What's cooking in law this week.
Dirty old man
Kenneth Clancy, 67, has been accused of filming the unmentionables of young girls using a camera secreted...in his shoe. Obviously a keen home engineer, our Ken - luridly described by the Daily Post as a "balding former artificial Christmas tree maker" - was nabbed attempting to photograph a dance troupe in a field in 2009. Such was the warped genius of his methods, some of the images found in his caravan date back twenty years.
Full story here
Misleading marketing of the week
Leigh Reeve is recovering from injuries sustained in an attempted stage dive at a gig by popular (in 1996) big beat combo The Prodigy. High on a dangerous concoction of vodka and taurine-based vomit inducer Red Bull, Reeve - overexcited by the whole event - decided to launch himself from the balcony of Carnoustie's Caird Hall.
Red Bull. A real Partystarter.
Fortunately, Leigh (who at 23 is a bit young to be part of the Jilted Generation) only managed to Smack himself Up as the crowd below parted. His solicitor George Donnelly told the court that his his leap of faith disproved the slogan that "Red Bull gives you wings". Contiuing that in fact Reeve "sank like a lead weight".
Along with a Fat (lip) of the Land, Reeve was left Howlett at his injuries - which included bleeding on the brain (as per Richelle Olson above) and a broken pelvis. Along with lung injuries, which must have made it hard to Breathe.
He did what?
A rather bizarre story reaches The Source from Germany. An as yet un-named young chap (hereafter "X") went from the not very sublime to the utterly ridiculous in the space of an afternoon last week. See if our hero's actions make any sense to you.
1. X drove to the clubhouse of the Munich chapter of the Hells Angels. OK.
2. X got out his car. Fine.
3. X dropped his trousers. Interesting.
4. X threw a puppy at a collection of bikers. Those crazy Germans.
5. X stole a bulldozer and drove at bulldozer pace (i.e. very slow) back to home creating enormous traffic jams. Clever.
8. X was apprehended by police. And rightly so.
Footnote for British readers: the puppy is safe and well.
There's an App for that
Divorce is a messy thing. Often The Source has been contemplating his many former wives, lamenting the endless discussions over who would take charge of the house in Cap Ferrat and the E-Type and the yacht and the au pair and the children. If only there was a simple way to divide up assets, something you could do whilst, say, riding the Tube or sitting on the loo.
Finally, here it is. Everything you need, miniaturised for the iPhone.
In twenty years, will lawyers still exist?
Bonkers in the nut
Richelle Olson (the name alone is suitably bonkers - or was it just a slip of the pen on the birth certificate) has lost a case against popular japester Sacha Baron Cohen. Olson claimed that Baron Cohen - in his role as Bruno - deliberately sabotaged her bingo game (huh?) and sued him and NBC for $25,000. Not only was her bingo ruined, but she also started suffering from "brain bleeds" (did she just make that condition up?) after coming into actual physical contact with the British jester (himself hardly a stranger to the courts).
Unfortunately for Olson, the entire interchange was captured on tape. Unsurprising, really, given that this was part of a movie. Equally unsurprising is that she lost, and is now on the hook for SBC's $17k of legal fees.
Dirty old man
Kenneth Clancy, 67, has been accused of filming the unmentionables of young girls using a camera secreted...in his shoe. Obviously a keen home engineer, our Ken - luridly described by the Daily Post as a "balding former artificial Christmas tree maker" - was nabbed attempting to photograph a dance troupe in a field in 2009. Such was the warped genius of his methods, some of the images found in his caravan date back twenty years.
Full story here
Misleading marketing of the week
Leigh Reeve is recovering from injuries sustained in an attempted stage dive at a gig by popular (in 1996) big beat combo The Prodigy. High on a dangerous concoction of vodka and taurine-based vomit inducer Red Bull, Reeve - overexcited by the whole event - decided to launch himself from the balcony of Carnoustie's Caird Hall.
Red Bull. A real Partystarter.Fortunately, Leigh (who at 23 is a bit young to be part of the Jilted Generation) only managed to Smack himself Up as the crowd below parted. His solicitor George Donnelly told the court that his his leap of faith disproved the slogan that "Red Bull gives you wings". Contiuing that in fact Reeve "sank like a lead weight".
Along with a Fat (lip) of the Land, Reeve was left Howlett at his injuries - which included bleeding on the brain (as per Richelle Olson above) and a broken pelvis. Along with lung injuries, which must have made it hard to Breathe.
He did what?
A rather bizarre story reaches The Source from Germany. An as yet un-named young chap (hereafter "X") went from the not very sublime to the utterly ridiculous in the space of an afternoon last week. See if our hero's actions make any sense to you.
1. X drove to the clubhouse of the Munich chapter of the Hells Angels. OK.
2. X got out his car. Fine.
3. X dropped his trousers. Interesting.
4. X threw a puppy at a collection of bikers. Those crazy Germans.
5. X stole a bulldozer and drove at bulldozer pace (i.e. very slow) back to home creating enormous traffic jams. Clever.
8. X was apprehended by police. And rightly so.
Footnote for British readers: the puppy is safe and well.
There's an App for that
Divorce is a messy thing. Often The Source has been contemplating his many former wives, lamenting the endless discussions over who would take charge of the house in Cap Ferrat and the E-Type and the yacht and the au pair and the children. If only there was a simple way to divide up assets, something you could do whilst, say, riding the Tube or sitting on the loo.
Finally, here it is. Everything you need, miniaturised for the iPhone.
In twenty years, will lawyers still exist?
Bonkers in the nut
Richelle Olson (the name alone is suitably bonkers - or was it just a slip of the pen on the birth certificate) has lost a case against popular japester Sacha Baron Cohen. Olson claimed that Baron Cohen - in his role as Bruno - deliberately sabotaged her bingo game (huh?) and sued him and NBC for $25,000. Not only was her bingo ruined, but she also started suffering from "brain bleeds" (did she just make that condition up?) after coming into actual physical contact with the British jester (himself hardly a stranger to the courts).
Unfortunately for Olson, the entire interchange was captured on tape. Unsurprising, really, given that this was part of a movie. Equally unsurprising is that she lost, and is now on the hook for SBC's $17k of legal fees.
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