Assorted Stupidity #170
- You're going to regret this," a state assistant attorney general told officers trying to get her to leave a restaurant last month in Rhode Island. Staff asked the AG and a friend to leave for reasons not explained but which one is tempted to infer from all the shrieking and other evidence captured by police bodycams. Officers knew she was an AG because she repeatedly told them so and tried to give them various orders on that basis. All this got her was arrested, but she kept trying. Nice work here by the reporter: As she was placed in a police cruiser, [the AG] said, Buddy, you're going to regret this. You're going to regret it. I'm an A,' with the G' cut off as the officer shut the door." So far there has been no further report as to who may be regretting what.
- Do tech bros get involved in some shady deals? Sometimes. Do they generally put the details in writing in a contract section entitled Shady Deals"? I don't think so. But see Yen v. Ghahramani, 2025 BCSC 1778 (British Columbia S. Ct. Sept. 15, 2025) (resolving dispute in which corporate principals agreed to divide the proceeds of three enumerated shady' deals 50-50," as set forth in a section entitled Shady Deals'"). Unfortunately, the decision involves only corporate law and so mentions said deals only in passing. There is a reference to an incident where phony invoices were exchanged for bags of cash," which sounds shady but apparently was not enumerated in the Shady Deals" section of the contract.
- Talk to the Animals: If AI can translate whistles, barks, and meows, could it be used in court?" is the title of an article that recently appeared in the ABA Journal, at least according to an email it sent me. Because reading the title alone cost me several IQ points, I did not read the article itself. I apologize for reproducing the title and linking to it here and will accept no responsibility for any adverse effects that might follow from reading it.
- FYI, if you receive any court orders pertaining to David Cramer, Arizona inmate #124771, please confirm they are legitimate before taking any action, including but not limited to releasing the said David Cramer from prison. According to this report, Cramer, other members of his family, and an associated business have a history of filing fake documents and orders dating back to at least 2012. This continued after Cramer began serving a 30-year sentence for kidnapping in 2017, after which the fake documents and orders began to include demands for his release. Yet despite that history, prison officials were somehow duped into releasing Cramer in June after receiving yet another bogus order. He was re-arrested in August. The clerk's office declined to comment for the report, citing an active and ongoing investigation," though it frankly doesn't seem all that complicated.
- Speaking of geniuses, [a] Minnesota man has been charged with threatening to assault and murder a federal judge after staff at a local library spotted him printing copies of a 236-page manifesto entitled How to Kill a Federal Judge,' U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday." It sounds like Robert Ivers' attorney may make a First Amendment argument that this was only" a how-to book," but that wasn't the only evidence, just like it wasn't in 2019 when Ivers was convicted of ... threatening to kill a federal judge. He seems to have updated it since, because it now specifically mentions several judges including the one who presided over his trial and the judge he was convicted of threatening. But he still doesn't seem to see anything wrong with it, because the criminal complaint says he showed the manifesto to library staff and ... gave them a three-page flyer advertising it." Well, speech is one thing, action is another. Then there's advertising it. See also Author of How to Murder Your Husband' Convicted of Murdering Husband" (May 27, 2022).
- For the record, Lowering the Bars official position is that no one should kill anyone else. It reserves the right to criticize people.
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