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Thread #99331 Message #1978137
Posted By: SharonA
24-Feb-07 - 01:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: The victim is always guilty
Subject: RE: BS: The victim is always guilty
I guess so, Susan. Also see the phrase "sadder but wiser."
And I love your axiom for screwings 1, 2, 3 and 4 !
Anybody see the recent news story about the guy who heard noises coming from his upstairs neighbor's apartment that sounded like a rape-in-progress? The guy downstairs had no phone to call the police, so he grabbed the only weapon he had at hand -- an antique sword -- ran upstairs and banged on the neighbor's door. No answer. So Sword Man broke down the door, demanded to know where the woman was, and forced Noise Man at sword-point to tour the apartment and demonstrate that there was no rape victim. Turns out Noise Man had been watching a pornographic movie on TV at high volume.
Then Noise Man calls the police and presses charges against Sword Man for breaking and entering and for threatening him with a weapon! So the victim of the break-in is guilty of disturbing his neighbor (and of plain old smut-mindedness), and the victim of the noise disturbance is guilty of reacting to it by trying to stop a crime!