Criminal

UPDATE: Manatee Rider Arrested

Florida sources report that the woman who was accused in October of manatee harassment (for riding one) has been arrested. At the time, officials had not yet decided whether to charge the manatee rider under the Florida law that makes it illegal…



Another Thing You Can’t (Legally) Drive Drunk: Wheelchair

This isn't the first motorized-wheelchair-DWI case by any means, nor is it especially recent, but I don't think I have "wheelchair DWI" in the database yet so I'm reporting this one anyway. The culprit in this case also gets bonus…


If You’re Greek, Someone Probably Just Stole Your Identity

Potential math-test question for Greek children: If someone steals nine million computer files containing the personal data of Greek citizens, and the population of Greece is 11 million, what percentage of Greek citizens have had their personal data stolen? The…


These Are Their Data: How Every Law & Order Episode Ended

At the aptly named but also very cool site Overthinking It, they have finished what was apparently a two-year-long effort to compile the results of all 456 episodes of Law & Order and plug that into a spreadsheet for analysis. You might…




Two Charged With Halloween Robbery; Fairy Still at Large

Be on the lookout On Friday, police in Marin County, California, said they were still looking for the third participant in an home-invasion robbery on Halloween, in which a mother-daughter team allegedly robbed a marijuana dealer at gunpoint. According to…


Woman Arrested for Voting

In 1872, but still. Here are two things I did not know until recently: Susan B. Anthony was actually arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime of voting while female. The "B" stood for "badass." According to "The Trial of…