Poll of the Day > Man requests 'trial by combat' w/ Japanese swords to settle dispute with ex-wife

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Far-Queue
01/14/20 12:55:01 PM
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https://wchstv.com/news/offbeat/man-requests-trial-by-combat-to-settle-dispute-with-ex-wife

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Kyuubi4269
01/14/20 12:57:49 PM
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ok
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GenericGuy
01/14/20 12:59:42 PM
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chad

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CTLM
01/14/20 1:07:00 PM
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"As her attorney, I don't anything to do with shit. I'm not going to be anyone's champion. Screw that"
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Red_Frog
01/14/20 1:50:50 PM
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I hope this moves forward.
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FatalAccident
01/14/20 1:59:54 PM
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Trial by combat was used throughout game of thrones

ummm no it def wasnt

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Kyuubi4269
01/14/20 2:29:06 PM
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FatalAccident posted...
Trial by combat was used throughout game of thrones

ummm no it def wasnt

Between the production staff, not on camera.
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BlackScythe0
01/14/20 2:29:19 PM
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FatalAccident posted...
Trial by combat was used throughout game of thrones

ummm no it def wasnt
It's local news website, no one around here watched Game of Thrones.
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Far-Queue
01/14/20 2:44:54 PM
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Kyuubi4269 posted...
Between the production staff, not on camera.
lol

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Bugmeat
01/14/20 2:52:47 PM
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Scrolling down lead me to an article about a woman who strung her kids up in their home. In addition to the murder charges she also got hit with sexual intercourse with an animal. I guess the dog stuff came up in their search of the computers.

https://wchstv.com/news/nation-world/mother-of-children-found-hanging-in-basement-charged-with-homicide
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Zeus
01/14/20 3:01:49 PM
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FatalAccident posted...
Trial by combat was used throughout game of thrones

ummm no it def wasnt

Offhand, I can think of at least two incidents on the show that used it and prior to the story a trial by combat led to Robert's Rebellion.


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PKMNsony
01/14/20 3:03:47 PM
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The law is the law.

Please tell me this is the law.
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BlackScythe0
01/14/20 3:22:35 PM
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PKMNsony posted...
The law is the law.

Please tell me this is the law.
It's not.

The argument seems to be "It isn't prohibited"

But without any basis for it in the law there is no legal grounds for it to be an actual thing.
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Zeus
01/14/20 3:25:32 PM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
It's not.

The argument seems to be "It isn't prohibited"

But without any basis for it in the law there is no legal grounds for it to be an actual thing.

If it's not prohibited and both agree to solve a dispute that way, it works.

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BlackScythe0
01/14/20 3:29:55 PM
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Zeus posted...
If it's not prohibited and both agree to solve a dispute that way, it works.

Oh I guess I'm looking at it as "There is no reason the ex and the lawyer would agree to this nonsense"

My answer wasn't intended to consider what personal agreements people could come to outside of the courts, just what the courts would order.
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Dreaming_King
01/14/20 4:52:34 PM
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If she declines her honor will be besmirched as that of a cowards should be and that will be a far greater punishment than any monetary loss.

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01/14/20 5:17:53 PM
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BTB
01/14/20 9:39:53 PM
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GenericGuy posted...
chad

Yes?

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darkknight109
01/14/20 11:18:23 PM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
It's not.

The argument seems to be "It isn't prohibited"

But without any basis for it in the law there is no legal grounds for it to be an actual thing.
If it's not a prohibited activity (and if it wasn't to the death, it probably wouldn't be), it would actually be legally defensible as a form of arbitration as long as both sides agreed to it. It would be kind of stupid, but not as implausible as you're suggesting.

That being said, courts generally can't impose arbitration terms where none previously existed, and certainly none as outlandish as this, so I'm amazed the judge didn't just quash the motion outright as soon as it was filed.

Also, how did this story not manage to come from Florida?

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Zeus
01/14/20 11:24:33 PM
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darkknight109 posted...
Also, how did this story not manage to come from Florida?

Because there's nothing actually special about Florida as far as craziness goes.

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adjl
01/14/20 11:42:22 PM
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Zeus posted...
Because there's nothing actually special about Florida as far as craziness goes.

Indeed. The "Florida Man" trope is actually just a consequence of the fact that journalists in Florida have more or less full access to police reports and can therefore report on all of the insanity that happens there. Other states have more or less the same amount of insanity, it just doesn't get reported as often because the media doesn't have access to the details.

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Metalsonic66
01/14/20 11:43:12 PM
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FatalAccident
01/16/20 2:29:48 AM
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Zeus posted...
Offhand, I can think of at least two incidents on the show that used it and prior to the story a trial by combat led to Robert's Rebellion.
So 3 incidents, one of which we didnt even see? Doesnt equate to something being used throughout a series does it

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ParanoidObsessive
01/16/20 2:44:11 AM
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FatalAccident posted...
So 3 incidents, one of which we didnt even see? Doesnt equate to something being used throughout a series does it

Pretty sure there's actually at least a couple other examples in the show.

And "throughout" the series doesn't mean it happens constantly, just that it happens over a long period of time. Even if it happened three times, if those three times were season 1, season 4, and season 8, that actually would be accurate. So you'd have to isolate which seasons things are happening in to really disprove it.
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FatalAccident
01/16/20 6:02:48 AM
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Yeah true

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darkknight109
01/16/20 6:25:32 AM
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Zeus posted...
Because there's nothing actually special about Florida as far as craziness goes.
Congratulations on missing the joke.

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BlackScythe0
01/16/20 1:22:49 PM
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Wonder if news will decide to report on how this turns out? I rarely notice follow up reports on stuff like this.
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LinkPizza
01/17/20 4:26:04 AM
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BlackScythe0 posted...
Wonder if news will decide to report on how this turns out? I rarely notice follow up reports on stuff like this.

It may depend on what's decided...
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