Archive for November, 2009
Birdsong on Inchoate Crimes
Weird Criminal Law Stories 101
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: The advent of the “butt bomb??” Recently, a suicide bomber put himself next to a member of the Saudi royal family, having outwitted bomb detection machines in the palace, to set off an explosion using a charge that had been hidden in his rectum. The assassin, Abdullah Asieri, stashed a pound of explosives and a detonator inside his body in the attack on Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of counter-terrorism for the kingdom. Bin Nayef was only slightly wounded in the attempt. The explosion, possibly detonated by a cellphone, killed the bomber.
A butt bomb…what will these crazy people think of next…
Philadelphia, PA: This next one is about an explosive bowel movement! Nikita Fulton is suing a Philadelphia company after she claimed its toilet blew up beneath her,
