About the man who was on trial for stealing and using a stolen credit card. The man’s lawyer claimed that his (the criminal) client should have his bail lowered because he went to church. The judge taken back by such a request asked the man to quote the 23rd Psalm. When the man recited it word for word he was granted his request. Now if I were the judge I would have asked the man on trial to recite the 10 commandments and then told him that he should not have taken something that did not belong to him and that he was lucky I didn’t impose the same penalties the Old Testament called for and then said his bail stayed the same. In a similar incident a man placed a claim with his insurance company that some very expensive cigars had been burned in a series of 12 small fires. The insurance company took him to court for this invalid claim. However the judge saw it differently and granted the man his claim. Now within the week the same man was arrested for 12 counts of arson. He was tried and convicted. Now that was a great judge!
