Well folks, you knew it was coming sooner or later — the first legal shots have been fired against Sacha Baron Cohen by those drunken frat guys in that RV ”to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment.”
The lawsuit claims that in October 2005, a production crew took the students to a bar to drink and ”loosen up” before participating in what they were told would be a documentary to be shown outside of the United States.
”They were induced to agree to participate and were told the name of the fraternity and the name of their school wouldn’t be used,” said the plaintiffs’ attorney, Olivier Taillieu. ”They were put into an RV and were made to believe they were picking up Borat the hitchhiker.”
After a bout of heavy drinking, the plaintiffs signed a release form they were told ”had something to do with reliability issues with being in the RV,” Taillieu said.
I’m not exactly sure why the dateline on this is my hometown of Santa Monica, but so it goes. Speaking of my fair city, I remind you of the brilliant legal analysis by fellow Santa Monican Nate Cardozo:
if you’re dumb enough to (a) get interviewed by borat, and (b) give a crap that you got fooled, you (c) don’t have a reputation to protect and (d) deserve what you got. Plus (e) you fucking signed the release, dumbass.
Also, for people who are new to Borat/Sacha Baron Cohen, check out this serious interview with Cohen on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” that dates from July 2004.
