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March 30, 2006
Email of the Week Award!
Although there are still a few more days left in the week, at this time, I feel very comfortable awarding the following email the prize for “Best Email of the Week!” The message comes courtesy from a friend who is clerking for a trial court in Detroit. (Hey, somebody's got to live there!)
Here's the first line of a petition for a civil protection order (let me know if you find anything at all strange about this sentence):
The Petitioner and her great grandchild were sleeping when the Respondent busted into her bedroom, causing her white uniforms to fall into a bucket of urine.
Sounds like something that could happen at my apartment... well, everything but the white uniforms.
Comments
WTF?
Hmm..I'd argue there's no causation?
That's almost as funny as the "Petition to Kiss My Ass" that came across my judge's colleague's desk when we I was externing.
Posted by: teahouseblossom at March 30, 2006 09:48 AM
Clearly, the greatest problem with the sentence is grammatical ambiguity - it indicates that it was the RESPONDENT'S UNIFORMS that got urine-drenched.
Posted by: fermanator at March 30, 2006 11:03 AM
And that Respondent busted into her own room. (What's so bad about busting into one's own room and accidentally causing one's white uniforms to stain yellow?)
Posted by: fermanator at March 30, 2006 11:06 AM
Is it too obvious if I ask what the bucket of urine was doing there to begin with?
Posted by: The Attractive Nuisance at March 30, 2006 01:13 PM
"Is it too obvious if I ask what the bucket of urine was doing there to begin with?"
This is how people urinate in Detroit. Detroit can't afford plumbing.
Posted by: Finished.Law.School at March 30, 2006 01:59 PM
LOL :) This confirms my opinions about Detroit. Thanks!
Posted by: First Year at March 30, 2006 02:14 PM
That's exactly why I keep a bucket of urine handy.
Posted by: Fresh? at March 30, 2006 07:26 PM
