Because The Best Defense is... WTF?!!

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On a similar note, this week's edition of Your Dose of Lunacy involves stupid plans.

The following is the most absurd thing I have heard recently (and, bear in mind, I take public transit, so I hear a plethora of insane things).  For the record, there is absolutely nothing funny about this guy's crime (murder). The killer is a despicable, pathetic little man. What is baffling and amusing is his defense to the murder.

The dude has claimed that he killed another man - but it was part of a film promotional plan gone wrong:

"... he would put actual people through the same experience as the "House of Cards" victim, but not kill them.  That way, he said, when those people saw the movie, they would text or email friends to say something similar had actually happened to them. That, he believed, would get people talking."

OK, let's just break this down.  This is what you envisioned happening: (?!?!)

Guy #1: "Dude, that indie movie that somehow randomly got shown and I somehow randomly ended up seeing?"
Guy #2: "Yeah?"
Guy #1: "Well what happened in that film happened to me!"
Guy #2: "Really?!"
Guy #1: "And - OMG, the the guy who attacked me - it's the director of the film!"
Guy #2: "Wow. That's fucked up."
Guy #1: "Yeah. For real. I'll have to check out the movie now!"
Guy #2: "Yeah, me too."
Guy #1: "OK, just wanted to tell you that. I'm gonna call all my other friends now and tell them the same thing."
Guy #2: "You better bet I will too! Hey, you know some people would consider turning this guy into the police."
Guy #1: "Really?! Well, those people have NO sense of humor."
Guy #2: "No doubt!"

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Compared to the above, the next criminal is a saint and a genius. But I digress. A man steals a computer so he doesn't have to go to law school.

Because it's easier to commit a crime and less humiliating to be arrested than to just, you know, decide for yourself not to go to law school.

I have a story of something similarly (but considerably more) baffling.  As a bonus, it involves a member of my family:

My dad's cousin was a bachelor once he'd hit 45 years of age (around the 80s) - which, for a Hungarian in that age group was not too cool. He decided to take a few trips from his then home in Montreal back to Hungary and enlisted the services of a matchmaker to set him up with a number of women. He met one he liked. He thought he recalled her name being (let's say) Karen and he wrote a letter to the matchmaker that she'd give to the gal.

It read something like:

"Dear Karen,

I was entranced with you when we met. I would love if you would accept my proposal. Please meet me on Aug 8th at the airport here in Montreal and we will get married and spend the rest of our lives together."

He arrived at the airport the day to greet his lady - only to realize that this Karen was clearly not the woman he was taken with!  He had gotten the name of the gal he wanted wrong!

Awk-ward...

Rather than dealing with the situation, and being honest (brutally uncomfortable as it would have been), the man chose instead to continue as planned.  He married Karen - and spent the rest of his life (another 20 some years) periodically going back to Hungary to have an affair with the woman he really desired.

Ah - when you spend your life deceiving your wife: That's Amore!

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