"Judge tosses restaurant owner's umbrella suit against model Le Call"
Daily News (September 12, 2008)
A Manhattan judge tossed out the case of a chap who lent an umbrella worth $5,000 USD to a model, and got it back "in pieces."
On top of that, the judge fined the bereaved umbrella-owner's lawyer for $500 for "wasting the court's time on a matter that belonged in small-claims court."
For someone like me, $5,000 doesn't feel like "small claims," but then I don't live in Manhattan and own a limited-edition leather umbrella.
I suppose I can see the umbrella-owner's point. He says that he loved that umbrella. He misses it. And he doesn't think the model was very polite.
I wondered why he would loan a treasure like that to some stranger, until I saw the model's photo, in the Daily News article. I've known men to do dafter things, faced with someone who looks like that.
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2 comments:
"On top of that, the judge the bereaved umbrella-owner's lawyer for $500"
The judge *what* the lawyer?
Good grief. If I had an umbrella worth that much it'd be in a glass case with an alarm system or *something*. I certainly wouldn't be carrying it around with me.
Brigid,
Thanks. I've got to start making sure I'm awake when doing these posts. Found it, fixed it.
And, agreed. This micro-review doesn't do the story justice. The umbrella owner is quoted in the article: I actually sympathize with him, but think that he's got a good-sense deficit.
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