And our new #1 understatement of the 20th century is...
It's like Everyone Loves Raymond or any of the other domestic differences-between-men-and-women sitcoms, but gone horribly wrong:
A man who got angry with his wife because she wanted to cuddle after sex when what he really wanted to do was watch sports on television was sentenced to death for killing her with a claw hammer.Besides being obviously horrified at the crime, I'm just completely at a loss to imagine the series of events that went from sex to even just assault, let alone a 70-strike homicide with a hammer.
But the understatement comes from the judge, who proves that one of the qualifications for being a judge is not to have a way with words:
Her desire to cuddle after sex does not justify the extremely violent, brutal response of the defendant."Does not justify"?! What would justify being murdered with a claw hammer?! What violent response is justified as an objection to a post-coital cuddle?! And not that I don't on a detatched level enjoy the fact that there's a legal ruling that includes the phrase "cuddle after sex", but I think we can safely assume, even without knowing all the facts, that there was more to the story than the judges words imply. Or rather, I hope there was. It's bad enough that a domestic argument escalates to homicide, but it's chilling to think that it was only an initial reaction.
A side of shame to this story is that I read this article on ESPN. Because he wanted to watch sports, ESPN will report a grisly homicide?! I'm not sure if it would be better or worse if they had reported what game he wanted to watch.
2 comments:
I just read that on ESPN a few minutes ago and had the same reactions. I woudn't have been as surprised had it been on "Yahoo's most emailed" stories, but ESPN?
The saddest part is that there was no reason to choose. You can cuddle after sex *and* watch sports at the same time. Really. I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard things.
By the way, did you notice that the guy was 29 (at the time) and the woman was 40? Curious is all.
Saw this today. It gives a much more detailed description of events and also of the history between the two. She had just filed for divorce four days earlier:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/12306949.htm
It also mentions frequently that he specifically wanted to watch SportsCenter, not just sports in general, so maybe that's what brought it to ESPN's attention.
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