Here comes a stupid judge with a stupid remark:
Mrs. Khoder, a United States citizen who arrived from Lebanon 14 years ago, appeared in court last Thursday before the judge, William R. Crosbie, to challenge two parking tickets left on her dashboard within an hour of each other. She said the judge repeated her name and asked if she was a terrorist. “I smiled a big smile and said, `Look at me, do I look like a terrorist?’ ” she said.
Then, according to Mrs. Khoder, after she gave an explanation of the tickets, the judge again referred to terrorism. “He said, `You don’t want to pay a ticket, but you have money to support terrorists,’ ” she recalled. “I felt the blood go to my head. I wanted to throw up. I screamed and fell to the ground.”
For his part, the judge, 79, acknowledged making the initial query about her being a terrorist, but said he was “probably kidding,” according to an article in The Journal News, the Westchester newspaper.
Today, he told a television reporter that he regretted the remark because “it caused a lot of problems for a lot of people.” Judge Crosbie, who rejected a request for an interview, denied to both the Westchester paper and the television reporter that he made the remark about money for terrorists.
He was “probably kidding”? Probably?? He regrets it? Why can’t people simply apologize for their stupidity?
He can believe what he wants, but he should leave it at home when he goes out to work.
The thing that really gets me about incidents like this is that it’s so RUDE. Do most of us go around making insulting remarks to complete strangers? I mean, if this guy just had some basic good manners he never would have said that.
I couldn’t quite believe this when I read about it. Every now and then, some idiot on the bench reveals himself, like that Michigan judge who said he would only grant a minor permission to get an abortion if she were raped by a black man.
Oh, and I know that judge – he is an idiot.