An inmate at a Bowling Green, KY jail has filed a lawsuit against the penitentiary and a fellow inmate after a gruesome attack where the plaintiff claims the defendent bit off a piece of his nose. Yikes!

Details about the case and photographic evidence of the mauling are after the jump (but the picture is not for those with a weak stomach).

While we're still hungover from the wide-range of 4th celebrations and can't quite get the fireworks in our head to stop, some families are showing patriotism the best way America knows how: litigation worthy of a bold-type WTF. Details follow. 

While the Virginia prison keeping Ophelia De'lonta captive allows her to take female hormones, wear a woman's uniform and requires others to refer to her as "she," it refuses to transfer her to a woman's prison—or to help pay for her full gender reassignment surgery. Forced into legal gender limbo, Ophelia decided to take matters into her own hands...