Birdsong's Law Blog

Pennsylvania: What a doggone shame.  A Pennsylvania court has ruled that a disabled man cannot get extra food stamps to buy chow for his service dog.  James Douris, 55, a wheelchair bound veteran, says his dog should be considered a dependent, but the court ruled state welfare laws make it clear animals don’t count.

Bow wow….

China: We need child protective services on this right away!  A Chinese zoo is taking the heat for letting a 3 year old acrobat walk on a tightrope over a tiger enclosure.  Onlookers were horrified when the girl nearly lost her footing as a strong gust of wind shook her.

Ridiculous…

Florida: Florida police nabbed a man for illegally dumping a boat, by using satellite images from Google Earth.  The images showed the boat at Dwight Everett Roster’s home,

Pennsylvania: It wasn’t playing possum — it was really dead!  Pennsylvania police charged a man with public drunkenness after finding him trying to resuscitate a dead possum by a highway.  Police were not sure whether David Wolfe, 55, was the motorist who had actually run over the animal.

YUCK

Cleveland, OH: A motorist fleeing police in Ohio abandoned his car and jumped a fence into a prison yard.  The driver clocked speeds of 90 mph after failing to pull over for a traffic violation.  After racing through several towns, the driver and the passenger bolted from the car and conveniently hopped right into a women’s prison in Cleveland where they were promptly arrested.

What dopes!

Plainfield Township, MI: Marion Zock, 82, accidentally crashed her car through the front window of a hair salon

Connecticut: Police in Connecticut arrested a couple after entering their home in a drug raid and finding on a digital camera a video of their 3 year old son smoking marijuana.  In the video, the mother recorded the child lighting up a glass pipe with his father nearby.  The couple insists the child, now staying with other relatives, did not inhale.

They win this year’s “bad parenting” award.

Hillsdale, NJ: A man broke into a Hillsdale restaurant, took some chicken from the freezer and cooked it with rice in a frying pan.  He left the $200 that was in the cash register — plus a pile of dirty dishes.

Hey… he could have taken the money and still have left the dirty dishes!

Poland: A Polish nightclub security guard chopped off the hand of a badly behaved patron with a saber.  Witnesses said they spotted the guard