Stealing Justin Bieber

This is sad on many dimensions, not least that the robber has no friends that would come and post $120 in bail on his behalf.

Don't mess with our ducks

10 days in the slammer for "aspiring pro hockey player" Dillon Pierce.

Off by two orders of magnitude ...

Wow, it sure would be embarrassing to put a statistic in the first sentence of your book and have it be so obviously wrong that nearly anyone who thought about it for more than a second would realize that very fact.

Can poor James Stewart sue his editor?

Jon Stewart on DSK

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What was Ben Stein thinking? For that matter, what was DSK thinking? Yikes.

Yankees hat = crime?

Or could it just be that the denominator has been mislaid?

The article manages to actually hint at the denominator in one paragraph, but it seems to me that it is the whole story.

Non-Yankees hat tip to Charlie Brown

Porch couches on fire at U of Colorado

More on flaming furniture from the student newspaper at Colorado.

Not sure why students who want a couch on their porch to use as a place to sit should be punished with a prohibition for the behavior of other students who do not properly dispose of unwanted couches when they move out.

Hat tip: Dann Millimet

Deadly faculty meetings

I have been to many faculty meetings that were deadly dull, but never one that was just plain deadly.

This is really sad. Tenure is not that important in the scheme of things.

Hat tip: Pierre Leget (or Pierre Light as one of my UWO colleagues used to say) on FB

Ann Arbor's Dumbest Robbers

All you need to know:

According to the police, the two victims were sitting in a car in the 400 block of South Forest Avenue, near the University of Michigan Central Campus, when the two suspects robbed them of an undisclosed amount of cash around 6 p.m. Sunday.

Officers were able to follow footprints in the snow to a residence, where the two suspects were arrested. They are charged with armed robbery and various firearms offenses.

They should probably also be charged with being too hopeless to survive without supervision.

Full article (which is not much longer than my excerpt) here.

Crime FAIL in Ypsilanti

All you really need to know is the title of the story: Police Arrest Thief After Following Footprints in Snow.

Sigh.