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Further evidence of global warming …

For those of you who might have somehow missed it, a court has sentenced “Survivor’s” Season One victor, Richard Hatch, to a whopping four years and three months in prison for tax invasion. The judge in the case gave Hatch a harsher sentence because he felt that the naked wonder of Borneo had lied when he suggested that he thought the producers of “Survivor” would pay his taxes for him. Hatch now sits in a cell in a prison affectionately known as “The Rock,” where I’m guessing that he’s not going to want to flaunt his nudity, lest he fall and land in a cellmate’s lap - over and over and over.

In other legal news this afternoon, out in Hawaii, an appeals court - in a unanimous opinion - threw out Ryan Yoneda’s lawsuit against Andrew Tom. The suit sought personal injury compensation against Tom after his errant golf ball struck Yoneda in the head and permanently damaged his vision. However, the court ruled that golfers assume the risk of injury by getting onto the course, stating that it is “common knowledge that not every shot played by a golfer goes exactly where he intends it to go,” adding there wouldn’t be much “sport” in the “sport of golf,” if golf balls went exactly where the player wanted. The court also noted that, while yelling “fore,” is appropriate golf etiquette, it is not “a requirement recognized by law.”

Finally, in a case that takes the cake, a school teacher in Missouri was suspended for a week without pay and placed on six month’s probation after he asked students in a beginning drafting class to write about whom they would kill and how they would carry out the crime.

And what do all three cases have in common? Nothing, really. But it certainly does provide ample evidence that global warming does exist - and that it’s melting our brains.

Posted by Dustin on May 16, 2006 | Comments (2)