Ever Have One Of Those Days?

I know mobile phones can be annoying, but...

Whose phone rang? Judge jails 46

A US judge has been removed from the bench for jailing 46 people after none would admit to having a mobile phone that began ringing during his court session.

Judge Robert Restaino "snapped" and "engaged in what can only be described as two hours of inexplicable madness" during the 2005 session, Raoul Felder, chairman of the New York state Commission on Judicial Conduct, wrote in the decision to remove the judge today.

Restaino, who became a judge in 2002, was hearing domestic violence cases in Niagara Falls, New York when a phone rang.

"Everyone is going to jail," the judge said. "Every single person is gong to jail in this courtroom unless I get that instrument now. If anybody believes I'm kidding, ask some of the folks that have been here for a while. You are all going."

When no one came forward, the judge ordered the group into custody and they were taken by police to the city jail, where they were searched and packed into crowded cells.

Fourteen people who could not post bail were shackled and taken to the county Jail, a 30-minute drive away. Later in the afternoon, after being told reporters were calling, the judge ordered the defendants released.

The judge told the state panel he was under stress in his personal life.

AP

I Love Children... Roasted... On A Spit... With Their Parents As A Sauce

Was it some kind of test?

When, after weeks of asking for help to get even the most basic stuff done around the hellhole, they send me not only the eldest daughter of "MD"/CN, but her 2 pre-school kids to 'work with me' for the week?? A woman who knows nothing about outdoor furniture & barely enough about BBQs & heating products to avoid getting 3rd degree burns, who then lets her 2 extremely mobile & vocal daughters run amok whilst espousing the view that her being there allowed me to 'concentrate on the warehouse & furniture construction'??!!??!!??!!

I could barely leave the front counter from the moment of their arrival &, in fact, got less done than I would have if they'd never shown up & Junior hadn't turned up either. And at least then I wouldn't have spent the afternoon dodging building blocks, play-tea sets, milk bottles, innumerable cups of water (which mostly wound up on the carpet ~ such as that is...) & having phone conversations interrupted by screaming tantrums & ineffectual, half-arsed motherly remonstrations. After all of which, I was asked by 'Daughter of "MD"/CN' "But you have to admit, she's pretty cute?!", as she held up her youngest ~ either for my inspection, or for an easier shot at her skull... I'm still not sure.

It must have been a test... nobody could possibly think that constitutes acceptable practice in the workplace... could they??!! Didn't we just vote against allowing that kind of thinking a couple of days ago?