Assorted Stupidity #116
In this edition: witness misplaced, grandma tased, chest-bumps delivered, all drug-test boxes checked, and incomprehensible pleadings raged at.
In this edition: witness misplaced, grandma tased, chest-bumps delivered, all drug-test boxes checked, and incomprehensible pleadings raged at.
In this edition: a Canadian snow-globe fight; mystery pooper identified in New Jersey; Dallas loses its 82nd case in a row against the same litigant; and the Uttarakhand High Court holds that loudspeakers can’t be loud.
In this edition: how to lose a defamation case, updates on that 30-year-old evicted by his parents, one lawyer’s unfair pummeling, and a truly low-effort (though surprisingly successful) crime.
In this edition: another attempted water escape fails; all of Quebec’s laws are unconstitutional; a magician’s gettin’ sued; and guest appearances by Rod Blagojevich and the legendary Spa Bandit.
In this edition: a Florida drive-thru lane with mysterious powers; a couple of ways not to observe Easter; and a Kentucky case that turned on whether harm caused by a motion-sensing air freshener was foreseeable.
In this edition: the Manson family might be getting back together; Minnesota’s getting an official horse; Kris Kobach isn’t a trial lawyer; the last of Martin Shkreli for a while; and a federal lawsuit involving a gingerbread house.
In this edition: lawyer goes on bad date, juror claims someone’s trying to poison him, why you should space out robberies a little more, and another stupid thing the TSA did.
In this edition: lots of things.
In this edition: creative sentencing, meddling agents, the Code of Hammurabi, and a very, very bad idea.
In this edition (among other things): the law of unintended consequences again; Chuck Norris litigates, for once; and why some contracts may need a “no-sex clause.”