Variation On A Theme
Jan 9th, 2008 at 12:45 pm by Susie
For some reason, I just love this story:
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man who mailed a bloody cow’s head to his wife’s lover has been sentenced to probation and community service. Jason Michael Fife “understands that in a civilized society a person cannot send a severed cow’s head to anybody,” said his defense lawyer, Henry Hilles.
Authorities in Lower Pottsgrove, northwest of Philadelphia, arrested Fife and charged him with stalking, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and harassment after he allegedly sent threatening messages and pictures to the victim between May and September 2006.
The victim received a package containing a cow’s head with a puncture wound in its skull on June 1, 2006.
Police said Fife, 31, got the cow’s head from a butcher’s shop, claiming he wanted the dried skull for decoration. Instead, he mailed the head frozen, so as not to alert parcel carriers to the contents, police said. The box became bloody after sitting on the victim’s doorstep on a warm day.
Police were able to trace the package and threatening e-mails to Fife, court documents indicate.
“My client did step over the line here, but one can certainly understand his frustration, given that the victim was carrying on an affair with my client’s wife,” Hilles said.
“In a civilized society a person cannot send a severed cow’s head to anybody.”
But a cow’s ribs, loin, or brisket, no problem, in our civilized society.
I’m sure whatever distinction you’re thinking of is insignificant in the cow’s eyes—which, by the way, also are available through the mail.
Actually, I think there’s something more appropriate than a cow’s head that he could have sent: the other end of a horse!