Posted on 01/12/2005 7:17:28 AM PST by esryle
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Two men have been arrested for trading lawyer jokes while waiting on line to get into First District Court in Hempstead.
The two men, 69-year-old Harvey Kash, of Bethpage, and 65-year-old Carl Lanzisera, of Huntington, were in court Monday as part of their work with Americans for Legal Reform, a group that monitors how the courts serve the public.
While waiting on a long line to get through into court, they began telling each other lawyer jokes such as, "How do you tell if a lawyer is lying? Answer: his lips are moving."
Well, an attorney within earshot got angry and told court officers that the two men were disturbing the public.
They were handcuffed and charged with disorderly conduct.
The two men said their First Amendment free speech rights were violated.
The men were given desk appearance tickets and are due back in court next month.
Because deep down, they're really not all that bad.
They come by the 1000's, but only one works.
I would donate to their cause.
Oh yes they are.
Everyone is innocent until proven broke.
"Of course we do," replied the bartender.
"Great," said the man, "I'd like a beer... and give me a lawyer for my gator."
The lawyer will have a fool for a client!
I would have to assume that the attorney's lips were moving when he talked to the officers.
I hope they sue the self-important sc*mbag who had them arrested...and the cops who handcuffed them.
SKEET
Q: How is a lawyer like a Slinky?
A: Neither one is good for much, but it's still fun to watch one tumble down the stairs.
I agree, but most of the time it isn't intentional. Years ago the head of the state Bar association spoke to my class. During his pontifications he solemnly declared that the legal profession was all that stood between civilization and anarachy. I remember thinking to myself, "Talk about lousy choices..."
In many cases, I reckon including this one, there's really not much that's too impenetrable about the legal system that a literate person with a high-school education can't grasp.
I've fought traffic tickets myself and won, and this case strikes me as even simpler than that if the facts are as they seem and the subject didn't get rowdy when he was confronted.
Ping for printing later. :)
Lots of good lawyer jokes at: http://www.nolo.com/humor/jokes.cfm
"I saw one the other day with his hands in his own pockets."
OK, what do you call a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets?
Unemployed.
Then I'm batting 1000 on that 2 percent.
One I took to court because he did zero, zip, squat on my case. I discovered this from the opposing attorney who asserted that billed discussions had in fact never occurred.
The other sent a bill for a meeting that was cancelled - monthly and for several years - claiming bogus "research" expenses which they could not meaningfully identify in court. No time tickets, no notes, no docs, nothing.
The one I'm working with now is the biggest A.H. and a b*tch to talk to so I just let her calls go to voice message so I don't have to hear her.....
I'm reporting this entire thread.
You're all in really big trouble now.
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