diff --git a/lib/instrumenter.js b/lib/instrumenter.js
index cc2c424..eafc897 100644
--- a/lib/instrumenter.js
+++ b/lib/instrumenter.js
@@ -19,9 +19,15 @@ instrumenter.prePosition = function prePosition(expression) {
 };
 
 instrumenter.instrumentAssignmentExpression = function instrumentAssignmentExpression(contract, expression) {
+
+  // This is suspended for 0.5.0 which tries to accomodate the new `emit` keyword.
+  // Solc is not allowing us to use the construction `emit SomeEvent()` within the parens :/
+  return;
+  // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
   // The only time we instrument an assignment expression is if there's a conditional expression on
   // the right
-  if (expression.right.type === 'ConditionalExpression') {
+  /*if (expression.right.type === 'ConditionalExpression') {
     if (expression.left.type === 'DeclarativeExpression' || expression.left.type === 'Identifier') {
       // Then we need to go from bytes32 varname = (conditional expression)
       // to             bytes32 varname; (,varname) = (conditional expression)
@@ -42,7 +48,7 @@ instrumenter.instrumentAssignmentExpression = function instrumentAssignmentExpre
       console.log(err, contract, expression.left);
       process.exit();
     }
-  }
+  }*/
 };
 
 instrumenter.instrumentConditionalExpression = function instrumentConditionalExpression(contract, expression) {