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Throw a Party, Get a fine the size of tuition (and other hilarious news stories)

BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
edited October 2010 in Social Entropy++
Wisconsin kids throw a party costing $86,000
The city of Madison is fining three University of Wisconsin-Madison students for more than $86,000 for a house party.

Travis Ludy, 21, Mitchell Klatt, 20, and Kevin Tracy, 20 face 130 citations for things like dispensing alcohol without a permit, procuring alcohol for an underage person and adult encouraging underage alcohol consumption.
The students also could face university discipline.

Madison police say the men could have faced a smaller fine if they hadn't locked doors and turned off the music and lights when officers arrived Sept. 11.

Ludy says they hope to get the fines reduced, because none of them can afford it.

Tracy, from St. Paul, Minn., had been on MTV's "College Life," in which eight UW-Madison students were given cameras to document their lives.

Pretty ridiculous, but kind of funny.

Any other hilarious lawsuits in the news lately? We haven't had a humorous news thread in awhile so I thought i'd start it off.

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  • SpudgeSpudge Witty comments go next to this blue dot thingyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I know a guy who got a felony trespassing arrest because he was at a college party. Cops came to break it up, someone got unruly so they arrested 8 random people on trespassing counts

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Law is awesome

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Bedigunz wrote: »
    Madison police say the men could have faced a smaller fine if they hadn't locked doors and turned off the music and lights when officers arrived Sept. 11..
    ah

    the michael scott defense

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    How dare they throw a party so close to 9/11?

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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    That's the real tragedy.

    Also that reminds me of a joke:

    Me: Knock knock
    You: Who is there?
    Me: 9/11
    You: 9/11 who?
    Me: I thought you said you'd never forget

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  • HellaJeffHellaJeff FAB FRESH RAIIINBOOWWWWWRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Love that joke.

    The guy who defended a break in with a sword was pretty cool

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Woman Travels 200 Miles, With Gun in Hand, to Kill Mean Internet Commenter
    We have to imagine that there are more people out there like 25-year-old Breana Greathouse, who traveled over 200 miles with a gun in her hand to kill someone who was mean to her on the Internet.

    Breana (which we've also seen spelled "Briana") was apprehended on Wednesday morning in Ottumwa, Iowa after coming all the way from Kansas City, Missouri to allegedly kill a man named Forrest Jamison, because "she believed that he made derogatory postings about her on the Internet," according to a statement by Ottumwa police.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    HellaJeff wrote: »
    Love that joke.

    The guy who defended a break in with a sword was pretty cool

    I was living with a couple guys from work a few years back when we heard a commotion outside of our neighbor's house around midnight. We were pretty drunk seeing as how that is all we did back then. Anyway, he goes into his room and comes out with a crossbow and a katana. He hands me the katana and we creep outside to see what the hell is going on. There had been a break-in nearby recently so we weren't completely crazy thinking it could have been another one. So, we slowly cross the lawn, me with katana and him with crossbow.

    Turns out it was a big ass stray dog tearing up their trash.

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  • HellaJeffHellaJeff FAB FRESH RAIIINBOOWWWWWRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    HellaJeff wrote: »
    Love that joke.

    The guy who defended a break in with a sword was pretty cool

    I was living with a couple guys from work a few years back when we heard a commotion outside of our neighbor's house around midnight. We were pretty drunk seeing as how that is all we did back then. Anyway, he goes into his room and comes out with a crossbow and a katana. He hands me the katana and we creep outside to see what the hell is going on. There had been a break-in nearby recently so we weren't completely crazy thinking it could have been another one. So, we slowly cross the lawn, me with katana and him with crossbow.

    Turns out it was a big ass stray dog tearing up their trash.

    I don't play DnD that much

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  • HellaJeffHellaJeff FAB FRESH RAIIINBOOWWWWWRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Seriously though, that is pretty funny.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    HellaJeff wrote: »
    HellaJeff wrote: »
    Love that joke.

    The guy who defended a break in with a sword was pretty cool

    I was living with a couple guys from work a few years back when we heard a commotion outside of our neighbor's house around midnight. We were pretty drunk seeing as how that is all we did back then. Anyway, he goes into his room and comes out with a crossbow and a katana. He hands me the katana and we creep outside to see what the hell is going on. There had been a break-in nearby recently so we weren't completely crazy thinking it could have been another one. So, we slowly cross the lawn, me with katana and him with crossbow.

    Turns out it was a big ass stray dog tearing up their trash.

    I don't play DnD that much

    This was long after my D&D days. I have no idea why he owned the weapons. I wouldn't have pegged him as "that guy".

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  • HellaJeffHellaJeff FAB FRESH RAIIINBOOWWWWWRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I can't suppress some of my nerdy desires, so I move them to modern equivalents. I want to learn to hunt with a bow, objectively I am just a dude hunting some deer. but in my mind

    it is adventure

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    I'm going to go punch a deer to death.

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Strap swords to the deer. Make it fair.

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  • MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    HellaJeff wrote: »
    Love that joke.

    The guy who defended a break in with a sword was pretty cool

    reminds me of that nurse who ended up killing the hitman hired to killed her

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    They should fine them double just for being named Travis, Mitchell, and Kevin

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  • MereHappenstanceMereHappenstance Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Macera wrote: »
    HellaJeff wrote: »
    Love that joke.

    The guy who defended a break in with a sword was pretty cool

    reminds me of that nurse who ended up killing the hitman hired to killed her

    How ironic.

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  • MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Lord Dave wrote: »
    They should fine them double just for being named Travis, Mitchell, and Kevin

    Whatever Bro

    Lance and Chet aren't living with them anymore.

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  • MachismoMachismo Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Macera wrote: »

    She was 51!!!

    No wonder her estranged husband hired a hitman. She is a dangerous broad!

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  • MereHappenstanceMereHappenstance Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I like how the story hints at her being way bigger than him. " A large woman, she was eventually able to get the slight Haffey into a chokehold and police later found him dead in a hallway".

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Macera wrote: »

    She's an ER nurse; they're a tough bunch!

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Also, I got an ad for mormon.org when I read that article ...

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  • General_WinGeneral_Win Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Also, I got an ad for mormon.org when I read that article ...

    You should find god, its a sign.

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Sucks for them, but that's why if you have a college party you mark people's hands to prove that you're not giving alcohol to minors.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited October 2010

    If I'm ever a famous actor, I'm doing this all day.

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  • PhantPhant Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Macera wrote: »

    She's an ER nurse; they're a tough bunch!

    As someone with a pair of nurses in my family, this does not surprise me at all. Don't tick off nurses, people.

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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Hahahahahahaha

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/07/karen-owen-duke-sex-rati_n_754186.html
    Karen F. Owen, a 2010 Duke grad, composed an in-depth, thesis-like document titled "An Education Beyond The Classroom: Excelling In The Realm Of Horizontal Academics," in May. In the report, she describes the men she's slept with in near-scientific detail and even provides charts ranking their sexual prowess. She sent the show to a few friends after she wrote it and, from there, it went into a forward frenzy, ending up on fraternity listservs and making its way to the media.

    ahahahahahaha

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I love college kids who cry when they get fines for doing illegal things because 'hey, college r 4 parteez'. Also, I enjoy the ostrich defense of turning off the lights and music when the cops show up. Like they're characters from a cartoon and will fall for that clever ruse.

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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Cop 1: "Welp Frank, the lights are off. We better go back to the station"
    Cop 2: "What about the red cups, the noise complaints from earlier, and the keg in the yard"
    Cop 1: "What?"

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Phant wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Macera wrote: »

    She's an ER nurse; they're a tough bunch!

    As someone with a pair of nurses in my family, this does not surprise me at all. Don't tick off nurses, people.

    I wonder what went through that little hammer-wielding shitsack's head when his "client" turned out to be a large woman who spends her days lifting limp human bodies around.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Bedigunz wrote: »
    Cop 1: "Welp Frank, the lights are off. We better go back to the station"
    Cop 2: "What about the red cups, the noise complaints from earlier, and the keg in the yard"
    Cop 1: "What?"

    "Seriously, I can see the kids peeking through the curtains and there's like three people passed out on the lawn"

    "I have no clue what you're talking about. There's no lights or music, therefor no party rookie"

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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    My personal belief in college was "yeah I'm doing something illegal, but if I get caught I'll just man up and pay the fine. I'm breaking the law, I should pay"

    I've had friends cry and kick and scream to get out of an alcohol ticket when they were 17. One (rich) kid used his family's lawyer to get him out of a drinking ticket. Now that kid is in lawschool

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    When I was in college, they had this formal dance each year around Christmas where part of the ticket price was transportation on a very fancy luxury bus to the place that was like 20 minutes off campus. They did this to prevent people from driving while drunk.

    They basically knew that anyone 21 or older would get wasted at this thing, and that anyone under 21 would either go there drunk or have people buy them booze there. The college was being realistic and proactive. So of course one asshole got all tanked the fuck up and drove his car to the parking lot where the bus was instead of walking the 2 minutes to get there. Naturally, he had to recklessly speed in a 15mph zone, go flying around a tight turn, lose control, and flip his car that only stopped once it hit a light post and the side of a fucking building. He hit a building.

    Needless to say he sued the school for promoting alcohol consumption even to underage people. He won. No more free transportation to any event that may have alcohol served from that point on.

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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    What?

    WHAT?!

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Yep, he sued and won. Blamed the college, blamed the event coordinator, blamed campus police.

    Well, I'm sure mommy and daddy blamed all those things and pushed him to sue but still. Way to take responsibility for drinking and driving. Which by the way he didn't get a ticket for because technically the campus roads magically don't count or some bullshit.

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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    What. a. douche.

    Way to ruin it for everyone.

    I'm tired of people not taking responsibility for their actions. The school didn't pour alcohol down his throat then force him to drive.

    Fuck him.

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