“IF I HAD BEEN THE ONE WHO WAS THERE.” This story must be my favorite weird news story because I carried it around in my brief case for many years:
The clipping described an event in a trial for armed robbery of a fast food restaurant. The defendant chose to represent himself. The defendant was vigorously cross examining one of the customers who had identified him as the robber. The witness held firm in spite of the increasingly intense cross. Finally, the defendant exclaimed: “I should have blown your head off.”
PAUSE.
‘That is, if I had been the one who was there.”