Summer Associate Busted for Sending Obscene Emails to Self

Today I was doing some Lexis research on punitive damages and I ran across a fun case involving the Dave Matthews Band. A few years ago, the Dave Matthews Band tour bus emptied its human waste container over the Chicago bridge and into the river below. Ill-fatedly, a cruise ship just happened to be passing below the bridge at that time. The waste landed on the ship, covering the passengers in human excrement. Nice.

I laughed out loud.

I sent the case to myself via email, and in the subject line I wrote: "Human Shit Case."

The Firm quarantined the email. I immediately got an email from our tech support peeps saying that someone was trying to send me a message with potentially offensive content. Then I got another email lecturing me about the firm's email policy (no obscenities, no attempts to represent the firm using inappropriate comments, no using the firm email for non-business related stuff, etc.). Crap! How embarrassing. I had to contact tech support to tell them that I had sent the potty-mouth message to myself, and please release it from quarantine.

Now I'm totally freaked out that the firm is monitoring my emails. I am so inappropriate. How embarrassing.

If you're interested, the case is: MERCURY SKYLINE YACHT CHARTERS v. THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, INC., 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29663. (Totally not blue-booked, because it's my personal blog, dammit).