Ass Hat!
Okay, so I wouldn’t normally post this kind of news (yeh, I’ll censor news if I want, this is my site) because I usually love the Americans and their way of doing things. But seriously… Wow. This is just taking it too far. Why would you sue a lawyer for starters, especially if you, yourself, are a lawyer. The whole idea of the court room scene here seems hilarious to me, but there we go, it would appear I see things differently to others.
So the guy (and by guy, I mean bitch… sorry, lady…) shook hands with the opposition’s attorney and apparently was so vicious she was nearly hospitalised. In a nut shell. Pretty unbelievable stuff, that any anti-American-ite would love to comment on, but if they actually took the time to read the story they might see the full picture. Let’s start with the headline:
Assault rap for rough handshake
- BBC
Now of course, this sounds petty and ridiculous, and as such, this is an attention grabbing headline. Heck, if it wasn’t so sensationalist it would struggle to even count as a headline, that’s just what they do. Even the BBC’s. So you click on the article, and see the following as the introductory paragraph:
A Florida lawyer has been charged with assault for over-vigorously shaking the hand of a fellow attorney.
- BBC
Again, seems pretty daft if you ask me, but I guess a hand shake could be construed as violent… kinda. But it’s only when we reach the seventh paragraph do we actually see what happened:
“With Keene in hand, Brewer made an upward, then a quick downward motion and pulled Keene toward the ground moving her forward, almost causing Keene to fall to the ground,” said a court security officer.
- BBC
So basically what happened is this; The jerk lawyer whose husband had just been prosecuted, “insisted on shaking the prosecuting lawyer’s hand” and was generally being an ass hat, in shaking it like a nine year old when the teacher says ’shake hands and make up you two’… Doesn’t seem so far fetched any more does it.
As a secondary note, who would let their wife represent them in a court of law?? And don’t be smart and say ‘well, no, I certainly wouldn’t, she’s a freakin teacher, not a lawyer‘. I mean if she was! Maybe because she’d be free? No idea, just doesn’t strike me as being a great idea is all. I mean, you could get really turned on with her being in charge and blow your, ummm, case. Yeh, case.
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