May 23, 2005
Week 5 - The Can - Part 3
Episode 1
Rantz is at the witness stand at the Third Circuit Municipal Sanitation Tribunal.
“They wouldn’t accept your refuse and you thought that gave you the right to assault them?” demands the judge, the Honorable Frank Sinarate.
“No!” Rantz protests. “I didn’t assault them! I just tried to get them to take the can!”
“Don’t you know that civilians are forbidden to insert materials into the disposal units?”
“Well, no… That is, I…”
“I was a carrier for thirty years myself before I put on these robes. And you know what? Your kind makes me sick! You take sanitary engineers for granted and you think you can just push us around and mock us. Well, you have no idea what goes into refuse collection, you understand! No idea at all!”
“Listen! All I wanted…”
“Shut up! Do you know how dangerous it is to interfere with the collection process? Do you know how much pressure the disposal units generate? I don’t give a dog’s ear about your worthless life, but you could’ve hurt the collectors!”
“But… I…”
“Just get off the stand and sit down!”
Rantz sits next to Liza on a bench toward the front of the court. “Well… that went well…,” he mumbles to her.
“Shhh…,” Liza whispers. “They’re calling the next witness.”
“It’s one of the garbage men…”
“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?” the bailiff asks.
The garbage man nods. “Forecktish semlish b’tishalia…” he says.