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Audacity of Truth
Big Government- Hot Air
- Michelle Malkin
- Wheeling & dealing: Snowe pow-wows with Obama; Landrieu, Schumer, Daschle behind the scenes
- Saturday in the Senate: Cash for Cloture; Reid gets 60; Update: 8:15pm Eastern cloture vote – 60-39; Voinovich absent; Dems invoke Teddy Kennedy; Reid: “Ted would be happy.”
- Another day, another Berkeley tantrum
- Jake Tapper
- Lynn Sweet
It’s the thought that counts …
Gotta give the guy credit for trying:
OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (AP) — A man says he broke into an apartment with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman being raped, but the sound actually was from a pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching.
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According to a criminal complaint, the neighbor told police that Van Iveren pounded on the door and kicked it open without warning Feb. 12, damaging the frame and lock.
“Where is she?” Van Iveren demanded, thrusting the sword at the neighbor, the complaint said. “Where is she?”
The neighbor told police Van Iveren became increasingly aggressive as he repeated the question, insisting that he had heard a woman being raped. The complaint said that, with the sword pointed at him, the neighbor led Van Iveren throughout the apartment, opening closet doors to prove he was alone.
The neighbor later played for police the part of the DVD he believed Van Iveren heard downstairs.
Van Iveren, 39, of Oconomowoc, was charged with criminal trespass, criminal damage and disorderly conduct, all while using a dangerous weapon, and is due in court March 5. Together, the misdemeanor counts carry a maximum sentence of 33 months in jail.
Van Iveren said Tuesday that he heard a woman “screaming for help,” grabbed the sword, bounded up the stairs, kicked in the apartment door and confronted the man who lived there.
“I intended to hold it behind my back and knock. But I froze and instead, what happened happened,” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Contesting his neighbor’s account, Van Iveren said he didn’t look anywhere in the apartment except the front room, and that he never threatened the neighbor with the sword.
“I had the sword extended. But that was all,” he said.
Van Iveren, who lives with his mother in the downstairs apartment, said he did not call police when he heard the noises because he does not have a telephone. He said he barely knew the upstairs tenant.
Police seized Van Iveren’s sword, which he said was a family heirloom.
And they say chivalry is dead … 
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One would think the cheesy music and bad dialogue would have tipped him off.
Well, it’s the thought that counts, as you say.
Of course, true feminazi’s will tell you that every time a man watches porn or even looks at a woman it’s the same thing as rape, so maybe he’ll get off if he gets a lot of feminists on the jury. Nah, they’ll just accuse him of promoting a patriarchal stereotype that women are weak and defenseless by trying to save them, so he has to be severely punished.
I give up if this guy is convicted. Might as well tell all bad people they are the winners and tell good people they are the targets of the state.
How would you know about any cheesy music and bad dialogue, Jammie?
Now THAT’S what I call a neighborhood watch program!!!
I’ve just heard about it, that’s all
I gotta disagree with your characterization on this, Baklava. The guy with the sword is the bad guy here, breaking and entering another’s home, claiming what he claimed.
The problem is, he waited about 10 hours to make his “rescue attempt”:
“But if Van Iveren was attempting to rescue what he thought was a woman in danger he was “obnoxiously late,” said Stieghorst, who said he watched the movie between 1 and 2:30 a.m., but Van Iveren did not burst into his apartment until about 11:30 a.m.”
How do you know he’s telling the truth, stoo? And assuming he did, I think the responses here would have been quite different had it been noted in the piece I linked to.
This never would have happened if we had not been tricked into war in Iraq by Halliburton, Ken Lay, and Christianists who say “Merry Christmas”.
/end_howarddean_rant
Then there’s the Fox story on this:
Oh, the drama!
Now, assuming that’s true, I have question: why in the heck would someone want to play a ‘movie’ like that loud enough so that the neighbors could hear it?!
You’re right, ST — I did find that story in the MSM, so truthfulness may be truthiness.
Having said that, I’m not certain a discrepancy that big (10 hours) would be faked in such a relatively small scale case. When the stakes are big enough — like attacking the President/Vice President anything related to the war on terror — any lie will do, but for something like this?
ROTFLMAO – the video of the interview with the guy who was watching the ‘movie’ was hilarious
LINK
I’m sure the gal interviewing him wished she could have been reporting on another story — LOL.
You know what they say. What happens in Oconomowoc, stays in Oconomowoc.
I can’t believe how resoundly he said yes when asked if he was going to continue to watch porn. What a doofus. – Lorica
I think he lied at the end when he claimed to have turned off the video hours beforehand…
Now, assuming that’s true, I have question: why in the heck would someone want to play a ‘movie’ like that loud enough so that the neighbors could hear it?!
Yeah, plus, it’s not like he ever watched it long enough for the loudness to get offensive, I mean, what, he only watched it for 2 or 3 minutes at a time…
Hey, hasn’t the porno-watcher ever heard of headphones?
Wow this is a tough one. On one hand who wants a lunatic waving a sword at you kicking down door. On the other you hear someone screaming and it’s natuaral to try and help a women who is screaming. I think the guy should and will do a couple of months in county clink though. He could’ve banged on a neighbors door and asked them to call to coffee and donuts homeland security veterans.
asked them to call to coffee and donuts homeland security veterans
Officer: Sir, your eyes look red, have you been drinking?
Me: No officer, but your eyes look glazed, have you been eating donuts?
Yeah, maybe the guy should be found guilty of poor impulse control. I doubt he’ll do jail time, probably probation or something similar, however probation is usually reserved for unimportant crimes, like rape, murder, assault, and stealing government secrets.
I think it’s safe to say he could have handled it better, but kudos to him for doing something instead of ignoring it like so many “don’t want to get involved” types do.
Hey Tommy, ever watch the director’s cut of Das Boot? It’s over 4 hours long!
Hey, hasn’t the porno-watcher ever heard of headphones?
Hmmm…must not like to be tied up, er, down…
On another light note I’m sure Sandy Berger prefers probation over club Fed
So true, where he’d have something stuffed in his pants other than documents.