Sometimes....I don't even have to try. The story just writes itself. Like when:
Broward judge chastised after dog gets loose in courhouse
By Buddy Nevins
Political Writer
Posted July 26 2005
The Broward court administrator has a bone to pick with a judge whose German shepherd got loose and chased a fellow jurist down the courthouse hallway.
Broward Circuit Judge Susan Lebow said Court Administrator Carol Lee Ortman chastised her after complaints from the other judge, whom Lebow and Ortman would not name. Ortman told Lebow never to bring 5-year-old Udah Maccabee to the courthouse again.
Pets are prohibited there, except for Seeing Eye and other dogs that assist the disabled. But because Lebow had nobody to take care of Udah Maccabee -- a variation of Judah Maccabee, the Jewish military hero of the Hanukkah story -- on July 18, the judge said she bent the rule. She left the dog alone in her chambers while she handled a cocaine trafficking case that lasted into the night.
The trouble started, Lebow said Monday, when "somebody let him out of my office, but they won't own up to it."
Soon Udah Maccabee, who weighs 113 pounds, was wandering the fourth floor. The dog spotted another judge and gave chase.
Circuit Judge Peter Weinstein, who has an office near Lebow's, spotted Udah Maccabee in the courthouse. "I saw a big dog," Weinstein said, but he declined to comment when asked if the animal chased him.
Lebow said the other judge shouldn't have overreacted.
"When somebody runs from him, he thinks they are playing and he chases," she said. "He's harmless."
Copyright © 2005, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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