<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d9376dae-38b1-4259-948a-a8d071eb5bce/8C00C08D-0055-4ECE-966D-EFFBEAEE4883/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Poo-throwing_robber_jailed_for_31_years&in_article_id=758940&in_page_id=2" href="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Poo-throwing_robber_jailed_for_31_years&in_article_id=758940&in_page_id=2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.metro.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Poo-throwing_robber_jailed_for_31_years&in_article_id=758940&in_page_id=2"><H1>Poo-throwing robber jailed for 31 years</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Poo-throwing_robber_jailed_for_31_years&in_article_id=758940&in_page_id=2"><H2 class="articlestandfirst">A robber who smuggled a bag of his own excrement into a courtroom and threw it at the jury has been sentenced to 31 years in jail, for both his robbery and his poo-flinging. </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Poo-throwing_robber_jailed_for_31_years&in_article_id=758940&in_page_id=2"><P class="article"> 38-year-old Weusi McGowan was on trial in San Diego, California for a 2007 robbery in which he broke into a man's home, demanded money and hit him with a rock in a sock. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Poo-throwing_robber_jailed_for_31_years&in_article_id=758940&in_page_id=2"><P class="article"> He reportedly became upset when his request for a mistrial - on the grounds that some of the jury had seen him in restraints - was denied by the judge. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Poo-throwing_robber_jailed_for_31_years&in_article_id=758940&in_page_id=2"><P class="article"> Three days later, he sneaked a bag of his faeces into court hidden in his <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="13577295">clothing</A>, then pulled it out, smeared it over his defence lawyer and threw it towards the jury. No jurors were hit, although it did strike a computer bag belonging to one of them. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Poo-throwing_robber_jailed_for_31_years&in_article_id=758940&in_page_id=2"><P class="article"> At that point, the judge declared a mistrial, and McGowan was assigned a new defence attorney. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8C00C08D-0055-4ECE-966D-EFFBEAEE4883/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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