1/ Feeling pretty turbocharged after beating The Man yesterday, so elfwife and I are talking about how I always fight authority and Morlock often wins and I was reminded of the story from 10+ years ago when I lived in Arlington MA and the town attorney did a DUI and I called him
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2/ "a drunkard" on the town mailing list, and it turns out that he was on the mailing list, and he posted that I had to retract that or he'd sue me for defamation. So I did what any reasonable person would do in such a circumstance:
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3/ * purchased a $500 text book on the case law of slander and defamation in Massachusetts * posted on the town mailing list that I wasn't retracting shit, and he should sue me and send the documents to address XYZ
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4/ Needless to say, I never heard from him again. However... ... ... ... ...
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5/ Two years later he was arrested after being found passed out in a running car in a parking lot, surrounded by beer bottles. At which point I emailed him "I haven't received the paperwork for that defamation lawsuit re calling you a drunkard. You have my address, right?"
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