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May 21st, 2012 by Leonard Birdsong
ZANY BUT ALL TRUE CRIMINAL LAW STORIES
School is Out For The Summer
May 18th, 2012 by Leonard Birdsong
The school year ended last Saturday, May 12, 2012, with the Barry Law School commencement.
Professor Birdsong will take this summer off to do some legal research and do a little travelling.
He will be back with his Weird Criminal Law Stories and More starting in Mid August.
Weird Criminal Law Stories 253
May 2nd, 2012 by Leonard Birdsong
Cleveland, OH: No courtroom sketch artist for this trial! We learn that a TV station in Cleveland has started a courtroom puppet show. WOIO is using Muppet-like puppets to illustrate a local official’s corruption trial because the federal court does not allow cameras inside. The re-enactments included puppet versions of the judge, the defendant, jurors and witnesses reciting lines directly from the day’s court transcripts.
THIS IS ABOUT THE SILLIEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD OF…
CANADA: What a sad story. A trip to his bathroom did not turn out well for Port Colborne, Ontario resident Alistair MacPherson, who died of natural causes as he was turning on the sink’s water faucet. The water flowed for three weeks before his body was found. MacPherson’s family has beseeched water officials to waive the $600 water bill, but they have refused.
GLUG GLUG GLUG….
St. Louis, MO: A Missouri gubernatorial candidate who had been touting his economics degree was unmasked as a liar when a local newspaper discovered he had left out the word “home” in his “home economics”
Weird Criminal Law Stories 252
April 25th, 2012 by Leonard Birdsong
Burbank, CA: A woman at a Burbank McDonald’s restaurant offered another customer sex in exchange for his Chicken McNuggets. He declined the offer. It is not certain whether he didn’t want to part with his McNuggets or that she was just too homely.
MY GOSH, HOW HUNGRY WAS SHE?
Weird Criminal Law From Overseas
April 18th, 2012 by Leonard Birdsong
SWEDEN: We learn that a Swedish train passenger was sentenced to prison for getting high and taking off his clothes. The unidentified man was travelling from Gothenburg to Orebro when he got high on pot, took off his clothes and walked through the train asking other passengers to have sex with him.
Did he ask both men and women to have sex with him?
AUSTRALIA: Police are looking for “The Bumcrack Bandit.” Authorities say the female felon held up a hotel bar and the only clue is a surveillance video of the woman making her getaway with her pants hung low which exposed her butt crack (or “bumcrack,” as they say in Australia). Police are now asking the public’s help in identifying the behind behind the theft.
BUMCRACK??
ITALY: A 99 year old Italian husband is jealous, real jealous. The man
