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[–] [S] 111 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There was period of time during Trump's last administration where the world just got so crazy I had a collection of screenshots of "not the onion" headlines that just seemed too insane to be real.

I remember one was like "Judge determines woman can't prove she didn't want to be set on fire."

This would fit in nicely.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Huh.......I'm trying to think of what legal defense you could give to PROVE you didn't want to be set on fire.

    I can't think of one. What do you say that proves it? Which means I get how that headline happened, but also.....how did THAT headline happen???

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The only thing I can think of is that there was some sort of event where other people were being willingly set on fire. Like if were some sort of performance that went wrong, I could see there being a reasonable defense that the performer didn't know she didn't want to participate.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    my lay person understanding of the law is that in situations like these you don't need to prove what should be so overwhelmingly self-evident

    there's probably some Latin phrase for it a lawyer would just know but when a thing is so far away from a gray area of reasonableness you're fine

    you shouldn't need hard evidence, people as a rule don't like to set themselves on fire

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