"Mr. Ponton, I think you have a filter activated in your video settings."

The pandemic has left great moments, but none like this one.

If 2017 was the year that political scientist

Robert E. Kelly

rose to fame after his children sneaked into a live connection with the BBC, 2021 is off to a strong start.

"I am not a cat."

Probably the most surreal phrase ever uttered in court.

Things of the pandemic.

It happened during a court hearing for

Zoom

in

Texas

.

The video conference starts and all eyes are on the bottom right window.

Instead of the lawyer

Rod Ponton

, an adorable kitten appears with a face of not knowing very well what he is doing there.

"Can you hear me, Judge?" Asks the kitten, while moving his eyes from side to side.

It is not known whether the face of the virtual animal or the voice of the lawyer, clearly desperate, generates more overwhelm.

"I listen to him", the judge replies, "I think it is a filter".

As if the situation was not already surreal in itself, the anguish of the lawyer Ponton leads to a statement that will remain for history.

Judge

Mikael Thalen himself

, who has given permission to the media to use the video "for educational purposes, and not to laugh at lawyers," has warned on his

Twitter account

: "An important trick for Zoom: if a child has used your computer, before joining an online hearing check the video options to make sure the filters are turned off. This kitty just made a formal statement in a case. "

And the formal statement finished curling the curl.

"My assistant is here, she's trying to remove it but ... I'm ready to continue," he says, "I'm really here. I'm not a cat."

It is precisely the secretary who has been blamed for the mess by the lawyer, in statements to

Vice

: "It was just a mistake by my secretary," he says, "I was using her computer and for some reason she had that filter on. I removed it and My face has already appeared. It was a case about a man who was trying to leave the US with contraband and black money. It was a mistake. I removed it and we followed the view normally. "

"These fun moments are the fruit of the dedication of the lawyers to ensure that the system continues to function in these difficult times", concludes Judge Ferguson, "all the people involved handled the situation with dignity, and the filter lawyer showed incredible grace . Great professionalism! ".

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