An Italian court has summoned several Disney characters to testify in a counterfeiting case.

Fox news Link (http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Dec04/0,4670,ODDCartoonWitnesses,00.html).

An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case.

In what lawyers believe was a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a court in Naples sent a summons to the characters ordering them to appear Friday in a trial in the southern Italian city, officials said.

The court summons cites Titti, Paperino, Paperina, Topolino _ the Italian names for the characters _ as damaged parties in the criminal trial of a Chinese man accused of counterfeiting products of Disney and Warner Bros.

The Counterfeiters may get away with it if their lawyers are on the ball...

Wow...


...And there goes their credibility
/me waves

Didn't Saddam Hussein think that Bart Simpson was a real person?

so, did they show up? or are there FTA(failure to appear) warrants out for the deadly cartoon characters?

I wonder if the costumed characters--you know, the ones that wander around theme parks--can technically show up in response. Cause I would pay good money to see a gigantic Tweety Bird attempt to fit behind a witness stand.