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  • Ex-husband Lives Up To Bumper Sticker On Wife’s Car

    An Australian man and his wife were each asked to pay $500 in court costs after trying and failing to get a Family Court order to force his wife to remove a bumper sticker that he considered offensive. The sticker read: “Men are idiots. I divorced their king!” The...
  • Border Officials End Career of High-capacity Cocaine Smuggler

    Geneva, Switzerland: An extraordinarily talented drug mule’s career came to an abrupt end on the Swiss border when four cocaine couriers were stopped by border officials. Suspicions were alerted when four men in a car with a French license plate tried to avoid border security. X-rays revealed that all...
  • Saudi Court Sentences Man To Death For Witchcraft

    It has been reported that on November 9 a Lebanese man on a religious pilgrimage to Medina, Saudi Arabia was sentenced to death for the crime of witchcraft. Ali Sibat was visiting Saudi Arabia last year when he was charged with the crime in relation to a television show...
  • Woman Tries Enter United States In Suitcase

    A 31-year-old Mexican woman was apprehended in Laredo, trying to enter the United States by hiding in a suitcase. Customs and Border Protection in Laredo announced the arrests of Maria Candelaria Moreno, 29, of Milwaukee, Wis., and Ricardo Moreno Esparza, a passenger and Mexican citizen for aiding and abetting...
  • Mistaken Identity: Innocent Man Had Same Name, Nickname as Drug Suspect

    A major anti-drug operation in Leamington, Ontario, netted at least one innocent person. Businessman Sarkis “Sam” Yousseff’s only crime was to have the same name and nickname as one of the alleged criminals who had the same name. Police knew in advance of the operation that there were two...
  • Dallas Police In Hot Water Over Tickets For Bogus Offences

    On October 2nd, 2009, it came to light that rookie police officer, Gary Bromley, issued Ernestina Mondragon a citation for "being a non-English-speaking driver". It has since been revealed that numerous other bogus citations had been issued by officers of various ranks within the Dallas Police Department....
  • Tasered Great Grandmother Accepts $40K Settlement

    Kathryn Winkfein, the 72-year-old woman who was tasered in Texas earlier this year has accepted a settlement offer of $40,000 from Travis County....
  • Teen Beaten To Death At Chinese Internet Addiction Bootcamp

    Chinese police have reported that they are investigating claims that a 16-year-old was beaten to death by supervisors at a rehabilitation camp for Internet addicts....
  • IRS Seeks Pound Of Cage

    Nicolas Cage is just another in a long string of celebrities to run afoul of the IRS; after the agency reportedly filed a $6,257,005 tax lien against one of the actor’s properties....