- Why was the advertising and marketing director of a hospital stockpiling weapons at work? That’s not the primary line of what would absolutely be a horrible joke, he was truly doing that. Police discovered the weapons whereas looking the hospital after a bomb risk. There was no bomb, however there was a advertising and marketing director with 39 weapons in his closet. The report says police “declined to offer particulars” as to “what he might need deliberate to do” with the weapons. One potential reply to that query, “shoot anyone,” appears much less prone to me given the variety of weapons concerned, simply because in my expertise it’s arduous to shoot greater than two directly. In any occasion, one of many weapons was allegedly an unlawful assault rifle underneath New Jersey legislation, so police arrested the person.
- Additionally arrested: a suspect recognized solely as “Brad” who tried to steal one thing from a Walmart in St. Cloud, Florida. Brad was unaware that it was the evening of the annual “Store With a Cop” occasion, the place native officers apparently mingle with the youngsters of the group (and, hopefully, their mother and father). This meant that the county sheriff, nearly 40 deputies, and a forensic crew have been available on the time of the alleged theft. They have been greater than a match for Brad.
- I get a shocking variety of emails from PR individuals asking if I’d wish to interview a celebration to a lawsuit, emails that usually imply the sender doesn’t know who I’m. These lawsuits are sometimes in no way attention-grabbing, however I’d make an exception for Steven King d/b/a If Love Is a Drug … God is Dope v. God Is Dope, LLC, God Is Dope Basis, and Sharod Simpson, a trademark-infringement case pending within the Northern District of Georgia. Alternatively, the press launch quotes the plaintiff’s lawyer as saying that they “need to return the idea [of trademark] to its greater objective, not simply considered one of materials achieve” (and I suppose the demand for “tens of millions of {dollars}” doesn’t rule that out). So I most likely received’t look into that additional.
- In different trademark information, it appears uncertain to me that you can get away with calling your small business “Texas Weapons and Roses,” even if you happen to do in truth promote each weapons and roses and also you spell out the conjunction in full. Alternatively, the plaintiff and defendant usually are not precisely in the identical enterprise, and at the very least in accordance with the defendant’s legal professional, “no one thinks” there’s some affiliation. No person couldn’t be reached for remark. See additionally “Guess Who Simply Sued the Maker of Weapons’n’Rosé” (Could 10, 2019).
- “I don’t know why anybody would assume [it] is acceptable for them to drag their pants down and present the court docket their behind,” a Michigan decide stated this week. Sadly, she wasn’t talking hypothetically. The defendant who did this was showing by video, and the decide had already muted him for being disrespectful, which can have prompted Tuesday’s mooning. In keeping with the person’s lawyer, his shopper “was merely expressing his First Modification rights and freedoms of speech” (he didn’t elaborate on the content material of the meant message). Nonetheless, “a psychological well being analysis most likely could be a great factor,” the lawyer conceded.
- Is it unlawful to slap a police horse on the behind? Certainly it’s, although one Florida man claims he didn’t know this. In Florida (and I believe most states have an analogous legislation), anybody who “deliberately or knowingly maliciously touches, strikes, or causes bodily hurt to a police canine, fireplace canine, [search-and-rescue] canine, or police horse” has dedicated a first-degree misdemeanor.” Fla. Stat. § 843.19(3). Swatting a horse on the rump may make it bolt, in accordance with motion pictures I’ve seen, so prohibiting this is smart.
