Two Arrested for telling lawyer jokes.

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Pair Arrested for Telling Lawyer Jokes

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (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.

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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....

[mr2mk1g 10]

bwaaahahahahaha - that's funny

On a serious note, the article sounds like one of those typical "the daredevil died because their parachute failed to work" type articles... i.e. only part of the story.

I can well imagine several different scenarios... some the lawyer's being a twat... some where the court personnel could have been well within their rights to arrest them.

From the snippets in the article I certainly don't know which is the case.

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

certainly makes it sound like the two were making a nuisance of themselevs... but who's to say without more info.

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certainly makes it sound like the two were making a nuisance of themselevs... but who's to say without more info.

Meh - your just biased!

Never try to eat more than you can lift

[masterrig 1]

Hey! Did you hear the one about the two lawyers, walk into a bar... Oops, better not!

[78RATS 0]

Lawyer and Doctor standing on the corner when a beautiful girl walks by.

Doctor: "I'd like to screw her."

Lawyer: "Out of what?"


fuckin hate lawyers

Rat for Life - Fly till I die
When them stupid ass bitches ask why

[BillyVance 35]

I'd just as soon not have anything to do with lawyers except for wills and property stuff. Most of them charge way too much for services, and you have to sue for millions more just to get what you deserve after they take their hefty cut! [Mad]

Even doctors are forced to charge high rates for medical services just to be able to cover astonishing high rates of malpractice insurance forced on them by trial lawyers!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

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

certainly makes it sound like the two were making a nuisance of themselevs... but who's to say without more info.

First, I would say that if they were mocking anyone else, the lawyers would be up in arms (for enough money) and yelling about their first amendment rights. Essentially, that is the point of Free Speech, you get to say it even if (especially if) some people don't like it.

Almost everyone with an experience with the legal system hates the lying and word-twisting. More people should protest. Maybe there would be more truth and justice, a little less "money=winning".

"Mocking" sounds like they were using satire. I have seen lawyers use satire in court. They even give a little silent smirk to discredit the response of a witness. People who dish it out should be able to take it.

One of the favorite tactics of lawyers is to be able to punish you without your guilt of anything. Having the court charge you with a misdemeanor means you are, in essence, being fined. Win or lose, you still have to hire another lawyer and pay probably $1500. It is easy to use the system to be a dick.

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[masterrig 1]

Two lawyers were standing outside a courthouse, talking.
They both saw a homeless man eating grass from the lawn.
The one lawyer approached the homeless man and told him he could go to his home and told him where he lived.
The homeless man said he had a wife and kid.
The lawyer says; "No problem!"
The lawyer went back to talk with the other lawyer.
The other lawyer says; "That was really kind of you!"
The lawyer replies; "Have you seen how tall my grass is?"

[Casurf1978 0]

Did you hear about the terrorist who highjacked a airplane full of lawyers? He threatened to release one every hour until his demands were met.

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What is a criminal lawyer?

Redundant.

"The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few, or the one" - rehmwa

[shropshire 0]

Satan visit a lawyer and suggests that - he can make him incredibly rich, have a wonderful sex life and have the respect of the whole community, for the rest of his long life...
All you have to do is promiss me the soul of your wife and kiddies for all eterntity......"

The lawyer thinks about the proposition for a while, then asks the Devil..."So, where's the cathc!".

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a trampoline?

A: You take off your shoes to jump on a trampoline!

[shropshire 0]

Q: What happened then?
A: He told me, he says, "I have to kill you because you can identify me."
Q: Did he kill you?

Was it you or your brother that was killed in the war?

The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he?

Q: She had three children, right?
A: Yes.
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?

Were you alone or by yourself?

Q: I show you Exhibit 3 and ask you if you recognize that picture?
A: That's me.
Q: Were you present when that picture was taken?

Were you present in court this morning when you were sworn in?

Q: You say that the stairs went down to the basement?
A: Yes.
Q: And these stairs, did they go up also?

Q: Now then, Mrs. Johnson, how was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?

Q: Do you know how far pregnant you are now?
A: I'll be three months on March 12th.
Q: Apparently then, the date of conception was around January 12th?
A: Yes.
Q: What were you doing at that time?

Do you have any children or anything of that kind?

Was that the same nose you broke as a child?

Q: Mrs. Jones, do you believe you are emotionally stable?
A: I used to be.
Q: How many times have you committed suicide?

So, you were gone until you returned?

You don't know what it was, and you didn't know what it looked like, but can you describe it?

Q: Have you lived in this town all your life?
A: Not yet.

A Texas attorney, realizing he was on the verge of unleashing a stupid question, interrupted himself and said, "Your Honor, I'd like to strike the next question."

Q: Do you recall approximately the time that you examined that body of Mr. Huntington at St. Mary's Hospital?
A: It was in the evening. The autopsy started about 5:30 P.M.
Q: And Mr. Huntington was dead at the time, is that correct?
A: No, you idiot, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was performing an autopsy on him!

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[mr2mk1g 10]

Q: What do you call 20 lawyers doing a parachute jump?








A: Skeet