Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Lawful provocation?

Proof that provocation should remain part of the law. A woman is charged after stabbing her partner with scissors because....

...he kept playing an Elvis song, over and over!

10 comments:

Zoe said...

Sheesh. Love that song, and been known to hit the repeat button.

Hope cs doesn't find this or predictable mayhem will ensue.

Dave said...

Excellent journalism, also. Fill up half the article with the lyrics of the song. As if it was really relevant.

Ian Pye said...

Sounds like she has a reasonable defence in my opinion.

BwcaBrownie said...

was it the studio version or the live in Las Vegas version?
was it through really crappy speakers?
was the Volume an issue?
was the Victim using the song's theme to press a point on the Defendant?
was the Victim singing along with the rekkid?
Should the journalist have attributed the Composer of the song?
Until we know all the facts, we cannot possibly judge this.

lucy tartan said...

Well I live with a person who has spent his annual leave making mashups, this involves playing back the same fragment of something intensely annoying (Plastic Bertrand, Beastie Boys, Mariah Carey, Dr Hook etc) at high volume, over and over, for several days.

Best go hide the scissors now

JahTeh said...

Every New Year's Eve for nearly 30 years, the Blight played his bagpipe records and watched the Edinburgh Tattoo.

The first year he left, I stabbed them with a geologist's pick but I know some are still hiding in the dark somewhere.

Armagnac Esq said...

'The Blight'... if you have written a post on why he is called this, feel free to leave a link here, i'm curious.

Will go dig through your archive when I get a free moment...

JahTeh said...

A play on words, he was the (B)light of my life.

R.H. said...

He played bagpipe records on New Year's Eve.

Janteh, that is very funny. And I mean it.

BwcaBrownie said...

Hogmanay and Scots Wha Hae!