I do love a judge who can laugh at himself! It was LOL-worthy in the literal way, wasn't it?

My friend is an adjunct law professor at NYU who fills in the gaps as an arbitrator, and he says ridiculous cases like this aren't nearly as rare as you'd like to think. Usually they don't go to court because that's so expensive, and much less outside of America where judges usually have the ability to dismiss cases like this as frivolous. (He was a bit surprised this case got that far.) But yes, according to him judges often let their snark fly a bit when the case deserves it. :-)