Never underestimate the stupidity of law enforcement. When things could just be left alone and everything would turn out OK, officers insist on inserting themselves into the equation, ensuring maximum pain and humiliation for everyone involved. In this case, a Fairhope, Alabama officer decided he couldn't simply do nothing when coming across a grandmother at [...]

Last fall, an Alabama police officer decided he wasn't going to allow a 62-year-old woman to exercise her First Amendment rights - not if she was going to do so from inside an inflatable penis costume. Yes, these are sentences we actually have to write here at Techdirt - things that seem so implausible you'd [...]