Weird and Wacky Wednesday:  “Oral Hygiene Must Be Very Important to This Florida Man” and “MA High Court Overturns Verdict Over Errant Golf Balls”

Oral hygiene must be very important to this Florida man.  Law enforcement in the Florida Keys, say 37-year-old Tracy Jay Mofield visited a Walgreens store in Marathon recently and walked out with about $1,300 worth of electric toothbrushes that he didn’t pay for. Shoppers and employees watched him walk out and then drive off in a white Lexus. Police decided it would be too dangerous to chase after him, so they waited until they found him later on in the day and placed him under arrest. He admitted to stealing the toothbrushes but said he no longer had them because he threw them off the Long Key Bridge. He’s charged with grand theft.

Massachusetts’ highest court is overturning a five-million-dollar award to a couple over golf balls from a nearby course flying into their yard.  The couple in Kingston sued for emotional harm over the hundreds of balls from the nearby Indian Pond Country Club soaring onto their property.  The Supreme Judicial Court ruled the trial judge made a legal error in the jury instruction.  The case will return to court where a jury will have to decide how many golf balls must hit a home before it becomes an intrusion.