You are out of a job. Can you hear us now?

He did what he had to do... The court is no place for a cell phone and the obvious cover-up of the perp in this case made everyone complicit in this most heinous crime! Jail 'em!

If I were God, I would appoint this judge as Vice God, for security reasons.

Almost as bad as the asshole judge Sloop here in Seminole County, he finally got thrown off the bench as well. A bunch of people came to court and went to the wrong courtroom because their summons were incorrect. He held them all in contempt anyway and had them all thrown in jail. Farking asshole.

He should've made them answer, individually, under oath. That way, he could've jailed them for contempt with more justification (or, snagged the one asshat who thought he was not only too self-important to turn his phone off, but that he could also lie to a judge with impunity.)

your in court turn off your farking phone or put the thing on vibrate. tired of hearing stupid solider boy and alien looking rehanna songs or any other blinged out ring tone. your now going to jail and your cant take your phone with you enjoy the pay phone.

/johnny cockrel

What I want to know is why the person sitting behind, or beside the guy, didn't leap up and point and say, "It was him!" the moment the judge said they should all be jailed. *I* sure as hell wouldn't spend the day in jail for some asshat who doesn't know to turn off their cell phone in court.

FormlessOne: He should've made them answer, individually, under oath. That way, he could've jailed them for contempt with more justification (or, snagged the one asshat who thought he was not only too self-important to turn his phone off, but that he could also lie to a judge with impunity.)

Either that, or just let it go. Freakin' asshole.

I'd like that judge to work as an usher in the cinemas I go to.
Amazes me that some idiots leave their phones on at a movie, but court... well, I can see how that would be worse.

JAIL'EM!

Alt_Login: He did what he had to do... The court is no place for a cell phone and the obvious cover-up of the perp in this case made everyone complicit in this most heinous crime! Jail 'em!

I agree. If the four or five people around the perp could not turn him in, then they were either family, or chose to not comply with the judge's order to oust the perp, and because of that, all deserved to sit in jail for a few hours.

wat ?

What an asshole, this sounds like something a federal judge would do. Glad he lost his job.

matto14: your in court turn off your farking phone or put the thing on vibrate. tired of hearing stupid solider boy and alien looking rehanna songs or any other blinged out ring tone. your now going to jail and your cant take your phone with you enjoy the pay phone.

/johnny cockrel

You get upset about ringtones, I get pretty chuffed about horrible grammar like yours. We all have our little pet peeves.

skwerl: Almost as bad as the asshole judge Sloop here in Seminole County, he finally got thrown off the bench as well. A bunch of people came to court and went to the wrong courtroom because their summons were incorrect. He held them all in contempt anyway and had them all thrown in jail. Farking asshole.


Ok, I can agree with that. But all courtrooms that I have been in (just in the town where I live) they all have BIG SIGNS that say TURN OFF CELL PHONES or NO CELL PHONES ALLOWED. What is it about these signs that people don't understand??? Same at my credit union, sign says "No hoods, no sunglasses, no hats" and "please refrain from using your cell phone while in the building". And yet, it seems like it is always the members of a particular race that CONSTANTLY break these rules.

I have to side with the judge on this one.


and the "particular race" always wants to get vocal when asked to remove hats/sunglasses or to stop talking on the cell

I'm almost certain that Terry Pratchett has an episode similar this in one of his books.

'Course it probably involves the Lavish family and an imp.

/Hogfather

Ha! His actions might have been an amusing TV plot, but not so funny in real life when it costs you your job. Maybe he can get a job at the movie theater. Cell phone talkers there need to DIAF. And WTF is up with the people in Atlanta bringing farking laser-pointers to the movies? What's that all about? So glad I moved away from that place!

ichiban: matto14: your in court turn off your farking phone or put the thing on vibrate. tired of hearing stupid solider boy and alien looking rehanna songs or any other blinged out ring tone. your now going to jail and your cant take your phone with you enjoy the pay phone.

/johnny cockrel

You get upset about ringtones, I get pretty chuffed about horrible grammar like yours. We all have our little pet peeves.



What he said.

midnite_farker: Too bad these are illegal in the US. Would be great in court, theaters, churches....

/oh wait, that's the way it is in Italy- mostly illegal except for a few selected venues



O RLY?!?! I can't use my cell in my grocery store. And it is just this particular store chain.


Ohio, and not proud of it! LOL

many people with no prior history of assholiness become assholes when they put on judicial robes.

many people with no prior history of assholiness become assholes when they acquire cellular phones.

Active celle phone jamming is forbidden

Not Passive

A lot of newer movie theaters somehow have a lot of metal in their walls... So no rings, no calls, and magically the signal comes back an inch out of the door. Too bad these old courthouses can't be changed that easily.

jackandwater: But all courtrooms that I have been in (just in the town where I live) they all have BIG SIGNS that say TURN OFF CELL PHONES or NO CELL PHONES ALLOWED. What is it about these signs that people don't understand??? Same at my credit union, sign says "No hoods, no sunglasses, no hats" and "please refrain from using your cell phone while in the building". And yet, it seems like it is always the members of a particular race that CONSTANTLY break these rules.

I have to side with the judge on this one.

Really? You think a judge should be able to exact a punishment not on the books? Just make up laws and punishments because of having had a bad day?

Or only judges of your race?

and the "particular race" always wants to get vocal when asked to remove hats/sunglasses or to stop talking on the cell

I hate it when people won't take the effing sheet of their head.

/can you haz confirmation bias?
//yes.

matto14
your in court turn off your farking phone or put the thing on vibrate. tired of hearing stupid solider boy and alien looking rehanna songs or any other blinged out ring tone. your now going to jail and your cant take your phone with you enjoy the pay phone.


English, motherfarker... do you speak it?

/or write it?

I wonder how well the "I was under some personal stress" defense has gone over in cases over which Judge Douchenozzle has presided.

jackandwater: Ok, I can agree with that. But all courtrooms that I have been in (just in the town where I live) they all have BIG SIGNS that say TURN OFF CELL PHONES or NO CELL PHONES ALLOWED. What is it about these signs that people don't understand??? Same at my credit union, sign says "No hoods, no sunglasses, no hats" and "please refrain from using your cell phone while in the building". And yet, it seems like it is always the members of a particular race that CONSTANTLY break these rules.

I make signage for a living, so I'm getting a kick out of this reply...

No, really. People don't read the signs on the shop door when they come in to buy signs.

/Glad they still buy them though.

I work in the Court system every day. I go to about 5 or 6 different Court Houses on a regular basis. Federal Court they don't even let you bring your phone in. State Court's ALL have BIG signs about turning them OFF, not put them on vibrate, TURN THEM OFF. So the dude that had it on is douche of the highest order.

Now as for the Judge, he went about it the wrong way. If he felt he needed to find the perp he should have questioned each person individually to see if they were the perp or knew who it was. If the phone just went off once and that was it he overreacted. If was going off several times during session he has to put a stop to it.

The only time I have ever seen a person get away with having the cell on in Court is if their wife was expecting and it was about that time.

ichiban:

You get upset about ringtones; I get pretty chuffed about horrible grammar like yours. We all have our little pet peeves.

/Although maybe a colon would be better
//chuffed?

talk about power trippin!

skinink: "particular race"? Would that be Samoan?

What a troll. Just say what you mean.


Ok, black people. You happy? I don't feel like getting banned.

Glad he lost his job. He knew for a fact that 45 of those 46 people were innocent, yet he decided to punish them all anyway. That's not a guy you want sitting as judge.

Hubert Sumlin: jackandwater: But all courtrooms that I have been in (just in the town where I live) they all have BIG SIGNS that say TURN OFF CELL PHONES or NO CELL PHONES ALLOWED. What is it about these signs that people don't understand??? Same at my credit union, sign says "No hoods, no sunglasses, no hats" and "please refrain from using your cell phone while in the building". And yet, it seems like it is always the members of a particular race that CONSTANTLY break these rules.

I have to side with the judge on this one.

Really? You think a judge should be able to exact a punishment not on the books? Just make up laws and punishments because of having had a bad day?

Or only judges of your race?

and the "particular race" always wants to get vocal when asked to remove hats/sunglasses or to stop talking on the cell

I hate it when people won't take the effing sheet of their head.

/can you haz confirmation bias
//yes.


I believe it is about following the rules no matter what color of you skin. A white person gets told to please stop talking on the cell, no problem. A black person had to get vocal. I have seen it first hand at my credit union. I am just posting what I have observed.

"Everyone who heard that cell phone, please stand up and close your eyes for a moment. Now, please all point in the direction you think that the ring came from. Bailiff, please check those five people in the fourth and fifth rows."

Pullarius: /Although maybe a colon would be better

Semicolon is good.

It was prolly the bailiff's phone.

skinink: Does that arrest stay on your record? I'd be pissed if it did. The CORI here in Massachusetts records everylittle thing, and it shows everything to employers who need to do a criminal check. It even shows cases where you were found innocent, or where a settlement was reached before your case went to court, and you didn't plea guilty.
That judge is totally farked up.

Every arrest stays on your record forever. Trust me. Think of it as bad information on your credit report - you can get it cleared off 2 of 3 agencies, but the third one will report back to the first two and they will reinstate it and it's a never ending loop. Even your juvenile arrests now show up - even tho they shouldn't.

FormlessOne: He should've made them answer, individually, under oath. That way, he could've jailed them for contempt with more justification (or, snagged the one asshat who thought he was not only too self-important to turn his phone off, but that he could also lie to a judge with impunity.)

You are forgetting the 5th Amendment grants rights against self incrimination. Of course, a person can be compelled to testify, but only after they are given immunity from prosecution.

I suspect this speaks of a larger problem with this judge. A general willingness to throw 45 innocent people in jail to make sure that one is punished is deplorable.

Okie Cynic: many people with no prior history of assholiness become assholes when they put on judicial robes.

many people with no prior history of assholiness become assholes when they acquire cellular phones.

I like this one.

abb3w: "Everyone who heard that cell phone, please stand up and close your eyes for a moment. Now, please all point in the direction you think that the ring came from. Bailiff, please check those five people in the fourth and fifth rows."

Your plan might work except for the 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizures.

It calls punishing innocent people "inexcusable."

So punishing innocent people in the name of getting the people responsible for cell phones is unacceptable, but punishing every single person who drinks almost any amount of alcohol (cause it don't take that much to hit .08, folks) and then enters their car for any purpose is?

/being nitpicky
//the law is nitpicky
///pegs people in front of him at theaters who are responsible for more than one unnecessary noise
////is deadly with malt balls

He could have looked at the call history on the cell phones.

Nuts, underline and italics look so similar when you're hung over.

Epsilon: Glad he lost his job. He knew for a fact that 45 of those 46 people were innocent, yet he decided to punish them all anyway. That's not a guy you want sitting as judge.

Exactly. Cell phones might be annoying as hell, but that doesn't excuse this judge's behavior.

Not every one of those other 45 people knew whose phone it was. Most of those people who didn't fess up knew nothing. To be thrown in jail for that should be the real crime.

TFA: New York's top court has upheld the removal of a Niagara Falls city court judge who jailed 46 people after no one would own up to a cell phone that rang in court.

Niagara Falls! Slooooooooooooowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch!

matto14: your in court turn off your farking phone or put the thing on vibrate. tired of hearing stupid solider boy and alien looking rehanna songs or any other blinged out ring tone. your now going to jail and your cant take your phone with you enjoy the pay phone.

/johnny cockrel

Holy crap. You actually spelled it "your" in both cases. "your in court" and "your cell phone". Do you really think that those two words are spelled the same or are you too lazy to care?

This guy and dry-cleaning pants ex-judge should open a partnership. If nothing else it'd make for more than a few farkticles.

Wow, GOOD JOB Fark. A racist troll appears and only two people took the bait. Congratulations, everyone. skinink and Hubert Sumlin, try to do better next time.

Oops, sorry, I meant skinink, Hubert Sumlin, and MonkeyAngst. Because after all, I say jackandwater is a pathetic racist douche, whose self-validating anecdotal idea of ethnic behavior is weaker than the drink from which he takes his name.

/remember kids, the price of food is going up, but Troll Food is still CHEAP.

I'm with Judgey-wudgey.

Just say no to cell phones!

Just like the moron last week end texting during a movie, those screens are bright in the dark!

Mentat Sloooowly ...
davynelson I'm with Judgey-wudgey.

Stooges version (Not a rickroll, promise)

/big Curley fan