Chuck’s Hand-Picked Overnight Weird News for Tuesday
Fine points of the law (bankruptcy version)
Contractor steals customer's $39k. Customer has contractor arrested, wins judgment, collects $25k immediate restitution. Then, another judge forces rip-ee to give it all back. That's the law. (Thief had filed for bankruptcy and by law couldn't be forced to pay out any more money to individual creditors, and the second judge said rip-ee's having thief arrested was basically extorting that $25k payout.) (Bonus: Rip-ee also has to pay thief's legal fees!) Associated Press via MSNBC
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Fine points of the law (Safe Drinking Water Act version)
"[P]erchlorate has been found in at least 395 sites in 35 states at levels high enough to interfere with thyroid function and pose developmental health risks, particularly for babies and fetuses, according to some scientists," reports the AP. However, the EPA is about to officially declare that it would not be a "meaningful opportunity for health risk reduction" if it did anything special about perchlorate. Inferred reason: The Pentagon, which is the major purveyor of perchlorate, would have to spend a whole lot o' money. Associated Press via USA Today
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Fine points of the law ("due process of law" version)
Rarely has a murder spree been captured in more reliable video detail than was Brian Nichols's four-killing (including his judge) escape from an Atlanta courthouse in 2005. But "everybody knows" he still has to be actually "tried and convicted" before he can be punished. Here's what Brian's making taxpayers shell out: at least $5m for prosecution and defense lawyers, calling up to 1,000 or so witnesses in a trial expected to last from now until Christmas, plus incidentals like juror and overtime-security expenses. Damn, we're civilized! Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
The unidentified couple in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, had a tremendous last fling, on the railroad tracks, so lost in ecstasy that warnings about the approaching train failed to register with them, but it was, indeed, their last fling. BBC News
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Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Mr. Deo Dover, Kirksville, Mo., charged with cultivating some marijuana plants, but he might not have been aware that they were marijuana! Kirksville Daily Express
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More Things to Worry About on Tuesday
Update: The hot-bodied Ms. Gennifer [aka Jennifer] Moss [NOTW Daily, 4-29-2008, 6-18-2008] has achieved an American cultural milestone: Construction workers in Portland, Ore., actually complained to police about her nude bike-riding around town . . . . . Businessman Anwar Rashid is worth close to $50m, so he may actually have been sincere in walking away from the mortgage on a $7m estate in England, which he fled because he's absolutely certain that it's, uh, haunted . . . . . Australian Wool Innovation has produced a "wash and wear" business suit, to go on sale in Japan . . . . . A road-rager, being a little too eager to ram the woman who had dissed her, wound up setting her own car (and not her nemesis's) ablaze, leaving the herd thinned by one . . . . . An Indiana Univ. student, caught with a cup of urine at football game, denied to the cop that he was about to throw it on students from Ball State, but that, actually, some guy gave it to him in the men's room, and he was bringing it back to his seat to show to his friends (because who wouldn't want to see a cup of urine a men's-room stranger gives you?). Today's Newsrangers: Rob Bradbury, Steve Miller, Candy Clouston, Jerry Whittle, Janet Breid, Pete Randall, Emory Kimbrough, Paul Music, Bruce Alter, Don Schullian
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Editor's Note
I appreciate the notes about my parathesia, which appears to be subsiding after three days. My usual response to medical problems is to wait 'em out, and it looks like that worked for me again. As to the chronicness, there are still about a dozen vulnerabilities that I have for this thing, but I have better things to do than to try to narrow down the list. Onward.
Contractor steals customer's $39k. Customer has contractor arrested, wins judgment, collects $25k immediate restitution. Then, another judge forces rip-ee to give it all back. That's the law. (Thief had filed for bankruptcy and by law couldn't be forced to pay out any more money to individual creditors, and the second judge said rip-ee's having thief arrested was basically extorting that $25k payout.) (Bonus: Rip-ee also has to pay thief's legal fees!) Associated Press via MSNBC
Comments 'contractor_bankruptcy'
Fine points of the law (Safe Drinking Water Act version)
"[P]erchlorate has been found in at least 395 sites in 35 states at levels high enough to interfere with thyroid function and pose developmental health risks, particularly for babies and fetuses, according to some scientists," reports the AP. However, the EPA is about to officially declare that it would not be a "meaningful opportunity for health risk reduction" if it did anything special about perchlorate. Inferred reason: The Pentagon, which is the major purveyor of perchlorate, would have to spend a whole lot o' money. Associated Press via USA Today
Comments 'perchlorate_water'
Fine points of the law ("due process of law" version)
Rarely has a murder spree been captured in more reliable video detail than was Brian Nichols's four-killing (including his judge) escape from an Atlanta courthouse in 2005. But "everybody knows" he still has to be actually "tried and convicted" before he can be punished. Here's what Brian's making taxpayers shell out: at least $5m for prosecution and defense lawyers, calling up to 1,000 or so witnesses in a trial expected to last from now until Christmas, plus incidentals like juror and overtime-security expenses. Damn, we're civilized! Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Comments 'brian_nichols'
People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
The unidentified couple in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, had a tremendous last fling, on the railroad tracks, so lost in ecstasy that warnings about the approaching train failed to register with them, but it was, indeed, their last fling. BBC News
Comments 'sex_rrtracks'
Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Mr. Deo Dover, Kirksville, Mo., charged with cultivating some marijuana plants, but he might not have been aware that they were marijuana! Kirksville Daily Express
Comments 'deo_dover'
More Things to Worry About on Tuesday
Update: The hot-bodied Ms. Gennifer [aka Jennifer] Moss [NOTW Daily, 4-29-2008, 6-18-2008] has achieved an American cultural milestone: Construction workers in Portland, Ore., actually complained to police about her nude bike-riding around town . . . . . Businessman Anwar Rashid is worth close to $50m, so he may actually have been sincere in walking away from the mortgage on a $7m estate in England, which he fled because he's absolutely certain that it's, uh, haunted . . . . . Australian Wool Innovation has produced a "wash and wear" business suit, to go on sale in Japan . . . . . A road-rager, being a little too eager to ram the woman who had dissed her, wound up setting her own car (and not her nemesis's) ablaze, leaving the herd thinned by one . . . . . An Indiana Univ. student, caught with a cup of urine at football game, denied to the cop that he was about to throw it on students from Ball State, but that, actually, some guy gave it to him in the men's room, and he was bringing it back to his seat to show to his friends (because who wouldn't want to see a cup of urine a men's-room stranger gives you?). Today's Newsrangers: Rob Bradbury, Steve Miller, Candy Clouston, Jerry Whittle, Janet Breid, Pete Randall, Emory Kimbrough, Paul Music, Bruce Alter, Don Schullian
Comments 'worry_080923'
Editor's Note
I appreciate the notes about my parathesia, which appears to be subsiding after three days. My usual response to medical problems is to wait 'em out, and it looks like that worked for me again. As to the chronicness, there are still about a dozen vulnerabilities that I have for this thing, but I have better things to do than to try to narrow down the list. Onward.
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