Valentine's Day, true crime style: Hammer time!
Bo Raxo
A tale of marital discord and domestic violence, as if the subject line
couldn't help you guess.
After reading this, I have a sudden hankering for a pair of parachute
pants. Worry not, the feeling will soon pass the way of all things
stupid.
Bo Raxo
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/4199755/detail.html
Police: Wife Attacks Husband With Hammer On Valentine's Day
Woman Charged With Aggravated Murder
POSTED: 11:28 am EST February 15, 2005
AVON, Ohio -- An Avon woman is arrested after she allegedly attacked
her husband with a hammer on Valentine's Day.
Philip Simonski, 38, was hit in the head several times with a claw
hammer as he slept Monday morning, police said.
Carol Simonski, 38, was arrested and charged with felonious assault and
attempted murder. She is being held on $100,000 bond.
Police have no motive. Officers said they have had no prior complaints
on the couple.
Philip Simonski was treated and released from a local hospital.
Jacque1in
>her husband with a hammer on Valentine's Day.
I wonder if anyone has done any stats on domestic attacks on Valentine's
Day? I heard somewhere in the last couple of days that Valentine's Day had
a really high suicide rate, presumably because people get depressed and
lonely and there are all those "love and romance makes your life complete"
messages surrounding Feb. 14. (Unfortunately, I can't remember where I
saw/heard/read it. Might have been a TV news report.) I wonder if there
could be a correlation with unhappy couples as well? "You know, you suck
as a spouse! This is not the romance I wanted in my life! Thwap! Thwap!
Thwap!" (Or stab/stab/stab, shoot/shoot/shoot,as the case may be.)
Jacque1in
Giddy on her migraine drugs, sorry!
Michael Snyder
> Philip Simonski, 38, was hit in the head several times with a claw
> hammer as he slept Monday morning, police said.
What gets me about a lot of these attacks, going back to the
infamous "burning bed" case, is that the husband gets attacked
and sometimes killed while he's asleep in his own bed.
The Chicago database from Northwestern was riddled with these:
Kinley Williams, 1902, suffocated by gas in his bed.
George Seitz, 1913, found in bed, head crushed with a stone hammer.
Edward Culpepper, 1918, shot to death while asleep in bed.
Louis Abrahamson, 1922, shot to death while asleep in his home.
Dominick Contursi, 1923, shot to death while asleep in his home.
Ernest Schroeder, 1924, asphyxiated by gas while asleep at home.
Alex Kowalkowski, 1926, wife confessed to poisoning him with
arsenic while he lay sick in bed with influenza.
Russell LaFraugh, 1926, shot to death in his bed at a bachelor hotel
(where he had presumably gone to escape from his wife).
Herman Heilman, 1926, strangled to death by wife while passed out drunk.
Jimmy Ross, 1927, shot to death while asleep in bed at home.
Vernon Goranson, 1927, shot to death as he lay in bed in a drunken stupor.
Daniel Anderson, 1928, fatally burned when he awoke to find his wife
pouring naptha over him and setting it afire.
John Legrand, 1929, shot to death while asleep.
I thought I recalled one in which he was stabbed to death while
asleep in bed, but I can't find it right now.
Michael Snyder
--
"Men can sell their bodies too, but choose not to
because they don't have to as often."
-- Dogs & children first
"Jacque1in" <jacq...@thatfreeYemaileveryoneuses.com> wrote in message
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A report commissioned by British welfare group the Samaritans states
February 14 puts pressure on both single people and those in relation-
ships and often causes feelings of depression and insecurity and could
sometimes lead to suicide.
"Almost one in 10 people aged under 25 years feel depressed, insecure,
inadequate or unwanted on Valentine's Day," the survey found.
Best selling author Allison Rushby, whose latest book Hating Valentine's
Day went on sale this month, said it was impossible to be impassive
about Valentine's Day - you either loved or hated it.
"The single people, they think everybody else is getting sweet loving
and the people in a relationship and you don't know what the other
person is going to do," she said.
"Even if you say you're not going to do anything, they'll probably do
something and you'll look like a cheap-skate if you don't.
"If you're married - well good luck."
Michael Snyder
--
"Men can sell their bodies too, but choose not to
because they don't have to as often."
-- Dogs & children first
"Jacque1in" <jacq...@thatfreeYemaileveryoneuses.com> wrote in message
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Percept Mot Skills. 1990 Dec;71(3 Pt 1):994.
Suicide and homicide on St. Valentine's Day.
Lester D.
Richard Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ 08240.
PMID: 2293198 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Michael Snyder
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OK -- I kid you not, this was actually published:
One in four of all college females will be raped on Valentine's Day,
according to statistics compiled by a Mississippi newspaper/
You're not going to believe me, so here's the link.
Afaict, it's not a joke, not tongue-in-cheek, it was
actually intended to be factual.
http://www.queensjournal.ca/articlephp/point-vol130/issue34/supplement/leadleft3
soli1...@juno.com
capable of fighting back - because he's always in control when he's
awake, and he's told her that if she tries to leave, he'll kill her/her
children/her family.
And why do you assume that the one guy was in the "bachelor hotel"
because "he went there to get away from his wife", implying that she
drove him out of their home? It's more likely that he was _TOLD_ to
leave the home after a domestic dispute during which the cops were
called, and the cops decided _everyone_ needed a "time-out" period.
Happens on the show COPS all the time, Snyder.
Michael Snyder
<soli1...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> Generally this happens because it's the only time the women feels
> capable of fighting back - because he's always in control when he's
> awake, and he's told her that if she tries to leave, he'll kill her/her
> children/her family.
... you infer.
> And why do you assume that the one guy was in the "bachelor hotel"
> because "he went there to get away from his wife", implying that she
> drove him out of their home?
Dunno -- why do YOU assume that ALL these women killed their
husbands in his sleep because "he's always in control, and he's
told her that if she tries to leave, he'll kill her"?
You jump on me for an assumption in ONE case, yet are blind
to your own assumption in many/most/all cases.
> It's more likely that he was _TOLD_ to
> leave the home after a domestic dispute during which the cops were
> called, and the cops decided _everyone_ needed a "time-out" period.
And on what evidence do you infer that this scenario is "more likely"?
Other than your PRESUMPTION that the man is always to blame?
Trianna
Bo Raxo wrote:
> A tale of marital discord and domestic violence, as if the subject
line
> couldn't help you guess.
>
> After reading this, I have a sudden hankering for a pair of parachute
> pants.
I don't think this is a particularly funny story. The man could easily
have been killed.
T.
Jacque1in
Jacque1in
Jacque1in
>
>OK -- I kid you not, this was actually published:
>
> One in four of all college females will be raped on Valentine's Day,
> according to statistics compiled by a Mississippi newspaper/
>
Okay, I have to assume they mean that out of all college women raped, one
in four seem to occur on Valentine's Day. That still sounds very strange
to me. When did the Daily Mississippian run this story? I'd really like to
see the statistics for this because it just sounds so wildly improbable.
>You're not going to believe me, so here's the link.
>Afaict, it's not a joke, not tongue-in-cheek, it was
>actually intended to be factual.
>http://www.queensjournal.ca/articlephp/point-vol130/issue34/supplement/le
>adleft3
>
College papers quoting someone else aren't reassuring. I'd still like to
see the original statistics for this statement. (I've seem college
students print crap I KNOW they should have known better than to print
without fact-checking, or what's a journalism education for?)
Jacque1in
Michael Snyder
"Jacque1in" <jacq...@thatfreeYemaileveryoneuses.com> wrote in message
> msn...@redhat.com (Michael Snyder) wrote in
>
>>
>>OK -- I kid you not, this was actually published:
>>
>> One in four of all college females will be raped on Valentine's Day,
>> according to statistics compiled by a Mississippi newspaper/
>>
> Okay, I have to assume they mean that out of all college women raped, one
> in four seem to occur on Valentine's Day. That still sounds very strange
> to me. When did the Daily Mississippian run this story? I'd really like
> to
> see the statistics for this because it just sounds so wildly improbable.
It seems like a haphazard mixture of the Koss survey and Jane Fonda's
"V Day" nonsense.
>>You're not going to believe me, so here's the link.
>>Afaict, it's not a joke, not tongue-in-cheek, it was
>>actually intended to be factual.
>>http://www.queensjournal.ca/articlephp/point-vol130/issue34/supplement/le
>>adleft3
>>
> College papers quoting someone else aren't reassuring. I'd still like to
> see the original statistics for this statement. (I've seem college
> students print crap I KNOW they should have known better than to print
> without fact-checking, or what's a journalism education for?)
That link is all I have. The quote is the first line in that article.
Jacque1in
claiming a quarter of college women are raped on Valentine's Day and
couldn't, but did find this, which said one in four college women are
raped before graduation:
http://www.thedmonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/08/20/3d62005f54887?in_archive=1
There are several other articles on rape statistics in the archives
(not the pre-2000 archives, which I couldn't get to work) which will
bring up stories if you put in the keywords "rape" and "statistics."
The statistics all seem to conflict somewhat, and none seem to support
the Queens University paper's claim that the Daily Mississippian also
said 75-90 percent are the result of acquaintance rape.
While checking the DM site, I quickly realized was that the Daily
Mississippian is the University of Mississippi's *own* college
newspaper. While some of the student reporters quoted government
reports or other legitimate studies whose statistics you can check out
for yourself, others seemed to pull numbers out of the air. In any
case, college student reporters can be notoriously amateurish about
their fact-checking, which, to me, makes the Valentine's Day statistic
completely unreliable. I can't find the original story, but even if I
did, I don't know that I would believe it unless the student provided
documented proof of how they reached that conclusion. And I'd *still*
wonder if it was a local anomaly! The provenance of the whole thing is
just too shaky.
This is one example I think I may save for use in student instruction
on interpreting what you find published even at .edu sites on the
Internet. Some day, somewhere, there is going to be some kid who cites
the Queens U cite for that statistic and says "But I got it at a
university site, so it has to be accurate...right?" No!!! Students --
and even professors -- post all kinds of ill-informed crap on their
websites all the time! That's why you need to look at who it is doing
the posting and consider what their agenda and their credentials in the
area they are writing about are. (And this is not aimed at you for
posting the original article, Michael; this is just a general rant
about how people can be easily misinformed about the authority of any
given author.)
/set professional lecture mode OFF ;-P
Jacque1in