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[novapsyche]

The super-sized 43st mother who is determined to become the world's fattest woman -- "Ms Simpson already holds the Guinness World Record as the world's fattest mother, when she gave birth in 2007 weighing 38stone. [...] 'I'd love to be 1,000lb,' she said. 'It might be hard though. Running after my daughter keeps my weight down.'"

Man used penis to assault female police officer

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[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

"Man used penis to assault female police officer"

I'm kind of bemused (is that the proper word to express a combination of nausea and amusement?) by the webpages all acting like this is the first time this kind of sexual assault has ever happened in the history of the world.

So let me get this straight...

[leifbrown.livejournal.com]

The police come into this guy's home because his girlfriend told them he was drunk.

And they find him sitting on the couch in his underpants.

And they're surprised when he acts like he's a drunken jackass?

And they... fine him for acting like a drunken jackass in his own home?

I can't see how this makes sense. Are they going to start fining the gas company because fire burns people who stick their hands in flame?

Re: So let me get this straight...

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

No one's saying one can't be a jackass in one's own home. Just don't be one to a police officer in uniform. *shrug*

Drunken assaults happen anywhere. Just because it happens in one's own home doesn't absolve one.

The article is written very matter-of-factly. You have to read between the lines to realize that somehow this jerk brandished his penis and somehow tried to use it as a weapon in the female officer's face. How did he do this? Did he pin her to the ground? I'm pretty sure she didn't kneel in front of him while he was sitting on his couch.

Re: So let me get this straight...

[leifbrown.livejournal.com]

I agree absolutely.

I also think this sounds suspiciously like the gender-relations version of last summer's interaction between Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and his local police.

Somewhere, I think the police dispatcher should have said to the girlfriend "...and he's sitting on the couch, drunk in his underwear... and what exactly is he doing that should require a police presence, and expenditure of taxpayer dollars?"

That they did not, and that the article suggests no cause for a police presence, says a lot. If we were talking about someone who was drunkenly threatening others, that would be different. If we were talking about a civilian guest in his home being assaulted, that would be different. This just stinks of incompetence all around.

Re: So let me get this straight...

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I've been in households where persons have been drunk. I've also been in households where drunk persons start arguing loudly and use threats of violence. I don't have all of the details of what went on in this particular person's household, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the one who called the police as well as the police officer herself.

You do realize that the police are called to settle domestic disagreements, right?