The Italian mob appears to be getting into the burgeoning wine market with its own off-label vino. The problem is they mafia vintners is that they not only rejected oak-aging, but apparently wine itself. The Italian government has seized over 70 million litres of cheap wine containing acid, manure and fertilizer. It appears that the wine could kill you. This brings a new meaning to the traditional toast to live “one hundred years” or “Per cent’anni.” Continue reading “Good Body But Over Manured: Italian Wine Found to Be Heavily Laden with Many Things But Little Actual Wine”
Category: Environment
Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho have literally filed to save the world in a federal court in Hawaii. The men claim that a giant particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider (located outside of Geneva) will produce a little black hole or even a “stranglet” that will destroy not just the Earth but possibly the universe. While some details have to be worked out, the benefit of such a claim is that it guarantees standing and offers a pretty wide jurisdictional footprint. There is still some question of what the contingency fee would be in such a case. Continue reading “Doomsday Lawsuit: Dr. Stranglet Files for Injunction to Save World”
The litigation against the city of San Francisco began this week over the Christmas Day Tiger attack with papers filed by brothers, Kulbir and Paul Dhaliwal. As the claim below indicates, they are contesting claims of contributory negligence ad assumption based on their own conduct, contending that the 243-pound Siberian tiger named Tatiana was held improperly. Continue reading “Brothers File Against City in San Francisco Zoo Attack”
“Real Time With Bill Maher” is not usually the forum for legislative proposals, but Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) used it to announce legislation in Congress that would strip the federal government of its authority to arrest for some cannabis violations. Continue reading “Rep. Frank to Introduce Legislation to Decriminalize Some Pot Violations”
In Omaha, Nebraska, federal wildlife officials secured a rare conviction against Jack McClanahan, 66, was convicted for butchering illegal shot game in his garage. Continue reading “Rare Butcher Conviction Secured in Nebraska Over Wildlife Violations”
India has come up with a novel idea to lure men into free vasectomies: give them guns. Continue reading “Lock and Unloaded: India Offers Gun Permits in Exchange for Vasectomies”
It is hard to express the anger that comes with the following story. It appears that after refusing to cut billions in pork and wasteful earmarks, Congress and President Bush have cut the NASA’s budget and forced scientists to curtail their research on Mars. Scientists planned to put one of the twin Mars rovers to sleep and to try to meet the shortfall. Now, after a public outcry, NASA has rescinded the order. Continue reading “Congress and the President Force Mars Rovers to Be Shutdown Temporarily Due to Budget Cuts”
In our expanding video library of large cats in action, this video is simply astonishing. It shows an attack by a tiger of a man on elephant in India. What is clear is that nature tourism in India is not subject to the same tort liability rules as in the United States. Continue reading “Tourist Trap: Tiger vs. Man and Elephant”
This week saw another fatality among hunters after Michael Shane Hasting shot and killed Randall Williamson. Williamson was sitting in a tree when he was felled by Hasting. Continue reading “Hunter Shoots Another Hunter Out of Tree”
There are some things that you don’t see on those majestic nature films. This video of a tiger’s response to a tourist is a classic and stands in sharp contrast to the cute Lion bounding videos posted earlier. Continue reading “Video: Tiger Shows True Feelings to Video-Taking Visitors”
D.C. inspectors have been conducting surprise searches on offices, rifling through waste cans and garbage looking for violations of recycling laws. In the process, they are looking through papers with may have protected or privileged information, including material from legal and medical offices. Continue reading “Paper Chase: D.C. Recyling Police Trigger Privacy and Constitutional Concerns”
PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour has been charged with intentionally killing a red-shouldered hawk (pictured below) after it forced him to do a re-take while filming his series “Shoot Like A Pro.” John Henry Isenhour III, his real name when he is not depopulating nature, now faces 14 months in jail if convicted.
Continue reading “Shoot Like a Con: Golf Pro Tripp Isenhour Criminally Charged with Killing Migratory Bird”
Here is one for the category of strict liability for wild animals and the assumption of risk defense. This video shows what happens when you use animals are props for ratings. Continue reading “Small Creature Attacks Large Newscaster”
Animal rights advocates (and virtually every other human being) are in shock over this video showing U.S. soldiers showing a puppy off a cliff for fun. Bloggers have allegedly identified the culprit as a David Motari, but this has not been confirmed by the military and there remains the identity of the other soldiers. It is also not the first such video of animal cruelty by our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Continue reading “Shocking Video Shows U.S. Soldier Throwing Puppy Off Cliff”
Those brilliant environmentalists in the Chinese regime that brought us the Three Gorges Dam and cancer villages have come up with another breakthrough idea. Faced with soaring pollution in lakes like Chau Hu (Lake Chao), the Chinese government is introducing silver carp to eat the toxic algae chocking the lake. It will then feed the toxic-algae fed fish to Chinese citizens as food. Continue reading “China Solves Lake Pollution: Feed Pollution to Fish Then Eat the Fish”