wheeee

what i should be doing all day: working my little tail off writing a memo and an outline that are due later this week

what i will be doing if, half an hour after the email was sent out, the ticket hasn't been given away yet: availing myself of a free ticket to a Cardinals playoff game.

i swear, if i get email during class telling me i can have the ticket, i'm going to start squeaking in the middle of torts class. playoff baseball is love.

bummer

no ticket for me. boo urns. i have to work.

mock is back.

my day has been made a whole lot better. it just sunk in that the SLU mock trial tournament is this friday and saturday! judging mock trial is shiny. i am going to be judging all four rounds at that tournament. therefore, if i can get through this week...the weekend will be shiny, and i'll probably have lots of fun stories to tell come saturday night.

dear moron: if you bought stolen property, you do not own it.

instead of reading those really boring cases for property, why can't we read fun things like this section from Acts of Gord? we'll learn the same principles, only with material like this, we'll laugh hysterically in the process!!

(regular text is the moron customer. italicized text is our hero, the video game store owner who's amazingly good at telling stupid people that they are stupid.)

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"Good day."

"What's this about you claiming I stole your PlayStation!"

"Actually, all I did was an older English polite version of 'hello'. 'Good day' means 'hello' as saying 'hello' to someone you weren't formally introduced to prior was considered impolite in the 19th century."

"You told the police I stole your PlayStation!"

"Very well then. What is your phone number as I have no idea who you are."

"I don't have an account here."

"Then I would suggest the claim that I told the police you stole my PlayStation would be a conjecture of your imagination."

"I pawned my PlayStation, and when I went to pick it up, they said it was stolen from here."

"Very well then, how about I phone and ask what's going on."

[Gord phones the department of the police that handles property crime. It seems that the system in question was stolen a year earlier by someone who cancelled the card after renting. The system was reported stolen [and serial # given in case it ever turned up at a pawn shop] and the address the person gave was also false. They were holding it for me, and just hadn't brought it down yet. So in fact it was stolen, just not by her.]

"Well, that solves that problem. That machine was stolen by someone a year ago."

"Give it back to me or I'll sue!"

"First, it's not even here yet. Second, sue me for what?"

"That system wasn't yours anymore! I legally bought it!"

"Property ownership does not legally end at the unlawful removal of the property via theft. And as such, all future implied ownership transfers are on their face false, as my ownership is still the one that is accepted before the law."

"I'll sue! I own it!"

"You'll sue for what I may ask?"

"To get it back!"

"Under what act of the law will you use?"

"uhm.... I'll get a lawyer!"

"You'll spend $175 an hour on a hopeless cause for a $140 machine that you bought used? Oh, and welfare doesn't pay for lawyers. A court only gives you a lawyer if you are being criminally charged."



"You haven't heard the last of me!"

"Good day."

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opinion by the honourable justice Gord.

i swear, i've gotten so hooked on Acts of Gord. hilabeans told me about it today, and i think i've made my way through almost all the stories on the site over the course of the day. that's not to say i haven't been productive...i have done my torts homework for tomorrow, outlined the whole semester of contracts so far, and outlined about half of my twelve page memo for which i have a draft due on friday. but...when torts or contracts or the memo get way too boring, reading Acts of Gord is just the ticket.