Papers Suck

You know everyday after reading the papers I tell myself that I will never read another one again. Yet every morning there it is on my table and I cant help but pick it up and flip through it, waiting to spot some stupid article that will piss me off. Well, today, yet again I find something that just makes me want to never read another paper again. Read the following excerpt (a guilty man’s defense).

Drunk Who Strangled Wife With Saree:

“ The accused who was tired and heavily drunk lost his mind as well as his sense of judgment, slapped his wife before suffocating her with a pillow and finally tying her neck with a saree” he said. He said, Ravinderan thought his wife who had then become quiet had gone to sleep and he went to sleep himself. “Only the next morning did he realize his wife was dead” he said. She was the mother of his 3 children.

“In his drunken state he has made a mistake that proved fatal” he added. “He made a mistake. We all make mistakes. But the accused is not so lucky as he must spend t he rest of his life paying for that mistake”


“He made a mistake. We all make mistakes.” What are they talking about here, murder or jaywalking? A mistake is when you run a red light or cheat on a test. Not even those. Mistakes are supposed to be unintentional, right? When you strangle someone (you supposedly love) AND suffocate him or her with a pillow AND tie a saree around his or her neck, that doesn’t count as a mistake. That is murder. No mistake there. And what’s this about him being ‘not so lucky’? Do we care whether luck is on his side? No! He SHOULD pay for it the rest of his life. And what is he going to tell his THREE children? “Sorry, daddy killed mummy, now there’s only your ‘violent when drunk’ daddy left to take care of you, OR kill you if you nag me about coming home late and drunk.” Oh, another thing, who goes to sleep while being strangled?? Oh yea, he was drunk (lost his mind and sense of judgment and all), I forgot. It’s an excuse for everything nowadays.

This defense seems like total crap to me but hey, it sure fooled the jury. He only got 12 years. For murder!