That arguably is one lesson from a strange case with interesting First Amendment implications now winding its way through the federal court in Orange County, Calif.
It can be seen as a strange case of life mirroring Dickens's final artistic efforts - the author's last, unfinished work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, centred on the suspense of the possibility of a corpse hidden in Rochester Cathedral.
"It seems to be a kind of a strange, isolated case, " he said in a telephone interview.
One Belgian officer told the BBC the killing, which happened in Neder-Over-Heembeek, northern Brussels, was a "very strange case" which had now been passed to federal investigators.
Yet there is something a little strange about the case.
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That case has taken a strange turn with revelations that now ex-Monex employee Vincent A. Spondello became an informant and turned over 25 boxes of old company records to the IRS. Monex says it has done nothing wrong.
But it seems more than a little strange to see him pointing to a guy who is basically making the case that Pincus (or someone else) ought to take Zynga private.
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Social media played a strange and prominent role in the Dorner case.
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Fortunately, the case of Mvscles and Muscles is merely a strange occurrence when people oceans apart happen upon a few seconds of pop panache that sound eerily similar.
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The case studies make for interesting, albeit a bit strange, reading.
As strange as the case is, experts said it touches on a common challenge in law enforcement: deciphering intent without running afoul of the First Amendment right to free speech.
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