One would expect from any sort of text to have an introduction and conclusion, with an argument in between. This applies to legal texts, as well, and especially to court decisions. The conclusion would come in the end. Or so would one expect. For better or worse, such expectations do not apply to Croatia, though. When I received the decision of the court in Pula a while ago, I only skipped it rather quickly, but I still looked for the conclusion. The best I could come up with was that the court in Pula had upheld the original ruling of the court in Pazin (“Crooked Golf,” June 29, 2011). But it took me a couple of weeks to learn from my lawyer that I was about to be fined regardless of my decision to complain once again, and to the highest court in Croatia (“A Savings Plan,” July 12, 2011). This morning I studied the decision of the court in Pula in some detail. It takes four boring pages. There is neither introduction nor conclusion to it. But somewhere in between it says clearly enough that I have no more than six months to pay my fine. Or else. Now, the Croatian law must be special, as is everything else about this forlorn country, but I am still taken aback by its legal practices. Dear reader, if you happen to have any dealings with Croatia, make sure that you have good lawyers around you. And plenty of them. The country is weirder than hell. The courts cannot even put together a decision with an introduction and conclusion, with an argument in between.