Birdsong's Law Blog

Tacoma, WA: No harm no foul, as they say.  Police in Tacoma received several calls reporting a naked woman tied to a tree in the park.  But when they arrived at the scene, they discovered it was just part of a “consensual rendezvous.” Neither the woman nor the man she was with was arrested.  So, that must mean it’s perfectly OK to tie a naked woman to a tree in a public park — as long as you have her permission.

Ain’t that a kick in the head!

South Bend, IN: Now this is really drunk!  Police in South Bend arrested a man for DWI after other motorists reported he was driving down the road with the hose from a gas pump

Mobile County, AL:  The ABA Journal newsletter reports that a former Alabama Judge who was accused of paddling defendants has been disbarred.  Former judge Herman Thomas was disbarred in mid-February, 2010.  Tony McLain, general counsel of the Alabama State Bar, said there was evidence that Thomas paddled inmates and that he talked to inmates without attorneys present.  According to McLain, Thomas testified that he did spank five young men for discipline, but none of them were criminal defendants in his courtroom.  In October of 2009, jurors acquitted Thomas of some of the charges related to the spankings, and a judge threw out other charges after the jury could not reach verdicts.  The charges included sodomy, sex abuse and assault.  Prosecutors had claimed Thomas paddled defendants in exchange for leniency.  Thomas’ attorney, Robert “Cowboy Bob” Clark, had argued he shouldn’t be convicted on the word of 11 convicted felons.  Judge Thomas is currently campaigning for state senator.

Yeah… senator kinky!

Georgia: It seems that chicken wings might be more valuable than money.  Two hungry bandits in Georgia held up a Domino’s Pizza delivery driver, but instead of taking cash,

South Korea:  This guy had no soul.  The owner of a second-hand shoe shop in South Korea was arrested for ripping off more than 1,200 pair of designer shoes, by pretending to be mourner.  Police said the thief went to funeral homes and hospitals and preyed on people who had taken off their footwear as a traditional sign of respect.

Lowly creature!  Sounds like shoe fetish to me.

Sandy, UT: This one is from the “honesty is the best policy” files.  A man in Sandy saw a stranger inside his house and asked him what he was doing there.  “I’m burglarizing your home,” answered the intruder, who was caught soon afterward.

He wins the prize as the world’s most honest burglar.

Salt Lake City, UT: Here’s another one from Utah.  Seems this type of thing would not happen in Utah.  A band teacher was arrested recently for driving drunk near Salt Lake City on her way to school at 8 am.  Jillene Elliot, 41,

Pooler, GA:  It was Valentine’s Day but there was no love lost between these two.  Georgia police arrested a woman who went to a Waffle House in Pooler on Valentine’s Day 2010, and allegedly hit her ex-lover in the face with her high-heeled shoe.  Police said the victim told them he was at a booth with his girlfriend when two sisters — one of them the mother of his kids, came in.