Time in Jail For Dummies: This cracked me up. There this rather obnoxious hacker named Jerome Heckenkamp who has made a habit of vadalizing sites such as Lycos and Ebay. Even though he's misguided, the guy must be pretty sharp to be able to do that, right? Not. Hauled up before a judge for a routine hearing to set future court dates, he managed to get himself tossed in jail.

During what was to be a routine proceeding to set future court dates, Heckenkamp challenged the indictment against him on the grounds that it spells his name, Jerome T. Heckenkamp, in all capital letters, while he spells it with the first letter capitalized, and subsequent letters in lower case.

Ah ha! The rekowned Case Sensitivity Defense. And

The computer whiz then asked the court to identify the plaintiff in the case. [Judge] Ware explained that the United States was the plaintiff, and was represented by assistant U.S. attorney Ross Nadel. Heckenkamp said he wanted to subpoena Nadel's "client" to appear in court, and Ware asked him who, exactly, he wanted to bring into the courtroom.

When Heckenkamp replied, "The United States of America," Ware ordered him taken into custody.

Either he's going for an insanity plea or he just wants to go out in a blaze of abject stupidity. Best laugh I've had in a week.