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Texas man kills friend who took last cold beer
« on: December 06, 2002, 07:58:40 AM »
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3008138&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
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BANDERA, Texas - - A jury handed a life prison sentence to a Texas man who shot and killed a longtime friend he accused of drinking the last beer in his refrigerator.




Yeeeehawwww for Texas!
IMO, justifiable homicide.

Mason, walk away slowly from that beer...

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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2002, 08:00:59 AM »
so was Udie the shooter or the shootie :)
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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2002, 08:07:05 AM »
That's why I'm a teetotaller.

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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2002, 08:19:48 AM »
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2002, 08:24:37 AM »
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


A much cleaner and elegant signature.
But your posts still need a bit more work. How about some content?

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« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2002, 08:34:37 AM »
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But your posts still need a bit more work. How about some content?
None needed!

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« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2002, 08:38:23 AM »
what beetle is trying to say is that to prevent one idiot from killing another drunken idiot we need draconian laws like in limeyland... (they know a little about drunks there)  With luck we will get these results..
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"Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Friday February 23, 2001
The Guardian

England and Wales have one of the worst crime records in the industrialised world - even worse than America - according to the findings of an official survey published yesterday which compares the experience of victims across 17 countries.
The study, coordinated by the Dutch ministry of justice, shows England and Wales at the top of the world league with Australia as the countries where you are most likely to become a victim of crime. These countries face an annual rate of 58 crimes for every 100 inhabitants.

The findings, based on interviews with 35,000 people about their experience of crime across the 17 countries, were carried out last year. They are a blow to Labour's record and underline the challenge facing Tony Blair when he marks the launch of Labour's 10-year anti-crime plan next Monday by becoming the first serving prime minister to visit a prison.

The 2000 International Crime Victimisation survey shows that the falls in crime recorded since the mid-1990s in England and Wales are part of a general pattern of falling crime across the industrialised world but, unlike America, crime levels in England and Wales are still higher than they were at the end of the 1980s. When the survey was last carried out in 1996, England and Wales also topped the league table with 61 offences per 100 inhabitants.

The survey does show, however, that Britain has the best services when it comes to looking after the victims of crime, but it also shows we have a tougher approach to punishing criminals. Asked what should be done with a burglar convicted of stealing a colour television for a second time, more than 50% in England and Wales said he or she should be sent to prison for two years. Only 7% in Spain and 12% in France thought he or she should be jailed at all.

People were asked whether they had been victims of a range of 11 different offences in the previous 12 months, including violent and sexual assault, car crime, burglary and consumer fraud.

The survey also shows that Scotland, with 43 offences per 100 inhabitants, ranks joint fifth alongside America in the international crime league behind England, Australia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Northern Ireland has the second best crime record of the countries surveyed, with 24 offences per 100 inhabitants - the same rate as Switzerland and only just above Japan where the biggest crime problem is bicycle thefts. The detailed findings of the ICVS survey showthat England and Wales are top of the international league for car thefts with 2.6% of all car owners suffering the loss of their vehicle in the previous 12 months. In other sorts of car crime, England was second only to Poland.

Australia and then England and Wales had the highest burglary rates and rates for violent crimes such as robbery, assault and sexual assault "

the result of the backward thinking of the home office is the brutalizing of its helpless citizens... helpless to defend themselves against the strong and the vicious... a trajic example of "form over substance"... "let them eat cake" The lawless run england... In America... 3,000,000 such crimes are prevented by firearms each year... citizens have freedom and dignity one good thing about englands crime rate.... they have, obviously by necessity, learned to care for the traumatized, humiliated and injured victims...guess that's something

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« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2002, 09:18:59 AM »
Wonder what kind of beer it was.

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« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2002, 09:22:30 AM »
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Wonder what kind of beer it was.


Probably Pabst Blue Ribbon?  That stuff will make you do dumb things..... :D
« Last Edit: December 06, 2002, 09:49:32 AM by Modas »

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« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2002, 09:30:32 AM »
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« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2002, 09:33:09 AM »
Always reminded me of swallowing a teaspoon of dirt with every drink.

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« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2002, 10:24:16 AM »
What Beet1e seems to be saying is that the gun itself was responsible for the guy killing his friend over the last beer.

If we had strick gun laws, that guy would never have snaped like he did. :)

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« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2002, 10:53:10 AM »
I think taking a man's last cold one is a capital crime in Texas, anyway.  He should have just called the cops.
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« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2002, 11:07:20 AM »
when I saw the title of this thread the first thing that came to mind was:    duh!

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« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2002, 12:05:29 PM »
C'mon now, we all know that we should outlaw beer. I mean, had there not been any beer then there would have been no beer to take. Obviously it was the fault of the beer. :rolleyes:
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