Justice Belied

 

If you think justice is written in stone, think again.

For instance, you may have heard about the MP who got into trouble for flashing her breasts during a mud-wrestling party an Army camp in Iraq. The party was to celebrate one troop replacing another on the front lines of the war. While there were a bunch of soldiers involved, only a 19-year-old private was demoted. Now the girl has been kicked out of the service, apparently because photos of the event have been published.

Then there is the case of two San Francisco women who are suing their boss whom they say wanted them to expose their breasts...to a gorilla. Yep, the president of the Gorilla Foundation, a woman, is alleged to have ordered two short-time employees to show their nipples to Koko, the "talking" ape. She said that Koko has a nipple fetish and she ordered the workers to unblouse to see how the gorilla would react, according to the lawsuit. The filing reads that on one occasion, the employer said, "Koko, you see my nipples all the time. You are probably bored with my nipples. You need to see new nipples. I will turn my back so Kendra can show you her nipples.’" In reporting this story, the San Francisco Chronicle consulted with a gorilla expert at the Cleveland Metro Park Zoo, who said she'd never heard of a gorilla with a nipple fixation. Added the zoo's publicist, "Those of us in Cleveland would say: ‘Only in San Francisco.’"

In another animal case, the Nebraska Supreme Court has intervened to spare the life of a dog that got into a fight with a neighbor’s dog. The sheriff had deemed the offending dog dangerous. The assistant district attorney termed the attack "deliberate and vicious." But because the victim’s owners waited two days to have their dog treated and the vet bill was only $34, the Supreme Court overturned the death penalty. Said the state’s attorney general, "Every dog has its day."

Finally, the National Basketball Association has decided that the most effective way to prevent a recurrence of the brawl in Detroit last fall is to reduce the alcohol intake of the fans. So it is limiting the number of and size of beers a patron can buy and will stop selling suds altogether in the fourth quarter.

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.

 

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