01-13-2005, 10:15 AM | #1 | |||
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I guess he didn't think they were funny
Tell a lawyer joke, go to jail?
Pair arrested outside Long Island courthouse http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6818054/?GT1=6065 The Associated Press Updated: 3:03 p.m. ET Jan. 12, 2005 MEPSTEAD, N.Y. - Did you hear the one about the two guys arrested for telling lawyer jokes?
“His lips are moving,” they said in unison. While some waiting to get into the courthouse giggled, a lawyer farther up the line Monday was not laughing. He told them to pipe down, and when they did not, the lawyer reported the pair to court personnel, who charged them with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. “They just can’t take it,” Kash said of lawyers in general. “This violates our First Amendment rights.” Dan Bagnuola, a spokesman for the Nassau County courts, said the men were “being abusive and they were causing a disturbance.” He said he did not have the name of the lawyer who complained. Americans for Legal Reform monitors the courts and uses confrontational tactics to push for greater access for the public. The pair said that for years they have stood outside courthouses on Long Island and mocked lawyers. On Monday, however, Kash said he was due in court to answer a drunken driving charge from a year and a half ago. The men are due back in court on the disorderly conduct charge next month. |
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01-13-2005, 10:29 AM | #2 |
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Without knowing all of the details, this seems outrageous and an example of government tyranny. As long as the jokes were not violating a reasonable societal standard, I find it difficult to believe that they deserved to be charged with anything.
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01-13-2005, 10:54 AM | #3 |
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Methinks there's plenty more to this story. Like the phrase “being abusive and they were causing a disturbance" might be a better description of their behavior than "telling lawyer jokes." This organization clearly is there to stir things up -- it wouldn't shock me to find out that its members might sometimes get abusive, offensive, and disorderly.
I don't claim to have any facts -- but I just smell an empty story behind a clever headline here. |
01-13-2005, 10:59 AM | #4 | |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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I thought the same thing. Of course, I'm a lawyer, so my opinion probably doesn't count. Most lawyers I know tell more lawyer jokes than non-lawyers.
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01-13-2005, 11:02 AM | #5 |
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What's the difference between a dead lawyer on the side of the freeway and a dead animal on the side of the freeway?
The lawyer has treadmarks all over him. |
01-13-2005, 11:06 AM | #6 | |
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I've known both kinds. It's too bad that the "lawyer joke" bunch weren't always the best, because that would make a nicer anecdote. Last edited by Tekneek : 01-13-2005 at 11:07 AM. |
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01-13-2005, 11:23 AM | #7 | |
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I agree. There has to be more to this story. These two clowns were probably showing their ass in public and got humbled for it. |
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01-13-2005, 11:46 AM | #8 | |
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I thought the punch line was: "There are skid marks in front of the animal." |
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01-13-2005, 12:05 PM | #9 | |
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Well that works too. |
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01-13-2005, 12:27 PM | #10 | |
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