Non Compos Mentos

[Poetic Peter]

I came across this clipping again today. This is not from the internet.

I don't know why I saved it, but maybe it's a worthwhile thing,
to laugh at the stupid, stupid lieberal press.

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Never before published except by The Miami Herald:






Pasco County is in Florida.

We give those people everything, and what do they do?
Write poorly.

Then too there are the immigrants like the felon above: grifters all.

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Re: Non Compos Mentos

I came across this clipping again today. This is not from the internet.

I don't know why I saved it, but maybe it's a worthwhile thing,
to laugh at the stupid, stupid lieberal press.

...............................................
Never before published except by The Miami Herald:

Ummmm.........It seems linguistically correct to me.

[Poetic Peter]

Re: Non Compos Mentos

Allowing that it's New Year's night...

Ummmm.........It seems linguistically correct to me.

...do you drink and drive

points home?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Non Compos Mentos

Allowing that it's New Year's night... ...do you drink and drive

points home?

Exactly what part of the article do question? The phrase "uttering a forged instrument" is a well-known legal term....

ELEMENTS OF UTTERING

Uttering a forged instrument is the passing or making use of a forged writing or document with knowledge of its forged nature. This is the more usual pattern -- to charge the offender with both forgery and uttering -- because the forgery is used to accomplish some other crime, like false pretenses, some other property offense, or something as simple as purchasing alcohol with a fake ID. Falsification of information on employment applications has also been held to involve uttering.

1. Passing or making use -- This is any putting into circulation a writing or document that involves forgery. Any form of material gain may be the motive, but generally financial gain is the motive, as in the common practice of passing a bad check. Motive is not the distinguishing factor, however. There must be some legal significance to the circulation.

2. Intent to defraud -- This is the same as intent to defraud under forgery law.

3. Knowledge of forgery -- This is held to exist even in the case of the person passing something without saying anything, like "This isn't my real name, or there might not be enough money in the balance to pay this, but can you cash the check anyway?" In other words, silence (when knowing about something unusual) qualifies as satisfying this element. Merely attempting to offer something as genuine which is suspected to be false qualifies as offering or transferring (i.e., uttering).

Bad checks are perhaps the number one crime problem in the United States. Every day, 1.3 million "bad checks" are passed, and there's no way for the law enforcement apparatus to keep up. Therefore, the U.S. has devised a rather unusual mix of criminal/civil law in this area, allowing businesses to let the person "make good" within a certain number of days (from 3-7 days) or else they are liable for up to triple the amount of the check.