High Crimes and Misdemeanies.
on March 4, 2013 at 1:54 AM
I’m sure many have heard the old hypothetical legal case surrounding the fictional Ronald Opus. In short, if someone jumps off of a building to kill themselves, and some guy discharges a gun and kills them just as they pass his window. The story goes from there, adding new facts and swinging the case from suicide to homicide and back again depending on circumstances, intent, etc. While it’s not as complicated as the above concept, a woman’s death was ruled as a homicide when she was pronounced dead from complications stemming from a wound she’d received during an armed robbery 30 years ago. I stopped watching the various police procedurals on TV long ago, but I think this just might be one that nobody has made a quip about before the opening credits.
In other crimes against decency, the Vatican has commemorated the Pope with an online photo album, but the captions are in MS Comic Sans. Just because CERN used it for their Higgs Bosun powerpoint presentation doesn’t mean the font is suddenly appropriate, people.
And since the salaries of many VFX artists are criminal (and many consider VFX itself to be a sin against film), here’s a Tumblr called “Before VFX,” showcasing scenes from movies prior to all of the computer-generated stuff being drizzled over everything.
Huh… I seem to recall an old law about the statue of limitation for dying of one’s injuries being ‘a year and a day’. Not sure if that’s still in place, but thirty years is a heck of a time lag…
Homicides have no statue of limitations. It’s one of only a handful of criminal charges like that in the US. You could certainly call into question the grounds that it should be ruled a homicide. One could legitimately question the interpretation or validity of the statement that her death came as a result of her injuries. 30 years is nearly an impossible span of time to make such a strong claim, and tangential relevance is hardly a legal slam-dunk. To wit: try and sue alcohol manufacturer’s for deaths related to (but not directly from) the use of their product and see how far you get.
Speaking of the pope, there is a possible AD support for the next pope if they just pick the right one. Angelo Sicola is an Italian Cardinal, and in fact very much a contender to become the next Pope. Now the first Popes used their own last name… so if Angelo followed in that tradition, he could become “Pope Si Cola”, or given that he was the first one, he could be “Pope Si Cola One”, and if he called a formal deliberative assembly about church law it could be called “Diet of Pope Si Cola”… and that’s funny even in MS Comic Sans