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Letter of the law

I was chatting with a friend in England whose father was a lawyer, and he was telling me how his dad once got a client off for running a stop sign. Seems the sign had been painted on the road, which is fine, except there had been some repaving that had partially obscured it. The law required that 90% of the sign be visible, but in this case only 86% of it was. His dad had measured...

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Any lawyer who successfully exploits that technicality deserves 90% of a beating.

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