Government in action:

In March, Sussex County (N.J.) officials billed Chrissy McMickle, 18, and her brother Michael, 21, for part of their father's mental hospitalization costs, as required by state law. However, the only reason the father is hospitalized is because another state law requires him to be committed upon completion of his sentence as a sexual offender, and the only victims of those sexual offenses were
Chrissy and Michael, starting when each was age 5. Said a county official, 'Children are legally responsible for parents in state facilities.'

Useless Facts

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A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words revealed that 93 percent of them were registered as dot-coms.

Courts that go too far

A judge OK'd charging a 50-year-old man with rape even though the man had never met the victim (but merely tricked her on the phone into penetrating herself)