That’s the official name, listed in court documents, of a recent case decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.I found this via the ever-wonderful Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me radio show. (Living in a western state, where 100 miles is considered a social distance, I’m a big fan of listening to podcasts in the car.)
But anyway, yeah. The details of the case were reported in several places a couple of weeks ago. This was a case apparently involving a US Coast Guard raid on a fishing vessel carrying said shark fins (which is, apparently, illegal in US waters). Also apparently, the defendant-appellant (whatever that means) in forfeiture cases is the the seized property itself. Hence: United States of America v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins.
I don’t know about you, but it’s the “approximately” that makes me laugh.
(The shark fins won, by the way.)
You know, when I read two references to this show/podcast in one week, I think I might be getting the message that I need to subscribe over the weekend.
The other reference is from a friend/former coworker of mine who is a freelance writer, who might be mentioning this very court case here: http://thingswhatthings.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/not-the-goot/.
Hi, Kristie, thanks for stopping by. Wow, what a strange coincidence that you happen to know the person who wrote the Wait, Wait quiz question that prompted my post. I guess six degrees of separation become one-and-a-half degrees on the internet. Thanks for pointing this out to me!
I definitely recommend subscribing to the Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me podcast. I listened to this show religiously when I was still living in Minneapolis where we had real public radio stations. Then I moved down here and had to learn to embrace podcasts.
I’ve never really thought about it, but even though I don’t listen to them at much as I might like to, I’d miss the Twin Cities NPR stations. I don’t listen to a lot of radio in general, but all three are presets in my car.
I’ve been listening to podcasts since I got my first iPod three or four years ago. I’m looking forward to listening to the last few episodes of Wait, Wait during my commute this coming week.
I didn’t get my first iPod until a little under a year and a half ago, and didn’t have an iPod-compatible car until a year ago. But now I’m convinced that podcasts are the greatest thing since electricity.
I should say, to correct something I said earlier, that there are NPR stations in New Mexico. I listen to KUNM (connected to the U of NM) daily (and in fact I donated my old, iPod-incompatible car to the station last spring). But it was a change moving down here, after spending so many years listening to MPR.