What every lawyer wants for Christmas #1

Did you hear the one about the case in Scotland that collapsed when a dog due to give evidence died before the trial? Or a case determining whether it is theft for a shopper to go to the 'free sample' counter of meat in a supermarket, fill two bags with the samples, and exit?

All these and more can be found in Further Weird Cases: Comic and Bizarre Cases from Courtrooms around the World written by Gary Slapper - Times Columnist, Global Professor at New York University, Director of New York University in London and a Door Tenant at 36 Bedford Row, the Chambers of Frances Oldham QC. 

Still not sure? 

In 2010 in Florida, a man who had just had a packet of marijuana and a packet of crack cocaine removed from his bottom by police said that the marijuana was his but he knew nothing about the cocaine.

A great stocking filler for the lawyer in your life.