Worst Nicknames EverEveryone wants a cool nickname like "Ace", "Boss", or "Iron". Kids being kids, that's not what we get - the kid with polio gets called Johnny Spazm, your Ginger Fuhrer was called Rob Man-you-smell and your question master was "Tommy" Trinder despite him being dead for years.
Tell us the worst you've heard and the stories behind them.
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chthonic, Thu 18 May 2006, 15:45)
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Surprise WitnessWhile riding down the street, a noted town 'biker', riding his 'hog', had gotten embroiled in a shouting match with two belligerent off-duty paramedics in a sedan. The question was, did the biker commit first-degree murder when he killed one of the paramedics after they stopped to fight in a parking lot, or was it second-degree murder, or was it manslaughter, or was it self-defense? I served on the jury that had to answer that question.
Just before we were going to retire to deliberate, there was a great fanfare: a surprise witness had decided to testify. He began by describing the original argument on the street.
"I heard someone shout, 'Hey, Dipshit!'," the man testified. The prosecutor asked, "what did you do when you heard that?" The witness said "I started looking around." The prosecutor asked, "why did you do that?" Reluctantly, the witness replied, "well, I have a lot of friends, and we joke around a lot, and....uh.....that's my nickname!"
Judge, jury, defendant, lawyers, and witnesses all laughed long and hard over that! 'Dipshit' didn't change any minds, but he did make us chuckle, as we settled on second-degree murder.
(, Fri 19 May 2006, 18:50, Reply)
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