THERE GOES THE BRIDEBilly J. Rutherford, 23, took his fiance to the Macon County, Ga. Courts Facility to get married. She wore a traditional white dress; he wore a red T-shirt. They brought 15 guests along to witness the festivities. As they waited outside a courtroom for Associate Judge Thomas Griffith to perform the rite, court officials ordered Rutherford arrested. The charge: His fiance had reported several months earlier that Rutherford “had been beating on her all day,” and Rutherford was arrested on one count of aggravated domestic battery and three counts of domestic battery with a prior conviction; and she was granted a protection order. A short time later, he was arrested for allegedly violating the protection order, charged with three more felonies and released on bail again. The couple wanted Judge Griffith to perform the ceremony because he had represented Rutherford in earlier cases, when he was a private attorney, including the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl and the aggravated battery of a 49-year-old woman. Rutherford is facing seven years in prison on his various charges. (RC/Decatur Herald & Review) …If her wedding day is supposed to be the best day in a woman’s life, it was for this woman, even if she doesn’t know it.A BUNCH OF SUCKERSAfter seeing the riots in nearby Vancouver after the Stanley Cup hockey finals, the city of Victoria, B.C., Canada, was dreading the celebrations on Canada Day: 30,000 revelers were expected in the Inner Harbor area – 30,000 young, rowdy, drunk people. When the day came, police moved into the crowed with lollipops, each emblazoned with the Canadian flag. And the crowd loved them. The cops and other city officials did too: there was no serious violence. “It’s hard to yell if you’ve got a lollipop in your mouth,” explained councillor Charlayne Thornton-Joe, who helped hand out 12,000 suckers. “They were invariably polite once the lollipops were presented.” But local bars say candy giveaways won’t become a regular tool to calm down drunk customers. “It’s kind of cool and a good way for council and police to build relationships,” says publican Scott Gurney, head of the Victoria Bar and Cabaret Association, “but for bar managers and owners there are, unfortunately in this day and age, always liability issues.” (RC/Victoria Times Colonist) …Selling people alcoholic beverages until they are drunk: good business sense. Giving someone candy to reduce violent tendencies: a liability issue.Source: http://thisistrue.com
