October
2002
Vol. 38, No. 10
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Quotes
"It
becomes quite a show."
An
onlooker commenting on the spectacle that takes place daily in the
parking lot of an office complex in Alexandria, Virginia. There, businesswoman
Cat Crosby—who has several reserved parking spaces for herself
and her employees—monitors the lot from her office via a surveillance
camera. Citing property rights, she snaps metal tire locks on cars
that take her assigned spots and charges violators $25 to have the
locks removed. Police say Crosby is acting within her rights as a
private citizen.
"Today's
news is tomorrow's bird-cage carpet."
Attorney
Mathew Staver of Orlando, Florida, who represented five students
in a lawsuit alleging that Miami-Dade Community College's policy requiring
prior approval of handout literature violates students' right to free
speech. Staver contended that "to be effective, speech must be spontaneous."
The parties settled.
"We
screwed up, made a big mistake."
The
mea culpa from Val Stone, an assistant court administrator
in Snohomish County, Washington, after she found that a recorded phone
message mistakenly told 160 prospective jurors to report for duty
at 5 a.m.—3 1/2 hours early. About 70 jurors arrived, only to
spend those hours in an unlit, unheated room.
"Never
made a mess in the House! Never will!"
The
campaign slogan on a flyer that Wayne Genthner handed out on
behalf of his border collie, Percy. Genthner sought to have Percy
run against Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris in her bid
for Congress, but state election officials refused to qualify the
dog as a candidate. Genthner—who has raised a stink about "highly
financed, sterile campaigns that avoid meaningful debate"—decided
to run as a write-in, but said, "Percy exists to me as a binding none-of-the-above
ballot selection."
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