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Sunday, July 11, 2004
The European thought police, hard at work...
A driver who told a parking attendant "You are nobody!" has felt the weight of Italy's legal system, which ruled the seemingly innocuous words constituted slander -- and fined him heavily.
The tiff over a parking space led to Giulio C. being fined 300 euros ($370) plus 500 euros legal costs when a court in the northeast city of Trieste turned down his appeal.
The court ruled the phrase 'you are nobody' "means precisely 'you are a nonentity' and to state that a person is a nonentity is certainly offensive because it is damaging to the dignity of a person."
Idiots.
If I lived in the EU, I guess I would expect an 800 euro bill in the mail for the above "slander".Labels: Archives_2004
.: posted by
Dave
8:08 PM
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