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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Rabbi beats speeding ticket 

Quebec's Jewish chaplain for prisons got a speeding ticket quashed after convincing a judge he'd been rushing to a medical emergency: a baby boy who was bleeding from a ritual circumcision.

"It wasn't like I was going 120 kilometres an hour - I was going a reasonable speed," Jacob Lévy told Judge Alain St-Pierre in Outremont municipal court Monday, where he went to contest the ticket.

After listening to the rabbi's story, the judge said Lévy had proven the "necessity" of why he'd been speeding, and threw out the ticket.

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=9abfb746-a11d-47e7-87e6-3a396e69d486

Comments:
Why was a chaplain a "necessity"?
If he was an M.D. or a nurse....
I could understand the rush.
Also, why was the baby not taken
to a hospital by his parents?
This whole story was just a
con to get out of paying for
the ticket.

 

Phil,

Why don't you read the entire article before posting?

 

Is he from the well-known Chabad Levi family in france

 

#1 He was the Mohel & he has more experience in this situation than an MD or Nurse. Not everything needs a Hospital he took care of it and thats all. I admire the Judge for doing the right thing.

 

I personally know this Rabbi, he is the best person on earth! If you understand real french and you hear him speak you will the most beautiful things you ever heard in your life. He is a straight and honnest person, that's why the judge dismissed the case!
It is good that the court acknoledged the "necessity" it proves that sometimes those judges have a brain!

 

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