Nothing to See Here: People Who Sell Lottery Tickets Are Just Really Lucky
What are the odds a lottery retailer would win so many times in the absence of shenanigans? Well … “slim” might be an understatement.
What are the odds a lottery retailer would win so many times in the absence of shenanigans? Well … “slim” might be an understatement.
But hopefully something that no one will ever need to use it for again.
It was totally unfair that the victims had a backup set.
That ruling might seem either stupid or worthy of Solomon, but it’s just what the DNA evidence showed.
Actually, you really shouldn't have a list like this in the first place, but if you do, these should not be on it. The first one comes to us from New Jersey (thanks, Grant & Gerald), where two guys tried…
The claim isn't that her attraction to him is only physical—he doesn't get conjugal visits anyway. It's that she only wants to marry him because she literally wants his body, so she can charge people to look at it after…
Not that the outcome isn't a real hoot, but this is really just to provide a couple of links for those who are interested. First, this New York Times page has all the grand jury evidence in one place, including testimony,…
Doesn't seem like it should have taken two years to establish this, but it turns out Alan Knight was lying when he claimed to be quadriplegic and/or comatose in order to avoid court appearances and delay his prosecution. He even…
After I reported on the case of Donald Miller, the Ohio man who failed to convince a judge he should not be considered legally dead ("'No, You're Still Deceased,' Judge Tells Dead Man" (Oct. 10, 2013)), several people wrote in to…
In May, South Carolina's Attorney General reported that the number of insurance-fraud cases in the state had reached an all-time high in 2013. The report (via Overlawyered) is mostly just numbers, but it does include two or three examples of now-closed cases,…