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Birdsong brings you more weird criminal law stories…

Aloha, OR: An Oregon man spent Memorial Day of 2009, in jail after dialing 911 to complain that a McDonald’s worker was rude and did not give him an orange juice he ordered.  Raibin Osman, 20, was arrested for improper use of the emergency telephone number.  Sheriff’s Sgt. David Thompson said Osman ignored deputies who told him the emergency number wasn’t to be used for straightening out fast food orders.  A McDonald’s employee also called 911 during the incident to complain that Osman and the people with him were blocking the drive-thru lane.

Dumbkopf!

Tampa, FL: Police in Tampa arrested a man who was so drunk he  had his 12 year old son drive home.  Unfortunately,

Ohio: Could this be geezers gone wild?  An 82 year old Ohio man was arrested after punching another elderly man in a road rage  incident, then slugging him again when the victim pointed a pistol at his chest.  Beecher Davis told police he objec1ted to twice being called an s.o.b. by 67 year old Charlie Bruener Sr., after Davis cut off Bruener’s vehicle.

Boys, boys, you must play nice…no guns or punching!

Collin County, Texas: Blowing off jury duty cost a Texas man 83 days in jail.  A Collin County judge released Douglas Maupin, 34 over the weekend and called his lengthy confinement “unacceptable.”  Maupin was arrested on February 15, 2009, after cops pulled him over for speeding and flagged his 2003 warrant for failure to appear for jury duty.

…they should have let him rot in jail for such a heinous crime!

Georgia: A Georgia woman was nabbed after she had two men threaten another man into having sex with her.  The victim initially rebuffed Edie Jean Wells’ offer of sex for money, but then did have relations with her after her accomplices went inside his home and threatened him, police said.  The trio then swiped an ATM card from him, and held him captive for several hours before his paycheck cleared and they were able to withdraw cash from his account.

…talk about desperation!

Wellington, New Zealand: A couple whose bank accidentally handed their gas station business a $6.1 million credit line has fled New Zealand with $2.3 million in cash taken from the account, the bank said recently.  Interpol is leading a search for Leo Gao and Kara Yang, believed to have fled to Hong Kong or China with Yang’s daughter, Leena,7.

Sounds like an ‘accidental” heist…they will never be heard from again.

Birdsong brings you a few weird criminal law stories from the sunshine state of Florida.

Gainseville, FL:  An aspiring rapper in Gainseville has allegedly told police he robbed a convenience store and shot a clerk in the head with a BB gun in an effort to gain “street credibility” for his hip-hop career.  Steven Gilmore, 21, also confessed to robbing a Hungry Howie’s restaurant as a career move, police said.

I pity the fool…

Sebastian, FL: A federal grand jury indicted a Florida woman for allegedly keeping her dead mother’s body in a bedroom for six years to collect more than $200,000 in pension benefits.  Penelope Sharon Jordan was charged with

Yellowstone, WY: Two Yellowstone National Park employees were fired after committing a national outrage by peeing into the “Old Faithful” geyser — an act caught on the web cam that streams video of the landmark’s eruptions.  The two were fired, fined and banned from the Wyoming park.  It appears that criminal charges for  UIP — urinating in public were not filed.

When you gotta go, you gotta go…

Needham, MA:  Police  in this Massachusetts town pulled over a man for driving erratically and discovered he was eating a bowl of cereal.  When asked what he was doing the 48 year old driver replied, simply that he was hungry.

I’ll bet he was a “cereal” offender, ha, ha,ha,ha….