During the year, the courtrooms of the world have again hosted some remarkable stories of human oddity. Mark Twain once observed that the reason truth is stranger than fiction is because “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” Here are ten of the strangest cases from 2014.
A man in New Mexico, whom police accused of “suspicious bottom clenching”, won a $1.6 million settlement for the hours of drug-search internal probing to which he was subjected. For his alleged scrunched-buttock posture, David Eckert underwent an extraordinary 12-hour ordeal. Against his will, he was given two full anal probes, three enemas, and a colonoscopy. This followed from the way he was standing after he got out of his truck when stopped by police