Quotes. (Trial).

"It becomes quite a show."

An onlooker commenting on the spectacle that takes place daily in the parking lot of an office complex in Alexandria, Virginia. There, businesswoman Cat Crosby--who has several reserved parking spaces for herself and her employees--monitors the lot from her office via a surveillance camera. Citing property rights, she snaps metal tire locks on cars that take her assigned spots and charges violators $25 to have the locks removed. Police say Crosby is acting within her rights as a private citizen.

"Today's news is tomorrow's bird-cage carpet."

Attorney Mathew Staver of Orlando, Florida, who represented five students in a lawsuit alleging that Miami-Dade Community College's policy requiring prior approval of handout literature violates students' right to free speech. Staver contended that "to be effective, speech must be spontaneous." The parties settled.

"We screwed up, made a big mistake."

The mea culpa from Val Stone, an assistant court administrator in Snohomish County, Washington, after she found that a recorded phone message mistakenly told 160 prospective jurors to report for duty at 5 a.m.--3 1/2 hours early. About 70 jurors arrived, only to spend those hours in an unlit, unheated room.

"Never made a mess in the House! Never will!"

The campaign slogan on a flyer that Wayne Genthner handed out on behalf of his border collie, Percy. Genthner sought to have Percy run against Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris in her bid for Congress, but state election officials refused to qualify the dog as a candidate. Genthner--who has raised a stink about "highly financed, sterile campaigns that avoid meaningful debate"--decided to run as a write-in, but said, "Percy exists to me as a binding none-of-the-above ballot selection."