Post by happybadger on Apr 25, 2018 13:46:41 GMT
With Israel Folau expelled from all rugby kangaroo courting worldwide, the Rochdale Raptors' Players Cooperative had to pick legal counsel for their first Kangaroo Court of the season, and they chose a former American gridiron player as their advisor...
...it wasn't just any gridiron player, but a former justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, and a member of the famed "Purple People Eaters" defence, Alan Page...
...and it wasn't just any person hauled via tumbril before the Court, but the boss, Theo...
...and it wasn't much of a trial, for the charges were "negligence of coaching duties, causing risk of additional injury, and causing institutional embarrassment to Rochdale", and Theo did plead guilty...
...but after the 5,000 pound sterling fine was imposed, and before it had been engrossed in the Official Record, Zienia spoke...
"...I object..."
...and her objection was that of extenuating circumstances, due to the wedding planning that she had asked for Theo's collaboration assistance for the wedding before the Sydney Oilers' game...
...and Zienia reduced the fine to 2,500 pounds, imposed a matching fine upon herself, and asked that the Court use these fines to pay toward the honeymoon (the extended portion, as she invited the happy couple to travel with the Raptors to Australia, sideline standing for the Monsters' game, and a luxury box/catering pass for them both in Sydney for the Oilers/Dragons game, all expenses until after the games also directly paid on the happy couple's behalf by the club as a wedding present (and access to the club's travel agency discounts for the remainder of their honeymoon travel)...
...Justice Page rolled his eyes, and then nodded, reaching into his wallet, pulling out wads of 100 quid notes, only for captain Daly Cherry-Evans to overrule him, and he reached into his wallet, as the other players reached into their wallets...
...and another 3,000 pounds for the happy couple was collected...make that 3,500, as Justice Page overruled Cherry-Evans with that quiet glare, the glare that had scared offensive linemen across the National Football League for many years, and contributed...
...and everyone laughed, then rushed to the motorcoaches for the start of the trip to Melbourne...
...it wasn't just any gridiron player, but a former justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, and a member of the famed "Purple People Eaters" defence, Alan Page...
...and it wasn't just any person hauled via tumbril before the Court, but the boss, Theo...
...and it wasn't much of a trial, for the charges were "negligence of coaching duties, causing risk of additional injury, and causing institutional embarrassment to Rochdale", and Theo did plead guilty...
...but after the 5,000 pound sterling fine was imposed, and before it had been engrossed in the Official Record, Zienia spoke...
"...I object..."
...and her objection was that of extenuating circumstances, due to the wedding planning that she had asked for Theo's collaboration assistance for the wedding before the Sydney Oilers' game...
...and Zienia reduced the fine to 2,500 pounds, imposed a matching fine upon herself, and asked that the Court use these fines to pay toward the honeymoon (the extended portion, as she invited the happy couple to travel with the Raptors to Australia, sideline standing for the Monsters' game, and a luxury box/catering pass for them both in Sydney for the Oilers/Dragons game, all expenses until after the games also directly paid on the happy couple's behalf by the club as a wedding present (and access to the club's travel agency discounts for the remainder of their honeymoon travel)...
...Justice Page rolled his eyes, and then nodded, reaching into his wallet, pulling out wads of 100 quid notes, only for captain Daly Cherry-Evans to overrule him, and he reached into his wallet, as the other players reached into their wallets...
...and another 3,000 pounds for the happy couple was collected...make that 3,500, as Justice Page overruled Cherry-Evans with that quiet glare, the glare that had scared offensive linemen across the National Football League for many years, and contributed...
...and everyone laughed, then rushed to the motorcoaches for the start of the trip to Melbourne...
