I didn't use TinyURL mostly because I couldn't bring myself to cut this one short.
-Trevor
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
Heads up, there might be some great puns here!
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Actually, isn't a more appropriate smilie?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Well, that just caps off my day.
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I find that rather disturbing
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
That's horrible.. the victims family even asked for mercy...
Posted by IdemosthenesI (Member # 862) on :
Hmmm. You know, I just can't seem to find this funny, guys.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I too am missing the humor here. I guess I can sorta see why others might find it funny. But imagining this happening to me or someone I know, impossible for me to find it funny.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
It's not funny. Humor is an attempt to deal with a world in which such a thing happens.
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
I bet his friend is looking down from heaven and cheering. Because the first time you drive drunk, you cease to be human. Thank hell there exists no breathalizer for anything else. <Removed sentence suggesting that others break the law. --PJ> I am only half-joking. Seriously, I would feel notably safer if most people drove coked up or stoned rather than drunk.
edit: I of course was too drunk to include the word feel last night.
[ May 26, 2005, 06:33 PM: Message edited by: Papa Janitor ]
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
Trevor: I don't know that it counts does it? Didn't they have to use swords? I don't remember the Highlander movies all that well.
Posted by accio (Member # 3040) on :
A coworker’s daughter knows/knew both of them. She was at the courthouse yesterday for the sentencing. He got 5 years prison and 5 years probation.
Johnny was SO drunk he had no idea he had killed his friend. When a neighbor found the headless body hanging out of the pickup truck in the driveway, police went to look for the head by tracing the road from the bar where they’d been drinking to Johnny’s house.
Johnny got a life lesson on DUI but he is alive. He will have his friend on his conscience for the rest of his life.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Highlander mythology - all you have to do is lose your head. The justification for using swords - its the easiest weapon to decapitate with, but anything that severs the head counts as a "kill."
[u]Humor[/u] It's a highly morbid, very extreme form of humor - but I do find it quite amusing.
If only because I hate to think what this person could have done to innocent bystanders and other motorists.
And before you ask, I don't count his buddy as innocent because he showed the same lack of judgement in choosing to drink to excess and either allowed his buddy to drive or was incapable of making the decision to stop his buddy from driving.
-Trevor
Posted by 0range7Penguin (Member # 7337) on :
Its the kind of humor that makes you laugh when the guy gets his head blown off in Pulp Fiction. And I too find this oddly funny.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
This sounds like the freak accident of all freak accidents. Drunkenness aside, What are the chances of a car grazing a wire just as you stick your head out the window? I'm kinda curious as to why he pled guilty to vehicular homicide instead of manslaughter.
It's incredibly sad, in any case. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
When your number is up, your number is up.
The extreme absurdity of the case adds to the "...you're joking, right?" element.
As to why he pled - I imagine he didn't have many options, depending on the prosecuting attorney.
-Trevor
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I don't know know what anyone finds funny about this...
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
Chalk me up on the "finding it funny" list.
quote:Police said Hutcherson was apparently unaware his friend had been decapitated -- and drove more than 10 miles to his parents' home, where he went inside and fell asleep with the headless body still in his truck.
I'm picturing the hangover the next morning. "Man, I feel like my head is about to just explode." -walks outside, sees truck- "You too, huh buddy?"
"Blood IS funny! Van is the winner!" --Tanzit, Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Heh.
Just how drunk do you have to be to not realize that:
1. Your buddy isn't saying all that much 2. Wow, am I wet - is it raining out? 3. C'mon dude, don't sleep in my truck
And the absolutely terrifying part - he was that drunk and managed to drive.
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a more appropriate smilie?
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