Ali Bubba has this rather disturbing news item from Alabama:
Albertville, Ala. — Police say a Marshall County teen raped his mother to get revenge on his brother.
Police say 19-year-old Gary Helms, Jr., raped his 45-year-old mother this past weekend at Willow Terrace Trailer Park on Doyle Drive in Albertville. …
“From what we understand the rape stemmed from an argument between him and his brother. And apparently they were arguing over a girlfriend. And the rape was some sort of retaliation towards his brother,” said Sgt. Jamie Smith of the Albertville Police Department. ….
Authorities say Helms’ mother was apparently passed out drunk on the couch when the rape started.
And of course you’re wondering what this has to do with California. It’s the revenge motif. You all know I’m addicted to forensics shows, and the other day on one of them (New Detectives, I believe, one of the documentary shows, not a fiction show) there was an episode that really burned my ass.
We had a divorced woman with a toddler (just under two, IIRC) who was living with her boyfriend. Boyfriend got super pissed off because Divorced Woman spent Boyfriend’s birthday with her ex-husband (they never did explain where Boyfriend was on his birthday, or why he wasn’t with her).
So what did he do about it?
On Divorced Woman’s birthday, he decided to get revenge by murdering her toddler. That’s right. Not her. Her little boy. Boyfriend tried to drown the toddler, and when that didn’t work, he strangled him by shoving a cigarette wrapper down his throat.
Planned. Deliberate. Clear case of First Degree Murder. Of a little boy. To get revenge on the boy’s mother for spending time with her ex-husband. As clear a death penalty case as you can get.
So what did he get?
Twenty-five to life. For the planned, deliberate, murder of a helpless child, just to get revenge on the mother. And of course the difference between Alabama and California is that this sicko who raped his mother will get the book thrown at him, while California slaps this murderer on the wrist.
Oh, and of course, this was in California. So tell me, is there some reason we haven’t nuked California off the map?
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We need to keep it. Otherwise where would we keep all of our wackjobs?
Washington D.C.
Vegetables. No, not the ones who vote, the ones they ship out.
Not that there’s any difference if you live in Colorado.
We appear to have wackjob buffer zones on either coast.
Please give a shout out before you push the big red button. I can make it to Arizona in about 3 hours.
Three hours from freedom, and you’re still in California? Don’t wait too long to get out.
Yes, get out. Remember, the border wall with Mexico is just a beginning.
checkpoint charlie, anyone?
My husband works in defense contracting. Here is where the Marines are, so that’s where the work is. (He’s trying to get transferred to Virginia so I will agree to have children.)
Because California’s where they make these poor tv shows you watch?
=)
Is it? Lost is made in Hawaii. BSG is made in (I believe) Vancouver, as is Bones (brilliant writing, btw). Numb3rs is probably made in California. But most of the other shows we watch are made in Canada or New York.