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Orgasmic phone disrupts court session

Only holding it and it went off, m'lud

THE DECORUM of an Aussie courtroom was shattered down-under when a bloke's phone started uttering loud noises of female pleasure.

The bloke was sitting in the back of the packed court room when his ring tone, which must have seemed bloody funny when he bought it, went off while acting magistrate Roger Stark was attending to a case.

The bloke panicked and tried to shut the phone up but unfortunately he couldn't do it for about 20 seconds.

Stark, ever the professional magistrate, carried on regardless despite cries of "Oh, yeah ... yeah ... oh, yeah ... oooooh," er, coming from from the back.

Stark chose to take no action against the man, he could have held him to in contempt of court and stuck him inside for six months. He might have done that if it had been the Crazy Frog ring tone, since they don't still have the death penalty in Oz.

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Comments

Holy shit...

Holy shit .. that was some funny incident.. Thanks for the news ...

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posted by : Jigar2speed5095, 03 October 2007

Inappropriate comments

Any need to swear - honestly?
posted by : aeronic, 03 October 2007

He should have smashed it with the judge hammer.

But maybe the phone had cried then, you never now.
posted by : asdf, 04 October 2007

Wonder what phone he was using...

On some phones you can silence the ringer by pressing a key.

But I guess the kind of chav who'd get a ringtone like that wouldn't bother finding out about such crap... or turning it to silent mode, would he?
posted by : yodafone, 04 October 2007

Kudos to the judge

For having dealt with the event with the proper attitude and without making a scene of it, I wish to congratulate the judge.

Certainly, additional punishment was not needed, since the "moantone" was clearly audible by all in the court room and, along with the frantic and visible efforts to cut it off make the incident in itself embarrassing enough.

A charge of contempt would have only added insult to injury.

A snide comment from the judge would have really made my day, but it must be quite difficult to think of something witty in such a situation without being insulting at the same time.

No, in the end, the man has ridiculed himself in a solemn environment, and I think the judge was right to estimate that that was enough punishment already.

It shows admirable restraint.
posted by : Pascal Monett, 04 October 2007

20 sec :o

LOL.. it reminds me of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pebTT8wzdgE

We've all tried to have a phone ringing when it shouldn't and it usually dosn't take me much time to open it up and pull out the battery if i'm panicking ofc.. But great story xD.
posted by : Kim Leo, 04 October 2007

Good retort

Yes, a funny story.

The judge should have told him to stop screwing with his phone and turn it off ;-)

Yeah, I'm an Aussie too.
posted by : Michael, 05 October 2007
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