It’s true!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/12/lawyer.jokes.arrest.ap/index.html
What next. No more blonde jokes?
Maybe it was because it was a LAME lawyer joke? Couldn’t they come up with something more creative?
My SO, who is a lawyer, likes lawyer jokes. A sense of humor…imagine that.
Talking in line in a court building is “disorderly conduct”? 
Lawyer jokes are “abusive” now? I can see lawyer beatings as abusive, but really - a couple of jokes? Get this a guy a crowbar, with which he might pry the wooden staff from his rectum.
Text from New York’s Penal Law:
S 240.20 Disorderly conduct.
A person is guilty of disorderly conduct when, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof:
- He engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior; or
- He makes unreasonable noise; or
- In a public place, he uses abusive or obscene language, or makes an obscene gesture; or
- Without lawful authority, he disturbs any lawful assembly or meeting of persons; or
- He obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or
- He congregates with other persons in a public place and refuses to comply with a lawful order of the police to disperse; or
- He creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose.
Disorderly conduct is a violation*.
- “Violation” is New York State’s term for a petty offense not rising to the level of misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum of a relatively small fine and/or no more than 15 days in jail.
Well, according to Polycarp’s post, these guys are going to walk. Unless the were screaming the jokes through a bullhorn, they don’t violate any of the provisions of the law as stated.
Maybe if everyone got a sense of humor, we could go back to work. 
By the way…what do you call 50 lawyers going over a cliff in a bus?
A good start!
If that lawyer was so offended by the joke those two guys actually told, he’d probably shit a solid gold brick if he heard the one silenus just posted.
I understand that jokes about some characteristic a person has can be annoying. I’ve got Polish ancestry, and for a long, long time there have been a lot of stupid ‘Polack’ jokes out there. I’ve heard them, I’ve thought they were stupid, but it’s so blatantly obvious that they are nothing more than stereotypes that there’s no reason for me to want someone arrested for telling one in my presence.
This offended lawyer needs to yank that gigantic piece of timber from his rectal cavity and get on with the business of life, because wanting someone arrested for telling a lawyer joke is not the way to prove that lawyer jokes are an inaccurate stereotype.
ooooo, I shouldn’t…but I just have to…
Did you hear that labs are using lawyers instead of white rats now? Know why?
- there’s more of them
- nobody cares if they die
- there’s some things you just can’t get a rat to do
::nervously looks around for people approaching her with handcuffs::
For what it’s worth, my favorite lawyer joke:
The Devil appears in the lawyer’s office one day. He says, “Here’s the deal: From now on your billable hours will increase fivefold. Your partners will respect you, your associates will worship you, and you’ll have wild uninhibited sex with a nymphomaniac secretary every afternoon. In exchange, I want your soul, the souls of all your ancestors, and the souls of all your descendants.”
The lawyer says, “What’s the catch?”
So a doctor, a lawyer, and a minister are shipwrecked, and are stuck in a lifeboat in shark-infested waters. And the minister loses the oar overboard.
The lawyer says, “Don’t worry,” jumps in, swims over to the oar and brings it back. The sharks ignore him.
The doctor says, “How did you do that? From everything I’ve heard, the sharks should have attacked you as soon as you hit the water!”
The lawyer grins and says, “Professional courtesy!”
What’s the difference between a female lawyer and a pit bull?
- Lip stick.
Okay, that’s it silenus…Where are my handcuffs?
Hey, would it be a voilation of any law to peacefully picket the area carrying lawyer jokes on the picket signs?
Just curious, of course.
If that bus had an empty seat, then it’s a crying shame…
BTW, there’s only one lawyer joke. Everything else is true.
My favourite hasn’t been posted yet.
What do you call a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand?
Not enough sand!
Theses two morons were telling lawyer jokes in a building full of lawyers. Sure, most lawyers have senses of humor, but isn’t it reasonable to expect that one or two of them don’t? It’s like standing in the lobby of a public hospital and telling doctor jokes. Sure, some of the doctors will just ignore you or maybe even laugh, but there’s also a chance that one of 'em will throw a used colostomy bag at your head. And guess what? You’ll have asked for it, just like these guys asked for the minor but inconvenient consequence of their stupidity.
Now, having said that:
A lawyer is taken into the operating room for surgery to repair a life-threatening injury. Hours later, he wakes up in the recovery room to find the curtains closed on all of the windows. He asks a passing nurse, who remarks, “While you were asleep, there was a huge, four-alarm fire in the building next door. There was smoke and fire everywhere, and the sounds of people screaming could be heard quite clearly. We didn’t want you to wake up in the middle of all of that and think the operation was a failure.”
Or my personal favorite, but one you’ve all heard:
Q: You are trapped in a room with a lawyer, a hungry lion, and Osama bin Laden. You have a gun with only two bullets. What do you do?
A: Shoot the lawyer twice.
- Guy_Incognito, Esq.
You know, you guys are being entirely too rough on lawyers. After all its only 99% of them that give the rest a bad name.
Oooohhh. Kinky!
What’s the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?
One’s a scum-sucking bottom feeder, and the other one’s a fish.
The whole thing seems kind of ridiculous, but then again I wasn’t there. Maybe they were screaming the jokes.
I note from the link that one of the men is up on charges of drunk driving. He best get himself a good lawyer!
St. Peter and Satan make a deal that they will take turns maintaining the bridge between heaven and hell, switching off every six months. First it’s St. Peter’s turn. He does a good job and hands the place over to Satan. Satan ignores it completely and after six months the bridge is in terrible disrepair. St. Peter is pissed.
“Hey, Satan, We had a contract!”
“Yeah, whatever. I didn’t feel like it.”
“Well then you leave me no recourse but to sue.”
“Right. Where Are you going to find a lawyer?”
Lame, I know.
Why did New Jersey get all the toxic dumps, and California get all the lawyers?
New Jersey had first choice.
Not family friendly:
Why do lawyers wear neckties?
To keep the foreskin down.