Ponton gamely said he was prepared to make sure the hearing went on as needed, despite his cat predicament. Judge Roy Ferguson tried to instruct a morose, possibly ashamed cat how to change its Zoom filter. "If I can make the country chuckle for a moment in these difficult times they're going through, I'm happy to let them do that at my expense," he told the New York Times in a phone interview.įor a 43-second video, it's packed with memorable moments. Though Ponton may have been flustered at the moment, he sees the humor in the situation.
It was probably inevitable that it spread rapidly across social media on Tuesday. In addition to being something you've probably never seen before, it was the perfect combination of a relatable Zoom mistake and, well, cats. He was briefly unable to change the filter that made him a feline attorney. Rod Ponton, a county attorney in Presidio County, Texas, appeared in a Zoom call as a cat during a February 9 hearing in Texas' 394th Judicial District Court. Nonetheless, it has now been said in a hearing. Unless you're dressed in a hastily constructed dog costume for Halloween. "I'm not a cat." It's not something you typically hear in court.
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