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One of my colleagues used to have a boss who got a hitman to kill his wife, and make it look like a burglary gone wrong.
She lived to tell the tale, and in the resulting investigation the police found that his previous wife had died the same way, with him collecting a huge wad of insurance money. That case was reopened, and the cops did him for that too.
Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
It wasn't his fault the bloke had a brittle bone condition though. He probably would have been let off with a warning if the guy only had a few cuts and bruises.
Not that I go around punching people in the face. But in light of recent events I might consider it
Apparently there is a legal principle that "you take your victim as you find him" which means that someone-else's brittle bones become the puncher's problem, in this scenario.
Last edited by IR35 Avoider; 1 October 2007, 12:29.
It's not funny that instead of paying for 6 feet of rope, we paid to keep the scrote in a cell for 10 years...
In the USA one of the arguments against the death penalty is that life imprisonment is actually cheaper, once you take into account the cost of appeals against death sentences and the cost of time spent on death-row. (I'm not saying that would be the case here if we had the death penalty, it's just an interesting fact...)
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