In Pursuit of the Trivial: Martians, Porn, Satan and Snakes

• A self-proclaimed Martian who tried to sue the CIA was not allowed to do so because by his own admission he wasn’t a “person” and thus had no basis to be a plaintiff under federal law.

• A woman with the unfortunate name of Mary Jo Porn had her name legally — and understandably — changed in 2001.

• A federal case against “Satan and His Staff” was dismissed in 1971 because of the impossibility of figuring out the defendant’s address.

• Two-thirds of the world’s attorneys are in the United States.

• An Ohio man who nailed a five-foot-long snake to his front door was found not guilty of aggravated menacing, but the court said that he should be convicted instead of “aggravated foolishness,” which regrettably isn’t against the law.

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