Birdsong's Law Blog

Murfreesboro, TN: A dopey Tennessee driver was busted at a gas station on New Year’s Day, 2010, after he was found passed out in a car while cooking methamphetamine. A Shell station employee called police after the car was parked for more than an hour. Police and fire fighters found the man with a makeshift meth lab in the backseat of his vehicle.

Cooking meth at a gas station? How many ways did this guy want to die!

Nebraska: How about a “dopey” Christmas present. On December 27, 2009, a Nebraska driver and his pregnant passenger were busted for having gift-wrapped marijuana inside their SUV.

HO HO HO

Minnesota: The food there is so good, it stops air traffic. Aviation officials are looking into two separate occasions in which two small planes landed on a frozen lake

Queens, NY: A prominent gay activist was tackled and beaten at a Queens nightclub because he was dancing with a man, said police in December 2009. Tarlach MacNiallais, 47, who is a spokesman for the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, was punched and kicked and had a chair smashed over his head in the attack by two security guards at the Guadalajara De Noche restaurant. The bouncers allegedly said before the attack, “You can’t do that in here, this is not a gay bar.” The attack is being treated as a possible hate crime.

You think? The headline on this one read “Bouncers bop gay dancer.”

Washington State: A woman in Washington whose husband was leaving her got back at him by allegedly rewiring his power tools to deliver a powerful electric shock

Germany: We hope “Billy” has a good lawyer. German police “arrested” a goat and put it in jail after the creature refused to budge from the middle of a busy intersection. It then led police on a wild chase across town. The only comment written on the “arrest papers” was “smells very bad.”

Goats do smell bad.

China: A Chinese trucker wasn’t going to let a smashed windshield stop him. He simply — and stupidly — covered it all up with cardboard, then steered while hanging  his head out the window