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Watching shows like "Cops" or forensic anything on the channel that my girlfriend affectionately refers to as "the Murder Channel" will yield interesting information. What it will also yield however, is plenty of absolutely ridiculous excuses for criminal actions. Today we want to take a look at 4 of the most ridiculous criminal defenses from the mouths of criminals themselves.

“The public are the best weapon for fighting crime,” says United Kingdom’s Home Secretary Jacqui Smith after introducing a new approach to criminal statistical surveillance earlier this month. Once police in England and Wales started publishing their monthly crime statistics, giving the public more information on local crime information, they knew they had to take it one step further. The ...