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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 399

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Advertising the Crime

Some defendants make the prosecutor’s job almost too easy. They post the evidence. They wear the evidence. They drive around with the evidence stuck to the back of the car. Every so often they go further and explain the whole thing directly to the officer at the side of the road. This week’s stories come from Buffalo, suburban Kansas City, and a small town in Wales. They do not have much in common except for one detail. In each of these cases, the defendant made an unforced contribution to the file.

I tell people all the time that the right to remain silent exists for a reason. It is not just something they say on American police shows. It is a real Canadian constitutional protection, and the smarter end of my client list takes it seriously. The people in this week’s stories did not get the memo.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 388

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Crypto Criminals, Poop Avengers, and the World’s Most Expensive Photograph

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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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 381

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Fly sober or get pulled over

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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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 371

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Funny costume edition

Howdy folks! Buckle up, because today we’ve got three criminals who clearly skipped the normal planning step and just went straight to costume-and-crowbar. Costume season approaching, it seems like the appropriate time to discuss playing dress up. Here’s what’s said to have went down in these cases.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 366

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: When Anything Becomes a Motor Vehicle

My favorite thing on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays is cases that happened in my field of practice, that is impaired driving law. I love defending impaired driving cases. I’ve been doing it for years, and each case is different. Somehow I’m always enthusiastic about reading DUI files. Even better this week, our weird and wacky stories start with one from right here in BC. I went to the Aqua concert recently. They’re the band that sings the song “Barbie Girl”. Around the same time, there was a fellow stopped driving a Barbie Jeep. Let’s start there.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 364

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Sex Toy Legal Madness

Welcome to another edition of Weird and Wacky Wednesdays. The United States has no shortage of strange and ridiculous legal cases. This week’s selection focuses on sex toys. From a defamation case over a child’s toy to sports fans turning games into a spectacle to a multi-million dollar patent judgment, these stories show how bizarre the legal system can get.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 362

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Absurd lawsuit edition

Welcome to another lawsuit edition of Weird and Wacky Wednesdays. When it comes to absurd and ridiculous legal cases, the United States is like a nonstop factory. It might not always be a reliable trading partner, but it consistently serves up bizarre lawsuits. This week we bring you three real cases with a legal twist. These made it into court, even if nobody should have taken them that seriously.

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