It is not against the law to bury a 105 mm shell casing from a rocket launcher so that it is sticking partially out of the ground in your brother's backyard to play a joke on the paranoid, Republican brother.
When your brother, in a panic, calls the police and five police cars, three fire trucks with full complement of firefighters, the police chief, the fire chief, two ambulances with four EMT's, three multi-jurisdictional bomb squad vehicles full of bomb squad guys, two FBI agents, a U.S. Army personnel transport with eight fully-armed National Guard members show up and two fighter planes are ready to go at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to combat a possible terrorist threat, you get charged with a felony.
When your lawyer offers that you pay the overtime of all of the personnel involved, which comes to a bill for about $2,600, and tells the prosecutor that inasmuch as nobody was hurt and that this unplanned emergency exercise proved the essential readiness of all of the agencies involved in combating terrorism, then the charges should be dismissed because there was no actual criminal intent, but simple stupidity, and after much discussion and numerous calls to the police and fire chiefs and bomb squad boss, if the prosecutor finally agrees that the proposal sounds reasonable, as long as you pay the court costs, which amount to $132, then don’t say okay except that you don’t want to pay the fucking court costs.
You are definitely inviting your lawyer to shove the evidence down your throat.
Posted by Bill at October 13, 2004 08:59 PMI agree!
Posted by: TW at October 15, 2004 01:30 PMUp the rear would have fitted much better Bill and maybe he would have smiled at you when he handed you your fees.
Posted by: Michelle at October 15, 2004 03:18 PM