In another serious move against first speech, the Dutch have arrested a cartoonist for insulting before on the basis of their race and religion. It is a core free speech issue and, while the cartoonist known as Gregorius Nekschot may be obnoxious, it should be a matter of concern for those who believe in an open and robust environment for speech. As noted below, cartoonists appear a new obsession with governments. Continue reading “No Laughing Matter: Dutch Arrest Cartoonist for Insulting People”
Category: Bizarre
Gerard Skills was upset that he was not view stable or skilled enough to drive a taxi, so he should his employer that he was wrong to fire him by slitting a rabbit’s throat and leaving it to die on his doorstep.
Continue reading “N.Y. Taxi Driver Slits Rabbit’s Throat and Leaves it on Ex-Boss’s Doorstep”
This week, another major body part case was announced. Henry Reid, the former head of the UCLA cadaver program was indicted with Ernest Nelson in a scheme for sell body parts that netted $1 million dollars. Continue reading “Ex-UCLA Cadaver Program Head Indicted in Body Part Scheme”
Andrew Glover, 60, of New Britain, Connecticut is a bit unhappy with the local police. He alleges that he was sitting at home when the police broke into his apartment illegally, ripped out his catheter, tosses the apartment, and generally assaulted him. They had the wrong apartment in a search of child pornography. Continue reading “Police Allegedly Raid Wrong Home, Tore Apart Apartment, Ripped Out Man’s Catheter, and Assault Innocent Man”
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.
Continue reading “HIV-Positive Man Gets 35 Years for Spitting on Officer”
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.
Continue reading “Top Ten Television Meltdowns — An Early Holiday Collection Package”
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.
Continue reading “Rape in Saudi Arabia: Reporter Has Eye-Opening Conversation with Young Saudi Males”
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.