TV Is So Violent These Days
Atlanta, GA
An officer was sent to deal with a dispute on First Avenue. Upon arrival, the officer found a very drunk man and two broken big-screen TVs. A woman said she and her live-in boyfriend argued about him coming home so late and so drunk. She said he got angry, got in her face and started calling her “bitch and ho.” Then, she said, he went into a fit of rage and kicked the 42-inch big-screen TV in their bedroom. He kept kicking and punching the TV until it was destroyed, she said. Next, he went into the living room and kicked and punched the 54-inch big-screen TV there. A witness corroborated her story. The officer wrote, “The only thing [the ex-boyfriend] had to say was that it was his house and he could do what he wants.” The boyfriend, age 38, was charged with damaging private property and went to jail.
Found in Creative Loafing
January 23rd, 2007 at 5:49 am
So, it’s illegal to destroy your own television in your own house now? And anyway isn’t this woman bright enough to figure out that the best time to “discuss” her bf’s late and drunk habits is not when he’s coming home late and drunk?
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:28 am
You know, the “bitch and ho” thing was a bit rough, but smashing in two perfectly good big-screen TV’s…now that’s unforgivable!
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 am
My thoughts exactly guys. Both of ‘em. How can you be arrested for destroying your own property? Was this ‘appliance abuse’? Those were two very expensive televisions. And you notice, they said he called her a ‘bitch and ho’, but no one seemed to dispute the epithette. I’m thinkin’ he may have had a point.
January 23rd, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Since it was his house, wouldn’t HE have to be the one to file charges for damages to HIS property? What do the cops think he’s gonna do, press charges on himself? I can see THAT playing out in court….
January 23rd, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Of course, that would also assume that he would be representing himself.
January 23rd, 2007 at 7:53 pm
You know those TV’s are from Rent-A-Center..