He was not laughing and the court was not joking when the St. Joseph County District Court on Wednesday sentenced a 20-year-old man posing as the 'Joker' to one day in jail and 16 hours of community service, after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of malicious destruction of property. Spencer Taylor was charged with trying to steal a poster of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight," at a movie theater lobby on July 27. At the time Taylor was dressed as the "Joker" character, the main villain in the latest installment of the Batman franchise.

A man discovered to have taken up residence at London's Gatwick Airport for three years was taken in by authorities for disobeying a previous order restricting him from entering the facility. Anthoney Delaney, a former chef who had been unemployed since 2004, had reportedly lived at the airport ever since he lost his job as a Buckinghamshire chef. He then moved to Sussex, but had trouble supporting himself, due to his failure to land a job and acquire a permanent residence.

A housewife was convicted of attempted murder after she tried to kill her husband by mixing antifreeze into their wedding anniversary dinner. The court of Stafford Crown found Kate Knight, 28, guilty of attempted murder after she laced her husband's curry and red wine with antifreeze back in 2005. Lee's ingestion of the tainted food and drink caused him to suffer from brain damage, and irreversible kidney failure.

You might want to think twice before you go around saving a damsel in distress, like one would-be Wisconsin knight knows now. James Van Iveren is facing criminal charges after he mistook the sound of a woman screaming for a rape in progress, and burst through his neighbor's door armed with a sword. According to a police affidavit, Van Iveren kicked open the door of an apartment without warning and pointed a sword at the owner, who was watching an adult DVD at the time.

A jilted bride in Portland, Dorset, England has decided to push through with her wedding reception and used her pet dot to replace her wandering groom. Instead of wallowing in self-pity after being dumped by her groom two weeks before her wedding, Emma Knight, 41, decided she wants to party and have a good time. According to The Sun newspaper, Knight dressed her faithful dog Dennis as the bridegroom after her fiancee, Paul Fox, 37 broke off their engagement.