Shadowrun Pub
General => General => Topic started by: Retread on September 02, 2006, 04:27:10 AM
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I just got out of jail today. God, fresh air smells nice...
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what were you doing in jail?
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Yeah, I was going to say, that explains one of our missing persons, but seriously- how did you end up in the clink?
-kv
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Assault and Battery.
It's a really long story...
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Then start typing motehr fragger!!!
Gabriel
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Yeah, our curiosty has been piqued, so now you have to explain.
We demand entertainment!
-kv
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*sigh*
Okay. I'll do my best. About a year ago there was a party at a friend's. After a while, the beer reserve needed to be replenished so my friends left for a local dive to go pick up some carry out. I was drinking vodka so I didn't really need to go. When they come back, two people pull in shortly after. A man, multiple felon, drug abuser and parapelegic, in a 94 Firebird followed by two men in a white SUV. The man in this instance is not welcome at my friend's because he threatened to have him killed on a previous occasion. Coincidentally, this man also wants my friend to "talk it out" and get in his vehicle so they can go somewhere.
At this time, another of my friends and my best friend's girlfriend (now wife) approach the white SUV. I hear them shout something about them having a gun, a sawed-off shotgun to be specific. My friend comes unglued, grabs a broken shovel head and smashes the windshield of the Firebird and stalks angrily towards the SUV, threatening them with death. These men then peel out and my friend leaves with three others to follow these people. As the men in the SUV were leaving someone throws a rotten gallon of milk at their car and it splatters on their windshield. Hee.
Now the parapelegic refused to leave, saying that someone needed to pay for his windshield. I was left there to watch the house to make sure nothing else happened. When my friends finally returned the man was still there, sitting in his car, and after multiple threats he still refused to leave. So, I put on a blue bandana, ripped a spindle from the porch of my friend's house and jumped across the yard, around his vehicle and attempted to strike him with the spindle. The spindle broke on the outside of his window so I simply punched the hell out of him. At the same time, another kid, a friend of my friend proceeded to jump on the roof of the 'victim's' car and stomp the hell out of his windshield. He finally gave in and drove away.
The party continued as normal. Eventually this guy was pulled over, drunk out his mind in a shattered car, bloody. He refused to be taken to the hospital and wasn't allowed to make a statement until his BAC was at zero. He blamed the damage to his car on the two women that were there so we had to exhonorate them. Eventually I had to admit to the battery because they were going to charge my best friend with both. First offense, 45 days. Charges were Assault and Battery and Wearing a Mask to Commit. I had to plea-bargain down from a Felonious Assault.
Now, before you jump on my back about assaulting a parapelegic you need to know something. This guy was no saint. He is a multiple felon, with a history of violence and drug abuse. In fact, the reason he is in a wheelchair is because he successfully managed to torque someone off enough to want to kill him. He was shot through the side of his car with a deer rifle, killing his girlfriend and paralyzing him from the waist down. He threatened to kill the people that shot him too after stealing something from them, I believe. Nasty business. As far as I was concerned, this guy came to my friend's house in an attempt to kill him. Why else would he bring two strangers with a gun and then ask my friend to drive away with him?
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Hey, I'm with you there- a handicap is no reason to act like a cripple.
Like they said in 'Almost an Angel,' "I see an asshole in a wheelchair."
-kv
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*winces* ouch. That sounds like something out of Law and Order or CSI or something.
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NO, that sounds like something off of Jerry Springer. Was the paraplegic a satan-worshipping midget with feelings of inadequacy and a tattoo of the virgin on his left buttcheek?? If so, then you really should call Jerry. ;)
But seriously, if they guy's legs don't work and he's STILL starting trouble, he really needs to rethink his priorities.
Gabriel
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No kidding.
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At least you got out of the felony. But you gotta be so careful.
A woman I know sent her teenage boy off to a party such as you described and brought home a corpse. He stood up for his girlfriend against her ex, and the ex stabbed him to death right there in ther front lawn with about 40 witnesses. The final charge brought against the murderer by the DA: manslaughter >:(
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How old was the ex?
Gabriel
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IIRC 19 or 20.
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Well, not a juvenile then. Just another example of a drekky legal system full of holes and bribery openings.
Gabriel
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yep reminds Me of the shadows
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Rarely will someone be sentenced on a plea-bargain with the original charge. Additionally, there's the "get out of jail free card"
Second offense is much worse.
My card didn't seem to help me much, however.
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Why not? Was the wheel-chair chump a friend of the judge or something?
Gabriel
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Just that those Get out of Jail free cards are only good in the original venue of Atlantic City despite mutation: http://www.areyougame.com/interact/category.asp?cat=Monopoly&q=Monopoly+Game
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Great Ghost, I hate that damn game!!!!
Gabriel
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Yeah, I never could win.
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It's just so BOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG.......... In fact, you actually have a better chance of winning if you stay in jail. You can still collect money and run no risk of having to pay anyone. Go figure.
Gabriel
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Yeah, that's true, but only later in the game. Monopoly is a strategy game, as much as Risk or anything else, but whereas Risk only incorporates strategy and chance, Monopoly covers recources, territory, and revenues.
What I've always tried to do is to get to the other side of the board, buying up properties before the other players get there. Once you have 3 or 4 properties in the same area of the board, you're pretty much garaunteed to have someone land on your property, thereby taking money from them and putting it in your own pocket.
Once the board is divided evenly between the players, get stuck in jail, and you'll be good. Stay there for the full 3 rounds, choosing not to roll, and you've gotten a leg up on the competition.
But whatever. I mean, how often do any of us play board games anymore?
-kv
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see only thing is have played by house rule you dont collect rent in jail
and played it frist rent you collect the bail is taken out of it
plus you can only sit three turns in jail then you have to pay
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I declare this thread hijacked ;D
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So, what was used? Pistol, box cutter...biohazard-level stinky socks?
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or a twnkie
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The wheel-chair-chump was a just that, in a wheel-chair. As far as the court's up here are concerned, he was more "victimizable" If it had been (sorry to say) a black guy who could walk, I'd have done community service instead.
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so because he is in a wheelchair he is allowed to make terreoristc death thrats bring goons with him to a persons propty and you cant do jack oh wait I know your sposed to call the cops
that will belivethe cripple when he lies his ass off
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For what it's worth, I think you did the right thing.
Not often, but every once in a while, people abuse what they have, and that needs to be levelled out.
Sorry you had to go to jail for it, though. Next time, let us know sooner, and we'll send you a cake with a file in it. ;D
-kv
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That's the basic principle. :P
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Frag the cake, chummer, we can extract your hoop. At least, if the proce is right. ;) Oh, and post that mug-shot of yours.
Gabriel
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It's all digital database, they didn't give me a copy of my mugshot :P
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You do know that you can get it anyway, right? For that matter, I could get it if I knew your name and adress. It's all considered public domain.
Gabriel
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Yes, I sorta figured that.
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Actually, that might be a bit of a fun hobby if you had that kind of personality. Get all of your freinds' and acquantance's full names and run a record check on them. I'm sure you could find some interesting facts out about some of your closest chummers. ;)
Gabriel