19 of the Most Outlandish Explanations Given By Criminals

Lawyers are bound to do their best to defend their clients, guilty or not. If they’re stuck backing someone who very much did commit the crime in question, their responsibility is to cook up an alternate explanation or extenuating circumstances strong enough to convince a jury. Like it or not, it sometimes works.

One way to make it almost definitely not work? For the defendant to blurt out a far-fetched explanation of their own that wouldn’t pass the sniff test through a tight-cinched nose clothespin. Keeping a client quiet is sometimes equally a big part of a lawyer’s job, and one they can’t always achieve. 

Along those lines, Redditors have shared some of the most outlandish explanations they’ve ever heard officially delivered in court, with the best below.