Willie Campbell, 42, is a homeless man who is HIV-positive. In May 2006, he spit in the face of three Dallas police men who arrested him. He was sentenced to 35 years for harassing a public servant with a deadly weapon: his saliva. It is a very disturbing sentence given the lack of a credible threat to passing AIDS by saliva.
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Category: Bizarre
Eder Rojas, 19, was in court this week after being accused of starting a fire in an airplane bathroom during a flight. That is weird enough. What makes it weirder still is he was the flight attendant on Compass Airlines (a subsidiary of Northwest Airlines). Continue reading “Please Use Only Your Designated, Non-Flaming Toilet: Flight Attendent Arrested After Starting Fire in Airplane Bathroom”
With the networks canceling shows this week, the Maryland courts have decided to take off the bench one of the most colorful and quotable jurists. The Maryland Supreme Court has suspended Baltimore County District Judge Bruce S. Lamdin for his use of profanity and wise cracks from the bench. Continue reading “Show Suspended: Baltimore Judge Punished for Jokes from Bench”
Jorge Espinal believes that guns are not just for hunting and self-defense, but personal grooming and scratching. When he decided to use his revolver to scratch his back during a late night poker game, he learned why back scratchers don’t kill people, people kill people.” Continue reading “This is My Back Scratcher, This is my Gun . . .: Man Shoots Himself in Effort to Stop an Itch”
While Osama bin Laden remains at large, the Administration was able recently to catch infamous international criminal suspect Domenico Salerno. Salerno, an Italian lawyer, thought that he could confuse our security by trying to visit his Virginia fiance and having no record or known criminal connections. He even thought that having the correct travel documents would help him. Fortunately, Customs has seen all of the tricks. They refused to let him into the country, and held him for 10 days without charges or counsel. Continue reading “Buona Giornata: United States Jails a Man Without a Record or a Crime Who Merely Sought to Visit his Future Wife and In-Laws in Virginia”
From Bill O’Reilly to Sue Simmons, on-air meltdowns by television personalities is now the rage on the Internet, so Gawker put together the collection below.
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Japanese police appear helpful to a fault. Hifumi Kubota, 45, was arrested after he doused himself with kerosene. He refused to change his clothes and the Japanese police did not insist on the change. Instead, when he asked at the station, they gave him his only request: a lighter. Continue reading “Serve and Protect: Police Give Lighter to Man Who Doused Himself in Kerosene”
Rudy Villanueva, 31, known as Bird Road Rudy, had a brief but illustrious career as a filmmaker. The gang leader made a clip for YouTube where he taunted the Miami Police while holding guns, inviting them to “come and get some.” They did and not Bird Road Rudy is going to jail for six years. Continue reading “Video Taunt Leads to Arrest: End of the Road for “Bird Road Rudy””
The EPA has spent roughly $15 million to measure the pollution caused largely by cow farts and burps. I truly want to meet the researchers who got this assignment. Nevertheless, it turns out that California and Wisconsin are massive contributors to cow-based emissions. While Ronald Reagan may have identified trees as a major source of pollution, the report below reveals the dark untold story of those cute dairy cows that you see on the cartons of Ben and Jerry Ice Cream. Continue reading “EPA Issues “Fart Chart”: Bovine Flatulence Measured State-by-State”
Many entries on this site have focused on the treatment of women in Muslim countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iraq, and Iran. Michael Slackman received an insight in how both women and rape is viewed by some Saudi men on a recent trip.
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The horror of the war became apparent this week when President Bush announced that he had given up golf out of solidarity with the families of dead soldiers. It is truly Apocalypse Now meets Caddyshack.
You’ve got to love the power of redemption. Virulent anti-Catholic and John McCain supporter John Hagee has decided after months of criticism that he actually doesn’t think Catholics are anti-semitic and their church is the “great whore.” He further called the Crusades anti-Semitic and blamed the Church for Hitler’s hatred of the Jews. It turns out that those attacks were only caused by his love for Jews not his hatred of Catholics. I do not know which I disliked more: the hate-filled Anti-Catholic ravings or the opportunistic implausible apology. Continue reading “My Bad: Hagee Apologizes for Anti-Catholic Statements and Is Instantly Forgiven”
New York WNBC anchor Sue Simmons shocked many when she screamed the “F” word during a live teaser in the video below. While radio uses a delay, television remains truly live — preventing quick action to block such transmissions. This is not unique as these other videos indicate.
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Known on the Internet only as “Soulja Girl” after she appeared in the video below on a train attacking an elderly lady, the police have now arrested Nafiza Ziyad, 25. She is facing charges of simple assault and two counts of disorderly conduct. Continue reading “Shock Video: “Soulja Girl” Attacks Elderly Woman; Later Arrested”
There will be no expelliarmus orders in English prisons. English inmates have won the right to keep twigs in their cells to use as wands. This is still better than the American prisoner’s demanding to have Thor’s hammer and sword available to them. Continue reading ““Casting a Spell, Boss:” Inmates Win Right to Keep “Magic Wands” in Cells”