Watertown, Mass., a playful Man, 23, accidentally locked handcuffs on his wrist at home in October, and figured they would know how to get them off at the local police station, but shortly after arrival, he was jailed because he had apparently forgotten there was an arrest warrant out against him. [Boston Herald, 10-15-04]

There is no way to give a opinion on a law or anything in this one since no law was broekn. But the criminal had commited one prior to these encounter so it fits in my blog. I don't understand how someone could forget there being a warrant out on them since they commited the crime and hid afterwards from charges. The law catches up to you in the end. Even if you need its help.

Two men and a woman, described in a Cape Times (Cape Town, South Africa) story as loan sharks, brought the corpse of Thozamile Patrick Apolis in a wheelchair into an FNB Provincial bank in June in an attempt to withdraw his pension (signing for it by "helping" Apolis move his hand across the paper), but a skeptical customer, who kept demanding that bank officials check for a pulse, scared off the three, who left the body behind. [Cape Times, 6-8-04]

This story seems like the kind you'd see in a comedy about mobsters. Amazing how it went so far. It took a customer to say something for the idea to back fire to. Was it a samrt choice to leave the body behind? There would be finger prints or any other DNA evidence linking back to them. Either way it would be hard to escape the scene with a person who was unable to move on their own. Besides that the dead body was identified and would be looked for. Whatever way this was suppossed to turn out any outcome would have been a bad one.

A 36 year old employee a Golf Club in Kent, N.Y was arrested in September while sitting in a golf cart at night with a flashlight and a 20-gauge shotgun, after he had allegedly shot three skunks that were menacing the grounds. He was charged with various hunting violations and with carrying a loaded firearm in a moving vehicle. [Journal News (White Plains, N.Y.), 9-22-04]
The moving vehicle part really gets me. I see no where in the article that he had been driving it. It says he was sitting in the vehicle. Anyway the man seems to have been taking the skunk issue into his own hands and was determined to end it. Hunting is hunting either for fun or just to end a problem with the animals. Makes sense....Do you want someone killing your dog cause it went to the bathroom on their lawn? I don't think so.

Another law that soon died was the idea of having police being harmed in movies. I believe this law once existed in Wyoming. I did the research but due to my lack of not having my notes with me at the time do not technically know the exact location right now. It was once a law though.

It was alright to film the police being harmed but watching it was not allowed. I guess this case results in monkey see monkey do. If no one sees police get hurt then no one will want to go out and hurt the police. This case is just taking the issue at hand to far. Just because no one sees the movies where police get hurt doesn't mean the idea can't be brought up in different fashions. Such as the newspaper. You can obviously see that this law no longer exists. Just look at any action movie now adays. Even in child shows like the "Power Rangers" cops get hurt in some way.

Believe it or not but it was once a law that a person was not allowed to make a face at a dog. It didn't say what the punishment was but I'm sure it was probably just a fine.

I don't see the need for this [s]law[/s] .Which is probably why it doesn't exist anymore. My guess for this law is so that dog bites in the state would decrease since dogs weren't approached in a certain manner that would make the dog hostile. After all you could still make faces at cats. That leaves me with the conclusion of this law only relating to dog's for safety sake. If it were a animal rights issue then making faces at any animal would be a crime.