Brickbats
Brickbat: Friends in High Places
Massachusetts State Auditor Diana DiZoglio reports that Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, mishandled the state's emergency shelter system by approving "improper and unlawful" no-bid contracts for food and…
Brickbat: Not Permitted
Christina Broadway of Marietta, Georgia, says she doesn't feel safe after her security cameras caught a city employee entering her home without her permission while she was at a funeral. City officials say the man was a…
Brickbat: Road Hard
Oakland residents, fed up with dangerous late-night sideshows where cars do stunts, built their own speed bumps on East 21st Street and 19th Avenue after the city ignored four years of pleas for help. Costing $3,000, these…
Brickbat: Quick Work
Kenneth and Mildred Bordeaux, an octogenarian couple in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, are facing $366,000 in fines for six minor code violations on their duplex. The fines stem from issues like a broken window handle and cracked…
Brickbat: Armed, Elderly, and Dangerous
Two police officers in East Sussex, England, are accused of using excessive force against 93-year-old Donald Burgess, a wheelchair-bound amputee with dementia, after he threatened care home staff with a small knife. Within 83…
Brickbat: Third-Rate Romance
Mark Brave, formerly the sheriff of Strafford County, New Hampshire, received a prison sentence of three-and-a-half to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to perjury, theft, and falsifying evidence. Brave spent…
Brickbat: Tough Guy
Justin Gaither, a former police officer in Venice, Illinois, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law. Gaither struck a handcuffed man twice in the face, without…
Brickbat: Watch What You Post
Ali Khan Mahmudabad, head of the political science department at Ashoka University in India, was arrested for a Facebook post about Operation Sindoor, India's military response against Pakistan to the Pahalgam terrorist…
Brickbats: June 2025
According to a federal complaint, New York City bars and nightclubs paid protection money to James Caban, and in return, Caban got police to go easy on them. He did this by impersonating his twin brother—a police commissioner…
Brickbat: Struck Gold
Michel Dupont, a farmer from France's Auvergne region, discovered a massive gold deposit worth about £3 billion ($3.41 billion) in a stream on his farm while out for a walk, but he won't receive any money from it…
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