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CNN: America?s Most Infested News Organization

Posted on August 15, 2010
The growing bed bug epidemic in New York has now reached the Fourth Estate. CNN, billed as the Most Trusted Name in News, is now the most infested. The Time Warner Center has been declared over-run by bed bugs. Here is the internal memo: August 13, 2010 To: TBS, Inc...

AA (Texas Style): Judge Sentences Drunk Driver To Life Imprison

Posted on August 15, 2010
We have seen some cases raising questions over the leniency shown repeat drunk drivers. However, one Texas judges has now gone to the other far extreme and sentenced Bobby Stovall, 54, to life in prison for his ninth DUI. Stovall is no angel. He has an extensive rap sheet with non-drunk driving offenses...

Video Shows Slater Sliding To Freedom At Kennedy Airport

Posted on August 14, 2010
NBC has released this video showing ex-flight attendant Steven Slaters wild ride down the escape slide on his JetBlue flight. In the meantime, JetBlue has been criticized for not cooperating in the early investigation of the incident. Notably, ad executives are surprised that JetBlue did not use the added publicity for its own advantage...

?Baby Bong? Mother Claims Innocence in Allegation of Getting Baby High

Posted on August 14, 2010
Rachel Stieringer, 19, is facing a firestorm criticism after she posted a picture of her baby with her bong. While the picture seems to show the baby smoking the bong, Stieringer insists that it was a joke and notes that there was no bowl on the bong...

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Gilded Lead Foot: Driver Hit With $1 Million Speeding Ticket

Posted on August 14, 2010
A motorist was caught doing 180 mph in his Mercedes sports car in Switzerland and now may set the world record for a speeding ticket at $1 million or £656,000). The 37-year-old is not named. However, one of the more interesting aspects of this story is that in Switzerland the government apparently set the amount [...

Ontario Woman Arrested Over Alleged Sham Cancer

Posted on August 14, 2010
We have previously followed people who either fake being wounded soldiers or cancer patients. Now we can add the name of Ashley Anne Kirilow, 23, of Ontario, Canada. She was arrested for allegedly faking cancer to rake in thousands of dollars in charity donations...

Paris Hilton Sued For Wearing Wrong Hair

Posted on August 13, 2010
Paris Hilton is the subject of a fascinating lawsuit over her wearing the wrong hair. Hilton, 32, is being sued for fraud and breach of contract by Hairtech International Inc. after she wore hair extensions of another company when she was supposed to be marketing their own product...

Psychic Leads Police To Spot in Murder Vision in a Missing Child Case Only To Discover Another Body

Posted on August 13, 2010
Question: if you hire a psychic to find a body and she directs you to a different body, are you still obligated to pay a finder fee? Psychic Cheryl Carroll-Lagerwey is being given credit for directing police to a spot in a park in Australia in the search of a missing child...

Randy Duck: Disney Character Accused of Molestation in the Happiest Place on Earth

Posted on August 13, 2010
A Pennsylvania woman has charged that she was molested at Disney World. The culprit? No it was not one of the usual suspects: the Pirates of the Caribbean or Yosemite Sam or Pepé Le Pew. It was Donald Duck who allegedly groped her breast when she sought his autograph...

Teachable Moments: NRA Safety Instructor Shoots Pupil

Posted on August 13, 2010
NRA gun safety instructor Michael Phillips, 32, experienced something of a teachable moment in class when he accidentally shot one of his students this week in Orlando. Robert Frauman Jr., 50, was shot in the foot during an NRA class for certification for a concealed weapon...

Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch? Ottoman Hand Grenade Discovered

Posted on August 13, 2010
A 100-year-old hand grenade from the Ottoman period was found recently during digs near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City wall, The hand grenade was the size of a fist and embedded in the wall. It was confirmed to be “a grenade dating to the Ottoman period and that it contained 200-300 grams of [...

South Carolina Senatorial Candidate Alvin Greene Indicted

Posted on August 13, 2010
In South Carolina, U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene has been hit with a felony indictment for showing pornography to a South Carolina college student. The grand jury issued the indictment for disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity. As expressed earlier, I have serious reservations about this charge...

Iran Accused of Torturing Woman To Confess To Murder

Posted on August 12, 2010
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s lawyer has gone public with an allegation that his client was severely beaten and tortured before her public confession to being an accomplice to the murder of her husband. Previously, the woman was sentenced to stoning for adultery...

Scientology Wins Major Court Ruling

Posted on August 12, 2010
The Church of Scientology won a major victory in federal court when U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer granting summary judgment in two major lawsuits alleging labor law violations, human trafficking and forced abortions. The opinion raises some interesting questions over the deference shown by courts in such disputes...

The Ultimate Game of Holdem: New Mexico Man Allowed To Play Poker To Pay Off Fraud Victims

Posted on August 12, 2010
If you see Samuel McMaster Jr., 59, at the poker table this year, do not bother him. He is working off his criminal sentence. The convicted con artist accepted a plea bargain after defrauding 20 victims — and agreed to play poker to pay off his debt...

Bend It Like Kim Jong Il: Noth Korean Soccer Team Reportedly Tortured After Loss in World Cup

Posted on August 12, 2010
The International Soccer organization, Fifa, has launched an investigation into allegations that the North Korean World Cup coach and players were tortured by the government after losing all three games at the World Cup competition in South Africa and conceding the most goals of any team...

Big Al-Ben

Posted on August 12, 2010
Today Muslims around the world will be able to set their clocks by Mecca-time. The Royal Mecca Clock Tower starts operations today — a Muslim alternative to Big Ben and Greenwich Mean Time. As noted earlier, Muslims have argued that Mecca not Greenwich should be the touchstone for time internationally...

Video: Deaf Man Allegedly Tackled and Choked By Security Personnel As Friend Tries to Intervene

Posted on August 12, 2010
This video (that recently appeared on YouTube) purportedly shows security guards who tackle and put a man in a choke hold after an alarm goes off at a store. However, his friend reportedly tried to show that they were both deaf and that his friend has a receipt...

Naughty Bodies: Stripper Charged After Customer Found Under Car

Posted on August 11, 2010
Kristina Hensley, a exotic dancer with Naughty Bodies, has been arrested after a client was found under her car in Ohio. Hensley had gone to the residence of Jae Cho for a private show on August 7th. She reportedly decided to leave when Cho allegedly confronted her and stood in front of her Ford Explorer...

?When You?re Here, You?re Family?: Man Punches Another Man at Olive Garden When Autistic Child Interrupted His ?Dining Experience?

Posted on August 11, 2010
Paul Blankfeld, 36, was arrested in Boynton Beach, Florida, after he allegedly punched a father at an Olive Garden because an autistic baby was crying too much and interrupting his “dining experience.” The case of restaurant-rage began with Blankfeld complaining about the noise of children at the nearby table...

New York Man Arrested for Allegedly Marinating Cat in Trunk

Posted on August 11, 2010
In Buffalo, Gary L. Korkuc, 51, is facing a particularly disgusting allegation that he was driving around with a cat marinating in his trunk to be eaten later. Police pulled over Korkuc on a traffic stop and heard the wailing of the cat in the trunk. They found the cat ?marinating? in a mixture of [...

Boat Filled With Children Found After All Four Adults Drown After Practical Joke

Posted on August 11, 2010
Idaho authorities believe that four men are dead after a joke gone bad. The police were called by a child on a boat on a southern Idaho reservoir. They later found four dead adults and a boat filled with five terrified children. It appears that the men were horsing around when one pushed another man [...

Drill, Baby, Drill

Posted on August 11, 2010
As expected, President Obama is planning to lift the drilling moratorium and to return to his planned drilling program off pristine areas of the East Coast. While Obama is no longer claiming that oil rigs really do not spill much, it really does not matter much...

The Buzzing Bush

Posted on August 10, 2010
I am getting a lot of emails on the location of the “buzzing bush” that I mentioned this week in remarks at the ABA Convention in San Francisco. I mentioned that some courts have banned cellphones entirely — a practice that I oppose...

Flight Attendant Raves Over Intercom, Grabs Two Beers, and Flees Down the Emergency Slide

Posted on August 10, 2010
Jetblue flight attendant Steven Slater may have slid into the thing of legend among flight attendants. After a passenger argued with Slater about getting up before the airplane pulled into the gate, Slater allegedly let loose a string of profanity, grabbed two beers, and slid down the plane’s evacuation slide...

Former Judge Samuel Kent Files Motion Alleging Abuse in Prison

Posted on August 10, 2010
Former Judge Samuel Kent has been placed in the position of filing complaints as an inmate in Texas. He is serving 33-months for obstruction of justice after he lied about allegations involving groping and sexual assault of two female court employees...

Spain Re-Opens Murder Investigation of Three-Man U.S. Tank Crew

Posted on August 10, 2010
The Spanish government is demanding the appearance of a three-man US Abrams army tank crew in a trial on the death of cameraman Jose Couso in Baghdad in 2003. The call follows a reversal of a lower court’s decision finding that the death was found not to be premeditated when a tank shell hit a [...

Video: Police Chase 70-Year-Old Man, Jump on Car, Smash His Windows, and Pull Him Out Of The Car Through His Window

Posted on August 10, 2010
This is an astonishing video posted on YouTube that purportedly shows police officers smashing the windows of the car of retired businessman Robert Whatley, 70, and then dragging him from car. Notably, the driver complained “It’s something you might expect in America but not in the quiet of the British countryside...

Doing the ?Caught Red-Handed By The Police:? Turkish Shop Owner Insists He Was Not Beating Wife But Dancing

Posted on August 09, 2010
Allaetin Can, a kebab shop owner in Turkey, was arrested after witnesses said he was outside their shop hitting, kicking, and strangling his wife. The defense? They were dancing in joy after having a good day at the business. It does not help that the alleged local dance is called Kolbasti which means “caught red-handed [...

From Congressman To Human Trafficker?

Posted on August 09, 2010
Joel Deckard, 68, a former Indiana congressman who left Congress under a cloud of scandal has revealed that he turned to human trafficking in smuggling Brazilian families across the Canadian border. The startling account is part of an online book on his life where Deckard recounts eight trips he made into Canada with undocumented Brazilian [...

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