Tweety Bird, Donald Duck to take the stand

*Drtooth* · 12-04-2007, 04:23 PM

Another in a long line of rediculously funny stories that are funnier just hearing the title headline.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071204/...oney_witnesses

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ROME - Tweety may get a chance to take the witness stand and sing like a canary. An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case.

In what lawyers believe was a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a court in Naples sent a summons to the characters ordering them to appear Friday in a trial in the southern Italian city, officials said.

The court summons cites Titti, Paperino, Paperina, Topolino — the Italian names for the characters — as damaged parties in the criminal trial of a Chinese man accused of counterfeiting products of Disney and Warner Bros.

Instead of naming only the companies and their legal representatives, clerks also wrote in the witness list the names of the cartoons that decorated the toys and gadgets the man had reproduced, said Fiorenza Sorotto, vice president of Disney Company Italia.

"Unfortunately they cannot show up, as they are residents of Disneyland," Sorotto joked in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It certainly pleased us that the characters were considered real, because that's what we try to do."

The Naples court will have to rewrite the summons, although this will probably delay the trial, said Disney lawyer Cristina Ravelli.

"Let's hope the characters will not be prosecuted for failing to appear," Ravelli quipped.

Calls seeking comment from Warner Bros. in Milan were not immediately returned. Phones at the Naples court were not answered Tuesday.

Of course, I think Scrooge McDuck should help provide a lawyer, while Gyro Gearloose can invent a portal to go to China and bring back the bootlegs as evidence....

*Raph's Girl* · 12-04-2007, 08:31 PM

Sorry Donald can't go to that trial. He's too busy downloading music off the internet and selling it on the black market.

http://torrentfreak.com/donald-duck-...pirate-071204/

*BubblyShell22* · 12-05-2007, 08:34 AM

Wow! This is crazy.

*Mars-Chan* · 12-06-2007, 01:15 PM

http://www.glitter-graphics.com/graphics/359824

Type 97 Chi-ha · 12-06-2007, 02:46 PM

I remember a news story from years ago where some students at Harvard University wrote to Quaker Oats Company inviting Captain Crunch to come and speak at their school. Quaker responded by sending them a package of Captain Crunch cereal, along with a letter expressing regrets that Captain Crunch would be unavailable as he would be at a speaking engagement elsewhere. (A response to the story: Was he scheduled to speak at Yale?)

Ra · 12-06-2007, 04:55 PM

Ye gods this has made my day!

It's amazing to know how many people actually think that cartoons are real. It's insane in some cases. This court case is no exception.

Pepzi · 12-06-2007, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Mars-Chan

http://www.glitter-graphics.com/graphics/359824

My thoughts too... Whut Da F***?

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Ra It's my desire? Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In your pants. Posts: 4,441	Ye gods this has made my day! It's amazing to know how many people actually think that cartoons are real. It's insane in some cases. This court case is no exception. __________________ "So. The whole lot of you against little old me? How retarded."

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12-06-2007, 02:46 PM	#5
Type 97 Chi-ha Mad Scientist Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Brookfield, IL Posts: 1,333	I remember a news story from years ago where some students at Harvard University wrote to Quaker Oats Company inviting Captain Crunch to come and speak at their school. Quaker responded by sending them a package of Captain Crunch cereal, along with a letter expressing regrets that Captain Crunch would be unavailable as he would be at a speaking engagement elsewhere. (A response to the story: Was he scheduled to speak at Yale?)