2nd March: Even rats have lawyers !!!
Posted by Duncan on 3/02/10 • Categorized as Fact of the Day
In 1510, priests in Autun, France, brought legal proceedings against the town’s rats because they were eating the barley crop.
However, the rats’ lawyer, Bartholomew Chassenee, successfully argued that not all the rats could have recieved the legal summons, and furthermore couldn’t appear in court because they might be eaten by cats. The case was dropped.
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