This week, we have seen another golden oldie from the Saudi legal system. Nour Miyati was severely abused by her employer who had tied up the Indonesian maid for a month and refused her food and basic necessities as punishment. Ms Miyati, 25, ultimately needed hospitalization and, after gangrene set in, they had to amputate her fingers and toes. While insisting that Islamic law protected servants, the Saudi courts just overturned the conviction of the couple responsible, including the wife who had admitted the abuse. Their punishment? $640.
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Category: Bizarre
In Port St. Lucie, the family of nine-year-old Alex Barton are exploring a lawsuit against teacher Wendy Portillo and the school district of his humiliation in front of his class. Alex is in the process of being diagnosed with autism, but Portillo still reportedly punished him by making him stand in front of the class as students were invited to list the things that they hate about him — then led a vote to throw him out of class. This apparently comes from the Lord of the Flies school of teaching.
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Controversial American author and academic Norman Finkelstein has been arrested at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv and forced to leave the country. Various news reports indicate that he may be banished from Israel for ten years on on “security’ grounds.”
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A product liability case may be in the early stages this week with the issuance of a warning by the Food and Drug Administration that Mommy’s Bliss Nipple Cream, marketed by MOM Enterprises Inc. of San Rafael, California, is a serious danger to nursing babies. Products connected to infant tend to bring the fastest and most costly litigation — as MOM may soon discover. Continue reading “Suing Mom: FDA Issues Warning on Use of Mommy’s Bliss Nipple Cream”
Hillary Clinton has been criticized for coming up with new rationales for staying in the race from the popular vote to superdelegates to red state successes. Yet, few were prepared for her latest rationale: Obama could be dead before the summer convention. This was the most obvious interpretation given to her use of the Robert Kennedy assassination as a justification for staying in the race through June: Kennedy was cut down in June 1968. The video link is below. Continue reading “The Grim Reaper as the Ultimate Superdelegate: Hillary Clinton Raises Assassination Scenario to Justify Staying in the Race”
Eddie Walker, the principal of Irmo High School in Columbia, S.C., is resigning in the wake of a decision by the Lexington-Richland School District 5 officials, to allow the creation of a gay club at his school. He has cited his own religious views for the protest move.
Waddah (Martin) Mustapha could not get over the horror of it. The hairdresser was drinking from his bottled water when Waddah found a flouting dead fly. For his suffering (including depression and phobias), he was awarded $341,775. The Supreme Court of Canada had other ideas, and threw out the award — ruling 9-0 that Culligan of Canada could not be liable for psychological damages. Continue reading “Fly Found in Waddah: Canadian Supreme Court Throws Out Emotional Damages”
A mob has burned alive 15 women who they accused of being witches in Kenya.
In the meantime, Tanzania has had to enact special protections for albinos who are being mutilated and killed by witch doctors for good luck.
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Recently, this blog explored the criminal charges against men who have liaison with inanimate objects ranging from bikes to gates to picnic tables, click here. However, now Edward Smith has publicly admitted that he has made love to over 1000 cars, including his current serious relationship with ,a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla. It appears that in England sex with a bike in private will get you jail time, but motorized “girlfriends” are apparently acceptable. Continue reading “Love Bug: Man Admits to Sex with Over 1000 Cars — and One Helicopter”
Walter Moore of Max Motors in Butler, Missouri recently had a brainstorm. What is the other thing beside a car that everyone should have. The answer is obvious: a semi-automatic handgun. Putting the lead back into American cars . . .
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Judge Robert Somma of the United States Bankruptcy Court has everyone debating whether he is a judge or not. Somma first resigned after being caught drunk driving while wearing a dress and make up. He then tried to unresign and now it is not clear and a few litigants and their lawyers would like to know.
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In a glimpse into the insanity and inhumanity that fuels Al Qaeda, Pakistani police have found this video of a 12-year-old boy who cuts off the head of a victim and holds the severed head up as the adults scream “Allah o Akbar” joyfully at the scene. Police have also uncovered what they called a “suicide training nursery.”
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It was not enough that Christine Ruther, 19, broke into a candy store. It wasn’t even the fact that she removed her baby from the stroller to fill it with hot candy. It was the fact that the police were able to follow the candy wrappers to arrest her and her confectionery criminal friends in Cincinnati.
This blog has been following (and criticizing) the increasing criminalization of America as politicians make every infraction a crime. The Canton City Council is now joining this trend with a reckless abandon: threatening to jail citizens who do not cut their grass.
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Adam Serafin, 26, has made a little of legal history in the most disgusting possible way. He was convicted of third-degree sexual abuse in Texas without any skin-on-skin contact as previously required. He was found guilty of masturbating on a friend’s wife in December. It is a ruling that could have significance in other cases.
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