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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 359

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Strange Doings About The RCMP

Often strange things happen in and around police detachments. The public hears about them because someone got charged or sued, or because it can’t be hidden and then makes it into the news.

Much takes place that we learn of due to our daily contacts with the police and we keep it to ourselves. We do this not because of confidentiality or legal privilege. It’s rare that we have a solicitor-client relationship with the police. Usually we keep these secrets out of fairness, to preserve relationships or because nothing good would come from sharing. That’s probably true in many walks of life, but in our practise area, the stories are often particularly interesting and weird and sometimes wacky. Here are three that did come to light.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 348

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Heavy Equipment Edition

This week in Bonnyville, Alberta, an individual used a stolen trackhoe to damage RCMP vehicles parked outside the local detachment and dropped boulders in front of the prisoner loading bay. Entertaining? Yes. Startling? No question. But more than anything, it reveals a growing trend: the increased use of construction equipment in crimes—either to “fight the man” or simply to generally cause destruction.

This week’s Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we look at a few other recent incidents where someone jumped into a piece of heavy machinery, got themselves arrested, and ultimately wound up standing in front of judge.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 340

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we’re talking about bombs. More specifically, people getting arrested for bomb-related crimes. If you search “bomb” and “arrest,” you’ll find plenty of cases of people making threats, building explosives, or actually using them. It’s reckless, dangerous, and always lands someone in handcuffs. Somehow everyone seems to get caught. Here are three cases that prove just how seriously the courts take this kind of stupidity.

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