LOL -- some history on one of our Repug Senate candidates (not really political)

[eppur_se_muova]

[guillaumeb]

1. A candidate for the Darwin Awards?

One time, my father and a brother and I were working on one of our vehicles. He was using a hammer to try to loosen a clamp. He swung the hammer and missed the clamp, striking the frame of the car. The hammer rebounded and hit him in the head.

I mentioned to my brother that this was a perfect demonstration of Newton's law of equal and opposite reaction.

My father was not amused.

[diva77]

2. I was curious as to whether he won the case and found this...

Judge Roy Moore had eventful life before current flap
Birmingham News ^ | JOHN ARCHIBALD AND GREG GARRISON

Posted on 11/11/2003,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1019268/posts

SNIP...While prosecuting a murder case, Moore demonstrated how the stabbing took place. Standing before the jury, he jabbed the knife toward himself, accidentally cutting himself and his coat. The incident made Paul Harvey's national radio show with Moore being the butt of the joke as "the prosecutor who stabbed himself in court." After the jury failed to reach a verdict, Moore had to re-try the case, and this time cut himself picking up the knife. The lawyers laughed, and the jury stared in disbelief.

But Moore said what matters is he won a conviction. One of the judges later jokingly put up a sign saying Moore was no longer allowed to handle weapons in the courthouse. "That was a long time ago," Moore said...SNIP

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kind of related: I knew of a lawyer who would purposely make loud noises with his suit while delivering arguments in court -- he was very successful!!