The professor uses his expertise to bring you over 101 weird criminal law stories from the Midwest. They are all true stories This book is sure to deliver some insightful humor. Stories include the one about a drunken Indiana man who crashes his car into the home of a man and then offers to share his pizza with him; an Ohio woman dubbed the "Cleaning Fairy" who broke into people's home and cleaned it and then left a bill for her services; and then there's the one about the Michigan man sent to jail for failing to pay $500,000 in back child support to 14 women with whom he sired 22 children;...

The professor uses his expertise to bring you over 100 weird criminal law stories from New York City and other parts of the east coast. They are all true stories Again, full of his witty "Birdsong" commentary, the book is sure to deliver some insightful humor. A man killed by a NYC street sweeping machine; a federal prison guard who becomes pregnant by an inmate serving time for two murders; a man slapped with two summonses for laughing too hard; a 15-year-old who robs a bank and is caught when an exploding dye pack goes off with the money he grabbed; and a wide variety of other weird and...

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...

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...