Crazy Mow’s Manacures wanted to keep the soil wet around its landscaping plants this winter to keep them from freezing. However, when its automatic sprinkler system at the corner of Main and the Interstate Highway came on this morning at 4:00 a.m. the overspray showered the street just the other side of Crazy Mow’s fence.
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When and When Not to Take a Breathalyzer Test
After downing vodka gimlets at a friend’s Super Bowl bash, Al Coholic gets behind the wheel of his shiny bimmer and carefully winds his way up Central Expressway. Al travels a few miles before he notices flashing red lights in his rear view mirror and realizes that a police officer is pulling him over. Al…
Do TSA “Pat Downs” Violate the 4th Amendment?
Pat McCann, a famous 26-year-old super model, was traveling to New York for a lingerie catalogue photo shoot. While standing in line at airport security, Pat overheard a TSA employee tell another passenger that their new full-body scanner was one of 400 recently deployed around the country. Affectionately dubbed a “virtual strip search,” the new…
Publishing Trade Secrets
Popeye Church, a budding chef, wanted to revive “country cooking,” with fried chicken as his signature dish. However after many tries, he failed to create a great recipe and became obsessed with cracking the code of the best-kept culinary secret in the fried chicken industry – the inimitable 11 herbs and spices of Pennsylvania Fried…
Notable Presidential Pardons
“Biscuits” and “Gravy” are two regular, ole “toms” who represent the 45 million turkeys “condemned” to be Thanksgiving dinner this week. Specially selected for their beauty, Biscuits and Gravy were coddled, cared for, flattered and fed by the Tomfool Wattle Eco-Foods Farms for their “judgment” day. Unlike their fellow toms, Biscuits, as the representative of…
Is there a Tax Benefit to Dying in 2010 rather than 2011
The good news is, Ty Coon is a billionaire. The bad news is, Ty Coon recently turned 98-years-old and is sick…very sick. In his younger years, Coon amassed a billion dollar fortune as the owner of an international Mexican fast food chain. While Coon always found time for tacos, he never had time for sophisticated…
What are Compensatory Damages and Exemplary Damages?
Norma Leigh Lucid is a competitor in the 2010 Punkin Chunkin Competition [1]. With just two weeks before the big event, Lucid was still fine tuning her thirty foot, artillery-grade air cannon capable of launching a 9 lb. pumpkin nearly one mile at over 600 mph. Early Sunday morning, Lucid test fired a pumpkin from…
Accountant-Client Privilege
Alice B. (“Babette”) Toklas has a new pastry catering business which she operates from her home. The only delicious delectable pastry, and best seller, that Babette sells is her special, knock you over brownies with their “secret ingredient.” Babette’s husband Douglas is a writer. While Douglas and Babette rely upon the income from Toklas Tasties…
Texas Concealed Handgun Laws
Paige Turner works at a small bookstore in El Paso, Texas directly on the U.S./Mexico border. As a result of a string of armed robberies in the same shopping center, Paige wants to carry a handgun while at work. After weeks of research, Paige finally settles on a Glock 9 mm, attends a concealed handgun…
Attorney-Client Privilege
Oyle E. Driller’s rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico last summer, and he has been scrambling ever since. Almost too late, Oyle allowed his corporate communications department to hire the public relations firm of Frank Lee Madear and his partner Gemma Damm who specializes in crisis management-public relations. To report current information and…