OK.  I don’t usually pick laws that I can’t find at least SOME documentation on, but I liked this one so much I thought I’d tell  you what it was, do a little bit of speculation, and then open it up to you for interpretation, dissection, and conversation.  So don’t be shy this time, folks.  It’s your time to shine!

This is the gem I found:  “Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property.”

What?  (photo by jplouis on Flickr)

First off, why would a dog choose to congregate on private property?  Obviously (unless it’s a weird will situation) dogs don’t OWN property, so any property they would choose to congregate on would be someone else’s.  Unless a dog who is property of a person is technically a PART of that person’s property and is therefore sort of a piece of the property landscape.  Hmm.

Likely the law is directed at people, so that dogfights can’t take place.  Or maybe the law was put forth by a dog show society who didn’t want illicit dog shows taking place that weren’t certified.  Or maybe dogs were meeting to take over the state ala George Orwell’s Animal Farm.  Maybe dogs were congregating to organize a sting operation on the local pet stores to steal all the Bully Sticks.

What do you think?  What could be the reason for this crazy law?

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And no, it wasn’t  because he had “Rio” stuck in his head for two weeks straight.  In 2000, a Los Angeles man sued Duran Duran because the band’s website had displayed his phone number to call for tickets and merchandise. 

Cornell Zachary (one of those guys with two first names, or a first name for a last name and a last name for a first name, as it were) was 56 or 57 at the time of the incident.  He had been assigned the Los Angeles phone number about a year before it mistakenly appeared on the Duran Duran website, and rather than changing his phone number, he sued the band.

Zachary complained that his phone rang around the clock.  He said he literally received millions of phone calls.  These phone calls caused him to have elevated blood pressure, which in turn made him a stroke risk and very..well…stressed out.  Simon LeBon and Nick Rhodes were named in the lawsuit, though I doubt they had anything to do with the typo on their website.

The most frustrating thing about this?  I cannot, for the life of me, find out what happened in this lawsuit.  I can find three different internet articles from 2000 that talk about this wacky lawsuit, but nothing is out there about the result.  Did he win?  He was suing for a hefty sum – in the millions. 

The suit was filed July 28, 2000.  That’s almost a decade ago.  Zachary sued, I found out about it, and now I am impotent with ignorance.  If you have any news or updates about this case, please comment!

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