RolIOnFriday may focus on the behaviour of lawyers, but there is room in the headlines for civilians too if they commit sufficiently absurd offences.
In 2014 a Welsh conman set the bar high by slipping into a coma every time he was summoned to court. He was caught out when CCTV showed him shopping in Tesco, instead of lying immobile and unresponsive to stimuli at home.
A Las Vegas masseuse demonstrated similar levels of criminal ingenuity when she stole a client's Rolex and hid it up her front bottom. And while every crime has a victim, as readers were reminded by the woman who brought a claim after she fell over fighting for a cock ring at an Ann Summers party, not all are committed for personal gain. In May a South African man claimed that art itself had been put on trial when he was
arrested for wearing a chicken-shaped hat, tying a hen to his penis and
dancing naked under the Eiffel Tower.
Meanwhile, in what may possibly have been a commentary on modern religion, a man put £20 into the donations box at Exeter Cathedral, dropped his trousers and climbed onto the altar. An ambitious litigant surprised the Irish court by challenging the very concept of money. He lost. And Wonga faced criticism for challenging the very concept of law firms, by inventing its own.
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In 2014 a Welsh conman set the bar high by slipping into a coma every time he was summoned to court. He was caught out when CCTV showed him shopping in Tesco, instead of lying immobile and unresponsive to stimuli at home.
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When you want a Wotsits multipack, you want a Wotsits multipack |
A Las Vegas masseuse demonstrated similar levels of criminal ingenuity when she stole a client's Rolex and hid it up her front bottom. And while every crime has a victim, as readers were reminded by the woman who brought a claim after she
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Nuts in may |
Meanwhile, in what may possibly have been a commentary on modern religion, a man put £20 into the donations box at Exeter Cathedral, dropped his trousers and climbed onto the altar. An ambitious litigant surprised the Irish court by challenging the very concept of money. He lost. And Wonga faced criticism for challenging the very concept of law firms, by inventing its own.
Will 2015 produce cases of a similar calibre? Take a survey while you wait:
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The RollOnFriday Firm of Year 2015 survey is now open, and so is the survey for in-house lawyers. |