Funny Laws
9 of the most ridiculous lawsuits in the US Courts
Apr 25th
A natural product of a litigious society, ridiculous claims do get made, sometimes with extravagant amounts of money being sought. This post on 9 top ridiculous lawsuits was recently discovered via StumbleUpon Appelman Law Firm.
Image Courtesy of Silly cats
Below are the headline stories:-
Google Maps Blamed for Dangerous Directions: $100,000
Bank of America Blamed for Bad Service: $1,784 Billion Trillion
Comedian Blamed for Mother-in-Law Jokes: Unspecified
Homeless People Blamed for Being in the Street: $1 Million
Anheuser-Busch Blamed for Beer Failing to Attract Women: $10,000
Mourning Family Blamed for Damages Done to Car That Hit Son: $29,400
Dry Cleaner Blamed for Losing Pants: $67 Million
Victoria’s Secret Blamed for Thong Injury to Eye:$25,000+
What’s your favorite? The claim for $1,784 Billion Trillion from the Bank of America seems, to me, to be one of the funniest. The case revolved around one man’s apparent unhappiness with a bank for not depositing his checks. If you’re going to fail to win a case, you might as well have a fail of epic proportions!
Further, for 10 silly legal claims on a YouTube video, see below. Please bear with the music – it gets catchy around the third lawsuit!
Funny Laws: A horse, an owl and a hen party
Feb 7th
As I believe comic relief is important with blogging, blawgging and life itself, I thought it would be pertinent to bring to your attention a couple of interesting stories I have found from some of the criminal blawgs of the United States.
A horse
From the South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog comes a delightfully short blog post:-
In Texas, they arrest people for driving under the influence while on a horse. In Montana, horses are your friend and will take you home after you’ve had too much to drink:
Perusing the YouTube comments, two particularly funny observations should be made. First, it has to be wondered, in terms of protecting against personal injury, if you’re going to ride a horse after you’ve been drinking, a helmet would be a good idea. And second, if the horse knows where to stop to pick him up, the man has been to that bar way too many times.
An owl
Again written by Bobby G. Frederick on the South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog, another humorous blog post appeared the following day:-
German police took a brown owl into custody on Tuesday, alleging that the owl had had too much to drink.
The Brown Owl didn’t appear to be injured and officers quickly concluded that it had had one too many. One of its eyelids was drooping, adding to the general impression of inebriation.
“It wasn’t staggering around and we didn’t breathalyze it but there were two little bottles of Schapps in the immediate vicinity,” said Otruba.
“We took it to a local bird expert who has treated alcoholized birds before and she has been giving it lots of water.”
It is wondered if this was all caused by a hen party…
Drunk Owl
