Lawyers Gone Wild
By Mitch Berg
Note to legal bureaucrats; stupidity isn’t terrorism.
Not that what Rthese people did wasn’t gapingly, breathtakingly, invincibly stupid…:
According to their indictment, Carl Persing and Dawn Sewell were allegedly snuggling and kissing inappropriately, “making other passengers uncomfortable,” when a flight attendant asked them to stop.
“Persing was observed nuzzling or kissing Sewell on the neck, and … with his face pressed against Sewell’s vaginal area. During these actions, Sewell was observed smiling,” reads the indictment filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
So far, so good; a couple is getting frisky on the plane. Note to world; take it to the rest room.
But laws are all about more-or-less arbitrary thresholds:
On a second warning from the flight attendant, Persing snapped back threatening the flight attendant with “serious consequences” if he did not leave them alone.
The comment was enough to have the couple, both in their early 40s, arrested when the plane reached its destination in Raleigh, North Carolina, and charged with obstructing a flight attendant and with criminal association…Persing’s lawyer William Peregoy said his client was not feeling well when he placed his head on his companion’s lap, and that he only threatened the flight attendant with reporting him to his superiors on landing.
Note to the lawyers involved; we have an entire political party trying to trivialize the War On Terror. Please don’t contribute to it.
