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You can now add blindfolding your friend on the way to her surprise party to the big fat list of activities that can get you arrested. When Courtney Rogers put a blindfold on her friend Briana Vega in a restaurant parking lot on the way to Vega’s surprise birthday...

Australian police erred on the side of over-caution today when they canceled a Justin Bieber concert over reports that girls had been fainting. The move must have come as a huge disappointment for the thousands of teens and tweens that spent the night at Sydney’s Circular Quay for their...

Springfield, Virginia:A Virgina man who was accused of indecent exposure when he decided to make a cup of coffee in the nude and was spotted by passers by has had his conviction overturned. It took a Fairfax County Circuit Court jury just 20 minutes to decide that 29-year-old Erick...

Rikers Island, New York: A 46-year-old Brooklynite stands accused of tampering with a court order and forging a court official’s initials in a bid to get out of jail where he was held on burglary charges. According to City Investigation Department Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn, Dana Frontis had charges...

Maricopa County, Phoenix, Arizona: A visit by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the Tent City Jail in which he witnessed large numbers of overweight inmates resulted in the implementation of a program called “Pedal Vision”. Inmates will now have to ride bicycles to power their televisions. The stationary...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: An Indian flight attendant and her cabin services supervisor were convicted of “coercion to commit sin” on the basis of saucy text messages that they exchanged with each other. The pair were originally sentenced to six months in jail, but an appeal reduced the sentence...

Rapid City, South Dakota: By now most people are familiar with the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay servicemen and women. Under the policy, people who keep their private lives a secret are allowed to serve. But what happens if someone else informs the military about...

A Michigan police officer has been suspended without pay for two weeks over an incident in which he deployed a Taser on a man who was already handcuffed and was offering no resistance. Lansing Police Chief Mark Alley reported that the incident occured on August 16, when police were...

Police were called to a McDonald’s “restaurant” in American Fork, Utah, because four teens chose to rap their orders through a drive-through window. When a McDonald’s employee told the group that they were “holding up the line” and had to order or leave. They left without buying anything and...