The Loony Bin
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Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:19:30 +0000
Hiya All...
Here's a supposedly true story for you...
Wishes & Dreams...
- ANDREA
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------- Forwarded foolishness follows -------
In a local county courthouse the Clerk of Court hated fake Christmas
trees, so he always put up a real tree in the Clerk's office every year.
One year the Fire Marshal happened to do a building inspection of the
courthouse just before Christmas, while the Clerk was out to lunch, and
noticed the tree.
In the belief that the tree represented a fire hazard, he proceeded to
write a citation for a violation of the fire code, which prohibited
"live" trees in a public building, and gave it to the Clerk's assistant.
When the Clerk returned from lunch and was given the citation, he hit
the roof. Determined that no Fire Marshal was going to spoil his
Christmas, he decided to fight the citation.
So he went to the morgue in the adjoining police station, and asked the
Coroner for his help. The Coroner came over and put a toe tag on the
tree, listing the cause of death as "Being cut off at ground level".
The Clerk called the Fire Marshal back to re-inspect, and showed him the
toe tag on the tree. He told him that when the Coroner pronounces
something "dead", it is *legally* dead, and therefore the citation for
having a "live" tree was obviously in error, and wasn't worth the paper
it was written on.
The Fire Marshal thought about it, and came to the realization that,
since he would have to pursue the fire code violation in that very
courtroom, this was probably one argument he wasn't going to win. So he
let them have their tree.