Polydectes wrote:
>
> Stand by your man...
>
> "It was the worst day of my life," Lonnie Hensley told a jury in
> Charleston, West Virginia. "One minute we were joking how she'd be
> better
> than Dolly Parton. Next I was covered in blood and standing with nothing
> but the waistband of my pants on"
>
> Lonnie was giving evidence at the trial of Denny Ray Gullett, who was
> accused of murdering his business partner, Masel Hensley, in order to
> collect $250,000 life insurance. "Denny called me into his office and
> asked me to give a box to Masel. He said it was 'an inflatable doll with
> Dolly Parton's body and Ronald Reagan's head' and promised Masel would
> 'get a real bang out of it'. I took it to Masel who as a big Dolly
> Parton
> fan, and we thought we'd fuck it there and then. The instructions on the
> box told us to hook the wires up to a car battery so it could inflate,
> and we were joking about who'd go first while he fixed it to his pick up
> truck. Then everything just blowed up."
>
> A forensic expert later testified that the box had not contained an
> inflatable sex doll. It had, in fact, contained six sticks of dynamite
> powerful enough to crack the foundations of a nearby house, and rip the
> clothes from both men, depositing the remnants on power lines overhead.
> Masel was killed outright by the explosion. Lonnie had his testicles
> blown off and was later found in a dazed state wandering the streets
> singing "Stand by your Man" in a daze. He now walks with a limp.
>
> Gullet's defence - that the gift wrapping department of his local store
> had "obviously screwed up and given me the wrong package" - was not
> accepted by the jury.
>
> New Haven Register.
>
> --
> Polydectes
Seems like Lonnie got lobotimized.