With the days beginning to feel shorter and the temperature beginning to dip, here are a couple of lighthearted ‘legal’ tales to help stave off that Monday morning blues. Its an obvious cliche but life really is stranger than fiction…

In Utah a man has finally been arrested having managed to elude the police in a golf cart. We all know that the Americans like their big powerful motors so what’s the catch?

In the UK, Graham Calvert, 28, a greyhound trainer from Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear has taken his case to sue William Hill for £2m of gambling losses to the Court of Appeal. Oh dear.

And, in Swan Creek Township, Michigan a man has been arrested for “receiving sexual favors from a vacuum” at a Thomas Township car wash. Uhh-um?

You just can’t make this stuff up; for the full stories…

From Breitbart : A Utah sheriff’s office has found that it shouldn’t underestimate the golf cart as a getaway car.A suspect in a souped-up cart managed to elude officers who pursued him last month through an alfalfa field—but only for a while. He was arrested the next day at his grandmother’s house.

Officers started pursuing the driver after he was spotted spinning out in a city park in Morgan. He took off into an alfalfa field and jumped irrigation ditches that the sheriff’s cruisers couldn’t cross.

Morgan County Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Peay suspects the cart was fitted with a car engine instead of the original electric motor.

From the Times : A compulsive gambler who lost around £2 million in a disastrous five-month betting spree has appealed against a ruling that threw out his claim for compensation and damages from bookmaker William Hill.

The case is being followed by bookies up and down the land who feared that a successful claim would open the floodgate to similar actions from out-of-pocket punters. Bet it is…

And from Anorak : A Thomas Township resident called police to report “someone acting suspicious” at a car wash around 6:45 a.m. Thursday, said Police Sgt. Gary Breidinger.

The officer parked some distance away, approached on foot and caught the man in the act, Breidinger said.

“I’ve seen some strange things, but this is the weirdest thing I ever heard,” he said.

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