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These are all just ridiculous….
There’s a wealth of stupid legal news today, and we don’t even need to write any jokes for them, because the stories themselves are jokes - happy Friday y’all!
Take, for example, Representative Duncan Hunter’s plea to President Bush to use eminent domain to declare land a national park because there’s a cross on that land, and a local court has ordered the city to remove the cross or pay a $5,000 per day fine.
Then there’s our old friend Wal-Mart. It wants to build a new distribution center and is claiming that it will use its power of eminent domain to take the land if the families owning that land refuse to sell. Apparently, Wal-Mart now thinks it’s its own government.
And here’s the makings of a great lawyer - a Georgetown law student got pulled over and sentenced to 12 days in jail for speeding at 126 miles per hour. His excuse? He just got his new car and wanted to impress his girlfriend.
Meanwhile, in San Bernadino, California, a court has ruled that the city owes a strip joint $1.4 million for wrongfully trying to shut the place down.
A police officer has been criticized by a judge because he testified that anyone driving after midnight is clearly a suspect of drunk driving.
The police aren’t the only idiots in the news. Missouri’s state legislators debated a bill that would throw reporters out of the state capital so that their office can be turned into a fitness center. The bill was eventually withdrawn, but still.
And speaking of lawmakers, a New Hampshire state representative has been charged in a hit-and-run accident, after knocking another car off the road and continuing on his way because he was too busy eating to pay attention to what was going on.
And finally, a man from the wonderful town of Bear, Delaware (trust me, you don’t ever want to go there), was arrested after standing around naked in the middle of the street and cussing up a storm. He had to be tasered!
