Stand In The Place Where You Were Supposed To Sit (For Jury Duty… And Then Leave)
So it seems REM frontman Michael Stipe found a way to get out of jury duty. He was supposed to be on a jury hearing a stalking/attempted rape case, but claimed he could not be impartial because he had been the victim of stalking himself.
When the Judge asked Stipe who exactly would want to stalk the sexually-ambiguous, acne-scarred, mumbling frontman, Stipe reportedly said, “Lots of people. . . you don’t know them. . . they live in Canada. Shut up!”
Stipe’s lucky he came up with the stalking excuse because as proven by the following 100% authentic footage, Stipe’s earlier ploy —celebrating courtroom adjournments by doing spontaneous, spastic elbow dances, while rejoicing in a strange voice (that sounds nothing like a man from Athens,Georgia)— almost got him killed:
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January 16th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
That was funny. But I am alarmed. Somehow the Cracked Bloggers have managed to read my mind today and blog about things foremost in my frontal lobes. Like how I hate Micheal Stipe, Tom Cruise, Scientology and Garfield. Also things dear to my heart, like Milf sites.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I heard that the Church of Scientology tried to get my video off of YouTube too. Not because it was offensive to Scientologists, but because it is quite simply the stupidest thing i’ve ever done.
Fortunately, for all of us, Stipe just doesn’t have Cruise’s juice.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
For some reason I couldnt stop from laughing. Just something about the way he said “no more court”. And besides hating Michael Stipe (I’m a big REM fan), I couldn’t agree with glendoor more. Except I haven’t gotten a chance to accuse Swaim of incestuous necropedabestiality.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Vimmy, you made my day. The reason I decided to keep the vid was because of the way “no more court” came out at the very end. I couldn’t do that again if I tried.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Oh and just so you can sleep tonight, the accent was fine. Micheal Stipe doesn’t sound like he’s from Athens. As a matter of fact I think you captured Micheal’s voice quite well.
January 16th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
It’s the “c” in “court”. I’m guessing that you spent years of research frequenting raves and gay bars harassing asking gay men about their favorite part of the male anatomy, cross-referenced the data, and came up with the gayest way possible to say a hard “c”.
Props.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Don’t worry about the South defending Athens. We quit claiming the city in the early nineties. I think that it is technically Tralfamadorian at this point.
January 17th, 2008 at 7:28 am
God, I grin like a loon when someone makes a Slaughterhouse 5 reference.
So it goes.
January 17th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
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March 9th, 2008 at 6:51 am
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links: