Law Humor

Here are just a few of the people who were not fooling anyone this week:

• Jean Marc Viau, an Edmonton man who claimed an officer beat him up after a traffic stop, when asked in court if he had been driving a stolen vehicle: "I took it without permission . . . but I don't know if the owner [had] declared it stolen at that point."  Well played, sir.

• Dina Lohan, on why Lindsay's court-ordered alcohol-detecting bracelet went off this week: "She was at the MTV [Movie] Awards and somebody spilled a drink on her leg, which must have set off the SCRAM bracelet."  Madam, I accept your explanation, for I can think of no other.

• BP, which said in a statement on Thursday that it was "not aware of any reason" why the company's stock price might have dropped 16% recently.  Hm.  That is a puzzler.  What could -- oh!  You destroyed the Gulf of Mexico.

• Finally, Rod Blagojevich.