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Police in Taiwan, investigating an accident discovered that a 5-year-old boy caused the accident when he crashed his bicycle into a Tesla. The law says that all motorists are to get their blood-alcohol level checked after an accident. The officers dutifully followed the law and hooked the 5-year-old…

Claudy Charles was on trial in a Miami courtroom for arson. He allegedly set his car on fire to collect insurance money. His defense attorney, Stephen Gutierrez, argued the vehicle had spontaneously combusted. Gutierrez had just begun his closing argument when smoke started billowing from his right trouser…

The city council of a British community lost a nine-month legal battle to prosecute a man who accidentally dropped a piece of an orange peel. Luke Gutteridge was eating an orange and accidentally dropped a piece of the peel about the size of a dime. An enforcement officer for the city saw him and immediately…

As the season for fireworks approached in 2015, the state of Ohio eliminated part of law that made many residents lie. The state’s governor signed a provision that eliminated a requirement that required anyone who purchased fireworks to sign a form promising to take the fireworks out of the state within…

A New York man has filed a lawsuit seeking two undecillion dollars after suffering from a dog bite. The damages sought in the suit are believed to be the largest amount of compensation ever sought. Experts believe the amount, a 2 followed by 33 zeroes, is more than the actual amount of money on earth.…

An Ohio appeals court agreed with a woman and said her parking ticket should be dismissed because the law she broke was missing a coma. Andrea Cammelleri said she should not have been issued a ticket based on the wording of the law alone. The law lists several types of vehicles that cannot be parked…

A Michigan woman who intended to pay off an overdue $20 balance on her department store credit card now says she intends to sue the company instead. Lisa Ratliff said she was planning to pay the bill, but when she started getting multiple reminder calls every day, she got so annoyed that she decided…

Studies have indicated the growth of a new group of Americans in the past few years. This group, referred to “nones,” is those who claim that they are not associated with a particular religious group. Pastor Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv says he believes the growth of this group has more to do with…

“We just have rules and regulations that we have to follow by,” explained a store employee when asked about the store putting an immobilizing boot on a working ambulance. The ambulance had responded to a call from the convenience store and EMTs were inside the store treating a heart attack victim. When…

Polls taken over the past several years have revealed a strange trend in America. While faith in organized religion has dropped to an all-time low, spirituality is at an all-time high. Similar polls have shown that 80 percent of Americans identify with a religious denomination, while 58 percent say they…

Recently the white house has dropped many regulations that “conflict, that are not worth the cost or that are just plain dumb.” “The EPA will no longer classify spilled milk at a dairy farm as an oil spill, saving $146 million.” “The Transportation Department will apply certain kinds of railroad safety…

In Wichita, Kansas, authorities charged Paul Weigand with driving without a seat belt. Mr. Weigand told the court that he was keeping the law, he was wearing a seat belt. The police pointed out that, yes, he was wearing a seat belt, and he had it buckled. However, the belt was not attached to the car.…

GOALS A Ninety-five-year old man recently discovered that despite living in the United States nearly all of his life, and serving in the U.S. Navy, he is not considered a citizen. Leeland Davidson was born in British Columbia in 1916, and though his parents were U.S. citizens, they did not register his…

Uh-oh! What happens when you pray facing the wrong direction? Muslims are supposed to pray facing the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It must be very important to pray facing the right direction. So what if you have been praying for years facing the wrong direction? The highest Islamic council in…

A shareholder of the website, Bible.com sued the company’s board saying the ministers who run the corporation are failing to profit from the potential of the namesake Internet property. James Solakian acquired part of the company’s equity as a settlement of a business debt. He says one potential purchaser…

As the Passover Celebration approached, Israel’s Chief Rabbinate warned Israeli citizens to be on the lookout for pirated boxes of Matzah bread. A week before the holiday began; police raided a warehouse containing a stockpile of 7 tons of Matzah marked with fake Kosher certificates. Matzah is the flat,…

A court in German recently ruled that a company cannot fire a man because he allegedly stole 1.8 Euro cents (two U.S. cents) worth of electricity. The company’s Network Administrator, Oliver Beel lost his job after charging his two-wheeled electric vehicle at an outlet in the building. Beel says he had…

In his book, The Prodigal God, Timothy Keller writes, “…religious people commonly live very moral lives, but their goal is to get leverage over God, to control him, to put him in a position where they think he owes them. Therefore, despite all their ethical fastidiousness and piety, they are actually…

The Missouri legislature wanted to do something about the amount of litter showing up in the states waterways. Much of modern litter is the remains of Styrofoam coolers. They thought the solution was in a law they passed banning the offending coolers from Missouri rivers. Their law banned the substance…

LAW Indiana's number 2 ranked girls high school diver was disqualified in the state sectionals for violating Section 3, article 4 of the National Federation of High School Sports Association rulebook. Anesa Beard, a sophomore at Franklin (Indiana) Community High School, took a blue elastic band out of…

HYPOCRISY Responding to Jessie Ventura's assertion that organized religion is a "sham" and a "crutch for weak-minded people," Jay Leno, the host of the Tonight Show quipped, "Gee, isn't it good that professional wrestling isn't like that?" —Baptist Press Tuesday 3700 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson It…

FORGIVENESS Simple forgiveness is something the city of Attleboro, Mass. might do well to practice. They sent Eileen Wilbur, a 74 year-old a blind citizen of the city, a threat to put a lien on her home and a $48.00 penalty if she did not pay her past due water bill. The amount of the bill was one cent.…

Why are we Here? I've had cancer and I've had insurance--cancer was easier. With disease, there are doctors, hospitals, nurses, friends and family to help you fight it. There are people in white coats searching for your cure. People send cards, make phone calls and pray for you. Their purpose is to minister…

LEGALISM When Patsy Dancy was a student nurse, one of her jobs was to assist patients who were being discharged from the hospital by pushing them in a wheelchair to the front door. Usually, patients complied but not always. As she entered one patient’s room, she found an older man, sitting up on the…