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Pair arrested for telling lawyer jokes
Men at courthouse cited for disorderly conduct
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 Posted: 4:58 PM EST (2158 GMT)


HEMPSTEAD, New York (AP) -- Did you hear the one about the two guys
arrested for telling lawyer jokes?

It happened this week to the founders of a group called Americans for
Legal Reform, who were waiting in line to get into a Long Island
courthouse.

"How do you tell when a lawyer is lying?" Harvey Kash reportedly asked
Carl Lanzisera.

"His lips are moving," they said in unison.

While some waiting to get into the courthouse giggled, a lawyer farther
up the line Monday was not laughing.

He told them to pipe down, and when they did not, the lawyer reported
the pair to court personnel, who charged them with disorderly conduct, a
misdemeanor.

"They just can't take it," Kash said of lawyers in general. "This
violates our First Amendment rights."

Dan Bagnuola, a spokesman for the Nassau County courts, said the men
were "being abusive and they were causing a disturbance."

He said he did not have the name of the lawyer who complained.

Americans for Legal Reform monitors the courts and uses confrontational
tactics to push for greater access for the public.

The pair said that for years they have stood outside courthouses on
Long Island and mocked lawyers.

On Monday, however, Kash said he was due in court to answer a drunken
driving charge from a year and a half ago. The men are due back in court
on the disorderly conduct charge next month.


"The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn is you're the same fool. Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness."
- Ray Bradbury

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. usually they're not smarter.

F. Lee Bailey

Q: What's wrong with Lawyer jokes?
A: Lawyers don't think they're funny, and nobody else thinks they're jokes.


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Edited by - a10stress on Jan 13 2005 09:15 AM

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Abusive and cuasing a disturbance? They were telling jokes...the disgruntled man that was shown on the news trying to kill a laywer with a snub nose .38, while the laywer kept sidestepping left & right behind a sapling...he was being abusive and causing a disturbance.

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You know, one night at the pistol range it was so cold, I actually saw a lawyer with his hands in his <i>OWN</i> pockets...

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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> You know, one night at the pistol range it was so cold, I actually saw a lawyer with his hands in his OWN pockets..<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

<img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle> but you know damn well they didn't stay there for very long.

"The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"
-Friedrich Nietzsche-

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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> I actually saw a lawyer with his hands in his OWN pockets<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

Holy crap, that's funny...

You do seem to get a lot of lawyer at gun ranges, even in the UK. I'm guessing they recon they need the extra personal protection.

This is no BS...

One flash bastard layer who had all the toys, flash BMW, flash phone, all the most expensive guns (couldn't shoot them though) turned up at one club with a pair of antique French (spit) Black powder Duelling pistols.

These thing were worth about £12k or something, but he had decided to fire them.

So he loads them up, puts the ball in, wads it down etc, picks the first one up and fires it down range.

He then pick the secound one up, pulls the trigger, drops the flint or whatever it was, get's a flash from the pan, but no ignition of the main charge...

So instead of pointing it down range and then tapping out the contents, he turns it round, looks down the barrel and slaps the side of it to see what had gone wrong <img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/anim_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>..!

You've never seen the thirty people stood behind him (waiting in the hope that the thing would blow up on him) hit the deck so fast...

He rapidly became an ex-member...

"A .44 magnum beats 4 Aces everytime..."

What a fucking moron!

LOL!

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people that stupid deserve to get shot!

"The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"
-Friedrich Nietzsche-

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This is the same guy who bought a .50 cal DE even though all the pistol ranges calibre limit in the UK was .454

We still fired it though <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>...

"A .44 magnum beats 4 Aces everytime..."