Sentence examples for farcical crime from inspiring English sources

In a suitably cinematic conclusion to one of the most farcical crime stories of the year, Mr. Fullgear stumbled across 10 unmarked packing crates containing 52 missing Oscar statuettes late Sunday night while rummaging through a trash bin behind a laundromat in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles.

"It is a farcical situation to make it a crime to report a crime," he said.

And lasting shame, given this farcical hijacking of a sex crime law that is scarcely ever enforced in Sweden in far less ambiguous contexts, on the United States of America.

A UK-based Muslim leader has been sentenced to death for war crimes after a "farcical" trial in Bangladesh, his lawyer has said.

Anti-drug campaigns were periodically conducted, usually at the behest of the United States, but the penetration of government, including law enforcement, by organized crime made these campaigns farcical.

Technically, the farcical boners pulled in Donald E. Westlake's priceless crime caper BAD NEWS (Mysterious Press/Warner, $23.95) are not John Dortmunder's fault.

Some of the episodes showcase farcical policies like "Everyone Dressed as Police" to reduce street crime; paying Argentina's national debt to China with caramel candy; or rigging the weak Argentine peso to a fantastically strong exchange rate of four American dollars.

Mr. Quinton was for many years the partner in crime (and in life) of Charles Ludlam, the perpetrator of the fabulously farcical "Mystery of Irma Vep" and, until his untimely death in 1987, the comic genius of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company.

She has never been accused of any crime, yet she is guarded at all times except for — in a farcical touch — one recent day, when her guards bunked off for a lunch break and journalists seized the chance to sneak into her apartment.

But farcical.

Another farcical event.