Man stops trial with utterly disgusting behavior
James Orr, 66, was on trial in Cincinnati, Ohio yesterday for robbery and kidnapping when he disrupted the hearing with an extreme act of grossness. Orr reportedly asked his attorney if he had any food. When the attorney told him no, Orr apparently put his colostomy bag on the table, squeezed out the contents, and then either ate, or pretended to eat, his own feces. The Sheriff's deputy cuffed him and removed him from the room which the judge then closed for cleaning. Orr's trial will continue next week. From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
(Hamilton County prosecutor David) Prem admitted he almost vomited up while watching Orr's antics but suspects they were done with a purpose."Bizarre act halts court hearing" (Thanks, Tara!)
"He's a con man. He has over 50 aliases and has convictions in Ohio and New York for thefts and robberies," Prem said.
"He's done just about everything a person can do to avoid justice. He feigned (mental) incompetence" leading up to this trial, Prem said.
Orr was ordered to trial after court mental health workers deemed him mentally sound and a faker.
"I'm completely convinced his whole goal here is to cause as much mayhem as he can," Prem said of Orr.
(Orr's attorney Norm) Aubin will have jail workers again check Orr's mental health before continuing the trial Wednesday.
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I think we just found a cellmate for Joe "Girls Gone Wild" Francis.
I've never seen anybody eat anything in a courtroom: except metaphorically. Seems a clear case of contempt of court IMHO (and indeed contempt of everyone then present).
This sounds like the kind of thing you wouldn't be allowed to do on a buss in Honolulu.
Isn't there an old police show where the guy uses peanut butter to feign eating feces? I think it was on Hill Street Blues.
where, oh where, are the unicorn chasers?
He didn't have to do that, everyone already knew he was full of crap.
The Aristocrats!
The really rude thing was that he did not offer to share.
Hey, at least he didn't yawn.
STEGODON FTW!
Unicorn stat!
You know... my bf is a lawyer who spends most of his time defending the mentally ill, and his rule of thumb for deciding if someone is "decompensating" versus "malingering" is the eating of ones own poop.
You can play with it, smear it all over the walls or other people, but unless you're willing to eat it... you're probably faking it.
"If he eats his shit -- you must acquit!"
-- MrJM
This guy should hang out with the guy hiding in pit toilets.
I need a unicorn NOW
He probably had the bad contents prepared in advance. Same reason I always keep a knotted cherry stem under my tongue: to impress the ladies. ;*
Perhaps he was channeling G.G. Allin?
One thing you learn if you're ever caught up in the legal system is that there are people alive who are simply animals. I don't mean this in the foodchain/intelligence/species-apart sense, I mean it in the "law of the jungle", self-interest, rage and filth one.
Love the cloacal, coprophagic turn the site's been taking lately. A brave new movement, you might say. A fundamental change, if you will.
Reminds me of an anecdote from "Training Day". One of the cops was complaining that a con he arrested fooled the judge into declaring him unfit for trial by eating peanut butter he'd concealed in his butt crack.
There's always room for Jello(tm) chocolate flavored pudding...
@5: When Denzel Washington's character meets up with some upper-end police folks in that restaurant in Training Day, one of the guys tells the peanut butter-as-feces story. May be an old chesnut, but it certainly was there.
I'm fairly certain that the term "faker" isn't in the AP style guide for a reason. Tsk tsk, what bias against the shit-eater.
As someone has actually has a colostomy bag (courtesy of ulcerative colitis), morons like this really don't help. Living with a bag is difficult enough, but now the 'gross' factor of this condition has just been upped once more, and we're all labeled with it.
There. Now you can all get back to your poop jokes.a
Is this the minimalist version of "Two girls, one cup"?
"One man, one bag".
Oh, come on folks. Give him a break. He was probably just hungry for corn or maybe peanuts.
Ohio. Again.
I heard he did it to protest against universal health care.
only in the 'natti
Catch-22
Orr is insane for eating shit, but eating shit would be considered sane for evading prison.