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Posted at 4:30 AM on January 14, 2008 by Bob Collins (0 Comments)

Warning: You know that little "memo" line on your checks? Don't write anything obscene there when you make out a check to pay your parking ticket.

A Pennsylvania man has now apologized for what he wrote on a $5 check and the police have now dropped disorderly conduct charges against him.

But there must be something his lawyer can be charged with for uttering this quote while insisting his client would've been cleared if the case had gone to trial.

‘‘The F-word isn’t what it used to be,’’ attorney Keith Williams said. It doesn’t have a sexual connotation anymore and so can’t be considered obscene, he said.

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