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fandomhigh2020-02-03 08:00 am
throughaphase) wrote in fandomhigh2020-02-03 08:00 am
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Criminal Justice- Monday- 1st period
"Good morning, class!" Kitty greeted them, and gestured towards the coffees and tea and pastries spread out on a table. "I brought stuff, because I e decjded I cannot pose today's question to you without giving you the opportunity to be caffeinated."
So buckle up, kids.
"Ahem," she said, pulling out the notecard. "This is the story of a very hungry coyote and a swift, flightless bird.
Reports state that the coyote has been chasing a pretty darn unique breed of roadrunner with blue feathers that can run at extremely high speeds. The coyote has resorted to technology- guess it's a special breed of coyote, too- often purchasing products from the Acme company in attempts to catch this roadrunner. He hasn't even come close to succeeding.
Over the years, the coyote has proven to be less than keen with his plans. He rolls boulders at the roadrunner and gets squished by them. He throws dynamite down and gets blown up himself. The number of times he has fallen off a cliff is undetermined, but it's a lot of times, chums!" Kitty looked up. "'Chums' is on here. Anyway. Sometimes these plans backfire on the coyote through sheer bad luck. Other times, this roadrunner actively turns the situation around. He breaks universal laws by running through a solid mountain and taunting the coyote to follow, which ends in a concussion. He purposely leads the coyote off a cliff where the coyote will surely fall to major injury. And there have been several instances where the roadrunner ran the coyote over in a truck, at least once when the coyote was held in place by glue (it's a wacky story).
If we treat the coyote and roadrunner as citizens - and since they have at least one credit card, one driver's license, and one university diploma between then, and were born in America, it is probably a fair treatment - we could apply the American legal system to their conflict. Keeping in mind that the coyote has repeatedly attempted to murder the roadrunner over the years (and not out of simple hunger - if he were just hungry, he could theoretically buy food with his credit cards), and that the roadrunner has not only not pressed charges but also has reportedly mocked the coyote openly and to his face as a challenge, we apparently have some questions to answer. I guess."
So buckle up, kids.
"Ahem," she said, pulling out the notecard. "This is the story of a very hungry coyote and a swift, flightless bird.
Reports state that the coyote has been chasing a pretty darn unique breed of roadrunner with blue feathers that can run at extremely high speeds. The coyote has resorted to technology- guess it's a special breed of coyote, too- often purchasing products from the Acme company in attempts to catch this roadrunner. He hasn't even come close to succeeding.
Over the years, the coyote has proven to be less than keen with his plans. He rolls boulders at the roadrunner and gets squished by them. He throws dynamite down and gets blown up himself. The number of times he has fallen off a cliff is undetermined, but it's a lot of times, chums!" Kitty looked up. "'Chums' is on here. Anyway. Sometimes these plans backfire on the coyote through sheer bad luck. Other times, this roadrunner actively turns the situation around. He breaks universal laws by running through a solid mountain and taunting the coyote to follow, which ends in a concussion. He purposely leads the coyote off a cliff where the coyote will surely fall to major injury. And there have been several instances where the roadrunner ran the coyote over in a truck, at least once when the coyote was held in place by glue (it's a wacky story).
If we treat the coyote and roadrunner as citizens - and since they have at least one credit card, one driver's license, and one university diploma between then, and were born in America, it is probably a fair treatment - we could apply the American legal system to their conflict. Keeping in mind that the coyote has repeatedly attempted to murder the roadrunner over the years (and not out of simple hunger - if he were just hungry, he could theoretically buy food with his credit cards), and that the roadrunner has not only not pressed charges but also has reportedly mocked the coyote openly and to his face as a challenge, we apparently have some questions to answer. I guess."
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