Preserved Topic: Definition of "chutzpah" found!

Frostbitten sex offender sues "slow" detective

The Associated Press
Posted February 27 2002, 3:54 PM EST

BANGOR, Maine -- A convicted sex offender who fled into the woods when approached by a detective is threatening to sue, saying he lost a few toes to frostbite because police were slow in arresting him.

Harvey Taylor, 48, spent at least three nights in the woods after running from a Penobscot County Sheriff's detective a few weeks ago.

"If the detective had done his job, I wouldn't be in here now. I would have been in jail that very same day,'' Taylor told the Bangor Daily News in an interview Tuesday from his hospital room.

Taylor said he has had "two or three'' toes amputated on his left foot due to frostbite. He said he wasn't sure of the number because he didn't want to look too closely at his foot.

A hospital spokesman declined to comment on his condition.

Chief Deputy Glenn Ross of the sheriff's office said Taylor is wanted in Florida for probation violations linked to his convictions for sexual offenses involving a minor child.

Ross defended the actions of the detective. "He was cautious and professional,'' he said. ''(Taylor) made some decisions and he has to live with the consequences.''

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So *that's* what it means.

People like this make me sad. Not because of the incredible stupidity involved in their crime, nor the fact that they obviously lack the common sense to act like an evolved member of their species... but because something tells me he'll get away with suing over this. *sighs*

njuice42
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System Abuser!

Well I remember that on the nightly news and laughed my asre off. Well I have to agree w/ njuice that it is just plain stupidity. What kind of person would think that if he sued for that he would get anything and look at the crime that he comitted. How smart can they get. It's just too bad that whats left of his brain didn't freeze too along with those toes.

Seriously! This ranks right up there with the old man that had CPR administered to him whilst choking on something, and sued the guy because of a bruised something or another from the CPR... I mean... c'mon, people sue over the dumbest things in life here in the good ol US of A, and they actually win these things, which is the saddest part of all.

njuice42
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You know.. this is like with that one lady who sued McDonalds because she spilled her coffee which was hot and got burned...

Gezzz...people like this really make me sick... WTF is going on with this world.

:: m a x ::

There was an officer who was killed here in Texas recently while trying to apprehend a group of criminals. Although the murderer was convicted of his crime, his statement in court included an argument in which he said that if the officer had done his job correctly and called for backup like he should have, then the guy probably wouldn't have ended up killing him.

Even when undeniably guilty, no one will take responsibility for his own actions. And if you watch the way parents act today, you can see where the children get it.

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And if you watch the way parents act today, you can see where the children get it.

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Hey. Watch it buddy. It's not our fault we're like that.

hahah! bugs you crack me up.


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Suddenly I'm feeling a lot like Tommy from the movie Good Fellas:

"But, I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to f****n' amuse you?"

What does chutzpah mean anyway? I have never heard this word before (although I'm guessing its Yiddish)

Main Entry: chutz·pah
Variant(s): also chutz·pa /'hut-sp&, '[k]ut-, -(")spä/
Function: noun
Etymology: Yiddish khutspe, from Late Hebrew huspAh
Date: 1892
: supreme self-confidence : NERVE, GALL

BTW, Skaarjj did I have the right answer to that conundrum you posted a while back? I never really knew who was before it got closed.

Yep...you did. A shot the bullet into the air. It went up in an arc, and come down right on top of B's head, driving through his eggshell skull.

^^^^^^^

The winner