Articles

17 Year-old Sexual Assault Victim Facing Jail for Tweeting Her Assailant’s Names

Filed under: Strange But True by Contributor @ August 1, 2012

Savannah Dietrich, a 17-year-old girl from Kentucky, may be facing contempt of court charges and a jail sentence after she tweeted the names of two juveniles who sexually assaulted her. Dietrich said that she took to the popular social networking site because she was frustrated with the plea deal that two boys who assaulted her […]

Continue reading » Leave a comment

Saudi Man to be Executed for Fatal Vehicle Accident

Filed under: Strange But True by Contributor @ July 31, 2012

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a man to death by beheading for participating in an illegal “drifting” event where he lost control of his vehicle and killed two people who were watching. Drifting is a sport where people drive a vehicle at a high speed and engage the emergency brake, making the back tires […]

Continue reading » Leave a comment

NYPD Officer Accused of Hiring Hitman to Kill Witness Against Him

Filed under: News, Strange But True by Contributor @ July 22, 2012

A police officer in the New York Police Department’s 40th Precinct in South Bronx has been accused of trying to kill a witness in a case against him. Stemming from a city-wide ticket fixing investigation that utilized wiretaps and other forms of surveillance, Jose Ramos was accused of committing 24 crimes, including attempted robbery, attempted […]

Continue reading » Leave a comment

Lawyer who Exposed Himself on a Flight Pleads Guilty

Filed under: Strange But True by Contributor @ June 28, 2012

California lawyer Leonard Julius Sawyerr is in trouble yet again. It seems that he never got the lesson while he was growing up about how to behave in public. He has just pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd, indecent or obscene acts. The 33 year-old lawyer was on a flight bound for Houston, in […]

Continue reading » Leave a comment

Woman claims her breasts are too large to permit field sobriety testing

Filed under: DUI, Strange But True Tags: by Steven F. Fairlie @ April 17, 2012

A Port St. Lucie, FL woman claimed that she could not conduct field sobriety testing because her breasts were too large. Maureen Raymond, 49, was stopped for speeding and crossing double yellow lines after a report of a reckless vehicle was called in. A Sheriff’s Deputy asked her to submit to field sobriety testing, which […]

Continue reading » Leave a comment