So this is pretty cool. A man from England named Barton Simpson appeared in court yesterday in front of judge named Mr. Burns. Bart Simpson. Mr. Burns. I think you see what I’m getting at.
Company Director Barton Simpson, 56, denies possessing a prohibited firearm at Birmingham airport on May 31 last year.
Yesterday Simpson, of Eccleshall, Staffs., stood trial in front of Mr Recorder Burns at Warwick Crown Court.
A court worker said: “It’s a bizarre coincidence that Bart Simpson is actually on trial in front of Mr Burns but it’ll proceed as any other criminal case would. [SWNS]
Here are my favorite parts of this story:
1) Recorder Burns sounds like an injury you’d get after leaving your flute out in the sun.
2) I hope the prosecutor has blue hair and glasses.
3) Poor Barton Simpson. Just going about his life, minding his own little English business, and then his whole world gets flip-turned upside-down in his early 30s because Matt Groening decided to give a cartoon character the same name. I mean, can you even imagine how many times people have said “Eat my shorts” to this guy, or asked him to do the Bartman? “License and registration, sir.” “Here you go, officer.” “Do you know why I pulled you ov-… Hey! Like the cartoon!” “GODDAMMIT.”
4) This is an actual sentence that appeared in the news story I linked to in the blockquote:
Bart Simpson is the fictional yellow star in the hit sitcom The Simpsons while Charles Montgomery Burns is his frequent nemesis and nuclear power plant owner who employs Bart’s dad, Homer.
5) It gives me a legitimate excuse to post a Lionel Hutz clip on a random Wednesday in March.
