State Of California Deprives Phil Spector Of His Constitutional Right To "Look Good"

Story at The Smoking Gun., via Drudge.

For those not living in Taiwan, the title of this post refers to a recent case where a protester snatched a wig worn by one of the county's more contemptible politicians.  Not that I approve of such actions, but I got a kick out of the Taiwanese legal reasoning:

Huang Yung-tien (黃永田), 50, who tore the toupee off Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiu Yi (邱毅) last year, was sentenced to five months in jail for depriving Chiu of his freedom to “look good,” Taipei District Court spokesman said yesterday. “The judge thought Chiu Yi had the freedom to wear what he wanted, and Chiu felt the hairpiece made him look better,” spokesman Huang Chun-ming (黃俊明) said. “The judge thinks that to remove it intentionally was to take away that right.”  [emphasis added]

(Phil Spector image from Bob Dylan Enclyclopedia blog.  Just a wild guess here, but if they're not letting him wear this in prison, they're probably doing him a favor.)

Comments

[fvarga]

Hilarious picture :-)

[Άλισον]

I read this post a while back, but came to visit again to tell you that:

The pictures in your posts often make me laugh, including this blown-up one

http://foreignerinformosa.typepad.com/the_foreigner_in_formosa/2009/01/fyi-this-man-knows-buggerall-about-advanced-chemical-kinetic-techniques-to-investigate-and-manipulat.html

I also admire the imagination you haven in naming the titles of your posts.

Keep going!

[The Foreigner]

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Thanks, both of you. Really though, what are the odds of two major wig-related stories happening within the same week?