10-29-2006, 07:17 PM
wm_hunter Wrote:I will tell you a true story about this.Dumbest ****ing case ever. As a law student, I cannot see how they could even have taken such a ridiculous case to court. What was the point of law that they were arguing with?
Iron Maiden was on trial for being accused of having a teennager commit suicide when he played the song backwards. They hired my dads friends brother (who is a very smart man) to represent them in court.
As his argument, he told the jury they would hear something happy (I can't remember exactly what, something like "Pink bunny rabbits in a green medow") as he played back the same song that they said made the kid commit sucide.
All of the jury heard what he had suggested, and he proved to the court that it is not the song, but the power of suggestion that makes someone hear demonic messages in songs when played backwards. Needless to say, Iron Maiden won the case.