apparently prosecutors in new york city have too much time on their hands, as demonstrated by their ongoing perse-prosecution of jeb corliss, the thrillseeker stuntman who failed to jump off the empire state building wearing a parachute. he was charged with reckless endangerment based on what would have happened if he did jump, and the case was righteously thrown out of court by a judge with more than the usual NYS judiciary’s allotment of common sense. but DA eric rosen must have been at the very end of the common sense line, as he reinstated this lawsuit based on the fact that “nothing” separated corliss from the pedestrians in the street.
well, you could say that about anyone who goes up there, couldn’t you?
when i go to visit my dear old dad, nothing separates me from his (licensed) 38-caliber pistol in the top drawer of the nighttable, so i probably should be arrested for all the people that i might have shot. and i stood behind somebody on the subway platform last week — i might have pushed her. for that matter, i had a book of matches in my pocket and i might have burned down the diner when i had breakfast there on sunday. my god! the crimes that i haven’t yet committed! get out the handcuffs.
i’m making fun of it, but these bullshit lawsuits really piss me off. i’d rather see these prosecutors go after building developers who cut corners and kill workers by erecting substandard scaffolding, for example — some of which blew down in a recent windstorm and killed pedestrians as well. since all these cases are funded by MY taxpayer dollars, i should have some kind of say in it, don’t you think?
since we seem to love voting so much that we start our presidential preprimaries half a century in advance, why not set up weekly voting booths where the citizens who foot the bill get to weigh in on some of the ways that our at-loose-ends prosecutors come up with to keep themselves busy. and include a write-in ballot for cases that really need attention but don’t get it.
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Check out the movie “Vanilla Sky”–think it was based on a Philip K. Dick novel–in which citizens are arrested based on crimes they will commit in the future as predicted by three psychic hostages held captive in the basement of headquarters.
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