Just got home from the Sigur Ros show. it was amazing!!
then there is this....
Kiss Sends Man to Prison - for Life
Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:48 PM EST
The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) It may have been a borderline call, but it was still a third strike. The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a ruling that sent Nicholas Meyrovich to life in prison under a 2001 three-strikes law. Meyrovich got his third strike, a felony sex offense, for delivering an unwanted kiss.
Meyrovich, in his appeal, claimed that a life sentence for the kiss violated the Oregon Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Meyrovich, 60, an exterminator, was inspecting the home of a Salem woman in October 2003 when he suddenly grabbed her and kissed her. The woman pushed Meyrovich away, but he took hold of her again and sucked her on the neck, stopping when a neighbor walked in.
Meyrovich was later convicted of first-degree sexual abuse, which under Oregon law requires the forcible touching of the "sexual or other intimate parts" of another person.
Meyrovich argued that the neck is not an intimate part of the body; the court disagreed.
"In ordinary social intercourse, one adult does not touch the neck of another adult outside of intimate relationships, at least not without some unusual but reasonable justification," Judge David Schuman wrote for the panel that decided the case.
The court also disagreed that the sentence was cruel and unusual, noting that the three-strikes law was not aimed at the gravity of a particular crime but at habitual offenders. Schuman wrote that Meyrovich had been convicted of nine prior sex offenses before the kiss.
Meyrovich is one of only four inmates serving life sentences under Oregon's sex offender three-strikes law.
and this...
Man Allegedly Bites Off Girlfriend's Nose
Friday, February 17, 2006 10:10 PM EST
The Associated Press
TULSA, Okla. (AP) A family sitting down to dinner had to call police and an ambulance after a man allegedly bit off the nose of his girlfriend, authorities said.
Jody Bennett came out of a back room of a north Tulsa residence on Thursday with a napkin over her face and said her boyfriend, identified as Greg Hill, had bitten her nose.
Medics responding to the house saw that Bennett's nose had been severed and called police.
"We looked around and tried to find a nose but couldn't find it," Cpl. Larry Edwards, a police spokesman, said. "I think he swallowed it."
An ambulance took Bennett, 37, to a local hospital where police talked to emergency room personnel about pumping Hill's stomach to see if the nose was inside, police Cpl. Shane Tuell said.
"They said, given the acid in the stomach, that it would be a futile effort to try and do that," Tuell said.
The nose is made primarily of cartilage and other soft tissues that stomach acid can dissolve quickly.
The couple live in California, and the other people at the house didn't know what led to the assault, Tuell said.
Officers used pepper spray on Hill, 45, after tussling with him as they tried to take him into the custody, Edwards said.
Hill denied biting Bennett's nose, police said.
He was booked into the Tulsa Jail on complaints of aggravated assault and battery, resisting arrest and destroying evidence.
Bennett could receive help from domestic violence groups to recover from her injury if she cooperates with Hill's prosecution should a criminal charge be filed, Tuell said.
then there is this....
Kiss Sends Man to Prison - for Life
Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:48 PM EST
The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) It may have been a borderline call, but it was still a third strike. The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a ruling that sent Nicholas Meyrovich to life in prison under a 2001 three-strikes law. Meyrovich got his third strike, a felony sex offense, for delivering an unwanted kiss.
Meyrovich, in his appeal, claimed that a life sentence for the kiss violated the Oregon Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Meyrovich, 60, an exterminator, was inspecting the home of a Salem woman in October 2003 when he suddenly grabbed her and kissed her. The woman pushed Meyrovich away, but he took hold of her again and sucked her on the neck, stopping when a neighbor walked in.
Meyrovich was later convicted of first-degree sexual abuse, which under Oregon law requires the forcible touching of the "sexual or other intimate parts" of another person.
Meyrovich argued that the neck is not an intimate part of the body; the court disagreed.
"In ordinary social intercourse, one adult does not touch the neck of another adult outside of intimate relationships, at least not without some unusual but reasonable justification," Judge David Schuman wrote for the panel that decided the case.
The court also disagreed that the sentence was cruel and unusual, noting that the three-strikes law was not aimed at the gravity of a particular crime but at habitual offenders. Schuman wrote that Meyrovich had been convicted of nine prior sex offenses before the kiss.
Meyrovich is one of only four inmates serving life sentences under Oregon's sex offender three-strikes law.
and this...
Man Allegedly Bites Off Girlfriend's Nose
Friday, February 17, 2006 10:10 PM EST
The Associated Press
TULSA, Okla. (AP) A family sitting down to dinner had to call police and an ambulance after a man allegedly bit off the nose of his girlfriend, authorities said.
Jody Bennett came out of a back room of a north Tulsa residence on Thursday with a napkin over her face and said her boyfriend, identified as Greg Hill, had bitten her nose.
Medics responding to the house saw that Bennett's nose had been severed and called police.
"We looked around and tried to find a nose but couldn't find it," Cpl. Larry Edwards, a police spokesman, said. "I think he swallowed it."
An ambulance took Bennett, 37, to a local hospital where police talked to emergency room personnel about pumping Hill's stomach to see if the nose was inside, police Cpl. Shane Tuell said.
"They said, given the acid in the stomach, that it would be a futile effort to try and do that," Tuell said.
The nose is made primarily of cartilage and other soft tissues that stomach acid can dissolve quickly.
The couple live in California, and the other people at the house didn't know what led to the assault, Tuell said.
Officers used pepper spray on Hill, 45, after tussling with him as they tried to take him into the custody, Edwards said.
Hill denied biting Bennett's nose, police said.
He was booked into the Tulsa Jail on complaints of aggravated assault and battery, resisting arrest and destroying evidence.
Bennett could receive help from domestic violence groups to recover from her injury if she cooperates with Hill's prosecution should a criminal charge be filed, Tuell said.
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all those goodvibes must be on my side, because I've just done some work... for the first time in a while