Superbowl Delay

A New Orleans judge has postponed a trial because he is convinced that everybody in the city will be too distracted by the local American football team's forthcoming performance in the Superbowl championship. Judge Michael Bagneris ordered a delay in a hearing of an asbestos lawsuit until so-called Saintsmania -- local excitement over the Superbowl contenders, the New Orleans Saints -- had died down. "Many prospective jurors for the parish of Orleans, several attorneys involved in this litigation and court personnel plan on travelling to the promised land-the Superbowl in Miami, Florida," the judge wrote in his court order.

Statue Guards

It is common in some places that when politicians and VIPs visit a city the cities police cover goes the extra mile to provide them proper security cover, leaving the civilians unprotected.

Mayawati, the head of the government of a state in India called Uttar Pradesh and quite an ideal model of a megalomaniac has landed from one controversy to another for using state money meant to be used in preserving Uttar Pradesh's cultural heritage to build statues all over the state depicting herself. Now, she may have achieved a first for the state's police force but it is not something people will be rejoicing over.

People have lesser protection now with her government planning to set up a special task force of over 1000 policemen for a duty of "great importance". They have been entrusted with the responsibility of guarding every single statue of the state which depicts Mayawati. This has left even fewer police to protect the people.