Results tagged “newsoftheweird”

We all know legal representation can be expensive. So maybe a you-scratch-my-back, I-defend-yours isn't the worst idea in the world. Unless you're DeKalb attorney Scott Robert Erwin, who accepted client payment in the form of nude dancing. Would you believe that's not cool with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission? Erwin has been suspended from practicing law for 15 months.

Today's Darwin award nominee: "A 30-year-old man dipped the rear tires of his BMW X5 into the Cal-Sag Channel Tuesday night to see if there was a leak. Moments later the vehicle was up to its roof in water, Worth police said." The guy was fine, so it's completely OK to laugh at this. [Trib]

Man, weddings. They're nuts! Things just never go how you plan. Someone always drinks too much, or brings a date who wasn't invited, or...throws a knife at a kid wrapped in duct tape. Behold today's WTF, from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin:

Well, here's a line you don't read every day: "A Metro East man is free on $20,000 bond after being accused of setting another man's pants on fire." The man was in fact not a liar--just a sleeper. Joseph Hornsey, 21, has been charged with aggravated battery.