To be filed under “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” is this news headline from this week:
Lawyer’s Pants Catch Fire During Trial
The report, sufficiently weird as to be dismissed as false, was confirmed to NBC News by the Public Relations Director for the Eleventh Circuit Court in Florida.
To be fair, the story contained no information that would call into question the attorney’s truthfulness. Instead, it was reported that he had one or more e-cigarette batteries in his pants pocket which sparked a small fire while he was arguing, of all things, an arson case.
With a quick dash to the men’s room the situation was brought under control and the lawyer is said to have returned to the courtroom with only a singed pocket to claim as damages. It was further reported that the episode caused the attorney to quit using e-cigarettes.
