Some people treat their car like a second home. Some people take that a little too literally.
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It’s been a minute since I’ve donned my official Chip Guru hat, but the legal world has been suspiciously salty lately. If you thought the only drama in the chip aisle was whether to pick Ketchup or All-Dressed, think again. From secret cartels to microscopic mold, the courtroom is currently crunchier than a kettle-cooked chip.
This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays we look at three stories proving that when it comes to potato chips, the law is never far behind.
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Welcome back to Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, where the legal news is stranger than fiction and the criminals are somehow getting dumber yet more ambitious and successful at the same time. This week, we are going full crypto. Not because cryptocurrency is inherently weird (though let’s be honest, it kind of is) but because the people using it apparently never got the memo that “anonymous” does not mean “unstoppable.”
Buckle up.
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Justice is blind. Or so we are told. But it’s also surprisingly good at sniffing people out of trash cans. Welcome back to Weird and Wacky Wednesdays. This week’s edition is dedicated to those bold and frankly delusional souls who looked the long arm of the law in the eye and said, “No thank you, I’ll be leaving now.”
Spoiler: they mostly didn’t get far.
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Recently for Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, I covered some legal stories where police officers did some horrible things. Of course just because you’re a police officer, that does not make you moral, honest or ethical or not a criminal. Same goes for lawyers. Both lawyers and police officers have higher ethical standards to maintain. Some lawyers and some police officers fall far below those standards and go further, committing crimes. This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we are going to look at some fairly notorious cases where the lawyers were not just unethical but criminal.
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This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, I’m skipping the tales of bizarre bylaws and courtroom antics. We’re going to look at three recent police misconduct cases in Canada with male police officers. You may ask yourself, would you rather spend a night alone in the woods with a random bear or a random police officer?
I’m struggling. The weather is lovely in Vancouver, sunny and beautiful, and you like to think that the world is in good shape. Then you start thinking about what’s going on. The release of the files has caused me once again to think about trust. Who can you trust? What are their motivations? It’s a horrible reminder that you simply can’t trust men in many circumstances.
You’ll recall about two years ago, there was a TikTok that posed the question to women whether they would prefer to be alone in the woods with a random man or a random bear. It struck a nerve with many of us. The discussion revealed some fundamental truths and fundamental concerns.
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Occasionally, the police pull people over who are naked. It happens in Canada. It happens in the United States. Sometimes it happens to our clients. Most of the time, it ends up being a DUI investigation. Often, there is body cam footage and complicating factors due to the lack of clothing.
Of course we are in Canada, so we do not technically use the term “DUI.” Here, it is “Impaired Driving.” But for today we’re going to stick with “Naked DUI” Because these weird and wacky DUI cases all come from the States.
It is worth noting that this is not really a winter phenomenon. Naked impaired driving tends to be a summer activity. Warm weather parties, alcohol, and poor decisions seem to come together when the warm weather hits. January is gloomy. February is worse. So somehow it seemed like a good time to think about summer, sunshine, and the naked truth about DUIs.
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In law, we are obsessed with attempting to find the truth. That is, after all, our job.
And of course we are in a strange period of time where lies are put forward as truth each and every day, particularly by the current U.S. executive branch. At the same time, AI hallucinations and the difficulty AI has in sorting out fact from fiction has created a new problem for lawyers and the courts. Add to that the calculated lies that can arise because of the ease and consequent proliferation of deep fakes, and it feels as if we are flooded in lies.
When the government tells you that you did not see something that you saw with your own eyes, and there’s no responsibility for them lying, it normalizes lies. I think we should all be concerned that we are witnessing the normalization of lies.
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but in law we have relied on objective and subjective facts. That is often where the determination of truth is resolved. But it seems to me with AI, we may have to add a new category in the consideration of facts. Let’s look at a couple of weird and wacky Wednesday stories so you understand what I’m trying to say.
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Greed is one of those things we look at as a motive. With most of my files, there is no motive. My clients may be investigated or charged with a drinking-driving offence, and I suppose the motive might be to get home, but typically the issue is either a simple mistake, a substance abuse problem, or an innocent person wrongly accused. I always think the moral culpability of people who are motivated by greed is somehow the most offensive. Jealousy can be somewhat understandable, but greed is just a high level of selfishness.
This week, we are looking at three weird and wacky cases where police officers found themselves facing criminal charges because of greed.
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I love to fly and I am very thankful to our national air carrier for treating me so well over the years. I wouldn’t call myself a nervous flyer. I also really like these shows where investigators forensically analyze air crashes. So every time I fly and I hear the sober voice of the pilot coming on, I am reassured that I will safely reach my destination on a relaxing flight. But of course there are tens of thousands of airplanes flying every day and occasionally the voice of the pilot is not a sober voice.
This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays we’re going to look at two recent cases where, thankfully, authorities figured out the pilot wasn’t sober before the plane took off, and then a third where we get to see what happens when there is an impaired pilot on the flight deck mid-flight.
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