Firearms Instructor Teaches Students to Unload Guns Used for Firearms Instruction
Well, how can you demonstrate what not to do unless the gun is actually loaded?
Law Enforcement
Bear in Prison
Might be eight or ten of ’em in there, actually.
Man Faces Five Years for Hedgehog Assault
In the second animal-assault story from New Zealand in two weeks, police in the North Island town of Whakatane said that William Singalargh, 27, had been arrested for assaulting a boy with a hedgehog. Many details about the assault remain…
Man Jailed for Curiosity About Groin-Kicking
Last week, a 28-year-old man from Guelph, Ontario, Canada, was sentenced to sixty days in jail simply for asking seven different women to kick him in the groin. Isn’t that pretty far down the list of things that need to be…
New Zealander Sentenced for False Claim of Wombat Rape
Arthur Cradock of Motueka, New Zealand, was sentenced last week to 75 hours of community service for making a false police report, after he admitted he had not actually been raped by a wombat as he had claimed. Cradock called…
FBI Will Take Decisive Action to Protect Federal Officials From Noogies
On March 21, the Boston Globe reported that, after a year-long investigation by the Justice Department, the FBI has concluded that three FBI agents should be terminated for a noogie one of them delivered to a federal prosecutor in 2006….
Escaped Prisoner Mocks Police, Insists They Recapture Him
A 31-year-old Estonian thief who escaped from a Finnish prison on February 29 was "recaptured" a week later, but only after going to some trouble to arrange it. It’s not entirely clear whether Martin Vaiksaar had decided he wanted to…
Another Reason Not to Streak in Minnesota
From the police blotter in Silver Lake, Wisconsin, yesterday: On 3-13-08 at approx. 1620 hrs., [Deputy] Zarletti was parked by the Silver Lake DNR boat launch when he was alerted by a citizen that a male was running across the…
How Client-9 Was Caught
NPR had an interesting segment this morning (March 12) as to how Client-9, formerly known as Eliot Spitzer, was found out. As you might expect, our old friend the USA Patriot Act had a part to play, helping fulfill its…
Car’s Owner Receives Multiple Parking Tickets For Car That Had Been Stolen
San Francisco is a notoriously difficult place to park, not so much because of the hills but because of the relatively small size of the city and its downtown. Adding to the fun is the zeal of its parking control…