This is taking vegetarianism a bit too far for my taste…

So there’s a story in the Statesman: guy gets life in prison on a tampering with evidence charge. That’s technically true, in that he did get life for the charge, but you have to read further into the article to discover that he also was convicted of meth possession (and got 20 years for that) and that he had nine previous felony convictions.

You don’t have to read that much deeper into the article to get to the truly weird stuff, though:

After Ransier’s arrest, authorities searched the truck again and found multiple items of children’s clothing, Barbie dolls, candy, balloons, baby oil, Viagra, Extenze male enhancement, duct tape, rope and a cooler with frozen cucumbers, the release said.

Shoot, a fellow could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff. But wait, there’s more!

Previous cases against Ransier include a Nov. 10, 2012, incident on Word Ranch Road, in New Braunfels, where Ransier was found naked by authorities and admitted to committing a “deviant sex act involving a squash,” the release said. On March 9, 2014, police responded to a call at the baseball fields off of Loop 337, where they found Ransier wearing nothing but women’s stockings, and again, engaging in a deviant sex act with a vegetable, the release said.

I’d almost have some small amount of sympathy for the guy (meth’s a hell of a drug) if it wasn’t for some of the other things on his record:

Other court records showed Ransier was previously convicted for manslaughter of an Arizona State Trooper and driving under the influence, the release said.

Maybe, just maybe, this is the kind of person the habitual offender law was written for?

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