Birdsong's Law Blog

Birdsong has been bringing you weird criminal law stories for a year and a half now.  Hope you have had a few laughs from reading them. Here is edition number 100.  What a milestone.  Enjoy.

Turkey: A stitch in time saves five for a Turkish woman charged with slicing off her lover’s penis.  That’s because a court has put off sentencing her for 18 months to see if the man’s reattached penis still functions.  If it does, she will get three years in jail.  If it does not, she will get eight years.  She gave him the cruelest cut because he broke a promise to marry her, and forced her into prostitution.

YOOOUCH!

Austria: An Austrian man was hit with a $100 fine when he farted loudly while being questioned by police, causing passers-by to break into hysterics, humiliating the police officers.  “This was no accident.  He clearly intended to make a laughingstock out of officers and deserved what he got,” said a police spokesman.

POOT….

Austin, TX : A Texas man got a 30 day jail sentence for contempt of court after criticizing a judge in a courthouse men’s room.  State District Judge Jack Robinson ordered 69 year old Don Bandelman released following two days in jail after a state appeals court in Austin made inquiries into the

Canton, OH: Judge Stephen Belden, unhappy with repeated interruptions from a robbery suspect in Canton courtroom, ordered a deputy to put duct tape over the defendant’s mouth.  When it was removed, the alleged perpetrator complained that the judge hadn’t been respectful!

Oh BOO HOO…But the Judge made his ruling stick, yuk, yuk…

Long Island, NY: In a strange twist, police arrested a Hispanic man for tossing a bottle and a piece of wood at parishioners of a Hispanic church in an area of Long Island plagued by racial strife — and charged him with a hate crime.  Christhian Munguia Garcia was also charged with breaking into the same church and leaving threatening anti-Hispanic notes, according to police.  One of the notes, written in Spanish, declared “Hispanics do not rule.  Whites do!”  No one was hurt at the church and congregants quickly caught up to Garcia and held him for police.

Garcia sounds like Senor Poco Loco…

Joliet, IL: A woman in Illinois blew up a car and suffered severe burns by checking how much gas she had poured into a can by flicking

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