Judge-mental acts
The Philippines Supreme Court fired trial judge Florentino Floro in April, and rejected his appeal in August, after investigators found that he had claimed to rely on three mystic dwarves during trials. These dwarves—Armand, Luis and Angel—were said to have given Floro psychic powers and the ability to write while in a trance. Floro protested media accounts of this, denying that dwarves helped him decide cases— though not denying their existence entirely. Floro wrote that Armand, Luis and Angel are merely ""spiritual guides"" and that he himself is ""gifted"" from God ""to heal and to prophesy.""
—BBC News
That's one extravagant dancing widow
It is quite common in Florida for lonely widows to pay extravagant prices for dance lessons, however, Mimi Monica Wong, 61, is not your average dancing widow. Wong, a Hong Kong private banker with a top-drawer client list, made an agreement to pay U.S$ 15.4 million over a span of eight years for cha-cha and rumba lessons from two world-class instructors. Wong wished to excel on the international championship Latin dance circuit.
Sadly, all dreams came to an end as Wong soon grew tired of their ""motivational"" approach. The instructors allegedly used terminology such as ""lazy cow"" and ""[move your] fat arse"" during lessons. Wong sued and in September, a court ordered Wong's $8 million advance returned. Since then, Wong has signed on with another instructor whose fee is a bargain: $21,000 per month.
—Wall Street Journal
Sick performance abusive to animals
Performance artist Kira O'Reilly put on a show in Penzance, England, entitled ""Inthewrongplaceness"" in August. This show consisted of a naked woman cradling a dead pig for four hours at a time.
""The work left me with an undercurrent of pigginess [and] unexpected fantasies of mergence and interspecies metamorphoses began to flicker into my consciousness,"" said O'Reilly on her website. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals called the performance merely ""sick.""
—Reuters
