{"id":8396,"date":"2012-10-24T07:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T12:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=8396"},"modified":"2012-10-24T07:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T12:54:27","slug":"random-fun-october-24-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=8396","title":{"rendered":"Random fun: October 24, 2012."},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember our old friend Randy Adams<\/a>, former police chief of the California city of Bell, who was seeking a $510,000 a year pension based on his contract with the city<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Ask not who the fail whale tolls for: it tolls for Randy Adams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The chief, the judge wrote, also wanted to keep confidential an agreement that would have eventually granted him a disability retirement, meaning that half his pension would have been tax-free. His decision included an email that Adams sent to Spaccia during contract negotiations. “I am looking forward to seeing you and taking all of Bell’s money?!” he wrote. “Okay…just a share of it.”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Adams still has the option to appeal the ruling. In the meantime, instead of collecting $510,000 a year, his pension will be a mere $240,000 a year.<\/p>\n

Glen Berger is writing a book. “Who?” Glen Berger, one of the writers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”. Mr. Berger’s book currently bears the title \u201cSong of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr. Berger is by no means an impartial observer in the troubled gestation of \u201cSpider-Man,\u201d the most expensive show in Broadway history. He was brought onto the project by Tony winning director Julie Taymor, with whom he co-wrote the book, but he and Ms. Taymor had an ugly split when she was fired in 2011, and a new writer and director were brought in to make the musical more family- and tourist-friendly.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And in other news, the NYT<\/strong> would like for you to shed some tears over the death of poor pitiful Dan Fredenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What did Mr. Fredenberg do?<\/p>\n

It was Sept. 22, and Mr. Fredenberg, 40, was upset. He strode up the driveway of a quiet subdivision here to confront Brice Harper, a 24-year-old romantically involved with Mr. Fredenberg\u2019s young wife. But as he walked through Mr. Harper\u2019s open garage door, Mr. Fredenberg was doing more than stepping uninvited onto someone else\u2019s property. He was unwittingly walking onto a legal landscape reshaped by laws that have given homeowners new leeway to use force inside their own homes.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Harper shot and killed Fredenberg. The DA declined to prosecute, stating that the shooting was justified under Montana’s “Castle Doctrine”. This greatly upsets the NYT<\/strong>, and many of the morons who read the paper and leave comments.<\/p>\n

But there are some inconvenient facts.<\/p>\n

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  1. Mr. Fredenberg was drunk at the time he was shot.<\/li>\n
  2. Mr. Fredenberg entered Harper’s home; he wasn’t standing in the driveway or out on the sidewalk.<\/li>\n
  3. Mr. Fredenberg and his spouse had a history of mutual spousal abuse (physical and verbal), according to the local DA.<\/li>\n
  4. Mr. Fredenberg’s spouse was having a relationship of some sort with Harper. She denies it was sexual, but states that they were “intimate”.<\/li>\n
  5. Mr. Fredenberg and Mr. Harper had “once clashed at Fatt Boys Bar & Grille in Kalispell”.<\/li>\n
  6. Ms. Fredenberg and Mr. Harper were driving around the block that evening shortly before the incident; they were pursued by Mr. Fredenberg, which led to the shooting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u201cYou don\u2019t have to claim that you were afraid for your life,\u201d Mr. Corrigan, the county attorney, said. \u201cYou just have to claim that he was in the house illegally. If you think someone\u2019s going to punch you in the nose or engage you in a fistfight, that\u2019s sufficient grounds to engage in lethal force.\u201d
    \nIt was immaterial that Mr. Fredenberg was unarmed. What mattered was what Mr. Harper \u2014 who declined to comment through his lawyer \u2014 later told investigators: that Mr. Fredenberg was charging toward him, angry, \u201clike he was on a mission,\u201d and that Mr. Harper was scared for his life.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Was Mr. Harper supposed to wait until he was attacked by a drunk man who he’d previously had an altercation with, in the privacy of his own home? Apparently, the NYT<\/strong> thinks the answer to this question is “yes”.<\/p>\n

    Castle Doctrine didn’t kill Mr. Fredenberg: poor judgement killed him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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