Quote of the Day: This Is Sound Advice

Talk about a date gone bad...

In one of his ballads, Jim Croce warned that there are four things that you just don’t do: “You don’t tug on Superman’s cape/ You don’t spit into the wind/ You don’t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger/ And you don’t mess around with Jim.” He could have added a fifth warning to that list: “And you don’t let pistol-packing mother catch you naked in her daughter’s closet.”

— Judge Edward Carnes in the Eleventh Circuit’s ruling in Larry Butler v. Sherriff of Palm Beach County, Dorethea Collier. In the case, Ms. Collier, a corrections officer, threatened to shoot Larry Butler when she found him “coupling” with her daughter.

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