I went to court with Mike today for a traffic ticket. As we waited, a girl in the row in front of us had a crying baby on her lap. It wasn’t just screaming, but just crying a little. It wasn’t that bad. Suddenly the judge stopped what he was doing and looked up and said that whoever had the crying baby needed to leave the courtroom, give their name to the bailiff, and wait outside. As the girl stood up with her baby and tried to make her way out of the over-crowded courtroom, this is what the judge said, getting louder as he continued:
“IF your baby is going to cry, you don’t need to bring it into the courtroom. If it does cry you need to leave the courtroom. A crying baby is disruptive. You MUST KNOW that it’s disruptive. How can you NOT KNOW. How can you sit there with that… that… NOISEMAKER on your lap and do nothing?”
A little harsh, I think. If your baby is going to cry? How will you know if it will? If they require you to be in the courtroom and don’t tell you in advance that you can give the bailiff your name and wait outside, how do you know? Should he have embarrassed her like that and called her baby “that noisemaker?” Couldn’t he have sent a baliff to where she was to let her know quietly what she should do? I mean really… just draw every eye in the room to her and continually yell at her until she is out of the room? How mean! The baby wasn’t even as loud as his rude mouth.
Damn, judge! She can sit there with her little noisemaker (not even 6 months old) the same way that your momma sat with your sorry crying ass on her lap, and probably more than once.movies forum bestialitytits big natural moviesmovies bondage free stockingsbanks free movie brianasex cheerleader moviescolorado springs theaters moviemovies dbz gtold dirty movies man Map
I’m sure you told him that too when you and Mike approached the bench about his traffic ticket
I didn’t like the way he handled it either. They should make it a rule that when they see someone with a child approaching, they should let them know right then what the procedure is. Proactive, instead of re-active.
I’d have told that judge to what a prick he was. Screw him. That story for some reason has me steamed. Thanks, I was in a good mood, now I just want to go to the nearest courthouse and stick that mallet right judge whoever’s ass.
I guess that’s my Christian reaction for the day.
Skye… you kidding? We were trying to get him out of a 700 dollar fine, or at least get it reduced, lol. The judge was obviously a buttwipe and already pissed off, Mike kept his mouth shut, I stayed in my seat… and yes, he did get it reduced by a great deal.
Tim, LOL I’m shocked to hear you speak this way! His name, by the way, was Judge (something) Fleming. What a prick, indeed! Sorry I ruined your mood.
Sidenote: On the way out, we stopped and talked to the mom. She didn’t appear to be upset as I would have been. Mike played with the baby for a minute and told the mom she had a cute little noisemaker, which made her smile. So I felt a tad better.
You should have added that additional comment to the post. That was nice of you two to stop and let the mom know how you felt. I would have appreaciated that too.
As for that Judge, I would have probably found a way to his superiors and lodge a complaint. That was absolutely unnessessary.
Maybe he has a blog and we can pay him a visit? Like a lot of judges have, so I hear.
But YEA! Stuipid Judge!
That’s what happens to some people when they get a little authority over others. They can’t imagine why they should any longer treat those who have now become pond scum in their eyes, decently. It’s apparent that once they have the job, they hate it.
Many local judges are elected every so often. One was just voted off the Pa. Supreme court over a sneaky pay raise issue. That is the proper way to handle those idiots. It’s too bad some are appointed for life. No one should ever put himself above people like that and it’s a sad truth that some do. Simple courtesy should not be such a difficult thing.
Yes, that judge is an ASS! You know, that reminds me of a preacher story from my childhood. He was an ass too.
Yes, Paul, I’m from PA and took part in that vote. We’re voting out a lot of pricks. That judge actually gave the green light to a legislative pay raise. (Can you believe that?) On May 16th then we voted out the Senator whose idea it was to begin with, and he’s been our senator for over 30 years. Don’t mess with us.
Dragonlady: Yeah, preachers can be mean too. While in Canada, (attending Bible college no less) my wife and I were looking for a church, and tried out this Brethren church not 10 minutes from campus. Right in the middle of a sermon, the Pastor stopped, looked at two little boys (no more than 6 years old) and scolded them for talking amongst themselves during his sermon, on microphone even. I told my wife to go to the door, walked down the aisle amidst the silence to the foot of the altar, gave him the finger, and walked out with my wife.
Tim, I would wonder if it’s the same preacher, but the one I experienced was a Baptist Evangelist. I wish I could remember his name.
This isn’t really mean but I immediately thought of it when I read Mel’s story.
My oldest son was in court for painting a chicken with water soluble paint no less on the wall outside of the art room at his school. Vandalism.
Anywho- while we were waiting our turn and watching the other cases a kid about 16 was called before the judge and spoke no English whatsoever, so while the judge was waiting for his interpreter he banged his gavel down on the bench and leaned over to stare at the kid and told him- I sentence you to life in prison. NO wait, I sentence you to DEATH. The kid was grinning and smiling and blushing etc. The judge looks out on the room and says, “He doesn’t understand a single word of English does he? I’ve always wanted to be able to tell someone that though-”
ROFL @ Diane’s story.
So, I just spent a half hour googling to find that preacher’s name. Found him, and some other stuff worthy of a blog post…
Yes, I’m bitter
Mel’s post about the asshole judge reminded me of an asshole preacher I remember as a kid. I have a very low tolerance for assholes, and reading about that judge just pissed me off as if I was back in church during those two revivals. See, th …
Diane, that’s hilarious, you can’t be too big an idiot with a sense of humor like that (I don’t think).
Tim, I watched that judge being interviewed after he was thrown off, he just couldn’t understand why the voters would take it out on him, like he was too valuable to be removed. Off with their heads.
i hopped over from skye’s page.unbelievable. i would feel so humiliated were i the woman holding the innocent little child. i’m glad that you stopped to see how she was. i agree with the comments that someone should report that judge to his superior. something about this post just ticks me off. rude and very kindergarten i think.
glad you got the ticket reduced and i hope that you have a good weekend.
LOL @ Dianes’ story!
[…] Mel’s post about the asshole judge reminded me of an asshole preacher I remember as a kid. I have a very low tolerance for assholes, and reading about that judge just pissed me off as if I was back in church during those two revivals. See, this preacher was an evangelist, and from what I remember, he left pastoring to be full-time evangelist. The church we were going to had two revivals a year – one in the spring and one in the fall. The first time that he came to our church to preach a revival was the spring one when I was in 6th grade. […]
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