According to reports, a woman in Middletown, Ohio, was charged with disorderly conduct on Monday for a string of disturbances she caused while wearing a cow suit. The woman allegedly chased children around her neighborhood, urinated on a neighbor’s front…
Do you have a complete set of Jose Arcadio Klein’s legal-themed plates yet? If not, why not? I guess a complete set would take up a lot of room in your office (there are a lot), but you should get…
Charles Morrison, 31, of Greensburg, Pa., was convicted on August 19 of charges including felonious aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The deadly weapon: a two-pound garden gnome. Morrison’s 16-year-old stepdaughter told…
I admit I was a little worried about at least some of the details of the McKinney story I reported on the other day. The London Times is a reputable source, and most of the story, of course, like the…
Here’s the kind of lead-in sentence that you see almost every day: The woman who had her pet dog cloned by South Korean scientists flatly denied early Thursday that she was a bail jumper accused of sexually assaulting and kidnapping…
A family court judge in New Zealand has taken a stand against parents who saddle their children with goofy names, which seem to be fairly common, at least per capita, in that country. Judge Rob Murfitt ordered that a nine-year-old…
I have already written about a number of non-automotive drunk driving charges, including incidents that involved "vehicles" such as riding lawnmowers, horses, and at least one Zamboni. Not wanting to repeat myself, I passed on covering another recent riding-lawnmower DUI…
William Singalargh, who as we learned in April had been accused of assaulting a 15-year-old boy with a hedgehog, was convicted this week on charges of "common assault" and "offensive behavior" and ordered to pay about $550 in fines. Singalargh…
On Memorial Day, police arrested a 29-year-old man in the Herald Square Macy’s store in Manhattan after spotting him "brandishing" what was described as a curved, rusted, "pirate-style sword," presumably a cutlass. The report also used the word "carrying," although…
I guess it is understandable that some readers believe that the previous post, about a New Zealander who was sentenced to community service for falsely reporting he had been raped by a wombat, an assault that he said caused him…