Real questions asked by layers during a trial

Yesterday, a friend of mine mailed me a list of mistakes and silly questions made by lawers during a trial to witnesses. I found it very funny so I'll put them on my blog.

1.- “Doctor, it isn't true that if a person dies while he is sleeping, he doesn't realize until the next morning?”

2.- "The youngest boy, the one that has twenty years old, how old is him?”

3.- "Where you present when they take you a photo?"

4.- "You were alone or you were the only person?”

5.- It was you or your brother who died at war?”

6.- "He, he killed you?”

7.- "What was the distance between the two cars at the moment of the collision?”

8.- “Were you present until you went out?”

9.- "¿How many times have you committed suicide?"

10.- Q: "So the date of the birth of your son was the 8 of August of 1984?"
A: "Yes"
Q: "”And, what were you doing at that moment?”

11.- Q: "She had three sons, did she?"
A: "Yes"
Q: "How many were male?"
A: "None"
Q: "There were any female?"

12.- Q: "You said that the stairs went down to the cellar, didn't you?"
A: "Yes"
Q: "And those stairs, went also up?"

13.- "Q: Mr.Slatery, where did you go for your honeymoon?"
A: "I went to Europe."
Q: "Did you go with your wife?"

14.- Q: "How did your first marriage ended?”
A: "By death"
Q: "For the death of who?”

15.- Q: "Could you describe the subject?"
A: "He was middle sized and had a beard"
Q: "He was a male or a female?"

16.- Q: "Doctor, how many of your autopsies were done to dead people?"
A: "All my autopsies were done to dead people."

17.- Q: "All your answers must be verbal, ¿OK? ? At what school did you go.?"
A: "Verbal"

18.- Q: " Do you remember at what hour did you examinate the corpse?"
A: "The autopsy started by the 8:30 p.m."
Q: "Mr. Dennington was dead in that moment?"
A: "No,he was sitting on the table asking me why I was doing him an autopsy."

19.- Q: "Are you capable of providing an orine sample?"
A: "I've been capable since my most tender childhood."

20.- Q: "Doctor, before doing the autopsy,did you take his pulse?”
A: “No” Q: "Did you check the blood pressure?"
A: "No"
Q: "Did you verify if he was breathing?"
A: "No"
Q: "Then, it couldn't be possible that the patient was alive when you started the autopsy?”
A: "No"
Q: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
A: "Because his brain was on my table, inside a jar."
Q: "But, the patient couldn't be alive nevertheless?"
A: "It is possible that he could be alive and working as a lawer somewhere.”

The fisherman and the businessman

This is a little story that I heard long ago, when I was a child, and I liked it. I hope you can enjoy it.

Once ago there was a fisherman who was sitting on a chair next to the harbor and reading a book. A rich businessman, who was at the harbor that he had recently brought, saw the fisherman, and said to him:

“You should work more.”

“Why? I have enough money to live working the hours I already work.”

“Because if you work more, you would have more money, and after working for a few years, you could have a fleet that could fish for you and then you would be as rich as me”

“And what would I do, then?”

“You could sit, and enjoy life”

“And what am I doing now?”

The workhouses

During the 19^th century, there was a lot of poverty and unemployment in Britain as a result of the Industrial revolution. To try to stabilize the situation, the House of Common, approved the creation of workhouses in the early 30s. A workhouse is a place where the poor can eat and sleep as long as they worked there. I don't know the translation to Spanish but I think it's something like “taller” or something like that. It's idea was to stop the beggars and they cut any help except the one that was given at the workhouse. The idea was to stop anyone who wasn't really poor and didn't have any other option to go there or receive any help from the government forcing the poors to search, as the conditions there were really bad into there. Charles Dickens wrote a lot about the workhouses and theirs conditions.

But those conditions made reactions against them, specially when the press began to publish stores about the terrible incidents that happened inside. That made that by the 60s the only people who were inside were children who couldn't work, senile elders who couldn't take care of themselves and sicks. Any other person wouldn't go there for more than a few days.

But despite all of this, the workhouses made a great work as hospitals, providing free treatment to any who was sick, schools, as they teached arithmetic, writing and reading and as a asylum for the elderly.

The story of the two jars

The other day I read a story in Dracos' blog that made me remember another. The story is worth to be read, (the tittle is “The Real Value of the Ring”).

Long time ago, in a forgotten part of the india, there was a man who lived in the mountains, too far from a river, and the only manner he had to have water was to go to the nearest well, which was about two miles from his house, with two huge jars, and return with the two heavy jars to his home. He had to get up very early to do that, and he returned to home really exhausted.. One jar was perfect, and it hadn't any holes, but the other had lots of holes and only the half of the water that the man put at the jar arrived home, losing a lot of water during the way.

The jar, which was depressed for it's imperfection that made the man to only have the half of the water he deserved for his effort, speaked with the man. “ I'm sorry that you only have the half water you put on me, I hope you can get another jar so you can throw me to the rubish for my imperfection”. The man, who was very wise, replied: “You shouldn't feel sorry for your holes and I'll show you way, tomorrow, when I'll go for water, look down the way and you'll see the reason”.

The jar did what the man said and it saw that the part of the path were he went was full of flowers and grass, while the other part was dry and dead. He wondered why it was like this and asked the wise man.

The wise man replied: “The watter you drop is not wasted, when I realised that you have a hole, I had an idea. I put seeds so your imperfection made all this life. If you hadn't a single hole, this flowers couldn't life and the part of the path would be as dead as the other”.

You don't need to be perfect. Sometimes is better to have some holes rather than not having any.

Rationalism and irrationalism

Rationalism and irationalism are two ways of seeing the life, they're two ways of living, two ways of thinking.

Rationalists make conclusions based on a thorough examination of facts, and at the time of taking decisions, they consider all the actions they can do, rate them and decide what's the best course they could take, considering it in long and short term. A very rational people will follow the law because he fears the punishment (he considers that the bad effects on long term doesn't worth the reward at the moment they'll get). They may be thinking the effect that will affect them (imprisonment, capital punishment...) or the effect than can affect the society (chaos, anarchy...) or someone they know, but the main thing is that they don't do it because they have fear of the consequences. Racionalist are usually quiet people with a very planned life, don't like neither hard emotions nor changes,

On the other hand, there are the iracionalist, people who follow their inner wishes,without taking any other thing in consideration, they make their wishes their objectives, and they try yo accomplish their objective at any cost. They don't think about the repercussions that can make their acts when they are searching for their objective. This kind of people give a lot of importance to their first impression to something, if they have, for example, a teacher that they don't like, they won't like their subject anymore. When they follow something, they do because something says them that they should do that, not because they fear the consequences of their acts. They are people who change a lot at their lives, they are more practical than theorycal and they do quick decisions.

By comparing them, we can arrive to the statement that iracionalist make up their mind much quickly than racionalist, but they are far easier to manipulate, specially with subliminal messages. Irationalist are more confident than racionalist, because they haven't got as many doubts as they have. Finally, iracionalist are usually happier than racionalist because they think less.Finally, I must say that the majority of the people aren't just rationalist or irrationalist, they use to have rational or irrational answer in some conditions. In other words, I can be most of the time a rationalist, but when I get angry, I'm irrationalist, or when I go to a disco I am more irrationalist.


What kind of person are you? Do you think I'm right with my ideas? Is there anything I may add? If there is something you want to say, feel free to write a comment

The death of the politics

I want to speak about a person who could have done a wonderful work to reform the United States but he didn't. It's a very controversial person who gave me a lot of hope only to see how his project went down for, and this is important, not a political reason but a personal one. I'm talking, of course, of Bill Clinton.

During his term of office, he tried to reform the public health; but he couldn't as he had a lot of oposition in both the senate and the Congress. He also tried to improve the education and the economy, an obliterated economy as a result of the bad management of George Bush father during the Golf War and he looked forward to stop pollution. Althought he did a few internal reforms (that were thrown to the rubish during George W. Bush term), the best he did, in my opinion is the external politics. He tried to be not a world police but a dialogist. He didn't send troops where there were problems (or oil). Instead of that, he tried to get better relationships with the rest of the world in order to avoid further problems and wars.

But that was worthless. He tried to put the world in order but he couldn't, He didn't had the possibility, And for what? What was the reason for that he couldn't continue with his improvements? The reason of that is, according to me, the death of the politics and the beginning of the paparazzi Age. The arguments, the facts, the progress, the economy, the public services, the international relationsh; all of this are harmless weapons against the morbid fascination, the rumours. There's nothing to stop it, to make the people understand that even if the rumors are true (that they turned to be) it was an affair of Bill Clinton and Hillary. THAT WAS NOT A STATE PROBLEM, JUST A MATRIMONIAL ONE. But, there was nothing to do, The people wants rumors, not facts.

This is the story of how we could have had a better world if pollution and education were more important than personal bussiness. But we had bad luck. In the future, the electoral programmes will be all rumors of “bad things” the other people have done, and the serious press will become tabloid press. But this is the future that we, the humans, have chosen. I really want to be wrong, but the reality is this,

Autism

I've been a little hypochondriac with mental disorders lately, so while I was reading the book "The curious incident in the night-time" I get very interested in that "disease", which is not considered as the life spective of the people who suffer it doesn't vary.

While I was researching on the Internet, I discover a very good web site with really good stuff that was focused on autism. The webmaster says (We can't be sure of what the people on Internet say is real or not) that he's autistic himself.

The direction of the site is http://iautistic.com/

In a part of this site it speaks about the book that we're supposed to have read. He says that most information that is there about autism is actually false, and although it's a good book for literature, it's not a reliable material if you're looking for information about the autism.

The direction of this information is http://iautistic.com/autism-myths-the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time.php

I hope that you enjoy that page. I also found some more information that is very interesting and some test.

If you have some more information about autism, please share it with me