WHAT A HEEL!: Winning Isn’t Always The Only Thing
After David Binner, 45, of Doylestown, PA, wrote a message that included the “F-word” on the memo line of a $5.00 check to pay a parking ticket, he was charged with disorderly conduct. He later apologized in writing - "This is not my normal nature and admittedly was a temporary lapse of judgment on my part, vented in a moment of frustration." - and the charges were dropped as a result.
Arguing that, "The F-word isn’t what it used to be," Binner’s lawyer, Keith Williams, tells The Associated Press that his client would have prevailed had he been tried on the disorderly conduct charge. But that’s not the point. A simple apology prevented the trivial matter from clogging up the court calendar – and the first-class stamp was several orders of magnitude cheaper than Binner defending his right to act boorishly.
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