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Mediate, alleviate, try not to hate, love your mate, suffocate, on your own hate…

Alternative dispute resolution, commonly referred to as ADR (lawyers love abbreviations, I’ll tell you what), basically refers to mediation and arbitration - that is, alternate ways to get a legal brouhaha resolved without going through all the time and expense of full-blown litigation. And Florida attorney Robert Walker is a well known attorney who’s also a certified civil mediator. That means folks can have him help mediate their dispute, sorta’ acting like a King Solomon, trying to figure out how the parties can throw away the bathwater but not the baby (or some other terrible metaphor of your choosing).

Anyway, point being - Walker either needs a refresher course on mediation tactics, or he’s planning to start a whole new school of thought on the mediation process.

A little while back there was this thing called the Super Bowl - you may have heard. And some of Walker’s neighbors were having this thing called a Super Bowl party, which I guess was getting a little too loud for Walker. So he did what any rational and level-headed mediator would do - grabbed his gun and went marching on over to the neighbor’s house. He claims that his plan was simply to fire off a round into the ground, as a warning shot.

But as he approached the house, two guests were coming out, and he decided to point the gun at them. One of the exiting people managed to push the gun away, and then tried to wrestle it out of Walker’s hand. Which is when it fired. Luckily, nobody was hit, but that was enough to get Walker a reserved spot in the clink, and some charges of attempted murder and using a gun while drunk.

The whole time I was reading and thinking about this story, my brain kept cutting to the classic INXS video, which I now share with you to help pass this Monday Morning - enjoy:

Posted by Seth on February 12, 2007 | Comments (1)