A US Judge has been suspended for jailing an entire courtroom - superb!

Robert Restaino was presiding over a domestic violence case in March 2005, when a mobile phone rang - nobody admitted responsibility, so he jailed the lot of them! Now if only someone would do that with ASBO’s!

“Every single person is going to jail in this courtroom unless I get that instrument now,” he told the courtroom’s audience, according to the commission.

“If anybody believes I’m kidding, ask some of the folks that have been here for a while. You are all going.”

When security failed to find the phone a brief recess was taken, as nobody came forward the judge ordered that the entire courtroom audience of 46 people be taken into custody and set bail at $1,500.