Birdsong's Law Blog

Waco, TX: Call her a real boob! A Texas trickster, Trista Joy Lathern, 24, faked having cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit in her honor to get breast implants to salvage her seven-month marriage. Lathern, of Waco, was arrested and charged with theft by deception. Police said she shaved her head to look like she was going through chemotherapy, then had friends organize a benefit.

Shameful…

Pennsylvania: Police caught a couple of soaking-wet thieves who were trying to lift some pipe from an abandoned house — not realizing that the water was still on. The pair tried to explain that they had nothing to do with the gushing pipe sticking out of the wall, but police didn’t believe them.

Yes, yes, we know… Their story was all wet. Yuk, yuk, yuk.

Tampa, FL : More water! A Florida woman and her 6-year old son survived after she slammed the family pickup truck into a 1,500 gallon saltwater fish

How about some weird criminal law stories from overseas. Take a gander…

United Kingdom: Freedom of speech has its limits! A British woman lost her appeal against a court ordered ban of her deafeningly loud sex sessions, which led neighbors to call police — thinking someone was being killed. Caroline Cartwright, 48, said it was a violation of her human rights, but a judge said it was actually just a “nuisance.”

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…!

Spain: Spanish customs officials seized more than $1.5 million worth of bogus cigarettes that had been filled with rabbit droppings rather than tobacco. “They stunk.  The smell just as you would imagine burning poo to smell,” an

Florida: Here is a real ass! A Florida man who was charged with flashing a mother and daughter in a parking lot said that it was all a misunderstanding and that he dropped his pants only because he had “explosive diarrhea.” Unfortunately, the police investigator who checked David Napodano’s “tighty whities,” and found no evidence to support his story, so he was charged with indecent exposure.

What an ass.

Vallejo, CA: The crook wanted to be punctual. Samuel Botchvaroff was arrested in a stolen 2000 Range Rover outside a Vallejo courthouse. He told a highway patrol officer that his own car had been impounded, and he had no other way to get to his arraignment on an earlier auto theft case he had pending.

Ironic, huh?

Lublin, Poland: This bandit had the right idea, but the wrong weapon. A robber in Lublin tried to hold up a bank by wielding a spoon. Staffers followed