Flowers, dinner, bowling --and counseling-- ordered by Broward judge in domestic case

South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | February 7, 2012 | Danielle A. Alvarez

[ConservativeStatement]

FORT LAUDERDALE— A marital spat that began when a Plantation man didn't wish his wife a happy birthday and then escalated into a domestic violence charge resulted in an usual bond court ruling by a perceptive judge.

Instead of setting bond or keeping Joseph Bray locked up, he ordered him to treat his spouse to dinner, a bowling date and then to undergo marriage counseling.

"He's going to stop by somewhere and he's going to get some flowers," Judge John "Jay" Hurley said during the first appearance hearing. "And then he's going to go home, pick up his wife, get dressed, take her to Red Lobster. And then after they have Red Lobster, they're going to go bowling."

[ConservativeStatement]

I sense the writer meant "unusual" in the opening paragraph. Anyway, Red Lobster and bowling...or bust.

[AppyPappy]

Women like surprises for their birthday unless it’s the pimp hand.

[Albion Wilde]

If my husband took me either to Red Lobster or a bowling alley, I’d be furious. I hope the judge asked the lady her tastes in entertainment before his ruling.

[dragonblustar]

man didn't wish his wife a happy birthday ...

How to start WWIII

[Nervous Tick]

>> treat his spouse to dinner, a bowling date

.. and then back to the doublewide trailer for a Pabst Blue Ribbon nitecap?

[dfwgator]

man didn't wish his wife a happy birthday ... How to start WWIII

If he forgets their Anniversary, it's Armageddon.

[Nervous Tick]

>> I hope the judge asked the lady her tastes in entertainment before his ruling.

nah, he just noted that her right arm was larger and more muscular than her left. :-)

[dfwgator]

.. and then back to the doublewide trailer for a Pabst Blue Ribbon nitecap?

Frank Booth would approve.

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[Nervous Tick]

ROFL! Not being all that plugged into the movie culture, I had to look that one up.

Perhaps most memorable of all is when Jeffrey Beaumont requests Heineken Beer and Frank Booth replies, "Heineken? Expletive that expletive! Pabst Blue Ribbon!"

[Cyber Liberty]

"...a domestic violence charge resulted in an usual bond court ruling by a perceptive stupid judge."

Fixed it. These glowing reports of judges ordering impossible-to-enforce rulings make me sick.

[Bigg Red]

Exactly.

Apparently, this judge thinks that if he just orders these two losers to act decently they will mend their ways. What an idiot.

[Fiji Hill]

This reminds me of a 1972 case in which a protester was convicted of disorderly conduct during which he called a cop the “P” word. The judge said he would suspend half of his fine if he would spend an hour sitting on a barnyard fence contemplating the difference between a policeman and a pig.

[Cyber Liberty]

I could agree with that because it's enforceable. Judges issuing orders that cannot be enforced without undue expense are what chaps my hide. They are issued by the thousands daily by "Family Court" judges. A judge orders one parent to do something, and if the parent refuses to do it the other parent has to petition the court for an order of contempt, and that runs up the bill for the injured party.