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Judge Blows Up Own Court

Posted on 8th May 2016

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I know we shouldn’t laugh, since people were injured, but it is hard not to.

This BBC story described how a judge in Pakistan asked a police officer to show how an explosive device worked. It is not clear what the device was (either a hand grenade or a detonator), but it was supposed to have been defused.

Whatever criticisms we might level at the Pakistani courts for failing to enforce the rule of law, at least the rules of physics are clearly working fine.