Weer'd World

So Bob sends me this email saying: “figured if you drank gin, you would drink anything — make sure to stay on the wife’s good side :)”

and a link to this story. Thanks for the dig Bob! Heh Gin is quite the polarizing beverage! OK but on to the more serious story.

A woman drew a 23-year prison sentence Wednesday for killing her alcoholic boyfriend by lacing a jug of margarita cocktails with antifreeze at her apartment.

“It’s not as if you were captive in this house,” Judge William Kocher said in imposing a near-maximum penalty on Cynthia Galens, who maintained that victim Thomas Stack was emotionally and physically abusive. “It’s just senseless what you did.”

Galens, 52, was convicted of manslaughter in September and faced anywhere from five years to 25 years in state prison.

In a domestic situation poisoning is a VERY easy way to commit murder, as your victim will be accustom to accepting food and drink presented to you. This goes double if the drink is laced with ethylene glycol which I gather is not unpleasant tasting like many poisons. Children and pets who don’t know better may consume large amounts of it just because it tastes “good”.

Mixed in a cocktail it might not even taste too strange. But again we’re talking about murder by poison, not by gun, that simply doesn’t count!

Cueball Sends me this gross story.

A 2-year-old boy was thrown to his death from the balcony of a seventh-floor apartment in Queens on Tuesday night by a distraught woman who had been living with his family, the authorities said.

The woman, whom the authorities identified as Xiao Aiu Cai, 53, had a confrontation with someone else in the apartment and — for unknown reasons — lashed out at the boy, grabbed him, ran onto the balcony and threw him from it about 8:35 p.m., the authorities said.

Amazing how all it takes is a long fall to take a life. The way people who constantly use the metric “Gun Death”, you’d think it would require a gun to kill somebody.

I would love to hear from the gun control advocates of the world why this case should be discounted, as it is NOT a “Gun Death”.

The discovery of 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor’s charred body on the Galloping Goose Trail on March 19 shocked this community. The details of her murder are even more horrifying…The grim statement makes clear that the teenage boys planned Proctor’s death well in advance.

Through text messages and online chats, they created code words to initiate the attack, outlined how they would tie her up and assault her, discussed what types of fuel to use to burn her body, and drew up a map of possible places to dispose of her body.

The statement suggests that the two killers were not remorseful about what they did. After they raped and asphyxiated Proctor, and then mutilated and burned her body, the 16-year-old met up with his girlfriend and the 18-year-old went shopping and for brunch with his mother.

But the statement is short on details for a motive. Proctor had flirted with both boys in the fall of 2009 before declining their advances; they killed her four months later.

A disgusting and brutal case, and done at the hands of children. But not a “Gun Death”, so in the eyes of those who concern themselves with only the tool, this case isn’t relevant!

h/t Bob who was nice enough to give me a heads-up on the nature of the email…