Surveyed as the dumbest law in the UK, it is illegal to die while in the house of Parliment.
The reason actually makes a little bit of sense. Since the house of Parliment is a royal palace anyone dying there is entitled to a statue funeral.
Link from OverLawyered.com
At 13, Michael Francis Wiley lost both arms and part of one leg to a high-voltage wire. He taught himself to drive, but at age 40 has so many driving violations that it is a felony for Wiley to get behind the wheel.
On May 8 Wiley was chased by two police officers after the [...]
The Brazilian government required an internet auction site to remove an ad where a man is offering to sell his wife for about 50 bucks.
As of Saturday the ad was no longer visible on Mercado Livre, an auction site partially owned by Ebay. Mercado Livre was warned the it was violating a law banning [...]
If you happened across the Lactivist CafePress site and saw a shirt that said “The other white milk”, what would your first thought be? (Hint, the Lactivist is a website that supports breastfeeding of children). Would you associate that shirt with pork?
Now that you’ve had a chance to think about pork you may [...]
“Mrs. G” delayed a ceasaren for a few minutes so that she could have a pre-op smoke. And, yes, there’s another issue in that as well. The anesthesiologist, “Dr. A” mentioned to Mrs. G that the epidural was made more difficult because of her coughing and went on to say that it would [...]
OJ Simpson will be interviewed in a 2 part show on Fox later this month. It is titled “If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened.”
I won’t lie, I’ve been of the opinion that OJ did it even after he was aquitted. And I’m not alone in that. He’s already got a pretty [...]
It’s pretty sad to be a 24-year-old and divorced twice. But that’s what Brittney Spears is looking at after an 25 month marriage to Kevin Federline and a 55-hour marriage to a high school friend.
On the other hand, the saying goes that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Thanks to FindLaw.com we [...]
Talk about a record you don’t want to be known for. Michael Patrick McPhail was caught by his wife having sex with a 4-year-old female pit bull terrier. McPhail’s wife took a picture on her cell phone and called police.
McPhail was arrested that night and charged with animal cruelty and can face up [...]
A new policy at an Indiana prison requires that all female visitors wear a bra and are no longer allowed to wear revealing tops.
… show up drunk.
Apparently this wasn’t obvious for Susan Marshall of Little Rock, Arkasas. The 55-year-old showed up to court for her fifth drunk driving charge of the year drunk. It was her third charge in the past month. Her blood alcohol percentage was found to be 0.147 and she was fined [...]