Contributory negligence
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THE DRIVING examiner stood in the witness box, two black eyes glowering. "When I told him he had failed his test," he said, indicating a human baboon in the dock, "he knocked me down."
Magistrate: "You are a public servant. What else do you expect?"
Examiner: "I was merely doing my duty, sir."
Magistrate: "If you think it is your duty to stop men earning their living as lorry drivers, you must expect to be attacked."
Examiner: "But, sir. ..."
Magistrate: "You are wasting my time and public money. You will be remanded for a psychiatrist's report and will pay the defendant's costs. Stand down."
Leaning forward, he muttered to the clerk of the court: "That should teach the little runt."
"THEY'RE MEANT to leave every 30 minutes but they're all running half an hour late," an inquirer was told at Canterbury bus station. — The Daily Telegraph.