…
Lawmakers from Poland’s majority party, Law and Justice, have introduced a bill that would make Jesus Christ the honorary king of Poland, but the bill appeared doomed to defeat, at least without some kind of Christmas miracle. Only 46 of…
Two Ohio men have been charged with "criminal damaging" for wielding screwdrivers in a late-night attack that would have been savage and brutal, had the target not been a 12-foot inflatable snowman. Instead, it was savage and comical. Homeowner and…