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I just had to share this.  I think I saw it on Boing Boing.  It’s a trial of a guy who stole 40,000 hotel coat hangers.  During his testimony, he gives the prosecutor the complete run around, making him (the prosecutor) seem like a total idiot.  Here’s a brief snippet of the testimony.

Counsel: Are you serious when you say that clients of yours drink from their own minibars in their own bedrooms in their own homes?

Chrysler: Certainly. And just as in a hotel, they grumble about the price and size of the bottles, and the absence of ice.

Counsel: So why don’t they get a proper fridge in their bedroom?

Chrysler : Because then it wouldn’t be like a hotel.

Judge: Tell me, Mr Chrysler, do these businessmen of yours also have Gideon Bibles by their bedside at home?

Chrysler: Many of them, sir.

Judge: And where do you get the Gideon Bibles from?

Chrysler: Alas, they, too, have to be taken from hotels.

Judge: Then why are you not also up on a charge of Bible-stealing?

Chrysler: Because the Bibles do not belong to the hotels. They belong to the Gideon Society. And the Gideon Society has decided not to prosecute me, but to forgive me and tell me to go and sin no more.

Judge: And have you sinned no more?

Chrysler: Alas, no.

Now I’m not normally a big sports fan, especially football, but I couldn’t help but watch the end of the Super Bowl tonight (I was out and about running errands for most of the game because I really didn’t care and was really only watching while waiting for my laundry). When I am a sports fan, I tend to be a New York sports fan, having grown up in Southern CT, much closer to NY than Boston or Foxboro as is the case of the Patriots. Sure, the Patriots had a historic season going into the Super Bowl completely undefeated. However, every good thing must come to an end, and tonight, that end was the New York Giants with an unlikely ending to an otherwise perfect season.

Personally, I can’t stand the obnoxiousness of Boston-area sports fans, generally being Red Sox fans, but that extends a bit to Patriots fans as well, as they have become quite cocky with their team’s perfect regular season. The only good thing (other than being the first football team to go 19-0) that would have come of the Patriots winning tonight would be the possibility of it being cool to hate them (much like it’s become cool to hate the Yankees, the most decorated team in the history of professional sports, all sports). But the only thing better than the Patriots making history with a 19-0 season is the Patriots going 18-1 to a very unlikely opponent who barely made it to the post season. If I enjoyed watching any Super Bowls in the past 28 years, this was the best. It was a good game and anyone who says otherwise is just being a crybaby (Boston-area sports fans love to blame the refs or the umpires when their teams lose, even when it’s a legit loss). Both teams played tough. When the Patriots’ offense pushed, the Giants’ defense pushed right back. In the end, it seems as though the Giants’ defense got the best of the Patriots and Eli Manning made some incredible plays (especially in the run to the game winning touchdown breaking loose of the Patriots’ defense and making an incredible throw that was almost incomplete, which was probably the play of the game in my opinion).

Anyway, I’m happy it’s over and I am thrilled the Giants won.

EDIT: I saw this post a post that no longer exists on Beer Advocate because it was unrelated to beer and had to share it. It basically sums up how I feel about Belichick and his reaction to losing. He didn’t once say in his interview that the Giants played one hell of a game. Instead, he just said he was disappointed in his own team. That’s pretty classless if you ask me.  Basically, the BA post called Belichick a sore loser, which is pretty accurate if you ask me.