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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 358

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Special lawyers Edition

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we look at lawyers doing things that are just plain stupid—and none of it is connected to their actual lawyering. These aren’t courtroom blunders or legal missteps, but moments of astonishingly bad judgment in everyday life. From bizarre behaviour at work events to outrageous public outbursts and outright fraud, these stories remind us that holding a law degree doesn’t guarantee common sense.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 354

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: IB6UB9 and Other Plates of Glory

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we’re talking about vanity plates. Some people wish to turn their bumper into a billboard, and in a free society there will always be those who wish to push the limits on freedom of expression. Whether they’re clever, crude, or just confusing, sometimes they hit a nerve with the authorities. When that happens, things can get weird.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 352

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Naked Travel Edition

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we’re looking at the summer travel season’s least fashionable trend: getting naked in public. Whether it’s 40,000 feet in the air or sprinting through a major airport terminal, some travellers are taking the phrase “dress down for the flight” too literally.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 351

Cartoon-style illustration featuring a giant mound of pink slime on a plate, a shocked man in a suit, a stern construction worker, and a woman drinking bottled water next to a bag labeled "Flamin' Hot." Text above reads “Weird & Wacky Wednesdays – Pink Slime Edition.”

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Pink Slime edition

The law of defamation is particularly difficult to pin down. Even in law school, professors were reluctant to discuss it because the trends in the cases are hard to discern. Decisions regarding what constitutes defamation and whether it is actionable, as well as what would be considered reasonable damages, seem to be completely different from one jurisdiction to the next, from one judge to the next, and even when comparing two comparable cases.

Lawyers I know who practiced defamation either moved on to a different practice area or quit practicing law because they felt they could not properly advise their clients or give a clear statement of the probability of success bearing in mind the fickle decisions from the courts.

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays we turn our attention to food defamation. Lawsuits often arise from something someone said (see my recent TikTok regarding Mayor Ken Sim). Today we discuss “Pink Slime,” snack food (my favourite topic) and fashion models drinking nothing but water. Let’s get started!

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 350

Cartoon scene showing rogue cyclists involved in wild acts—slashing a police tire, fighting a delivery driver, and robbing an elderly woman.

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: When Cyclists Go Rogue

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we turn our focus to bicycles. Not the kind that quietly glide through parks or get people to work in the sunshine, but the ones caught up in bizarre crimes. As the weather warms up and people start riding more, we’re reminded that cyclists—like anyone else—can lose their cool, act out, or just plain cross the line.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 349

Cartoon-style wide illustration showing three panels: a man in a kayak, a confused businessman imagining another man's face while looking at his phone, and a happy woman taking a selfie with cash and a vault. Banner text says “Weird & Wacky Wednesdays: Criminals Who Thought They Outsmarted the System.”

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Criminals Who Thought They Outsmarted the System

This week we’re spotlighting individuals whose overconfidence in their cunning led to ill-fated criminal endeavours. From faking deaths to AI-driven fraud, these stories serve as cautionary tales about the perils of underestimating the law and overestimating oneself.

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