http://news.yahoo.com/ranger-man-could- ... 48374.html
If you're (allegedly) going to shove your wife off a hiking trail (or actually, off the trail, purportedly for good photos), don't leave a hiking map in your Jeep with a big "X" at the location where she fell.
At least this didn't involve an auto jack (how his first wife died).
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence -- Ian Fleming.
X marks the spot for stupidity
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SpacemanSpiff
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X marks the spot for stupidity
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BackInTex
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Re: X marks the spot for stupidity
Apparently 12 years is about all he can handle.
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Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
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~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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SportsFan68
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Re: X marks the spot for stupidity
We had one like that, a guy by the name of Bob Spangler. He killed his first family, a wife and two children, in Arizona because, he said later, "divorce was too much trouble." His second wife died of an overdose . . . hmm. But he was never charged in either case. His third wife, a beautiful local who taught senior aerobics at one of the local gyms, went over a cliff at the Grand Canyon. Still, no charges. The family of the first wife never gave up hoping he would one day be arrested, and when they found out he was terminally ill with cancer, they pressured the FBI to investigate, thinking he might cave in. One of those crime shows aired the taped interview later, and the FBI agent was brilliant, playing to his ego, that type thing. He died in jail.
I had a very slight work relationship with the guy and a deep personal connection. The small municipality I worked for in Human Resources hired him as a soccer referee, a very demanding job at which he acquitted himself quite well. The deeper connection was that he was dating one of my social bridge friends, a person I like and admire very much. She told us after he was arrested that he had asked her to accompany him on a sailing trip around the world, which she turned down, and he never made the trip. Even though she was safe at that point, I still experienced a chill at her narrow escape.
One last thing -- he played bridge with us a couple times when we needed an eighth, and our hostess had a scaredy cat who ran into the back bedroom and hid whenever we came over. This cat came right out and made up with this guy, sitting next to his chair, asking for scritches, purring . . . it was unbelievable. What did the cat know?
I had a very slight work relationship with the guy and a deep personal connection. The small municipality I worked for in Human Resources hired him as a soccer referee, a very demanding job at which he acquitted himself quite well. The deeper connection was that he was dating one of my social bridge friends, a person I like and admire very much. She told us after he was arrested that he had asked her to accompany him on a sailing trip around the world, which she turned down, and he never made the trip. Even though she was safe at that point, I still experienced a chill at her narrow escape.
One last thing -- he played bridge with us a couple times when we needed an eighth, and our hostess had a scaredy cat who ran into the back bedroom and hid whenever we came over. This cat came right out and made up with this guy, sitting next to his chair, asking for scritches, purring . . . it was unbelievable. What did the cat know?
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Re: X marks the spot for stupidity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_SpanglerSportsFan68 wrote:We had one like that, a guy by the name of Bob Spangler. He killed his first family, a wife and two children, in Arizona because, he said later, "divorce was too much trouble." His second wife died of an overdose . . . hmm. But he was never charged in either case. His third wife, a beautiful local who taught senior aerobics at one of the local gyms, went over a cliff at the Grand Canyon. Still, no charges. The family of the first wife never gave up hoping he would one day be arrested, and when they found out he was terminally ill with cancer, they pressured the FBI to investigate, thinking he might cave in. One of those crime shows aired the taped interview later, and the FBI agent was brilliant, playing to his ego, that type thing. He died in jail.
I had a very slight work relationship with the guy and a deep personal connection. The small municipality I worked for in Human Resources hired him as a soccer referee, a very demanding job at which he acquitted himself quite well. The deeper connection was that he was dating one of my social bridge friends, a person I like and admire very much. She told us after he was arrested that he had asked her to accompany him on a sailing trip around the world, which she turned down, and he never made the trip. Even though she was safe at that point, I still experienced a chill at her narrow escape.
One last thing -- he played bridge with us a couple times when we needed an eighth, and our hostess had a scaredy cat who ran into the back bedroom and hid whenever we came over. This cat came right out and made up with this guy, sitting next to his chair, asking for scritches, purring . . . it was unbelievable. What did the cat know?
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
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- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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ghostjmf
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Re: X marks the spot for stupidity
This was the plot of a recent Hawaii 5-O ep. Though they didn't say "ripped from the headlines" I suspected it was. So that makes this guy a copycat. Probably of another copycat. Etc. Don't go hiking. Or hike alone. Or something.
I would rather call AAA & deal with them trying to tell me they'll use the doughnut spare rather than they tow me to a tire store or my mechanic, depending on where I am stuck (which I eventually get) than to try & put said spare on myself. I can do it, but I've always been afraid of jack failure. Even without a murderous spouse arranging it.
I would rather call AAA & deal with them trying to tell me they'll use the doughnut spare rather than they tow me to a tire store or my mechanic, depending on where I am stuck (which I eventually get) than to try & put said spare on myself. I can do it, but I've always been afraid of jack failure. Even without a murderous spouse arranging it.