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A San Francisco restaurant called "Bacon Bacon" got shut down last Friday for, well, smelling like bacon. The aptly named restaurant may be able to reopen and resume operations, but not until a hearing is held in July.

For now, while they remain closed, a huge stink has been raised on social media (mostly from fellow lovers of pork). On top of the outpouring of support, the news of the restaurant's status going into the fryer has even received attention from national TV. Amy Poehler gave a shout-out to this piece of news in an SNL skit this weekend. "It's gotta be really tricky to walk up to a cop and complain that something smells like bacon," Poehler quipped.

In all meat-related seriousness, though, the restaurant was not just dealing with the scent of too much "porcine aroma," but many other legal issues.

If you've tried the Kern's Kitchen Derby Pie recipe, then you've tasted the most litigious dessert in America. The company owns a trademark on the term Derby Pie, a popular Southern confection (the picture is making my stomach growl).

Anyone can make the Southern dessert with chocolate, pecans, and lots of sugar. But after you whip it together, think twice before you call it "Derby Pie" -- or you could find yourself with a recipe for a Kern's Kitchen trademark disaster.

The intellectual property of recipes "boils down" to the difference between copyright and trademark law.

The cost of metrosexual theft: $5,200. That's how much a well-groomed man's theft tallied up to after he stole a variety of bourgie drug-store items. Police are still on the hunt for the well-dressed, prolific shopper in Colorado.

Once apprehended, the well-groomed man is likely to face a high-end theft charge.

There's car insurance, home insurance, and now, Loch Ness monster insurance.

A cruise company that tours the world-famous loch purchased £1 million in Loch Ness monster insurance, The Scottish Sun reports. That's about US$1.55 million.

But in the apocalyptic unlikely event that "Nessie" (aka the Loch Ness monster) strikes, would you even need insurance? Or could such a beastly encounter fall under basic contract provisions as an "act of God"?

Leave it to a UC Santa Cruz student to construct a two-pound joint worth an estimated $15,000.

From the perspective of the toker, police patrolling the University of California, Santa Cruz campus totally vaporized the fun at a 4/20 party when they confiscated the colossal marijuana joint.

Here's a video clip of the massive joint being confiscated, which has now gone viral:

We've all done it: lifted a pen here, a post-it pack there. It gets buried at the bottom of your bag, you forget about its existence, and that's that. But one man who took his penchant for pocketing office supplies to a whole new level has been convicted of stealing $376,000 worth of copy machine toner from his law firm.

Toner.

But according to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., "theft is theft."

If you're jonesing to get hitched in Las Vegas but The Little White Chapel is packed, there's always The Large Yellow Denny's Chapel. A Las Vegas Denny's restaurant opened a full-service wedding chapel inside its dining area this week.

Nancy Levandowski and Steven Keller from Ames, Iowa, were the first couple to take the plunge in syrup-soaked nuptials, reports The Las Vegas Sun. But will their Denny's marriage be legally valid?

Pennsylvania's famed groundhog prognosticator Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow this year, supposedly signaling an early start to spring. However, the weather has not cooperated in many parts of the country. So officials in Butler County, Ohio, have "charged" the groundhog and even drafted a fake indictment of the rodent.

As tradition has it, if Punxsutawney Phil does not see his shadow on February 2, that means there will be an early spring. That's what happened more than six weeks ago.

But despite spring's official arrival last week, many Ohio residents were disappointed when snow continued to fall, reports Cincinnati's WCPO-TV. Without the ability to sue Mother Nature, prosecutors in Butler County indicted poor Phil instead.

A retired Ohio schoolteacher who spent three days in jail says he couldn't be happier about his experience. In fact, it was just one more thing to cross off his "bucket list."

"It was a picnic. An unadulterated picnic," Obie Cargile, 71, told The Cincinnati Enquirer about his recent time behind bars.

While spending time in jail may have been on Cargile's list of things he'd always wanted to do, it wasn't until January when the proper opportunity presented itself.

Who stole the chicken from the… er, chicken pot?

This bizarre police report shows a crime worthy of the Hamburglar. A victim in Northern Virginia reported that someone stole a chicken from her crock pot as it was cooking.

For those who don’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen, a crock pot is a cooking device that cooks the food slowly. It’s also called a slow cooker. To put this crime in context, it’s actually a pot with a lid, that plugs into the wall.