News Of The Weird - 2

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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.

After praising lawyer Brian Puricelli’s courtroom work in winning a case for a client against the city of Philadelphia, federal Judge Jacob Hart cut Puricelli’s loser-paid legal fees by $32,000 because his written work was sloppy, citing missing pages, missing paragraphs, and a huge number of typos (such as repeatedly referring to the court as representing the “Easter District” of Pennsylvania). Further, Puricelli’s work apparently did not improve during the trial despite numerous admonishings; in a key, three-sentence paragraph in his response to Hart’s fee-cutting decision, Puricelli wrote four more typos and addressed his objection to Judge “Jacon” Hart.

Recent Alarming Headlines:
(1) “Trio Arrested for Breaking in and Performing Dental Work” (a December story in the Alexandria, La., Town Talk, about two people trying to help a friend who had lost part of a filling one night and couldn’t wait until the dentist’s office opened).

(2) “Jail Teaches Prisoners to Shoot” (an April story in The West Australian, revealing that the Eastern Goldfields prison allows Aboriginal inmates to shoot air rifles because, upon release, they will return to a life of hunting animals for food).
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