Prosecutors and MVD: "Let's teach this Ho a lesson and make an example of her".
Judge & Jury to Prosecutors and MVD: "You have us here for WHAT?" (simultaneously delivering figurative b*tch slap)
Only because they can't figure out how to get "Disrespect for your Master" into law yet.
How to identify bubble gum:
Pick random fellow employee.
Mentally strip away 4'8', 260 lbs. of non-English-speaking surly fat girl; big hair, acrylic nails and all.
The substance that is left (formerly semi-surrounded by snarling oral cavity) is.................
BUBBBLE GUM!
Actually, the entire case was good for business all the way around. I could go into a prostitutors office and claim you were aiding and abetting terrorist Martians and if she thought she could get some face time out of it, the landsharks could extract some fees, and the judge could facilitate the entire money making operation, we'd have a trial over Martians.
ROTFL!
A 24-year-old dental student who sent a note and a wad of bubble gum with her fine for a speeding ticket has been found not guilty of two felony counts of mailing a threat.
Ho was accused of mailing a note to the Santa Fe Motor Vehicle Division office in 2003 that read, "Caution: Touch at your own risk or use gloves. Ha-ha."
... the MVD called the FBI. Hazmat teams showed up and physicians drew blood and analysts looking at DNA and comparing handwriting involved.
... the MVD employee who opened the envelope reacted the way any reasonable public employee [oxymoron] would in the post-9/11 world.
I'll admit that her prosecution is an overreaction. But there's a but:
It's not all that funny to stick unknown substances and notes that can be percieved as threatening to government offices in the age of terrorism. The mail has, after all, been used to send poison to government offices. I can see where the level of employee who opens the envelopes with the fines in them might be prone to panic.
And then there's this: She's a punk, for that behavior.