crime and punishment

  • Saudi Court Ready To Punish Inmate With Surgical Paralysis

    A 24-year old Saudi Arabian man, who’s been in jail for 10 years for causing the paralysis of another, is set to be surgically paralyzed as part of his court appointed punishment and it’s got some human rights groups up in arms. Amnesty International, based in London, is publicly...
  • Driving On Sidewalk

    Woman Ordered To Wear “Idiot” Sign For Driving On Sidewalk

    This is perhaps one of the best rulings to ever come out of traffic court. A 32-year old woman in Ohio (US) has been ordered to wear a sign that says,”Only an idiot drives on the sidewalk to avoid stopping for a school bus” on the corner of a...
  • Robbers Stopped by Citizen Mob in China, Justice Prevails

    Two would be robbers on a motorcycle were stopped dead in their tracks after a mob of people attacked them for stealing a woman’s purse.  One could say it’s vigilante justice supreme. Caught on CCTV cameras you see the men snatch the woman’s purse, who then chases them around...
  • Australian woman faces court for scamming Nigerian scammers

    A 23-year-old woman faced the Brisbane District court last week for stealing more than $30,000. The victims, as it turns out, were not all that innocent – they were running an Internet car sales scam. Sarah Jane Cochrane-Ramsey was employed by a group of Nigerians to act as an...
  • Store clerk makes failed robber clean up own blood

    The robust-looking gentleman that you see in the picture to the left is one Derek Mothershead – and in case you were wondering, you really, really don’t want to rob his store. Twenty-five-year-old Mostafa Hendi learned that lesson the hard way when he allegedly walked into a We Buy...
  • Judge reduces man’s jail sentence because he loses weight

    Famous for her unique form of sentencing, Judge Miller’s proceedings are shown on the TV show “Lake Courts” and she’s handed down sentences that included going jogging, taking dance classes, getting a math tutor, writing a Christmas card, and losing weight… which is what George McCovery got. The 37-year...
  • Chinese man jailed for spreading radiation rumors

    December 15th has been declared “Free to Tweet” day on social media site Twitter. It’s an initiative supporting freedom of speech (specifically celebrating the American First Amendment because no one else on Twitter is from any other country in the world). The initiative may have found a poster child...
  • Brazilian police take out a taxiing plane [video]

    This video, which shows a pair of Brazilian police officers knocking out a smuggler’s airplane with their car (while one cop aims an assault rifle through a window) reveals just how old and busted our staple of police reality shows has become. It might not have been the safest...
  • A five-second solution to the menace of planking [video]

    There is a phenomenon sweeping Australia, and indeed the globe at the moment called “planking” – maybe you’ve heard of it. People position their bodies in a rigid, prone position while their buddy takes a photo. They then post said photo on the Internet. For the most part it...