Random Quote

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General George S. Patton.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

You can't make this stuff up.

As you may have noticed, I have been blogging at a much reduced rate of late. This is mostly due to a sudden increase in work. I have been reading many more briefs and transcripts than usual and I took a bunch of these home to review over the weekend and buried in one of the transcripts I found this little gem:

ATTORNEY: Please describe how the defendant was driving.

WITNESS: The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I call bogus: this is an old joke. The last sentence, exact words, appears almost 700 times on google...

Unless the witness was deliberately cracking said old joke...

Have Opinion Will Travel said...

I suppose the witness could have been joking or just completely inarticulate since thoughout his testimony, he came across as something less than a rocket scientist. I'll take your word on the Google hits but if it is an old joke, it is one I hadn't heard before.