I guess I just don’t understand why they would even do that. Why even offer him the lesser plea when there’s absolutely no question of the fact he STABBED someone repeatedly with a screwdriver? It is kind of maddening to me to think of the victim seeing that, that their pain was equated to someone just threatening them with a screwdriver.
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wow not only did they manage to not kill him while apprehending him, I wonder if they also bought him lunch at Burger King afterwards too. would really be a shame if they didn’t!
Less paperwork to file. Don’t need to call witnesses.
Don’t even need to call a jury, where you might get one idiot who refuses to convict, because “The victim was asking for it!”
But mostly the ‘less paperwork’ bit.
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First thought on reading this was, “Wait, I thought he died?” Then I realized I was thinking of a completely different person who attacked people after being told to wear a mask and got into a shootout with the cops. Only in America could this happen so often that the reports begin to blend together.
(Fun fact, I was originally going to say “could this happen twice in less than a month” but I double-checked to make sure I wasn’t remembering the timing wrong- only to discover that it’s happened much more than twice. But hey, a rash of right-wing nutcases shooting and stabbing and punching people when asked to wear a mask, then getting into shootouts with cops is totally reasonable. ANTIFA is the real menace, amirite?)
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That is a very good question.
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Polish jokes are not funny. The movie shows the person telling the polish jokes in an unflattering light (you’re not supposed to like the character and he is shown to be evil/bad) but also quoting movies doesn’t carry with it that context and rarely translates well to written form.
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Generally it’s better to avoid quoting jokes that propagate negative stereotypes about any ethnicity. Propagating these stereotypes can have serious consequences for people of that ethnicity.
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That house is giving me a serious “it puts the lotion in the basket” vibe.
As a person of a certain age, “Betty” is a reference to a good looking person (generally female) that is being discussed with one’s friends in a social situation (bar/party/people-watching). I have zero concept where it came from, but it seemed fairly ubiquitous in the 90s(??).
NOTE: I’m old and my memory has marked a lot of sectors as ‘bad’…take with entire block of salt.
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I vaguely recollected an existing slang usage, but had forgotten what it was. Which I guess means it’s not in popular enough usage still to be confusing?
(And now I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole, looking for the origin. Seems to actually date back to the '30s, with Betty Grable. It stayed in usage in surf culture, briefly moving back into more popular usage in the '90s. Presumably it’s still surf slang, but niche enough that two different usages, in different contexts, still works.)
Of course, it is not as if he was black or something.
Is there “absolutely no question”? Maybe there were problems with the case. It was a DNA hit much later; his DNA on the weapon just establishes that he probably touched it. He did get ten years; maybe the difference in penalty wasn’t worth a fight over the name of the offence (do you let him plead to attempted assault for ten years, or do you run the risk of a trial to get twelve years for assault). Maybe they wanted to get him into an institution (he was previously committed to a psychiatric facility) that wouldn’t take him with a conviction for assault. We simply don’t have enough facts.
An ordinary, nondescript house, for a quiet guy who kept to himself?
I’m sure there are entire neighborhoods filled with that sort of house. Best not venture close, lest you be paralyzed with fear.
No… Betty White…
Also, all hail Saint Betty of the Golden Girl Saints!
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That’s why you truncate the the rhyming slang usage to just “Betty.” Although maybe “Walter” works better…
Bet-ty white…
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Yeah, although I’m late to this party, I’m tipping that if his behaviour is an example of not handling the pandemic well, then none of us, anywhere, are handling it, let alone well. And that he’s not going to be granted access to the child for quite some time. Thankfully.
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