Teenager Wins Email Suit Against City of Kokomo

An anonymous reader writes "Recently, a 16 year old sued the city of Kokomo, Indiana for access to an email list that he suspected the mayor was mis-using for political purposes. Despite the mayor's refusal to give in, the teenager won the case. The city will have to pay not only for the expensive attorneys they hired, but may have to compensate the 16 year old's pro-bono counsel."

Now you've done it

[Dr. Eggman]

You can't fight city hall! Or rather, you can fight city hall but the universe will implode if you win. Way to go, I never got to see France.

Re:Pro-bono

[brunes69]

Anyone who is forced to be pro-Bono should be compensated.

I mean... what's with wearing the sunglasses indoors? So pretentious!

I wonder

[cosmotron]

I wonder if this is enough of a joy for the Beach Boys to sing about it?

Who else read the subject and then...

[Mille Mots]

...heard the voices in their head singing:

Aruba, Jamaica
Ooh I wanna take ya
To Bermuda, Bahama
Come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego
Baby why don't we go

Ooh I wanna take you down to Kokomo
We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow
That's where we wanna go
Way down to Kokomo

I think I need more coffee this morning. And maybe a lobotomy so I can forget the late 80s/early 90s once and for all. The booze doesn't seem to be working.

City of Kokomo.

[BillGodfrey]

I guess he had no particular place to go.

(Two cymbals and a snare drum fall down a canyon.)

Fitting Punishment

[Anonymous Coward]

Disclaimer: This is comming from a K-Town Native.

The only fitting punishment, as any Hoosier would know (that I am) is to put him in the fields and make him do some http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/990723.Ni elsen.detassel.html [purdue.edu]Corn Detasseling. It's hand-ripping slave labor. Ask anyone from around there, they'll tell that such a punishment makes Guantanamo Bay look like Club Med.

Oh wait, he still lives in Kokomo. That's punishment enough.

sean s.

Re:Who else read the subject and then...

[mrjb]

And maybe a lobotomy so I can forget the late 80s/early 90s once and for all. The booze doesn't seem to be working.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Re:Who else read the subject and then...

[Anonymous Coward]

I heard it too, but it was the Muppets' version.

Re:obligatory grammar correction

[mjpaci]

Great. That's what Slashdot needs, Latin Grammar Nazis.

Hic, haec, hoc
Huius, huius, huis ... ...

--Mike

Re:Pro-Bono Compensation

[Suppafly]

no

I, for one

[Brunellus]

Ego, ex mea parte, saluto dominos nostros novos grammaticos!

obligatory python reference

[ephemeraleuphoria]

Brian is writing a slogan on a wall, oblivious to the Roman patrol approaching from behind. The slogan is "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS".

Centurion: What's this thing? "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS"? "People called Romanes they go the house?"
Brian: It... it says "Romans go home".
Centurion: No it doesn't. What's Latin for "Roman"?

Brian hesitates

Centurion: Come on, come on!
Brian: (uncertain) "ROMANUS".
Centurion: Goes like?
Brian: "-ANUS".
Centurion: Vocative plural of "-ANUS" is?
Brian: "-ANI".
Centurion: (takes paintbrush from Brian and paints over) "RO-MA-NI". "EUNT"? What is "EUNT"?
Brian: "Go".
Centurion: Conjugate the verb "to go"!
Brian: "IRE". "EO", "IS", "IT", "IMUS", "ITIS", "EUNT".
Centurion: So "EUNT" is ...?
Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion: But "Romans, go home!" is an order, so you must use the ...?

He lifts Brian by his short hairs

Brian: The ... imperative.
Centurion: Which is?
Brian: Um, oh, oh, "I", "I"!
Centurion: How many Romans? (pulls harder)
Brian: Plural, plural! "ITE".

Centurion strikes over "EUNT" and paints "ITE" on the wall

Centurion: "I-TE". "DOMUS"? Nominative? "Go home", this is motion towards, isn't it, boy?
Brian: (very anxious) Dative?

Centurion draws his sword and holds it to Brian's throat

Brian: Ahh! No, ablative, ablative, sir. No, the, accusative, accusative, ah, DOMUM, sir.
Centurion: Except that "DOMUS" takes the ...?
Brian: ... the locative, sir!
Centurion: Which is?
Brian: "DOMUM".
Centurion: (satisfied) "DOMUM"...

He strikes out "DOMUS" and writes "DOMUM"

Centurian: ..."-MUM". Understand?
Brian: Yes sir.
Centurion: Now write it down a hundred times.
Brian: Yes sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion: (saluting) Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
Brian: (very relieved) Oh thank you sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar and everything, sir!

Zoinks, Scoob!

[AragornSonOfArathorn]

I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!!

Now, git off my lawn!

Re:Hoosier politics 101

[TedCheshireAcad]

FOP? I'm a Dapper Dan man, dammit!

Re:Now you've done it

[Rufus88]

Way to go, I never got to see France.

You're welcome.

Re:Pro-Bono Compensation

[Shanep]

I wonder how "recommended" it really is. I mean, you're recommended to give to the collections in church, but people give you dirty looks if you don't

Especially when you run away with the plate.

Re:Kokomo Resident

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean to tell me that Kokomo -isn't- the place you wanna go to get away from it all?

I couldn't really picture there being a whole lot of tropical beaches in Indiana anyway.

Re:Pro-Bono Compensation

[Anonymous Coward]

wouldn't a Purdue student be a boil in Indiana?

Re:Freedom of Information Act

[linuxpaul]

Kudos to you for not putting up with the injustice, but "[Your] parents were making [you] pay for your own food"? Your first call should have been to social services, not the school cafeteria.

Re:I, for one

[ichigo 2.0]

I can't speak latin, you cloddus insensitivicus!

Re:obligatory grammar correction

[mjpaci]

I didn't realize we had so many cunning linguists here...

Another Latin phrase we used as pledges of my fraternity on a banner for the Delta Delta Delta Decathalon:

Veni, Vidi, VD. I came, I saw, I canckered.

Needless to say, the ladies of Tri-Delt were not impressed.

--Mike