Occasionally There is Justice.

Cyber-Bully Indicted on Federal Charges

Most people who know me are well versed in my proclivity to make fun of news stories involving a crime.  For no other reason than that, in my opinion, they generally are funny.  Be it the method, the victim, the perpetrator, or the circumstances; so often with most crimes, there is a level of amusement for me.  Occasionally though, there is an event that truly does get to me.  These stories are the ones that affect me so deeply, I cry over them. I stay up at night turning it over and over in my head. The Megan Meier story is one of those. 

To give the backstory as succinctly as possible, Megan was a 13 year old girl with some problems.  She saw a therapist, she had a weight issue, and she was taking medication for depression, etc.  She was also a 13 year old girl: obnoxious. over dramatic. and prone to mood swings. No, I didn’t know her, but show me a 13 female who’s not those things and i bet she’s in a coma. SO ANYWAY….

She had a MySpace account that her mother monitored. She started getting messages from a “hot boy” named Josh.  They got friendly and then …..it stopped. One day, Josh no longer wanted to be friends with her.  They had words, culminating in an alleged message telling Megan that the world would be a better place without her.  Less than an hour later, she was dead.  She hanged herself in her closet from a belt. 

Her parents were sad that their troubled little girl had ended her life. And curiously, Josh’s account had been deleted.  Six weeks after Megan’s death, a neighbor informed them that Josh never existed. He was a character created simply to “mess with” Megan.  The mastermind of this scheme was Lori Drew.  The mother of a girl Megan’s age (see above “13-year olds” ) that shared a stormy on/off friendship with her.

This was a woman in her 40’s that was very well acquainted with the family, vacations together, time spent with Megan, given the daughters’ friendship.  She was well aware the problems that Megan suffered.  Perhaps I’m misunderstanding, but the impression the story left me with is that this grown-up woman in her 40’s wanted to take a very young girl who was messed up to start with, convince her that she had a ….net boyfriend and then JERK IT ALL AWAY FROM HER. OH! and let me not forget to mention that part of the plan, too, was to make sure there was an audience to witness Megan’s humiliation.  

La Tortura!

The Best Tortures Ever!!!!

Poire d’Angoisse. “The Pear of Anguish.” As the name inplies it was ..pear shaped.  Inserted into the mouth, vagina, or anus; the torturer would turn a screw that would open the four leaves. This was rarely used as an execution, more just as a punishment. It could simply tear the skin or completely destroy that orifice. 

Flaying, or skinning alive.  Generally, the removal began at the face and the victim was often dead before the flayer reached his waist. This is one of the oldest methods. and as pictured, even Michelangelo depicted it. And this may be incorrect, but I actually don’t think so. Michelangelo often inserted himself into his paintings. I believe the flayed victim is a little self portait.

The Brazen Bull. This one was an execution device invented by the ancient Greeks.  A huge hollow copper bull with a door in the side. The condemned was shoved inside and the door locked.  A fire was then built underneath and the poor bastard inside was roasted to death.  During the Greek times, they rigged a complicated series of tubes to channel and amplify the victims screams into the sound of a raging bull to further entertain the spectators.

 

Have a Friend Over for Dinner…

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Diamonds may not be HIS best friend..

Sell His Triflin’ Bling

A new genre of online jewelry store is growing on the horizon.  Breakup Jewelry Stores.  The premise being you no longer want to wear the crap he gave you, right?  painful memories, guilt, any of a plethora of emotions associated with that ring, that pendant, etc.  

While you could also take it to a pawn shop, that’s depressing. Because often you know what he paid for it. Unless you are literally desperate for cash, one hundred fifty bucks for the ring you know for which he paid a grand is just not an option.  I remember that feeling.  I didn’t need the money and while I wanted that damn ring gone, I was not willing to let it go for that cheap. I ended up sitting on it for almost a year and a half before selling it privately. Had this service been available sooner, I would have almost definitely used it.

 

Three months after its launch with the slogan “You Don’t Want It. He Can’t Have It Back,” Ex-Boyfriend Jewelry Dot Com has 3,000 registered users and more than 600 postings of rings, bracelets and earrings for sale — all with a personal tale attached.

 I browsed. That’s like the gimmick.  You post your thumbnailed horror story and bitch about him and in exchange you get to sell your jewelry without any service charges.

Penguin Rape.

King Penguin Taken Advantage of by Fur Seal

I’m not sure when a news story has amused me as much. Its like a Far Side comic gone horribly awry. Scientific blogs are all bejiggedy about it. I just think that the penguin had….animal magnetism?

“While the seal’s “junk” was visible, it did not penetrate the victim. This was further verified by the researchers post coitus… Perhaps most tellingly, after 45 minutes, the seal “abruptly moved into the sea and completely ignored the penguin,” leading the researchers to postulate that the fur seal was “some a-hole frat guy.”

 

This would be “sexual harassment.”  For people, it could be “your hair really looks nice today.” Sort of puts things in perspective, huh? I think sexual harassment is a real problem but it’s often a used as a weapon.  I think, tho, when you’ve been held down and mounted for 45 minutes you’ll KNOW you’ve been sexually harassed.

NO NO NO!!!

Scott Is Going To Jail!

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Scott Weiland, lead singer for the band Stone Temple Pilots, was sentenced on Monday to eight days in jail for drunken driving, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office said.

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It was not immediately clear how Weiland’s sentencing might affect his reunion tour with Stone Temple Pilots, who played their first show together in nearly eight years earlier this month. The band was scheduled to kick off a 65-date series of concerts in North American amphitheaters starting May 17

NOT IMMEDIATELY CLEAR?  well lemme explain it to you:  it’s gunna fuck it up! i have tickets for a show that’s posta be on the 7th of June. that is the DAY AFTER he supposedly gets outta jail..

 

 

He’s so beautiful and i love him. but this is PISSING ME OFF! I had always figured in the back of my mind, no way this whole reunion thing will work out. it’s also possible the Deleo brothers will kill him. on stage.  I just sorta hoped that it would be the stage i’m looking at. or AFTER i see them.

Cuz me? sitting outside for 12 hours with fifty thousand people? this is NOT my idea of a good time.   Soooo if STP won’t be there, i don’t really wanna go.  We shall see. Updates will be forthcoming.

The TruckStop Killer…

Another Truck Driving Serial Killer

 

 

Blood from 10 different people was (sic) found last year inside the truck

Fox News is quoted as saying “police said he confessed to killing five other people in Tennessee, Indiana, Alabama and Georgia” 

I need to find victim photos. cuz this could be interesting. Mostly prostitute victims, so pretty typical. Altho while also typicially, most are saying he and his entire family were “weird” ; In this same Fox story, they report that he ran for mayor in his little backwoods town about a decade ago based on a dispute with the city over junked out cars on his property. He lost to the preacher he ran against.

I think i am going to come back to this story mostly cuz i’m just not in the mood to do it.

He isn’t destined to be one of my better liked serial killers, i can already tell that.