Balloon Boy’s Parents Finally Reunited With Balloon
They’d have been happy to get their son back, too, except he was never lost.
Criminal
Paying Restitution More Important Than Plastic Surgery, Says Judge
Last week, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick got his probation upgraded to jail time after a judge found he had been hiding assets to avoid paying restitution. Kilpatrick was supposed to be paying back $1 million of the $8.4 million…
UPDATE on “Group Licentiousness” Conviction
Last week I wrote about the conviction of Ma Yaohai, a Chinese computer-science professor who was recently sentenced to three and a half years in prison for organizing what the New York Times called "informal swingers clubs" and what the…
TIP: “Group Licentiousness” Still Illegal in China
On May 20, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported that 22 people had been convicted and sentenced to jail for taking part in "licentious activities," which it appears are criminal offenses in that happy land. At least if the whole…
Man Offers Medical Explanation For What May Have Seemed Like Peeping
Here's one I drafted last summer but, for some reason, never got around to posting. It still seems worth mentioning, though, because of the remarkable defense argument involved. In July 2009, 30-year-old Sultan al-Sayed was sentenced to nine weeks in…
Spider-Man Arrested for Battery
Many have rightly praised Spider-Man for foiling that comic-book-store robbery in Australia last week (with the aid of a few super-friends), but some still question whether his brand of vigilante justice is always a good thing. The robbery story reminded…
Snoopy, Accomplice in Custody After Failed Prison-Break Attempt
“It’s not every day you see a giant cartoon dog go on the rampage after trying to break into a prison,” said a prison spokesman of the incident on May 1. Nor is it often that a story beginning with…
O.J.’s “Acquittal Suit” to Go On Display in Washington
They finally found someone to take it off their hands.
Superheroes Foil Comic-Book-Store Robbery
Also in Australia this week, a man who tried to abscond with an expensive comic book from a store in Adelaide was apprehended by an ad hoc team of superheroes and turned over to police. Unfortunately for the villain, he…
The Burglar With a Sense of Humor
It could work to your advantage.