This time the professor brings forth 350 more of the funniest, weird criminal law stories from around the States and abroad. This book covers just about every silly kind of unlawful conduct one could imagine. With more of his witty "Birdsong" commentary, the book is filled with outrageous humor. There's the story about a small New Mexico town with two police officers where neither of them can carry a gun because of their own legal problems; a story of the teen who could not turn in his homework because he left his hard drive in the backyard of the home he had burglarized; there is a story of the Texas man arrested for riding his unicycle naked; some more "drunken dummies;" and a wide variety of just plain, weird and stupid criminals.

Although Professor Birdsong has been involved in serious criminal law work over the years as a prosecutor, a defense attorney, and a law professor, Professor Birdsong knows that it's good to stay grounded. This means taking time to look at the many funny and weird criminal law stories that crop up around the United States and the world. He believes we should not always take criminal law so seriously and instead, just have a good laugh at some of the silly foibles of dumb criminals and their crimes. That's why several years ago he began to collect and edit from the wire and news services the type of weird and funny criminal law stories that appear in this volume. Professor Birdsong hopes you will get a few good laughs or at least, some chuckles, from this collection of weird criminal law stories and his "snarky" commentary accompanying each of them. Enjoy!

This volume of Professor Birdsong's Best is a collection of his favorite funniest 207 stories culled from the ten humor books he has written since 2010 from his tow series, Dumbest Criminals Law Stories and Weird Criminal Law Stories. These stories are truly some of his best from all around the world like: The story of the West Virginia man, who tried to rob a video store with an empty cheese box which he said contained a bomb who ran from the store when the clerk refused him money; the armed robbery story from Germany wherein an armless man managed to steal a small TV from a store using clamps that were attached to his body by an accomplice; the Ohio police officer suspended from the force for winning a $450 bet by dunking his head in a bucket of urine. And so many other stories about dumb and weird criminals that make this anthology worth reading and will make you laugh out loud.

Leonard Birdsong is a law professor who specializes in criminal law.This book exposes the humorous side of dumb criminals.The professor uses his expertise and experience in criminal law to bring forth 150 of his most favorite stories about dumb criminals from the many such stories he has collected over the years. Criminals can be dumb and this book shows just how dumb they can be. Sometimes they are so dumb as to be really funny. The book goes in depth with a chapter about dumb criminals from around the United States; another chapter focuses on his home state of Florida, exposing a number of Florida dummies; yet, another chapter explores dummies from abroad; and the book ends with a stories about drunken dummies. All the stories are true. Full of his witty "Birdsong" commentary the book is sure to deliver some great laughs. A transvestite purse snatcher who loses her water filled condom used as a fake breast, "drunken dummies," people who call 911 to report a slot machine stole their money, and a wide variety of just plain, dumb criminals make this anthology worth reading.

In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women—a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors— from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women’s human rights movement—that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.

More hilarious, unbelievable-but-true stories from our nation’s courts, from the author of Disorder in the Court and Disorderly Conduct. Charles M. Sevilla finds comic gems in court transcripts—and now brings readers a delightful, all-new collection. Starting with a chapter on the defendants (one of whom, when asked his marital status, replies after a long pause, "Adequate") and following with sections on lawyers, experts, witnesses, evidence, and even one called "Malaprops" (DA: The status of the boat has no relevance to this case at all. This is a total fishing expedition). Stories from Sevilla's previous books have become viral Internet sensations, priming readers for more legal disorder, such as: Clerk: Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to given in the cause now pending before this court shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Witness: Yes, I swear. I’ll say anything but the truth, nothing but the truth.

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, a staggeringly beautiful and precise story about a Bengali family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the impossibilities of love, and the unanticipated pleasures and complications of life in America. “Hell-Heaven” is Jhumpa Lahiri’s ode to the intimate secrets of closest kin, from the acclaimed collection Unaccustomed Earth. An eBook short.