That BNL song just popped up while reading the saga of a lawyer who went on Dateline and offered a million dollars to anyone who could prove that his client, Nelson Ivan Serrano, was actually able to travel across two states and kill four people in the time that prosecutors had alleged.
A South Texas College of Law graduate, Dustin Kolodziej, saw the segment and decided to take Mason up on his dare. He retraced the route the prosecutors claim Serrano took, and came in under the time limit, videotaping his progress along the way.
Hilarity has ensued ever since. The lawyer claims it was a joke, and doesn't want to pay up. The graduate (doubtless with hefty loans to pay off) doesn't see it that way. And another lawyer says that while it could go either way, the grad may have points in his favor:
If you think back to your 1L contracts course, Kolodziej might actually have something along the lines of an argument here. The dare sounds suspiciously like a unilateral contract. A unilateral contract, you'll remember, is one that is offered to the population generally.
Um...you know when I made that bet that Clinton would never win a second term? It was just a joke. Honest.
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