The 17-year-old let his mobile ring with the music of US rapper Akon before he answered the call while sitting in the front row of Darwin Magistrates Court yesterday. When the teen “backchatted” after he was told off, magistrate Daynor Trigg shouted across the courtroom and sent him to the court cells for three hours. The magistrate said he could have confiscated the phone for 28 days for the “rude” act.
“How dare you answer a phone in court … that allows transmissions from court … which is a serious contempt,” he shouted at the teen when he answered the phone. When the teen waved it off as “my bad”, Mr Trigg ordered he be taken away. The teen was in court to face two charges of entering a dwelling with intent and stealing when his phone rang, and Mr Trigg charged him with contempt of court. When the youth was brought back into court he apologised. “Sorry your honour for um … having my phone on and answering it during court and backchatting,” the teen said.
Relax, it’s nothing that a good tasering won’t solve.
Well?
Technically, it was “his bad” 🙂
Not surprising. Sadly, lots of kids (and I’m not far off from being one myself) don’t have proper respect for law, business, authority, or one another. Manners are going the way of common sense.
Good.
City court judges in the summer get a kick out of telling people to come back when they are not wearing shorts. It is like they are holding on to their last grasp at the theater. I’ve seen all sort of judges who are wearing shorts under their black gown.
Taze the citizen immediately, lest others get the wrong message.
No self respecting government should permit such rudeness to a government worker without appropriate and timely reeducation.
#2 – Sadly, lots of kids (and I’m not far off from being one myself) don’t have proper respect for law, business, authority, or one another.
Tell me… what is the “proper respect” I need to show to “business”?
Never mind law and authority, which both of which derive their power from the willing consent of the people… but business?
These guys think my an idiot? How dare them.
Your Awsome. (See May 20th’s Dog Poster here.)
Sounds like a great place to install a cell phone jammer. Lawyers, Judges and the general public were able to survive without cell phones in court before.
Sounds like the situation was handled properly by all parties. the judge taught a lesson and the kid came back and apologized for it. I bet he won’t do it again so lesson learned. Everyone wins.
@ #6
“Proper Respect” in business includes:
– Shaving and wearing a suit to a job interview
– Looking a client in the eye when speaking
– Not swearing in an office atmosphere
– Not talking on your cellphone during an office meeting
– Not back-talking your supervisor in front of other employees
– Not reading dvorak.org/blog while at work. Oops… 🙂
#11, see #7.
James, your missing the joke.
Bailiff, whack his pee pee.
#5
“You are charged with anti-civil activity level one. Protection units prosecution code: duty, sword, operate.”
#10 – Sure, but the post in #2 said “law, business, and authority” which places business on the same level as “law” and “authority”.
Law and authority both rely on the threat of force to receive respect. They both represent incursions (generally agreed upon by the governed, perhaps) on freedom.
If that was just bad writing, then fine. Otherwise, he’s implying that I owe some sort of respect to businesses that I am not associated with, and I want to know what that is.
@ #15
I read it as more of a “those darn kids today don’t have respect for anything…” statement. Law, business, and authority can be mentioned in the same sentence regarding disrespectful behavior. Looking at it from your perspective, I see your rationale.
>>Bailiff, whack his pee pee.
Hey, he’s a Republican wing-nut. Cut him some slack. Plea bargain, maybe? He doesn’t understand that “ghetto talk”.
Mister Hill, you’ve been pwned. HAW!!
Mustard on the left, Hill on the right.
Looks like Bob has been programed well.
Well I am off to the patent office to patent this great Idea. This Idea has been test in Russia and has been shown to reduce crime by about 45.34756%. 9 of 10 American Cops recommend it. I have buyers from Russia, Iran, North Korea and other places I can’t tell you about.
The CIA/NSA/FBI can not confirm nor deny their participation in the design of PhoneTaze.
This multi billion dollar idea is to install a government controlled remotely operated tazer into every newly made cell phone. Heck they may just disable any cell phone that doesn’t have this installed after a certain cut off date.
This of course requires another unfunded Government mandate, to force cell phone makers to design this in their phones. The end user can’t turn the tazer off, even if the phone is off. You don’t even have to be on the phone to be tazed, just having the phone on your person, in your pocket will do.
This is a buisness/government/citizen win/win/win.
I would license this to the Government, business or subscriber for a dime per taze. I would be a billionaire in no time.
Proposed allowable Uses:
Verizon, Sprint … could request the Government (George Bush) to taze delinquents who are late paying their bills.
The judge could order the Bailiff, to set the system to automatic. It would automatically taze anyone answering or even just letting it ring when in court.
The cops could automatically taze people running away, or if they are being interrogated.
Systems can be setup on highways to taze people driving over the speed limit or just tail gating.
The Pentagon could order any one living in IRAN/IRAQ be tazed if someone says certain code words when talking on the phone.
I really can’t see a down side about this. It is an obvious win/win/win/win for everyone, except the delinquents and criminals, since; this will only be used on them.
I will share my profits with anyone who can identify more good uses for PhoneTaze.
Actually, I’m not missing a thing: You guys aren’t doing a good job at entertaining me.
And considering I’ve been owning the kids around here for years, me being “pwned” is an impossibility.
Sounds like a reasonable judge to me. Except I would have left him in longer. You fight authority they always win.
This is retarded. I love how everyone just nods like sheep and agree with the judge. This is a gross abuse of power, to say the least. His cellphone went off, so throw him in jail? What the hell is that?
Judges as a whole are constantly pulling crap like this, and frankly, they shouldn’t be allowed to. You are not God on earth, you only have power because we the people let you have power. Screw giving the guy in fancy clothes respect, he needs to learn where his bread is buttered and show at least a modicum of respect to the people.
So the kid was on his cellphone, big deal. Have him removed from the court room, if it’s actually that big a disturbance, which I doubt it was. But you don’t throw someone in a cell for something like that. Just another example of what is wrong with the American legal system. Great use of valuable jail space, a guy who talked on his cellphone.
#20 YOU ARE A TOTAL MORON
Tazers kill people you could face manslaughter charges
people late paying thier bills? that a great reason to risk ones life
taze people running away? that is if they no there name and if there stupid enuf to keep there phone with them
Taze speeders? yes what an amazing idea! cause an accident, heck maybe even a 20 car pile up, yet again more possible manslaughter charges and a lawsuit
Yes lets go after iran/iraq and taze people for saying code words..wtf wud that do? knock em out for a while? ok so whose gonna arrest them if there plotting something? im sure the human rights board will love that one, yet another lawsuit! maybe even start another world war
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT I POINTED OUT MULTIPLE PROBLEMS WITH YOU LITTLE PROJECT. O AND DONT WORRY ABOUT SHARING YOUR PROFITS WITH ME, YOU WONT HAVE ANY ONCE THE LAWSUITS START COMMING.
BTW YOUR A TOTAL MORON
#20 YOU ARE A TOTAL IDIOT
Tazers kill people you could face manslaughter charges
people late paying thier bills? that a great reason to risk ones life
taze people running away? that is if they no there name and if there stupid enuf to keep there phone with them
Taze speeders? yes what an amazing idea! cause an accident, heck maybe even a 20 car pile up, yet again more possible manslaughter charges and a lawsuit
Yes lets go after iran/iraq and taze people for saying code words..wtf wud that do? knock em out for a while? ok so whose gonna arrest them if there plotting something? im sure the human rights board will love that one, yet another lawsuit! maybe even start another world war
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT I POINTED OUT MULTIPLE PROBLEMS WITH YOU LITTLE PROJECT. O AND DONT WORRY ABOUT SHARING YOUR PROFITS WITH ME, YOU WONT HAVE ANY ONCE THE LAWSUITS START COMMING.
BTW YOUR AN IDIOT