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Old 10-08-2004, 04:28 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by ENDelt260
I don't so much find it amusing as frustrating. I think people that believe a single word that comes out of a cop's mouth are slap on the forehead, Gomer Pyle stupid. I'm always concerned someone in the group of people I'm with is "that guy".

Thankfully I'm not involved in many illegal activites anymore. But, every once in awhile I hear a story that just leaves me thinking, "WTF? Why the fuck did you answer?"

On a tangentially related story of stupidity and the law.... a few weeks back I met a girl who had an extreme DUI. I know a think or two on the subject, as I myself got popped with an extreme a couple years ago. She's telling me about some of the punishments she's gone through, and it becomes apparent that she just went to court, plead guilty, and took all the standard minimums. I was shocked. "Why the fuck didn't you hire a lawyer?" "A lawyer wouldn't be able to do anything for me." I then proceeded to tell her my story... which included committed the EXACT SAME CRIME as her, but receiving far fewer punishments, thanks to my lawyer. This dumb broad didn't even talk to a lawyer... choosing instead to just listen to the advice of some equally dumbfuck friend of hers, and get ass-raped by the state of Arizona. Sheezus... every freakin' lawyer with a big gaudy DUI ad in the yellow pages has free consultations. They're not gonna paint you some rosey unrealistic picture of what they can do for ya just to grab your cash. They're lawyers.. it's a doctorate in CYA. I think I heard the phrase "Now, I can't guarantee anything" more times in my one hour visit with the lawyer than I had in the 21 years of my life leading up to that meeting.

Sorry.. now I'm just rambling. Jesus, what a dumb broad, tho. Man, she looked really pissed as the realization set in that she didn't have to go through all the shit she did. It still makes me laugh.
I, too, had an attorney say "I can't guarantee anything". I said sure you can, you can guarantee me you won't charge me if you don't get this done.
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