Law Student of the Day: Alex Botsios
Alex Botsios is a 1L at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Last week, he left a window open overnight, and someone snuck into his Tempe apartment to steal his stuff.
From KPHO:
ASU student Alex Botsios said he had no problem giving a nighttime intruder his wallet and guitars.When the man asked for Botsios’ laptop, however, the first-year law student drew the line.
“I was like, ‘Dude, no — please, no!” Botsios said. “I have all my case notes… that’s four months of work!”
That’s when Botsios showed him exactly how important case notes are to a law school student. He wrestled away the intruder’s baseball bat, punched the guy repeatedly, and called the police.
Botsios just had a bruised knuckle and a few scratches, while the intruder looked like this. He had to be taken for stitches before being booked for armed robbery and kidnapping.
Alex Botsios, congratulations. You are now an official ATL Law Student of the Day.
Student Pummels Would-Be Robber [KPHO]
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i'm firsty
Wait one - second!
DO NOT MESS WITH A 1L'S CASE NOTES AND OUTLINE!
How could you not swing at Mama's comment (that watching cop shows helped prepare him for this night)? So many ways to go...
Law Student? No, he is the law -- Judge Dredd style!
Too bad he didn't just shoot the guy.
Good story Elie
Was the intruder a lost Tulane student?
Big deal. This happens at GULC all the time.
6, Kash wrote this one (though, strangely, it doesn't involve sex--so I can see how you were misled).
6: Hah, this story was way too amusing to be Elie.
I hear that. I started carrying around mace with me when I was outlining for the bar exam, just in case someone tried to hold me up for my laptop on the walk to/from my BarBri class (always a distinct possibility in the District - welcome to Our Nation's Capital).
He only bloodied him? At my law school (U of A(Z)) we would have stuck a knife in his ear, kidnapped him, duct taped him, and tried to shoot him with the wrong ammunition - he's no (Kumari) Fulbright Scholar.
Now that is how the game of assassination should be played. I'm gunna pummel me some homo Columbia Law students today.
Hofstra2L
LIKELY an illegal alien. Even though this guy will now close his windows, our borders remain wide open so that more Americans can be raped, robbed, and murdered.
That is the hardest thing I have read today. Thanks for that.
Not news, Kash.
C'mon, clearly he was protecting his massive porn stash...
It's really hard to track down those midget with a donkey films...especially when they have subtitles.
Now describe to me what Alex Botsios looks like!
if you're a law student who doesn't back up onto a second hard drive, flash drive, or CD at least once a week, you deserve to lose all of your notes and files. i'm just saying...
19: it's called facebook.
brown hair and big.
Awesome story. Good for him.
Sounds like resume material to me.
The burglar was just practicing Obama's policy of redistribution of property and wealth.
Get ready for more of this!
Rep. Moran (D-Virgina): Anyone opposed to this robbery have a "simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it, and they have an antipathy to the means of redistributing wealth."
Video: http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/11/jim_moran_on_the_simplistic_no.asp
Dont mess with a 1L's notes.
21: Does he look like a bitch?
Cool story but he's still a little dumb for not backing up all his notes on a consistent (nightly) basis. You can't beat up a hard drive for failing on you.
Or maybe he did - he just loved his laptop too much.
Of course he's from Texas. As is every bad ass. Suck it, east coast.
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I was a law student in Newark, NJ and I had this fear everyday walking to class. Wallet, fine. Laptop, hell no.
Run Forest, Run!
SKADDEN TO 190!!!!
Moral of the story: Sandra Day O'Connor is a feisty bitch who should not be fucked with.
Awesome story. That is fantastic.
28 - b**bs?
I've had nightmares about this.
29: Your bigger issue is being in NJ. It's not good there.
31 - 190 layoffs in the DC office?
I stole 29's wallet near Raymond Blvd.
37-LOL.
I've had nightmares about this while walking through Wade Oval Park
Why isn't ATL following up on this:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11112008/news/regionalnews/herpes_suit_twist_138075.htm
Had it been Elie...
Intruder: Like give me your wallet and guitar, fatboy.
Elie: I went to Harvard.
Intruder: Now give me the Editor's password for the ATL website.
Elie: I don't know what it is, I just send my posts to Kash so she can post them under my name. Lat won't let me have direct access to the site. But here's Kash's phone number and personal email address.
Intruder: Ok. You're very helpful. Mind if I take that box of Entenmann's glazed donuts you're hiding behind your back?
[Sound of Intruder's skull exploding as Elie sits his lardass on it, screaming OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
awesome
Why is ATL the only legal blog ignoring this story?
redtube.com/3810
The suspect's surname says it all.
wow, that kirkland lawyer suing for herpes is on the managing committee and was "a founder of the new york office." you'd think he'd have more class.
This guy should automatically be given his law license. This is awesome. I also like #42's post. Pretty good.
layoffs at White & Case. You heard it here first.
Funny, 42.
Why is ATL the only legal blog ignoring this story?
http://www.redtube.com/3810
Agree with previous commenters that this likely had more to do with pornography than notes taken in class.
Why don't journalists ever ask the tough questions anymore?
ASU...what their students lack in intelligence, they make up for in brute strength.
this is the most inspiring story i've read all year
Damn, would all you bitter freepers go elsewhere with your rubbish? Either crack lame law school jokes or gtfo.
if anyone tried to steal my mail merge list i would do more than just throw a few punches
*sharpens stick while making multiple copies of my hard drive*
-nervous T-10 1L
email job leads to nervoust101l@yahoo.com
Damn, would all you bitter freepers go elsewhere with your rubbish? Either crack lame law school jokes or gtfo.
This is what he looks like
http://profile.ak.facebook.com/v223/1734/88/s10005702_1519.jpg
Alex Botsios = nervous T-10 1L
What a bad ass! Way to go, ASU 1L!
I hope this kid buys a gun while he still can.
At the risk of making a serious comment on a fun, silly story:
Thats why all law students should have flash or "thumb" drives, so they can easily backup their shit every day. Takes like 30 seconds, and then if your hard drive dies (I know people this happened to) or computer gets stolen you only loose like 1 day's work.
I left my wallet in El Segundo. . . .
Honestly, some BigLaw firm should give that kid a job just for having guts.
If you want to hire someone who is not a pussy, sounds like he would be a good bet.
Honestly, some BigLaw firm should give that kid a job just for having guts.
If you want to hire someone who is not a pussy, sounds like he would be a good bet.
Everyone in Texas has aids from hurricane water.
62: Thank you for a timely ATCQ reference.
36, please don't knock NJ.
-Nervous T-uhhh-65 1L
Layoffs?? White and Case to 190 is the real word on the street
15-the perp does not look like an illegal alien... more like white trash. Any relation to you?
There are gunners and then there is bat man.
There are gunners and then there is bat man.
guys in my high school used to beat up home intruders all the time. no big deal.
What a beautiful story. My faith in the law is reaffirmed. Pity the burglar wasn't hurt worse.
#69, what exactly does an illegal alien "look like"? Seems a bit racist on your part.
He's the Greatest American Hero. He finally found the instruction manual in pdf form and didn't want to lose it.
he fought for his porn collection, zam i rite!
Guys in my high school used to leave their doors open with expensive electronics out in the open to entice burglars. Then they would beat them up when they came in. It was no big deal.
very awsome. but yeah, he should've shot him.
who wants to bet the burglar tries pressing charges and one of us will take the case?
student of the day? student of the century.
Someone was about to steal my Property book on McCarter highway, but luckily Professor Franzese was there to share an uplifting anecdotal life lesson with the thief and he let me go.
78 - soon that won't even be an option after Obama takes away all of our guns.
28 - weak, very weak
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What if Frank Sinatra DOES prefer Orville Redenbacher?
Imagine if this would have been during the bar exam. I would have killed the intrude--no one is messing with my outlines.
Don't rob me, bro! Don't rob me, bro!
Don't rob me, bro! Don't rob me, bro!
What ain't no country I ever heard of. They speak English in What?
I think Franzese needs some modern songs... Maybe No Heir, Heir...
I aspire to become a Bar/Bri celebrity
i aspire to become a Bar/Bri celebrity
Sounds about right.
DDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNN!!!
This guy is awesome.
He's going to be very disappointed when he realizes that all of the policy discussions were irrelevant to (what I presume) will be mostly BLL on the exam. If he would have taken a few practice exams and read the hornbook, the payoff would have been similar. I hate to sound like a jerk, but anyone who's that focused on their class notes is probably not going about law school in the most intelligent way.
left handed people have an advantage in hand-to-hand combat
23: you're a total douchebag. just sayin'
good for him. too bad he didn't take the bat to the guy's kneecaps as well.
I wonder if a law student at Harvard Law or Yale Law would do the same or try conflict resolution tactics. Seems that folks not in those law schools know how to shoot through a book their frustration or swing for the fences in their defense of worthless notes.
12...hope that mace is registered per DC Law. LOL
That Moran clip is hilarious
Mom's statement was the best:
"Oh my God.' I'm so glad he watched all those police shows his whole life … He knew how to take care of himself "
74 = Go into a restaurant, look into the kitchen. That is what an illegal immigrant looks like.
Nice work son.
74, cut the liberal bs. You know what an illegal immigrant looks like. They look like Hispanic mestizos, since nearly all of the illegals are Hispanic mestizos.
The only justice in this world is the justice you take. It would have been cooler if he had inflicted some of the beating with a torts book.
who even does case notes? he looks like a fucking tool.
his mommy had to go reassure him. bitch ass tool.
15, you are douche.
78, TITCR
Too bad someone with such willful disregard for another's dwelling wasn't killed.
This fight is nothing compared to the battle he'll have to get a job IN THIS ECONOMY coming from ASU.
This fight is nothing compared to the battle he'll have to get a job IN THIS ECONOMY coming from ASU.
107 + 108 = the two kids that got their asses kicked on the playground
107 + 108 = closet homosexuals since the age of 9
107 + 108 = IQs of 107 and 108, respectively
No excuses, play like a champion
You should see what happened to the guy who broke into the gunner's apartment.
MPRE RESULTS ARE COMING SOON!!!!!!!!
FIRST!!!!
He should have just killed the bastard.
First man or woman to kill a mugger over law school laptop gets an offer.
My hero...
107 and 108 - first to fail the bar exam
107 and 108 - first to end up without a job after law school
107 and 108 - first to end up selling his plasma to get by
His mom says 'Oh my God.' I'm so glad he watched all those police shows his whole life … He knew how to take care of himself …"
If he had only watched more Ally McBeal and LA Law, he would know how to practice law and could have skipped law school.
nice!! this is a damn good story!
Ummm....why don't you just back your stuff up on an external hard drive or a web service if it's that valuable? Lawyers work hard, but not smart, I guess.
hahah he risked his life for outlines? He could have just gotten free ones at http://www.outlines.com/
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