November 8th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Talk about an embarrassing day at the golf course! A South Korean golfer, identified only as Jung by the Country’s Supreme Court, was fined 2 million Won ($1,400) for a golfing incident that took place at a golf club in Gunsan Province two years ago.
So how did Jung the golfer end up in court? Well, according to reports Jung wound up for a huge swing at the third hold, but when his left foot slipped, the ball rocketed off in the wrong direction and hit his caddy in the stomach. Oddly enough his caddy was standing 8 meters behind him!
The caddy was injured badly enough that he needed seven weeks of hospital treatment!
The Supreme Court recognized lower courts’ ruling that Jung had violated the duty of due care to prevent injury to others while playing a sport.
“In events such as boxing or judo, injury to the opponent is to be expected so there is that mitigating circumstance,” the court said.
“But in golf, it is unreasonable to expect a caddy should anticipate injury to him or herself.”
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October 12th, 2008 at 1:56 am
In Mid-September a Nigerian Muslim court detained an 84 year old Islamic preacher with 86 wives after he failed to heed the call by local leaders to divorce all but four of them. (wow one and a bit wives for every year of his life!)
Mohamed Bello was charged with “insulting religious creed” and “unlawful marriages” after local chiefs and Muslim leaders gave him until September 7 to comply with Islamic sharia law, which allows a man to have no more than four wives at a time.
The preacher, who lives with his wives and some 170 children in the town of Bida, pleaded not guilty to the charges at an Upper Sharia Court in the state capital Minna.
Judge Abdul Imam, who rejected Bello’s bail application and ordered that he be remanded in prison to allow police complete their investigation, adjourned the case to October 6.
Bello’s detention came barely a week after he was granted temporary reprieve by a civil court in the Nigerian capital Abuja where he filed a petition against local chiefs and Muslim leaders who threatened to banish him if he failed to divorce 82 of his wives.
The preacher said the threats violated his right to life and personal liberty. The court gave Bello temporary protection from banishment, but the Niger State Sharia Commission decided on Monday to charge him at an Islamic court.
Bello had received a number of death threats after the Nigerian media began reporting on his unusual marital situation, his spokesman said.
Some newspapers said earlier in September that Bello had agreed at a meeting with local officials to divorce all but four of his wives and had asked for time to return them to their families.
But his spokesman later denied the reports and said the preacher intended to marry more wives instead.
His case has stirred controversy in Africa’s most populous nation of 140 million people, roughly half of whom are Muslim. Many Muslim scholars say Islam allows men to have up to four wives at any given time who must be treated equally.
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September 27th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Did you hear the story about the 33 year old mom who stole her daughter’s identity so that she could attend high school, join the cheer leading squad and basically fulfill her lost teen dreams?
Wendy Brown, the mom in question, is now facing a felony identity theft charge after she enrolled in ashwaubenon High School in Green Bay, as her 15 year old daughter. She was able to briefly get away with this because her daughter lives in Nevada with her mother.
According to the complaint, brown wanted to get her high school diploma and become a cheerleader because she didn’t have a childhood and wanted to regain a part of her life that she missed. She even went so far as to attend cheer leading practices before school started and received a cheer leading locker. She also attended a pool party at the cheer leading coach’s house.
The $134.50 check Brown gave to the cheer leading coach for her uniform bounced, the complaint said.
A high school employee, Kim Demeny, told authorities that the woman, posing as the teen, seemed very timid. Demeny said she told her she was not good at math and even cried when she talked about moving from Pahrump Valley High School in Nevada. Demeny said she looked older than a student but had the demeanor of a high school girl.
A school liaison officer started investigating after Brown only attended the first day of classes last week, the complaint said.
Assistant Principal Dirk Ribbins later learned Brown’s daughter was enrolled at Pahrump Valley High School. Ribbins also spoke with Brown’s mother, who told him she had custody of the girl. She said Brown has a history of identity theft crimes, the complaint said.
Brown made her first court appearance Friday by video conference. The judge set bond at $8,000.
If convicted, she could face up to six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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