Row Faster! I Hear Banjo Music!
Ya know, Texas is often grateful to Mississippi for being so danged proud of being in last place on quality of life issues. It keeps Texas on the subflooring instead of the basement.
But, I think we owe a tip of the hat to Georgia today. Georgia Chief Judge David Barrett, chief judge of the Enotah Judicial Circuit, has resigned. Why, you might ask?
Barrett pulled out a gun in his courtroom in the Enotah Judicial Circuit and told a women in a domestic assault case “You might as well shoot your lawyer.”
Hell, shoot my lawyer? You hand me a gun in a courtroom on a domestic assault case and I’m unloading that sucker in the general direction of the Ex Mr. Wonderful. It would go something like this: “Judge, you see that twit sitting over there at the other table? That jerk walloped me! Do we have any case law on how many times do I get to shoot him? I’ll tell you what, Your Honor, I’ll start pulling the trigger and you tell me when I’ve fulfilled the statutes.”
I am not saying that there aren’t plenty of lawyers’ butts I might enjoy using for buckshot target practice, but holy cow, a judge offering a gun in the courtroom?
Thank you, Georgia.
Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.
Hey, I love banjos! (In fact I play one…not well…but that’s another story.)
That’s so unfair, Juanita Jean. You’re breaking my heart.
1You know that the world is just too insane, when Juanita Jean Herownself and the ladies of the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon have to keep that illustrious establishment open on a Sunday to accommodate the clients who just have to have some place to go to retire from “Teh Crazy” out there.
2You’re welcome.
3Your article titles are almost always awesome but this one took the cake. I love it.
There are many things I’d like to see in Georgia and Alabama but I’m concerned about traveling in those parts. I have neither a gun or a banjo.
4Remember, Shakespeare suggested when asked about taking over the government (read world) ‘first kill all the lawyers”
5What do you say to a banjo player in a three piece suit–”Will the prisoner please rise.”
6Was the judge all out of arrows?
Did he make the attorney squeal, like a pig?
Are those banjos dueling?
Was the defendant from Aintry?
However this all turns out, I hope this woman gets her…
Deliverance.
7Lynne,
8Is it true that the difference between a banjo and a vacuum cleaner is that you can tune a vacuum cleaner?