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World's Stupidest Criminals
Ex-rebel Allan Omonde appeared in court in Kumi District, Uganda, in October 1995, on the charge of stealing an old man's big edible rat. Omonde was given 12 strokes of the cane for stealing John Onyait's smoked rat, while Onyait lamented that he'd been deprived of his favorite dish. Omonde was also ordered to hunt down and trap five more edible rats as a fine payable to his elderly victim.
A 40-year-old herdsman in the Sokoto State of Nigeria used a drastic remedy when his twelve-year-old bride kept running away: He chopped her legs off. She
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died in the hospital soon after the attack, in December 1986. Despite her husband's protestations that they both loved each other and that he hadn't intended to kill her, he was jailed for life.
In September 1994, a Fillipino judge, Maximiano Asuncion, the "hanging judge" declared that people convicted of crimes carrying the death sentence should be made to wrestle poisonous snakes inside a giant aquarium open to the public.
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