Miscellaneous

Ok, this is taking the "lawyers are bloodsucking vampires" thing a little too far

Jonathon Sharkey has filed a lawsuit on behalf of himself and "The Vampyre Nation" against the United States government, seeking sovereignty for the Vampyre Nation. For those like me who didn't know any better:

The Vampyre Nation herein known as -VN, which consist of several territories here in America, as well as in other nations in the world (Russia, Romania, Poland, Germany, South America, Australia...). The VN's primary location is in Tracy City, Tennessee.

About 90 miles south of Tracy City, the ever trustworthy Wikipedia tells us that, as of 2000, Tracy City held 1,679 citizens. According to a website for a vampire role-playing game, the general rule-of-thumb is that "the worldwide ratio of Kindred to kine is 1:100k." By that rule-of-thumb, Tracy City has 0.017 vampires, which doesn't exactly seem like a nation to me.

Ah, but reading on, we learn that it's possible for the ratio to actually drop to 1 in 10,000. Which means Tracy City has 0.17 vampires so, yeah, totally a nation.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).