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True or False? Urban Legal Legends Exposed!

By Anne Skove, Esq.

Pop quiz time! True or false:

• Prince Leonard of Hutt River Province bestowed his title on himself, created his own currency, and conducts a booming tourist business in his very own country (which he co-rules with his wife, Princess Shirley) after seceding from Australia


• Crazy tort cases illustrate what's wrong with the world


• Web site operators are immune from prosecution by dint of the Internet Privacy Act


• In California (where else?) you must have a hunting license before setting a mousetrap


• Defendants who can demonstrate that they've subsisted on a diet of snack cakes may invoke the Twinkie defense and get away with murder

This is why we love Snopes!

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on March 13, 2008 (boomark / email).