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Dan sipped his coffee as he forced himself to go on. He turned toward his left and sat on the railing behind him as he perused the next case as he saw Harry's cousin sitting behind him. Leaning back in her seat, she looked at him, beamed a little bit and then grinned a little bit toward him.
"You're sort of cute." She admitted. Dan looked around for someone else with his coffee mug still in place then looked back.
"Oh, " The thought hit him. "You're talking to me?!"
"Yeah," Kelly stirred a bit. "I bet your wife just loves those big brown eyes of yours…. And your dreamy salt and pepper hair…" Her alabaster fingers danced through his hair.
"I'm not married."
"You're not married?" Kelly continued. "How can I guy like you go this long without getting married?"
"Luck." Dan claimed.
"You know," Kelly leaned forward captivatingly. "I'd sure love it if a cute guy like you were to take me out."
"I probably shouldn't..." Dan straightened his tie with one pass. "You're Harry's cousin, and...Damn, you got great legs." Harry's cousin looked a lot like that blonde that did mornings with Regis Philbin.
"Oh, Danny, boy..." Harry, Mac and Christine were watching from afar. "Would you care to join our tea party over here?"
"Yes, sir," Dan looked guilty as Kelly sat back once more. "Just discussing... Chicken leg recipes." He looked back as she beamed smitteningly to him and moved her fingers daintily to him.
"Next case, sir," Mac continued as Harry glared to Dan with terror in mind. "Hyneman and Savage, reckless disregard to safety, illegal use of explosives and public disturbance..." He looked up to the bald guy in the beret and his partner with the fedora, eyeglasses and brown Air Force jacket. The two Discovery Channel celebrities leaned annoyingly aggravated against the bench and looked up to Harry a bit tired and harried for their experience.
"What happened?" Harry looked them over without recognizing them "Frat party out of control?"
"No, sir, they blew up half of Central Park." Dan revealed matter-of-factly. Harry looked at the two men as if they were terrorists.
"Just the lake…." Savage confessed. "We needed a big enough body of water to absorb the dry ice, and technically, it wasn't an explosion, it was an implosion."
"Actually, your honor, " Jamie Hyneman took a deep breath after his humiliating arrest. "We had full cooperation of the park officials and the New York City Police Department. You see, we got this TV Series called Mythbusters on Discovery Channel and we bust urban myths. We were just experimenting to see if dry ice could truly empty a lake." He produced his paper work to reveal his permits.
"What's a Discovery Channel?" Roz stood by and looked over to Bull. She didn't watch much TV.
"It's like Disney Channel's older, smarter, big brother." Bull answered.
"Well, you're right…" Harry viewed the papers and looked them over for all the right signatures. "These are all in order. Well, then, why are you guys even here? Who was your arresting officer?"
"That was me, sir!" A hand rose up from behind Christine and she turned around to let Officer Michael Kelso, the idiot cop through to the bench. Kelso had been all over the news for stupid violations in the last few years from Point Place, Wisconsin, Detroit, Wisconsin, Chicago, Illinois and now Manhattan. Every time up screwed up, from letting criminals use his patrol car to escape or ticketing Jesse McCarthy for filming a music video in public, he was always dispatched to a new police department to be someone else's problem. In the police force, he was becoming known as sort of a hot potato. Dan and Christine stepped back to avoid the explosion.
"What are you? Some kind of idiot?!" Harry exploded at Kelso.
"Uh…" Kelso looked around. "Is that some kind of… trick question?"
"Charges dropped!" Harry pounded his gavel once to let Hyneman and Savage go then used it to pull the former stoner closer to him. "Look, son, I get over a million cases in here a week, and I don't need a screw-up officer in my district dragging in even more just because he doesn't know how to do his job!!!" He reamed the still inexperienced Kelso over the proverbial coals. "Get your head on straight or else get another job!!! Preferably one that doesn't have you carrying a gun!" Harry dropped his gavel trying to calm down, but Kelso just stepped closer and looked over the top toward Harry.
"Uh," He forced a nervous grin and rolled his eyes to Mac briefly. "My superior said if I screwed up once more that he was going to revoke my position permanently. I mean… he's not going to find out about this, is he?"
"He is now." Harry answered. At that reference, Kelso twisted round and cursed under his breath to march out upset and crestfallen.
"Jackie will never take me back after this…" He mumbled under breath past Dan and Christine. "I hope Hyde never finds out about…" His cell phone started buzzing. He picked it up and flicked it open. "Hello?"
"You arrested the Mythbusters????!" Steven Hyde had phoned him and started laughing. Michael could just roll his eyes and wander out of the courtroom embarrassingly upset.
"What's next, Mack?" Harry continued his anger abating.
"Another public disturbance and public mischief." Mac continued.
"Public disturbance..." Ross Gellar walked in. "Are we a disturbance?"
"No," His best friend Chandler disagreed. "Is that really what that says?" He tried to pry a look at the file.
"Your honor," Christine looked at the six people now crowded around her. The guys were cute, and the girls were perfect, and she hated them. "These six all live in two apartments in the same apartment house, but lately the other tenants have been complaining about their..."
"Cult-like tendencies." Dan read the complaint report.
"Can you explain that?" Harry didn't get it.
"You honor," Monica Gellar pushed forward. "We're friends. We take care of each other. We don't hurt each other. I mean, so what if our fun gets a little out of hand."
"Like riding refrigerator boxes down the stairs." Dan read the report. "And making popcorn in a dryer."
"I've done that." Bull stood nearby.
"We can't really be arrested for that can we." Joey asked as Harry stared back at them.
"Harry," Christine was peering through the file on Rachel Green. "Mrs. Green has been in another suit concerning her dancing naked in her apartment." Dan immediately looked upon the young lady in question with interest. Rachel just blushed and tried to hide from plain sight.
"Do you guys know if there's any empty apartments across from you guys?" He looked to Ross, Joey and Chandler.
"Who filed the grievance?" Harry wanted to know.
"The wives, girlfriends and a gay couple across the street." Christine continued.
"Any empty apartments?" Dan grilled the guys further. "Any at all?!"
"What are you people?" Harry asked. "A cult?"
"Are we a cult?" Chandler turned to Joey.
"No," His friend answered. "But Phoebe sometimes looks like she's been brainwashed." Phoebe smacked him upside the head.
