How not to win back your girlfriend
A heartbroken Milwaukee man persuaded a friend to shoot him, in the hope that his ex-girlfriend would take him back out of sympathy. Jordan Cardella, 20, was shot once in the arm by Michael Wezyk, 24, a court heard late last month, but Cardella’s ex was not moved enough by the news even to visit him in the hospital. “This has to be the most phenomenally stupid case that I have seen,” said prosecutor Christopher Rawsthorne before Wezyk was sentenced to two years’ probation.
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Muslim teens paint burkas on advertising posters
Two Muslim teenagers in London have been convicted for painting burkas on posters of women they considered immodestly dressed. Mohammed Hasnath and Muhammed Tahir, both 18, admitted defacing several advertising posters, including one for deodorant, reportedly telling arresting officers that “the way the women had been photographed” was against their religion. Each youth was given probation and ordered to pay roughly $460 in court costs.