Patients die as lawyers ransack Lahore hospital.
Lawyer’s guild = violent youth gang? Fuck that.
Permanently disbar every last one of them and prosecute the ringleaders for the deaths.
People often call lawyers “ambulance chasers” and I always wondered what would happen if they caught one, now I guess we know.
The law (such as it is) should have declared a riot and started shooting.
“Riot police fired tear gas to disperse the lawyers”
We may have a winner in the “Most Memorable News Story Line of 2019” contest.
I would have thought that was an Onion article, complete with a bunch of guys in dark suits getting tear gas shot at them and everything. But it’s apparently a true story.
I mean, it would be hysterically funny, if not for the patients dying part.
I thought the reporter had accidentally substituted “lawyers” for another word (“activists” or something). But seriously, this is such a shitty thing it makes me feel worse about my profession (on the other side of the world, with no ties to Pakistan other than a shared adoption of common law).
I wonder if the word ‘actionable’ means the same there.
Is it possible “lawyer” means something else in Urdu? Like “guy who’ll beat you with a stick if you don’t help his mother”?
Yeah. Lawyers don’t riot. The sue you over and over till you want to kill yourself.
Death by a thousand paper cuts.
“I’m a partner in the Gambino Law Family”
Now somebody just has to rework the Clash song to be White (collar) Riot.
The Court appearance this morning had some rather interesting visuals.
https://twitter.com/sairameharr/status/1205112462300856320
Wow.
More surreal than Turkish security chuckleheads gooning on protesters in DC last May.
Roving hoardes of nattily-dressed, stick-weilding lawyers: The New Menace.
A friend of mine’s father convinced him as a kid that the Attorney general led an army of attorneys against an army of surgeons led by the surgeon general. Looks like he was right after all, just in the wrong country.
They make all the lawyer jokes look true.
What’s brown and black and looks good on a lawyer? A Doberman.
Why don’t sharks eat lawyers? Professional courtesy.
I once heard a joke that went something like this…
You are sitting on a park bench next to a pond enjoying your lunch, and suddenly a lawyer and a politician fall into the pond and start drowning. You only have time to save one of them! So what do you do?
Do you:
A) Finish your lunch and ignore them?
Or…
B) Go somewhere else to finish your lunch where you’re not disturbed by all the annoying splashing and gurgling sounds?
Why do they have bags on their heads?
Would you want anyone to know you’re a lawyer, there?
It’s a choice that everyone has in criminal court appearance. Not all do.
The choice lasts only until remand has been made, then sorry everyone gets to see your mug.
The article includes:
What does this refer to? Seems to me that this sort of march on a hospital is the antithesis of the long march. What are the roots of this?