Legal Grounds

Child Tazed with Mom's Approval; Cop Suspended for not Filming It

2009-11-19T22:00:42Z

"Honey? Are you ready for your shower and bedtime?" "No! I don't wanna!" "You better, or I'll call the police and have them arrest you and taze you." ".... ummm, what?" An Arkansas woman called the police on her 10-year-old daughter who was...

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Man Has Finger Bitten Off At Health Care Rally

2009-09-04T20:45:09Z

We Need a Little of That Free Health Care Over Here, Please!The overly-contentious national debate over health care reform took a trip to the hospital -- literally -- in Thousand Oaks, California, on Wednesday. L.A. station KTLA reported that an...

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Judge Silences Defendant With Duct Tape

2009-09-02T20:11:44Z

Robbery Defendant Experiences a Stick-Up of His Own Attention Canton, Ohio, criminal defendants: best keep your mouth shut when told, or you might find yourself on the wrong end of the duct tape. A robbery defendant in Judge Stephen Belden's...

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N.Y. Law (Mostly) Bans Use of Shackles During Childbirth

2009-08-31T20:06:35Z

Time to call it a trend: the AP reports that New York has just become the sixth state to ban the use of shackles during childbirth. (On prison and jail inmates, we mean; New York readers can stop worrying...

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This Just In: There's (Still) Cocaine On Your Money

2009-08-19T20:04:11Z

Researchers' Conclusions Something to Snort At?File this one under already-broken news. News reports this week are revealing the startling conclusion of a study by a UMass-Dartmouth professor: most paper currency has cocaine on it. Shocking! you say. Perhaps, until you...

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86-Year-Old Shoplifter Gets 2 Days

2009-08-14T12:49:29Z

Where are you now, Morty and Helen Seinfeld? Having famously defended the rights of senior citizens to shoplift batteries and other things that seem to need constant replacement, Jerry's fictional TV parents might enjoy the story of Ella Orko, who,...

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Justice Never Sleeps: Courtroom Yawn Earns Man 6 Months In Jail

2009-08-10T19:43:48Z

Headed to court in Will County, Illinois? For your own sake, get a good night's sleep beforehand, or at least a power nap in the hallway beforehand. Courtroom sleepiness is likely to land you in the lockup. That's what happened...

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Stealing Wine? Please, Steal It With Class

2009-08-07T12:50:15Z

Amateur Shoplifting Effort Leaves a Bad TasteThree thieves with expensive taste in wine are still at large, but their most expensive take is safely back in a cooler in a Hopkinton, Mass., wine store today, according to the MetroWest Daily...

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Texting Trucker Gets In Over His Head

2009-08-03T20:03:32Z

"I Hope At Least One of These Things Can Dial 911"Few would ever accuse the U.S. Senate of being a fast-acting body. But Nicholas Sparks sure made them look proactive last week for introducing texting-while-driving legislation. The Burt, New York...

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Go Directly to Jail: Man Arrested for Monopoly Assault

2009-07-31T13:04:43Z

He's Probably Glad He Held Onto That Get Out Of Jail Free Card A Michigan man who just wanted to take a walk on the Boardwalk instead skipped right past Go and off to jail last week. According to the...

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Shhh! 7-Car Accident At Library Not Conducive To Quiet Reading

2009-07-17T19:10:11Z

No truth to rumors that drunken Bookmobile driver is to blameIt's summertime, school is out, and kids everywhere are being shipped off to the library to enrich their minds with . . . the sounds of a seven-car pileup in...

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Off-Duty Cop Vomits on Concertgoers, Gets Arrested

2009-07-09T14:39:36Z

"Are You Ready to Get Covered in Someone Else's Vomit, Fargo?!!" You may not find it anywhere in a guide to good manners, but one unwritten etiquette rule is this: Vomiting on other people is the walk-off home run of...

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Oh, the Stupidity! Zeppelin Prison Escape Attempt is a Disaster

2009-07-07T16:28:43Z

No Amount of Hot Air Can Get a Bad Idea Off the Ground The Hindenburg wasn't an unmanned, 13-foot long, remote-controlled zeppelin. And it wasn't on its way to aiding a prison escape attempt when it crashed. You can't get...

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Man Blasts Porn Soundtrack to Chase Off Kids

2009-07-02T16:45:22Z

It's a Sexually Explicit Day in the Neighborhood On the Neighborhood Curmudgeon Growth Chart, there's a clear pattern: the older they are, the less subtle their displays of intolerance. Michael Buck of Pennsylvania is only 27 years old, but that...

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Obama's Fly Swat Sends PETA Abuzz

2009-06-19T14:13:02Z

White House No-Fly Zone Enforced by Commander-in-Chief Himself A common house fly found itself in the rare air of the White House this week, but paid the ultimate price for lingering too long in the presence of the President. And...

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