The Asshat Thread

[longhornbaseball]

If you burglarize someone's home, I'm not going to feel sorry for you when he kills you. The guy sounds like a nutter butter, but he shouldn't be convicted of murder for killing asshats who broke into his house. Unbelievable.

Say what? Constructing a kill zone and lying in wait isn't murder?

When the person you kill illegally enters your home? Not at all.

[Vidor]

If you burglarize someone's home, I'm not going to feel sorry for you when he kills you. The guy sounds like a nutter butter, but he shouldn't be convicted of murder for killing asshats who broke into his house. Unbelievable.

Say what? Constructing a kill zone and lying in wait isn't murder?

When the person you kill illegally enters your home? Not at all.

Well, luckily a jury of his peers didn't agree.

[cardsfansince82]

I don't know all of the particulars of the case, but it sounds like he never had any reasonable fear for his own life (which is key to any self defense claim). Instead of doing any number of things to prevent people from breaking in, he made a conscious decision to hunt them. He knew they were unarmed and he had the drop on them. If you plan something like that in advance you are a pretty deranged person. I think the jury got this one right.

[Gashouse]

Exactly. He may not have known if they were armed when they broke in, but once he'd injured them, he could have made that assessment. If they were armed, he could have been injured or killed when he stood over them to execute them. Clearly he wasn't afraid then. The lack of preventive measures definitely pokes holes in the "I was afraid" case, but might not be enough to remove "reasonable doubt" for some. But consider the whole picture together and he went way past the line.

[Molly]

Can an entire university qualify for the asshat award? If so, I nominate Washington University

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crim ... 28155.html

[docellis]

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/04/29 ... eping.html

The Harrises brought Sid to the clinic in May 2013 because of a problem with the dog’s anal glands.

Tierce told the Harrises that he wanted to use a new “cold laser” procedure and that it might take longer for the dog to recover, according to the complaint filed April 22 with the Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners.

Over time, Sid did not appear to be getting better, according to the complaint.

In September, Jamie Harris went to Tierce’s clinic to see Sid, and was shocked when the dog dragged himself into the lobby because he could not lift his hind quarters. According to the complaint, Jamie Harris was told that Sid was suffering from a reaction to a medication cocktail.

The Harrises were also told that Sid had a congenital spinal defect and needed to be put down. The family said their goodbyes to Sid and agreed to let the clinic take care of the burial.

Six months later, on April 21, Harris said she was “shocked” when she got a call from a former veterinary technician at the clinic, telling her that Sid was still alive. The employee told Harris that she quit that day because she could no longer work in a clinic where the animals were mistreated.

The employee told Harris that Sid spent almost 24 hours a day in a cage, littered with his own feces and urine, and that he had been injured by another employee.

Jamie and Marian Harris described how they drove to the clinic and while two friends guarded the front and back doors as her husband distracted the receptionist, Harris went to the back, found Sid in a cage and rescued him.

[lukethedrifter]

Surely Darren Rovell has been nominated before but this [expletive] is unbelievable.
http://deadspin.com/these-emails-confir ... 1572043642

[Vidor]

ESPN seems to breed asshats. Rovell, Keith Olbermann, Colin Cowherd.

[go birds]

....stephen a smith, mel kiper jr, chris berman etc

[lukethedrifter]

I see Smith and Kiper and maybe Cowherd as blowhards but not quite asshats.