Birdsong's Law Blog

Florida seems to produce an abundance of weird criminal law stories.  Here are a few more for your consideration.

Tallahassee:  It’s a crime against humanity to wear nothing but a banana hammock while riding on a banana seat in Florida.  A 55 year old man known for riding a bike around Tallahassee wearing just a thong, and therefore frequently exposing himself, has been arrested.  Richard Irby is notorious for walking around his trailer park with his genitals hanging from his skivvies.

Ewwwww…What a perv.

Fort Walton Beach: A 34 year old wife was arrested in Florida for alledgedly assaulting her husband after spotting him licking another woman’s face.  She dragged him out of a bar in Fort Walton Beach — by his hair — while hitting him.

Where is a rolling pin when a lady needs one?

Tampa: A Tampa man triggered a manhunt after he lied to his wife about being kidnapped

Allentown, PA: A Pennsylvania psych-hospital worker has admitted giving nails to a patient and getting her to swallow them.  Athena Marie Miller, a former trainee at Allentown State Hospital, pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment.  She showed an 18 year old female patient how to swallow nails in January of 2009.  Four nails had to be removed from the patient’s stomach.

Sounds like crazy Athena should be one of the psych  patients…

Oregon:  An ailing 83 year old Oregon woman who made a miraculous recovery from her deathbed discovered that two of her relatives had stolen her blind.  Evelyn Roth, who had been hospital-bound with cancer for the last two years, came to only to find that two of her relatives with power of attorney had sold her house and pocketed $235,000.  Also, the relatives did “pre-pay” for the elderly woman’s funeral.

VULTURES!

Saint Paul, MN: A cop has been arrested for breaking into the Minneapolis-Saint Paul zoo — to feed Pop-Tarts to its three gorillas.  Zoo officials say

Nashville, TN: A 9 year old Nashville girl led police on an 80 mph predawn chase along an interstate when she hopped in her grandmother’s car and took off.  The developmentally disabled child finally stopped the car on the highway before hitting a police cruiser.  She was released to her parents.

Hope they can hide the car keys from her.

Independence, MO: Nuns without guns!  Nuns from a convent in Independence chased a gun-toting burglar from the home he was breaking in to.  One of the nuns kept up the pursuit until police caught up with him.

Wonder if she was ready to spank his hands with her ruler?

Hong Kong:  A Chinese bank employee undergoing a sex change sued his boss for discrimination after being assigned a “genderless” bathroom.  He