2006

Minnesota Charges Wife With Having Sex With Husband

Minnesota’s Department of Health is prosecuting LaRae Lundeen Fjellman, not for her recklessly unpronounceable name but for something much more serious: having sex with her husband. Fjellman was cited because she is a massage therapist and her husband, Kirk Fjellman,…


Pennsylvania Boy Charged With Repeated Meowing

Michael Loughner, a 14-year-old boy from Jeannette, Pennsylvania, was charged with harassment in August after a 78-year-old neighbor reported that he had meowed at her. This brings to one the number of meowing-related incidents in the Pittsburgh area this year….


British Motorist Blows Up Wrong Part of Camera

Craig Moore of Manchester, England, seems to have realized right away that he had probably been caught speeding by a "road safety camera," which British authorities have installed to catch violators or, some allege, just to collect fines.  But he…


Absence of Goats Cited as Reason for Speeding

Speeders continue to provide proof of the human race’s endless capacity for coming up with excuses.  On Sunday, a Swiss tourist caught speeding in Ontario, Canada, said he had been driving so fast because he cannot do so in his…


The McHenry Code

A new law will infringe on the freedom of “Mattress Man” and “Lady Liberty,” among others.





Deposition Confirms Suspicions of Drug Use

John Freeman sued for $3 million after he fell off a roof at a job site and broke his left arm.  Defense attorneys were eager to take Freeman’s deposition partly because they had learned he had a history of drug…