This might be the start of a regular column here on dumb crime. As reported by Netscape News, an Australian woman has pled guilty to three counts of selling Duff beer on eBay. The only problem was that she didn’t have the beer to send to the buyers as authentic Duff beer (the fictitious beer loved by Homer Simpson and other denizens of Springfield) has never actually been produced. “In the mid-1990s, two breweries released their own ‘Duff Beer’ in Australia until legal action by the creators of The Simpsons and the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. took the beer off the market. Fox has a policy of refusing to license The Simpson’s merchandising for products that would be detrimental to children.” After admitting to the crime Tara Woodford was sentenced to eighteen months probation and ordered to reimburse the three buyers who had been bilked by the sham.
What would Duffman think? Woman admits hawking bogus beverage