Not One More Word
I watched a case play out in traffic court where the guy who went up before me did something stupid that should have been a small fine. But, he completely lost it and started hollering about the injustice of it all, and was carrying on about how America was going down the drain and was being taken over by communists, when finally, the judge lost it right back at him.
It went something like this…The judge said, “Be quiet! Not one more word! I’ve heard enough, NO MORE…Silence!” The client, “But Your honor!”…Followed by a long silence and the judge looks down at the guy..”.But…your honor..”. “Not one more word”. “But.”. “I see this is difficult for you to understand. Let me say this exactly one more time, a last chance so to speak, NOT ONE MORE WORD”.
“Your..”. “BALLIF!” So after watching the idiot getting hauled out of the courtroom, the judge bangs his gavel and it’s my turn. I walk up to the judge’s desk and say, “Well I had this well thought out defense as to why I was driving without a license and expired tabs, but I’m just going to go with the fact that I was an idiot for forgetting both of them”.
“Oh well, it happens to the best of us, show me your license and papers are current and we’ll forget about it”. After I showed him, I asked him, “So what’s going to happen to that guy who went before me?” “Probably going to sentence him to picking up trash on the side of the highway for a few weeks”. I thought that was pretty darn funny considering this is Alabama in the middle of the summer.
Story credit: Reddit