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#1 DET63

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 08:27 PM

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You could get zapped for $200.

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 06:56 PM

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:21 PM

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You could get zapped for $200.


On the sign, why are the skull and crossbones next to "$200.00 FINE" and not "INSTANT DEATH"?

Are taxes more 'deadly' than death? :unsure:

Edited by The Davy Crockett, 25 January 2012 - 08:24 PM.

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 12:52 PM

I would love to be in the courtroom when they roll in the corpse and the judge demands the $200 fine!Posted Image Then when the corpse remains quiet, the judge rules "contempt of court" and sentences the corpse to 6 months in jail!Posted Image

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Posted 27 January 2012 - 02:42 AM


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You could get zapped for $200.


On the sign, why are the skull and crossbones next to "$200.00 FINE" and not "INSTANT DEATH"?

Are taxes more 'deadly' than death? :unsure:


My guess would be that there is simply more room next to the "$200 Fine," even though the icons or images should indeed be on the "Instant Death" line.

If I were to design the sign, I'd make the "$200 Fine" letters and number larger and put the skull and crossbones next to the "death" threat. People would probably pay more attention to—and thus heed—the "fine" threat anyway.

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Posted 27 January 2012 - 02:50 AM

I would love to be in the courtroom when they roll in the corpse and the judge demands the $200 fine!Posted Image Then when the corpse remains quiet, the judge rules "contempt of court" and sentences the corpse to 6 months in jail!Posted Image

Now that's a TOUGH judge!Posted Image

Judge Roy Bean (who supposedly fined a man for some offense AFTER he'd been killed).

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Posted 27 January 2012 - 10:25 AM


I would love to be in the courtroom when they roll in the corpse and the judge demands the $200 fine!Posted Image Then when the corpse remains quiet, the judge rules "contempt of court" and sentences the corpse to 6 months in jail!Posted Image

Now that's a TOUGH judge!Posted Image

Judge Roy Bean (who supposedly fined a man for some offense AFTER he'd been killed).

True story! The actual Fine, according to the story, was what the corpse had in his pocket when searched per order of Judge Bean!! :o ! ($50 is amount I've always heard!)

Edited by jimhudson, 27 January 2012 - 10:27 AM.

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Posted 28 January 2012 - 11:48 AM



I would love to be in the courtroom when they roll in the corpse and the judge demands the $200 fine!Posted Image Then when the corpse remains quiet, the judge rules "contempt of court" and sentences the corpse to 6 months in jail!Posted Image

Now that's a TOUGH judge!Posted Image

Judge Roy Bean (who supposedly fined a man for some offense AFTER he'd been killed).

True story! The actual Fine, according to the story, was what the corpse had in his pocket when searched per order of Judge Bean!! :o ! ($50 is amount I've always heard!)

If his clothes got soaked in the rain first, would he be convicted of "money laundering" also?Posted Image

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 02:53 AM


I would love to be in the courtroom when they roll in the corpse and the judge demands the $200 fine!Posted Image Then when the corpse remains quiet, the judge rules "contempt of court" and sentences the corpse to 6 months in jail!Posted Image

Now that's a TOUGH judge!Posted Image

Judge Roy Bean (who supposedly fined a man for some offense AFTER he'd been killed).


There's also the case of Pope Stephen VII placing the dead body of his predecessor on trial, finding the defenseless defendant guilty, and having him stripped of his papal vestments and thrown into a river (http://en.wikipedia....i/Cadaver_synod).
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