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It seems Pope Francis needs to brush up on his Tertullian!

It has been reported (in The ChristLast Media, I must note) that the current Pope does not like the phrase "lead us not into temptation...

"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture." -- Pope Sixtus III

Friday, May 12, 2006

Clever Excuse of the Day.

The Herald-Sun: Man says beaver dam, not estranged girlfriend, target of bomb
Otis Cecil Wilkins says it was a beaver dam, not an estranged girlfriend, he intended to blow up. But an ash from his cigarette fell onto the homemade bomb's fuse and ignited it, setting his shorts on fire and sending the 45-year-old to the hospital last year, according to Wilkins' attorney.

He pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of assault with a deadly weapon -- one count for his ex-girlfriend and two counts for other people who were near the explosion, including the woman's 3-year-old granddaughter. He had been charged with attempted first-degree murder.
Wilkins was sentenced to 300 days in jail.

Prosecutor Mitchell Garrell said he pursued a plea-bargain because the intended victim was uncooperative with him.

Sheriff's deputies said Wilkins threatened the woman. Then, according to the accusations, he lobbed the bomb at his girlfriend's Oldsmobile in Rougemont as she drove into her yard. Garrell described the bomb as a black bottle containing black gunpowder with wires protruding from it.
Witnesses said it exploded in "a large fireball" when Wilkins threw it. The bottle then rolled back toward him, igniting his shorts.

Wilkins, who was the only person injured in the blast, was treated for more than a week at a hospital burn center.

Public Defender Lawrence Campbell said Wilkins' target was a nearby beaver dam that blocked a waterway.

In a report on the incident, Wilkins played down the attack.

"I ain't no terrorist," he's quoted as saying. "It was just a little bit of black powder. It was just a little boom thing."

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First of all, the word is SEX, not GENDER. If you are ever tempted to use the word GENDER, don't. The word is SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! For example: "My sex is male." is correct. "My gender is male." means nothing. Look it up. What kind of sick neo-Puritan nonsense is this? Idiot left-fascists, get your blood-soaked paws off the English language. Hence I am choosing "male" under protest.

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