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This is a true story.
On October 13, 1944, the Durham (North Carolina) Sun reported
that a citizen was brought up in traffic court for parking his car
on a restricted street right in front of a sign that read "No Stoping".
The defendant plead "not guilty". "Your Honor, I have not violated
the law. The sign prohibited stoping, and I have not stoped. Webster's
dictionary tells me that stoping means extracting ore from a stope, or,
loosely, underground. Your Honor, I am a law-abiding citizen, and I
didn't extract any ore from the area of the sign."
Judge Wilson responded, "This is Friday the 13th and anything can
happen. Case dismissed."
(From the "Rest" of RHF)
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