Category — Lawsuit

Oooooh, what a weird, wacky and especially scary week (seeing that it ended on Friday the 13th), chock full o’bank robbing foliage, terrorist heavy metal singers, flying nutjobs, stinky feet, stupid flight attendants and a major government “sting operation”:

• BREAKING NEWS: Major Sting Operation At The State Department!
• Baby Boy Says “Bye Bye Plane.” Flight Attendant Says “Bye Bye Baby.”
• Doofus Posing As Cop In SUV With Flashing Lights Pulls Over Real Cop. Oops.
• Nutjob Judge Isn’t Quite Done With His Missing Pants Lawsuit Yet
• When Using Public Toilet In Japan, Be Careful What You Wipe With. It Could Be Money!
• Man Breaks Into Woman’s Apartment Just To Make Ham Sandwich
• Police Break Into Smelly Apartment, Looking For Corpse. Instead Find Guy With Stinky Feet.
• Angry Bride Jailed For Attacking Fiance’ With Her Stiletto
• Nutjob Flies Over Oregon In A Lawn Chair
• Metallica Singer Detained At Airport For Having “Taliban-Like Beard”
• Man Dresses Up As Tree, Then Robs Bank

ATLANTA, GA – A mom and her toddler son were booted off an airplane after she refused a flight attendant’s request to medicate her son to get him to quiet down and stop saying “Bye bye, plane.”

Kate Penland, of suburban Atlanta, said she and her 19-month-old son, Garren, were flying from Atlanta to Oklahoma last month on a Continental Express flight that made a stop in Houston.

As the plane was taxiing in Houston en route to Oklahoma, “he started saying ‘Bye, bye plane,’ Penland told WSB-TV in Atlanta. The flight attendant objected, she said.

“At the end of her speech, she leaned over the gentleman beside me and said, ‘It’s not funny anymore. You need to shut your baby up,”‘ Penland told WSB-TV in Atlanta.

When Penland asked the woman if she was joking, she said the stewardess replied, “You know, it’s called baby Benadryl.”

“And I said, ‘Well, I’m not going to drug my child so you have a pleasant flight,”‘ Penland told the TV station.

Penland said other passengers began speaking up on her behalf, and the flight attendant announced they were turning around and that Penland and Garren were going to be taken off the plane.

Penland and her son were let off the plane and did not complete the trip to Oklahoma, said Kristy Nicholas, spokeswoman for Express Jet Airlines, which flies as Continental Express on behalf of Continental Airlines.

Attempts by the Associated Press to reach Penland under a telephone listing that matched her last name were unsuccessful.

“I was crying, I was upset and I was thinking, ‘What am I going to do? I don’t have anything with me, I don’t have any more diapers for the baby, no juice, no milk,” Penland told WSB.

Nicholas said, “We received Ms. Penland’s letter expressing her concerns and intend to investigate its contents.”

JOKESTARTERS:

• Obviously, the flight attendant did the right thing. Babies are the most underrated terrorist suspects, and should be treated with extreme caution at all times.
• Not to be outdone, TSA officials are now hand-searching all diapers on these suspicious, alleged “babies.” Anything found that’s over three ounces will land its owner in Guantanamo.
• Upon hearing of this incident, Michael Chertoff was quoted as saying “I had a gut feeling about that little shit…”
• In response to this incident, Continental Airlines will now feature special “Sippy Cuptails” for babies on all flights. Each complimentary beverage will consist of apple juice mixed with cyanide, and is guaranteed to quiet fussy babies. Forever.

SOURCE:

• CNEWS

WASHINGTON, DC – That nutjob judge dude who tried to sue a dry cleaner in DC for $54 million over a missing pair of pants has asked the judge who threw out the widely mocked case to reconsider, saying she committed a “fundamental legal error.”

Roy L. Pearson, a local administrative law judge, argued Wednesday that District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff failed to address his legal claims. Bartnoff had ruled that the business owners did not violate the city’s consumer protection law by failing to live up to his expectations of a “Satisfaction Guaranteed” sign once displayed in the store.

“The court effectively substituted a guarantee of satisfaction with ‘reasonable’ limits and preconditions for the unconditional and unambiguous guarantee of satisfaction the defendant-merchant chose to advertise for seven years,” Pearson wrote. “That was a fundamental legal error.”

If Bartnoff rejects Pearson’s motion, he could take the matter to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

The motion comes less than a week after the South Korean immigrant owners of Custom Cleaners asked the judge to order Pearson to cover $83,000 in legal fees.

“(The) Plaintiff’s motives have been clear – quite simply, to harass Defendants and to attempt to utterly destroy their lives,” attorney Christopher Manning wrote.

The case, which drew international attention, began in 2005 when Pearson became an administrative law judge and brought several suits for alterations to Custom Cleaners.

A pair of pants from one suit was missing when he requested it two days later. A week later, the store owners said the pants had been found, but Pearson denied that they were his and decided to sue.

Pearson’s suit, which originally sought $67 million, was based on a strict interpretation of the city’s consumer protection law. It also included damages for inconvenience, mental anguish and attorney’s fees for representing himself.

JOKESTARTERS:

• Does anyone who reads this (other than me), think to themselves that they’re really dead? Or in a dreamworld? Because this just can’t really be happening in real life now, can it folks? There is no Roy Pearson. There are no missing pants. There’s no ridiculous lawsuit. Right? Hello? Is this thing on???

SOURCE:

• Seattle P-I

The weird is on,
The weird is o-on
The weird is on,
The weird is o-on.

Oh it’s on the street
The weird is – o-on

Oh-wo-ho, oh-wo-ho.

(Tell me can you feel it)
(Tell me can you feel it)
(Tell me can you feel it)?

THE WEIRD IS ON:

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MASON, OH — A firefighter who was arrested in a park wearing a woman’s wig, a bikini and water balloon breasts accepted a plea deal Thursday that dropped a charge of public indecency.

Steven S. Cole, a former volunteer firefighter, pleaded guilty to a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and disorderly conduct.

Municipal Court Judge George Parker sentenced Cole to attend a mandatory driver intervention program and placed him on two years’ probation.

Cole was ordered to stay out of the city’s public parks during that time and pay a $250 fine.

Parker also suspended Cole’s driving privileges for six months, except for work, counseling sessions, family appointments and visits with his probation officer.

Police arrested Cole on April 4 in his truck as he was leaving Heritage Oak Park in this Cincinnati suburb after parents complained about a man dressed in women’s clothing.

Police said they found an open, half-empty bottle of beer in the truck, along with a gym bag containing wigs, bikinis, silver go-go boots and other women’s garments.

Cole’s blood-alcohol test registered 0.17, more than twice Ohio’s legal driving limit of 0.08, police said.

The arrest report said Cole told an officer he was on his way to a bar in Dayton to perform as a woman in a contest offering a $10,000 prize.

JOKESTARTERS:

• (BAD PUN ALERT:) Man, isn’t it a drag when even off-duty firefighters can’t wear what they really want in public? That must just burn this guy up.
• As a tribute to his getting off, Cole has donated his bikini, heels and water balloon falsies to the Drag Queen Museum of Drunk Firefighters, located in a storage room in a mini-mall in Dayton.
• At one point this firefighter-in-drag was seen “fondling or exposing himself” but the real truth is that he was simply adjusting his firehose.
• And the water balloon falsies? They were simply there as a firefighting tool. Ya never know when you might need to put out a flame.
• It’s a sad day in America when a firefighter can’t go to a public park, get drunk and parade around in a skimpy bikini. Has everyone forgotten 9/11 already?

SOURCE:

• WRAL

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