Friday, November 10, 2006


And for more stupidity back at home . . . .

Proving my theory about the extra "dumb" gene that some young men seem to carry (and many attorneys, too) . . .

"Two fraternity boys want to make lawsuit against "Borat" over their drunken appearance in the hit movie.

"The legal action filed Thursday on their behalf claims they were duped into appearing in the spoof documentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," in which they made racist and sexist comments on camera.

"The young men "engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in," the lawsuit says. The plaintiffs were not named in the lawsuit "to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment." They were identified in the movie as fraternity members from a South Carolina university, and appeared drunk as they made insulting comments about women and minorities to Cohen's character.

"The lawsuit claims that in October 2005, a production crew took the students to a bar to drink and "loosen up" before participating in what they were told would be a documentary to be shown outside of the United States. "They were induced to agree to participate and were told the name of the fraternity and the name of their school wouldn't be used," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Olivier Taillieu. "They were put into an RV and were made to believe they were picking up Borat the hitchhiker."

"After a bout of heavy drinking, the plaintiffs signed a release form they were told "had something to do with reliability issues with being in the RV," Taillieu said. The film "made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community," the lawsuit said.

"It names 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp., and three production companies as defendants. Studio spokesman Gregg Brilliant said the lawsuit "has no merit." The plaintiffs were seeking an injunction to stop the studio from displaying their image and likeness, along with unspecified monetary damages."

This is what us legal eagles like to refer to as a "frivolous lawsuit". The plaintiffs are upset because they were portrayed as being jackasses? Sorry boys - but truth is an absolute defense . . .

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Diane, where were you when I needed an honest lawyer? I was rear ended and dragged by a Pepsi truck like ten years ago, which led to me having wrist surgery and the passenger losing his front teeth and the third had several shoulder surgeries.

Our lawyers obviously took a payoff from Pepsi when they told us we had no case. And the mystery witnesses (all Pepsi employees) appeared.

12:26 PM  
Blogger M-M-M-Mishy said...

Diane, will you be my one phone call when I need it? :)

12:57 PM  
Blogger Diane said...

joe - sounds like you got screwed!

mishy - sure, but my only criminal law experience is for a friend who got arrested for drunk on a bicycle . . .

1:00 PM  
Blogger Prunella Jones said...

Ha ha. Those dudes were jackasses. No matter how drunk you are if there's a camera in your face don't you think what you say is going to end up somewhere?

2:30 PM  
Blogger Jay said...

So hang on a tick... racist and extremist comments don't help you score chicks? What the hell?!

3:14 PM  

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