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Headline of the day

"Gunshot victim sues to get back prosthetic leg."

(Actually an even more hilarious version of this headline belongs to How Appealing who quipped: "All your prosthetic leg are belong to us.")

According the Scottsbluff (Nebraska) Star-Herald, Val McCabe has a real suckass week. First he got shot. Five times. Including once in his ass. And his prosthetic leg was taken away from him. By the police (they claim it is evidence since one of the bullets hit it).

And he had to file a lawsuit to get the damn thing back. He can't use crutches because he had to have surgery on his hand (his doctors are afraid his stitches would rip and he would bleed to death). And his home is not wheel-chair accessible. Thus he was stuck in the hospital waiting for a judge to grant...wait for it...a writ of habeas corpus.

This type of prosecutorial misconduct can perhaps best be described by the legal term verpus facina, which translated from Latin means a dick move. Fortunately, Box Butte County District Judge Brian Silverman ordered the leg to be returned within the hour.

"Box Butte County Attorney Kathleen Hutchinson declined to comment on the case." No s^%$!

I've said once, and I will say it again. I have neither the time nor the energy to make crap like this up.

Full post as published by Supreme Dicta on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).