He should have been put on "Double Secret Probation".
The Judge needs to arrest people for having swimming parties too, as people can die there also. Same for someone selling cars and McDonald's for selling fatburgers.
Technically, people can die in a courtroom.. should we put the judge in jail?
People can die eating sushi... time to round up the Japs again...
People can choke to death on water. I think we should apprehend all rain clouds.
Maybe parents can use this story to influence their teenagers. Threaten them with jail for "keeping a disorderly room."
He should have been put on "Double Secret Probation".
That's the part I don't like. The kid wasn't a participant, nor a contributor, but he got the harshest punishment while the kids that threw the party just got a slap on the wrist.
Also, does this mean that parents who make a weekend trip and their teenagers have a secret party that goes out of control can also land in jail?
Next time the parents are away for the weekend and the kid throw a wild party anwhere in this Nebraska time, I expect mom and dad will be spending the next month in jail, no?
Oh, and if grandma's name is also on the title of the house because she gave her kids a portion of it, I expect she'll be in jail too.
Moral is
Never go before a female judge during her time of the month.
;-)
D00d, you're gettin' a CELL!
The judge probably bitter 'cos he never got invited to any parties.
He got jailed because underage drinking and excessive noise were encouraged at a house where his name is on the lease...
The parties went on with his knowledge and consent...this was not the first time either...
The judge was too lenient with the other tennents...but that's
the way it goes sometimes...
He should have gotten a better lawyer...
I suspect the judge's LEGAL reasoning was more in line with established law, re the responsibilities and liability of building owners and tenants. A judge's comment on why s/he personally finds an outcome to be fair and reasonable is different from the legal basis for the decision. It's not terribly uncommon for judges to include written comments in their decisions about why they feel the outcome was NOT fair and reasonable, while the legal part of the decision spells out why application of existing law required the decision that was made.
Jumping Jehosaphat, his article is poorly written. Thank you for the synopsis.
That's a hell of a lot of people just stopping by for a little nip....
Disorder in the house
The tub runneth over
Plaster's falling down in pieces by the couch of pain
Disorder in the house
Time to duck and cover
Helicopters hover over rough terrain
Disorder in the house
Reptile wisdom
Zombies on the lawn staggering around
Disorder in the house
There's a flaw in the system
And the fly in the ointment's gonna bring the whole thing down
The floodgates are open
We've let the demons loose
The big guns have spoken
And we've fallen for the ruse
Disorder in the house
It's a fate worse than fame
Even the Lhasa Apso seems to be ashamed
Disorder in the house
The doors are coming off the hinges
The earth will open and swallow up the real estate
I just got my paycheck
I'm gonna paint the whole town grey
Whether it's a night in Paris or a Fresno matinee
It's the home of the brave and the land of the free
Where the less you know the better off you'll be
Disorder in the house
All bets are off
I'm sprawled across the davenport of despair
Disorder in the house
I'll live with the losses
And watch the sundown through the portiere
If anyone has ever lived next to one of these party-houses-from-Hell, you would not be so flippant about it. A fraternity was kicked off the Vanderbilt campus and convinced a landlord ($3000 per month rent) to rent them a house two doors down from me. Over the next two years I called the cops many times at all hours of the day and night; I called Vandy officials begging them to do something (to no avail, but I found out they lied when they said they were MBA students and the dean of the business school tried to get them expelled as well); drunks were driving up and down my street at all hours - I was afraid they would kill my kids; public urination; clouds of dope smoke, etc, etc. I was real close to finding some way of suing the landlord since the cops refused to arrest these "students" (more important stuff to do), but finally they graduated (unbelievable, but apparently Vanderbilt has no standards at all today).
So the judge threw the book at this punk? GOOD!
Somehow I doubt any of them would get 30 days in the slammer --- even if someone was "killed".