The follow-up on the gentleman, Brent Mathews, who thought it was a great joke to roll a pig's head into a Mosque in Lewiston, Maine, is that he called the police on his cellphone while in a mall parking lot saying he was there with a semiautomatic pistol. After the police surrounded his car he shot himself. His friends claim that he was a real great guy who did have some issues. He was always up to pranks in high school, loved to play with kids, and spent hours caring for a friend who was hospitalized. It's true that on his MySpace Website he wrote such things as "happiness is a warm AK-47" and "Welcome to America, now either speak English or leave." It's also true that he was fired from his Lewiston Public Works job after shouting a sexual slur at a woman driver who failed to stop for him. But according to his friends he was a man who was full of fun!

The ham sandwich incident does not rise to that level of "hate crime" but it has potential. I do find it curious that some of the above posters empathise with such bigots. But maybe you think you're just having great fun baiting people such as me.

Charley Noble