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Hey guys,
I was browsing a website for some good jokes and it came up with this (even though it's not really a joke) It has a good twist to it at the end and it's really intriguing.
At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story.
"On 23 March 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound of the head. The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide (he left a note indicating his despondency). As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had been erected at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and that Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide anyway because of this."
"Ordinarily," Dr. Mills continued, "a person who sets out to commit suicide ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended. That Opus was shot on the way to certain death nine stories below probably would not have changed his mode of death from suicide to homicide. But the fact that his suicidal intent would not have been successful caused the medical examiner to feel that he had homicide on his hands.
"The room on the ninth floor whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing and he was threatening her with the shotgun. He was so upset that, when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window, striking Opus.
"When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with this charge, the old man and his wife were both adamant that neither knew that the shotgun was loaded. The old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her - therefore, the killing of Opus appeared to be an accident. That is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.
"The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal incident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus."
There was an exquisite twist. "Further investigation revealed that the son had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a ninth story window.
"The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide."
I was browsing a website for some good jokes and it came up with this (even though it's not really a joke) It has a good twist to it at the end and it's really intriguing.
At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story.
"On 23 March 1994, the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound of the head. The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide (he left a note indicating his despondency). As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the decedent was aware that a safety net had been erected at the eighth floor level to protect some window washers and that Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide anyway because of this."
"Ordinarily," Dr. Mills continued, "a person who sets out to commit suicide ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended. That Opus was shot on the way to certain death nine stories below probably would not have changed his mode of death from suicide to homicide. But the fact that his suicidal intent would not have been successful caused the medical examiner to feel that he had homicide on his hands.
"The room on the ninth floor whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing and he was threatening her with the shotgun. He was so upset that, when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window, striking Opus.
"When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with this charge, the old man and his wife were both adamant that neither knew that the shotgun was loaded. The old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her - therefore, the killing of Opus appeared to be an accident. That is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.
"The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun approximately six weeks prior to the fatal incident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus."
There was an exquisite twist. "Further investigation revealed that the son had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a ninth story window.
"The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide."
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Indeed, but each to their own; we were all JATs at one point.
Thats very weird.......
Cruciatum Fixative wrote:
> BURNT wrote:
> A "heads-up" for you mate is that we are on a
> network...
>
> Good work 'mate', keep it up.
" 'mate' " .... mate will do nicely
> BURNT wrote:
> A "heads-up" for you mate is that we are on a
> network...
>
> Good work 'mate', keep it up.
" 'mate' " .... mate will do nicely
BURNT wrote:
> A "heads-up" for you mate is that we are on a
> network...
Good work 'mate', keep it up.
> A "heads-up" for you mate is that we are on a
> network...
Good work 'mate', keep it up.
Ah hah - I thought the two of them were the same person too.
Cruciatum Fixative wrote:
> Someone else want to help me out here? No?
>
> OK, well most people on here don't appreciate people making
> duplicate user-names on this forum.
>
> Just a heads-up :-)
A "heads-up" for you mate is that we are on a network...
> Someone else want to help me out here? No?
>
> OK, well most people on here don't appreciate people making
> duplicate user-names on this forum.
>
> Just a heads-up :-)
A "heads-up" for you mate is that we are on a network...
Someone else want to help me out here? No?
OK, well most people on here don't appreciate people making duplicate user-names on this forum.
Just a heads-up :-)
OK, well most people on here don't appreciate people making duplicate user-names on this forum.
Just a heads-up :-)
Cruciatum Fixative wrote:
> That has to be one of the longest jokes I've read in a long time.
> Is it even a joke?
>
> Ah well...
i said that it wasn't a joke!
> That has to be one of the longest jokes I've read in a long time.
> Is it even a joke?
>
> Ah well...
i said that it wasn't a joke!
Cruciatum Fixative wrote:
> nitro_goat wrote:
> How intruiging
>
> Great post Burnt - looking forward to the next one !
>
> Oh that's a shame... And I thought that you would become a nice
> new member.
Urmmm ..
Is that meant to be funny ?
> nitro_goat wrote:
> How intruiging
>
> Great post Burnt - looking forward to the next one !
>
> Oh that's a shame... And I thought that you would become a nice
> new member.
Urmmm ..
Is that meant to be funny ?
nitro_goat wrote:
> How intruiging
>
> Great post Burnt - looking forward to the next one !
Oh that's a shame... And I thought that you would become a nice new member.
> How intruiging
>
> Great post Burnt - looking forward to the next one !
Oh that's a shame... And I thought that you would become a nice new member.
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