Monday, November 06, 2017

Bleak Houses

Nothing trivial about five broken ribs and lung contusions but the origins even of deadly disputes are often embarrassingly silly. And Senator Rand Paul-Sir Leicester Dedlock was embarrassed to have the attack by the Tackling Doctor, Rene Boucher-Lawrence Boythorn public. From the New York Times:

 The violent altercation last week that left Senator Rand Paul nursing bruised lungs and broken ribs began over a landscaping dispute...

A landscaping dispute.
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Competing explanations of the origins of the drama cited stray yard clippings, newly planted saplings and unraked leaves.

Stray yard clippings.
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The senator grows pumpkins on his property, composts and has shown little interest for neighborhood regulations.
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Is that some inside Kentucky dope we're supposed to get there, "The senator grows pumpkins"? Is that causus belli in Deliverance? If that had somehow sequed into Chase and the pumpkins I would have thrown the phone.

...the spectacle of the incident — one former doctor attacking another in broad daylight...[Well] ...three Kentucky Republicans, who requested anonymity to discuss the case, said Mr. Paul had been embarrassed by the incident and was not interested in drawing attention to it.

Which is understandable.
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"They just couldn’t get along. I think it had very little to do with Democrat or Republican politics,” said Jim Skaggs, who developed the gated community and who lives nearby. “I think it was a neighbor-to-neighbor thing. They just both had strong opinions, and a little different ones about what property rights mean.”

Asked about long-leveled allegations that Mr. Paul had disregarded neighborhood regulations, Mr. Skaggs, who is also a former leader of the county Republican Party, said that the senator “certainly believes in stronger property rights than exist in America.”

So Dr. Boucher should have taken Dr. Senator Paul to court instead of sneak-tackling him from behind while the Victim was wearing ear muffs.  If anything the silly origins of this blind (and deaf) blind side attack just make the injuries inflicted all the more outrageous. The Tackling Doctor ought to have the book thrown at him and that book ought include a chapter on felonies.

What yet there is no explanation for is the special abilities possessed by a 59 year-old poof anesthiologist to fracture five ribs and contuse the lungs of a 54 year old opthomologist. "High velocity severe impact" is still utter bullshit, even for Kentucky.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/us/politics/behind-rand-pauls-broken-ribs-a-trivial-dispute-lawyer-says.html

Man, I'm liking Trump National Clown out of country.