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Loading ...It was the “jury pool from hell,” says Memphis, Tenn., defense attorney Leslie Ballin. When the jury was asked if any of them had been convicted of any crimes, many hands went up. One admitted he was arrested after he “almost shot” his nephew because the boy wouldn’t come out from under his bed. Another volunteered, “I’m on morphine and I’m higher than a kite” — and walked out. A third said he was arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover police officer on prostitution decoy duty. “I should have known something was up,” the man said, since “she had all her teeth.” After finally seating a jury, Ballin’s client was found not guilty.
Police in Edmonton, Alta., Canada, are investigating a man who sells “guaranteed admission into heaven” for C$20 (US$16.35). The man’s web site says the certificate works without “need for confessions or penance.” It’s “obviously a scam,” says detective Mark Johnson of the economic crimes unit.
A man guessed to be in his 30s or so attempted to rob a convenience store in Yokkaichi, Japan, while dressed in a full, head-to-toe, monkey costume, but he got cold feet and fled. It is of course not clear why one would decide to commit the crime in a “disguise” that guaranteed that he could not escape unnoticed.
Two 18-yr-olds forced a woman to go buy them PlayStations and some other things with her credit card while they held her boyfriend hostage. (She went inside and called the cops, and the kids panicked and drove away with the boyfriend, but stopped when they realized the cops outnumbered them by approximately a zillion to two, and then, at the last minute, the more optimistic of the two kids tossed his gun in the boyfriend’s lap and said, “Tell the cops it’s your gun.”)
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