Prosecutors in the Spanish fake kidnapping case were stymied recently by the sentencing date coinciding with the country’s annual “Code of Hammurabi day.” As special correspondent Alberto Garcia explains:

The annual “Code of Hammurabi” day has been a time honored tradition, allowing us to annually test the merits of an “eye for an eye” penal code. Ha, I said penal. Unfortunately, this year the timing coincided with the sentencing for a fake kidnapping case – which is clearly a very tricky to deal with from an “eye for an eye” perspective. Which type of ‘fake’ will ensure that justice is well served?

He went on to explain that the courts are currently in a stalemate between serving justice by pretending to kidnap Josefa Sanchez, versus pretending to put her in a jail. It’s also unclear whether to fake restitution through a series of email money transfers that don’t work, or rather through some form of pretend currency. At time of writing, it appeared the courts were leaning towards a comprimise of her sending 4 Billion Zimbabwe dollars to her victim from a cardboard fort that’s recently been constructed in her living room.