Saturday, June 08, 2013

Time For A Break

There comes a time when what once seemed charmingly silly, or laughable is no longer.  I need a break.
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I thought this first when I didn't understand National Park vandalism, but then I thought, "You just had a bad day Scott.  The world can't be getting that bad."
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I was wrong.
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This is Ezekiel Gilbert.  Ezekiel hired (what he assumed was) a prostitute from Craig's List in San Antonio - although she was listed as "escort".  She arrived and he paid her $150 to be "escorted".  She left after 20 minutes without providing sex, despite Mr. Gilbert's charming entreats to perform any number of various sexual acts upon his person.  She said she had to give the $150 to her driver (Ezekiel believes it was her pimp).
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Well, Ezekiel was not about to let some woman walk away with his money unearned, as it were.  So he went out with a gun to get sex or his money.
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Getting neither quickly enough, Ezekiel shot the woman which he assumed to be whore.  And on June 6th he was acquitted of any crime. Not just murder, or even solicitation (which it appears he admitted to), but acquitted.  As in "Not Guilty".  You see Texas allows the use of deadly force if you think you are being robbed.
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My best guess is that the law was written so that if someone was trying to rob you - by say - calling out "hands up" or "this is a hold up", you are allowed deadly force to protect yourself.  I would assume it wasn't written to be used by a man who though his $150 should, at the very least, provide a hummer and a smile.  And when the non-hooker left, chasing the unarmed woman out into the street and shooting her to death.
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Of maybe it was - who knows what the fuck Texans are capable of doing.  Apparently 12 of them agreed that because fatty couldn't get laid he deserved to kill the bitch who refused.  How is that even possible?
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And you see, I don't know how to function in an age and place - where murder like this is legal.  Call me old fashioned.  I know I can't be funny about it.  I so I think it's time for Scooter take a little break.  You know, for sanity's sake.
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You can read the story on the Daily Mail,  the New York Post, or watch the Fox Video.
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Last one to notice civilization's final gasp, turn the lights out.