A judge in Rostock, Germany, has ruled that soccer-stadium operators may recover damages from people who run naked onto the soccer field during matches. This is evidently a problem plaguing the world of European soccer, and foreign streakers have been…
Veysel Dalci, the leader of a local branch of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, was charged with "insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk" after a military official spotted him chewing gum while laying a wreath at a statue of Ataturk on…
A German woman was stopped and arrested recently after police got a tipoff that she was transporting a dead body in her car. The woman was taking a relative to be buried in her hometown and said she was trying…
Divorces are much cleaner and easier under Islamic law than in the West. If you are a man, of course. Under Islamic law, a man only has to say the phrase "I divorce you" three times (within a relatively short…
The local government of Tangerang, a comically named suburb of Jakarta, Indonesia, has been trying to crack down on prostitution and address other moral issues for the past several years. The Tangerangian city council’s laws first sparked protest in February…
Even in Zimbabwe.
Norwegian police said today that they have arrested, again, a Finnish man who insists on visiting Norway to get drunk and undress in public. Police said that the man, whose name was not released, has been arrested and fined nearly…
The mayor of Biritiba Mirim, which as you know is about 50 miles east of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has submitted a bill to the town counsel that would forbid residents from dying. The bill does not include a penalty provision….
The Associated Press reported today that an unidentified (and now unemployed) trader at Mizuho Securities made a small typing error on Thursday when making a stock sale related to a new offering. Apparently, he meant to offer to sell 1…
More gripes from former Baath Party officials about man’s inhumanity to man. They are quite outraged about this now that they are (allegedly) on the receiving end. On Wednesday, one of Saddam’s co-defendants, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, complained that the United…