Compelling Explanations

G'day to you. How's it going, eh? Saw some pics the other day of a couple of my favourite funny guys:Bob and Doug MacKenzie from Strange Brew (a Canadian classic, eh!). It's not related to anything except that here's another Canadian story. Fill your mug and grab hold of a virtual megamuffin while I tell you about it.

Richard Blake took the witness stand in Ottawa, Ontario, in January to deny that it was he who had invaded a home and stabbed two people numerous times.

With a straight face, he had an answer for all of the incriminating evidence. He had the perp's car because "a stranger" had just handed him the keys; he didn't recall what the stranger looked like (but guessed that he probably resembled Blake, because for some reason Blake got picked out of the lineup); he donned the stranger's bloody knit cap (abandoning his own cap); he handled the stranger's knife and bloody glove, and that's why his DNA was on them; he fled at the first sight of police, ramming a cruiser to escape (even though he had "done nothing wrong"); he fled on foot after the collision and hid in a tree (but only to get away from a swarm of black flies). Yeah...black flies in January, eh!

After deliberating politely for a day, the jury found him guilty. [Ottawa Citizen, 1-28-2013, 2-1-2013]. Imagine that! Probably his DNA was a mistake as well - one in a kazillion chance that he had the same DNA as the perp. Uh-huh...

See ya, eh!

Bob