Smile! You’re On Laptop Camera!

There’s an update, and not a good one, to a story that Carin posted back in February aboutthe Lower Merion School District spying on its students with laptop webcams. After an investigation by both federal and local authorities, it has been determined that criminal intent could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, meaning that …

Canoe Believe This?

Good god, does Matthew Johnson’s family hang out withthe family of Brian Hopkins? They must! Two families couldn’t independently come up with such similarly stupid lawsuits…or could they? The story goes that Matthew Johnson and 3 nitwit friends went and rented a canoe. They decided to jump off a railroad trestle into Mad River. A …

If A Blind Man Falls Over A Tree And There’s No Lawyer To File A Lawsuit, Will Anyone Hear Him Cry?

In case Nathan Reynolds finds this post, let me start it off by saying that I am blind. I see light, and blobs. I am short, so have not had lots of face to face meetings with trees, but the potential is there, that’s for sure. Steve, who also writes here, is blind, and is …

The Driver On The Bus Goes Blech Blech Blech, All Through The Ditch

The story of a bus driver leaning out of a moving school bus to vomit and then falling out of said bus is hilarious, but I can’t decide if I want to believe it or not. I want to believe it happened because I would have loved to have seen the driver fall out of …

It’s Apparent She Was Not A Parent

Shirley Anderson should have spent more time being an actual parent than studying the law to figure out what she could take from her kids. Years ago, she abandoned four of her five kids, one of whom was 15 and just took off. Now, because of an obscure section of B.C. law that says adult …

I Was Hoping Her Lawsuit Would Fall On Deaf Ears

Jean Barnard sounds like quite the prize. She apparently planned to go on a giant tour of Australia, but that was all cut short when a child screamed in her ear on a plane, bursting her eardrums, rendering her stone cold deaf. So…she’s suing, but not the one you’d think she would. She decided to …

They Got The Baby Back!

This is the greatest news I’ve gotten all day. the blind couple got their baby back! Jump, jump, jump! Infant is returned to blind couple after state places her in protective custodyBy LEE HILL KAVANAUGH The Kansas City Star | Fifty-seven days after she was born, Mikaela Sinnett was home for the first time Tuesday …

Stunning Police Work

I think officers in Avon and Somerset need a little retraining on how to use a stun gun if it went off accidentally, and a little retraining on not being total assholes if they did it on purpose. Either way, somebody needs a brush-up. The story goes that Peter Cox was driving to a friend’s …

Talk Is Cheap, Until It’s Talk On National TV

Every time I think about this story, I giggle. I hope Dustin Kolodziej wins, and hands down. Here’s the story. While defending Nelson Serrano in a murder case, James Cheney Mason said that it was impossible for Serrano to deplane and get to a hotel 3 miles away in 28 minutes. He challenged anyone to …