Category: Bizarre

Bizarre, Criminal law

Hero or Felon? Police Charge River Guide For Trying To Rescue 13-Year-Old Girl

Ryan Daniel Snodgrass, 28, would be a hero in most people’s book. However, the guide with Arkansas Valley Adventures was arrested by the Clear Creek sheriff’s office after he swam to a stranded 13-year-old rafter who fell off her boat in Colorado. Officers ordered no one to help the young rafter until a county rescue team was ready. Sheriff Don Krueger (left) is reportedly considering additional charges against another guide.

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Politics, Religion, Society

A Kiss Before Flogging: Saudi Police Sentence Man to Jail and Flogging for Kissing Friend in Mall

A Saudi court has sentenced a man to four months in prison and 90 lashes for kissing a woman in a mall. This is yet another example of the Sharia based legal system in the Kingdom and the continued work of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
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Bizarre, Criminal law, Environment, International, Politics, Society

Sunday Times: Japanese Officials Bought Votes on International Whaling Commission With Aid and Prostitutes

The London Sunday Times has published the results of an investigation that allegedly show that officials from six countries were involved in a scheme by Japanese officials to buy votes on the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

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Bizarre, Society

Subway Fires Woman Who Gave Her Free Sandwich to Two Homeless Neighbors After Apartment Fire

A Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Subway restaurant has fired a woman because she gave two homeless neighbors something to eat after an apartment fire. Heidi Heise was entitled to the free food for herself, but failed to record it so she was fired for giving away free food.

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Bizarre, Society

Shock Video: Former Major League Player Wally Backman Goes Ballistic At Minor League Game

I just saw this on Reddit and it may be the most incredible display of bad sportsmanship and uncontrolled rage that I have seen at a sporting event. Former major league player and South Georgia Peanuts manager Wally Backman is thrown out of the game and proceeds to unleash a storm of profane comments. The highlight is when he says the umpire is a “disgrace to baseball” and, after a tirade of foul language, keeps asking what he said to justify the expulsion.
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Bizarre, Constitutional Law, Religion, Society

Learning Your Scarlet Letters: School Fires Teacher as Fornicator

Jarrestta Hamilton has been fired as a fourth grade teacher at Southland Christian School in Florida after administrators declared her a fornicator. Hamilton was about to be married but became pregnant before her vows — leading to her dismissal. She has now filed a discrimination lawsuit.

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Bizarre, Criminal law

Criminal Work Ethic: Accused Felon Allegedly Uses Break In Court To Break Into Cars

Thomas Peno is apparently not a man to sit idle when he can be working. Connecticut police say Peno found himself waiting during a break in a courtroom where he was supposed to address larceny charges . . . so he allegedly used the down time to break into cars around the courthouse.

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Bizarre, International, Society, Torts

Illegal Foodstuff or Liquid Asset? English Woman Causes Stir By Selling Breast Milk Online

England is facing a rather novel legal issue: Toni Ebdon has opened up a type of Internet dairy . . . using her own breast milk. The 26-year-old nursing mother is selling her excess milk — raising obvious legal questions. Most of her customers apparently are men.

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Lawyering, Politics, Society

The Scarlet Letter: New York Woman Charged With Adultery

New York prosecutors have charged a woman with criminal adultery after she was arrested allegedly during a tryst with a man in a public park. Suzanne Corona, 41, is the 13th person charged with adultery in New York since 1972. I have previously written about the unconstitutionality of these laws.
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Academia, Bizarre, Lawyering, Society, Torts

George Mason Reportedly Settles Rotunda Harassment Lawsuit With No Payment of Damages

KyndraKayeRotundaRecently we saw how the lawsuit filed by former George Mason Clinical professor Kyndra Rotunda (wife of constitutional law professor Ron Rotunda) against George Mason Law School and Dean Daniel Polsby (left) was largely dismissed by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema. At the time, I expressed doubt that Rotunda would want to go forward to trial on the remaining state counts. Now, it appears that Rotunda has settled the lawsuit without any payment of money. The settlement involves unreported “equitable relief.”
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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society

Drunken Stupar: Woman Found Passed Out in Van With Toodler — With Five Times the Legal Limit for DWI

This is a frightening story. In Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Joleen Stupar, 40, was found passed out in her running minivan with her 3-year-old car strapped in the back. She was found to have been driving with a blood alcohol level that was five times the legal limit.

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