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Friday Follies 2.20

It is evidently cease and desist week:

A website recently received a 12-page cease and desist letter — for a fake product it launched for April Fool’s day. Seems the site calling Canned Unicorn Meat “the new white meat” infringes on the National Pork Board’s slogan, “The Other White Meat.” Being good cyberspace denizens, Think […]

Friday Follies 2.19

Florida attorney barred from visiting client in jail both with and without bra.

A 34-year-old Nevada woman was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of lewdness with a minor under 14 after kissing a friend’s 13-year-old child, putting his hand on her breast, and offering to have sex with him. She was wearing […]

Friday Follies 2.18

The finalists for the 2010 Wacky Warning Labels award have been announced.

Offered without comment: The Minnesota Department of Human Rights says “Ladies’ Night” discriminates against men by depriving them of the right to “full and equal enjoyment” of the establishments offering them. (Obscure Store and Reading Room)

“A Dutch court has ruled that disclosing […]

Friday Follies 2.17

Again, no one should be surprised that “very intoxicated” appears in the next paragraph of this story: “A [Florida] man was arrested Friday after deputies said he called 911 multiple times to complain his mother took his beer away.”

Also in Florida, the family of a 13-year-old home-schooled girl has filed an age discrimination complaint […]

Friday Follies 2.16

Breast enlargement is not a human right (at least in the UK).

About 40 percent of the cases in the court system of the Central African Republic are witchcraft prosecutions.

“A car insurer has asked a Canadian family to pay for repairing a broken bumper after their dog was struck by the vehicle and died.” […]