Eyes, ears and stomachs

Where were their eyes? A wrecking crew in Denton, Texas went out to demolish a house that had been ordered to get the wrecker’s ball due to the owner leaving it in a messy and unsafe state.  By mistake the wreckers knocked down the house across the street. This did not sit well with Mrs Francis Howard who had been living in the house for 47 years and who just returned from a trip to California.  You might think that the lady’s claim is a slam dunk.  I’m not so sure. I believe that if some of the companies I litigate against in my law practice were to insure the wreckers, they’d deny the claim outright saying their insured had a great system in place to prevent such mistakes, that they followed the system’s protocol fully and that in any event Mrs Howard’s house never existed to start with.

And if you think Mrs. Howard was mad, in Lincoln, Nebraska, a 24 year old gentleman called 21 year old Anna Godfrey "fat".  Anna did not appreciate the compliment at all and she lunged at the guy, tackling him and biting of a piece of his ear.

Sixteenth century humourist Francois Rabelais used to say, “An empty stomach has no ears.”  This certainly does not apply to Anna Godfrey.

She has been charged with some type of felony but I believe the police were too hasty in charging her and I expect her to get off as in Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa, biting off a man’s ear if he calls a lady "fat" falls into the category of self defence.  The man should consider himself lucky as had this happened in Newark, New Jersey, the lady could have shot him with a Magnum, with impunity.