Bunch of baloney
Federal prosecutors hung their case on a piece of onion and a mustard smear, and that the Customs and Border Protection agent struck by a foot-long Subway sandwich was the victim of an indefensible attack.
But when the jury began deliberations, they focused on the videos and photographs shown during two days of testimony: the sandwich, they noted, was never unwrapped. So how could any of the sandwich’s insides have struck the agent?
The agent kept two souvenirs he received from fellow agents teasing him after the incident. The jurors wondered: What true victim keeps a memento of their assault?
“It really came down to this whole thing was a bunch of baloney,” said one of the jurors, a 26-year-old Washington architectural designer.
-- BGov's Keith Alexander reminds us that sometimes the funniest possible stories are court reports written dead straight. Read: Jurors in Sandwich Thrower Case Found Charges ‘Bunch of Baloney’