A Knife? Well, at Least He Didn't Use an Ax - Then I'd Rule Him Out.

Several years ago, I met some gals in a random situation and they were kind enough to invite me to go out for drinks with them. This was very exciting, because I was still new to the city and was having a very difficult time making friends.

Eventually the following conversation occurred:

Girl #1
“So how was your date last night with that guy?”

Girl #2
"He’s a nice guy! Especially considering he’s been to jail."

Me
"Oh."

Girl #1
"For what?"

Girl #2
"Armed Robbery."

Girl #1
"Oh, that’s fine. It’s not like it’s rape or anything."

Girl #2
"Oh, yeah! Well if it was rape I wouldn’t even be considering it."

I had two basic thoughts then. One: "And another potential friendship bites the dust...". The other was, "WTF?! How low are your standards?!"

Armed robbery. That's... not impressive. And "not a rapist" is setting a very, very low bar.

"Hey, my new guy is an arsonist!"
"That's cool - at least he's not a rapist".
Or
"I'm not going out with that guy: he doesn't have a job, he drinks all the time and he pees himself regularly"
"Jenny, Come on! At least he's not a rapist."


Which brings me to my ultimate rant topic. People who date murderers. Every time I hear about a news item where some murderer has a paramour, I feel like breaking something (preferably over the lover's head).

Because I've made alot of poor choices in my life, but I draw my line at dating people who have proven to be able to kill someone else - and might end up murdering me. Yeah, that's just how I roll. Call me paranoid.

Here's a case in Australia where a guy who had already killed a previous lover by strangling him during sex, has now accidentally (?) killed another guy in the same way... *

"prosecutors won the unusual right to tell the Supreme Court jury about the first erotic killing as proof that he knew about the risks."

In fairness, if I was this dude's partner, my expectation would be that since he'd killed someone before during rough play, he'd be super-careful about how he did things from that point forward. But, you know, when you assume, you make a corpse out of you. 

On a furious lark, I then Googled "murderer kills girlfriend" (because, statistically, it's usually women) and got the following gem - about a fucktard who killed his girlfriend during a conjugal visit in his German prison.

Why was he in prison in the first place?

"Klaus-Dieter H., 50, who had been in jail for 19 years for raping and beating to death a nine-year-old girl..."

OMG! Dreamy!

Now, I would like to point out that his girlfriend, who he planned to marry when he was released, was a single mom.  I have no idea the age or gender of her child, but you know, way to use your best judgment, Lady.

OK, so they allowed the couple unsupervised visits - and the last one they had (of 6 hours) they opened the door to the room to discover that she had been stabbed to death.  Now people are enraged by the "lax security at the prison".  I really could care less, and was a little surprised at the outrage.  But then I read the following quote from the prison director:

"We definitely didn't think he was capable of that."

Hold up. Are you shitting me?!

I'd think it fair if he had said, "I never thought anyone'd be stupid enough to be involved with and wish to spend time alone with a child rapist and murder, so we thought, hey, if you're this reckless, you'll end up dead sooner or later and we figured we'd help hasten the process along."

But you "never thought this could happen"?!  I could have guessed this could happen.  And I'm the person who watches even the most inane mysteries and unless the killer is actually sporting a tattoo with the words "Look at me, I'm the freaking murderer!!!", I'll have no clue until the film's conclusion.

Now, apparently, the gal was planning on splitting up with him during this visit. 

And while I'm usually against breaking up via email, I think I'd make the exception in this case.

Perhaps:

"Dear Klaus,

I was all set to marry you.  I overlooked the child rape and murder - I make an effort not to hold extreme brutality and sadism against someone.  

It was your cell's condition that troubled me.  I thought: 'Do I really want to bring a man into my house who can't keep even his one room tidy.  What kind of example does that set for my child?'"

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*I heard about this one on Distorted View. Which excuses my cruel sense of humor in no way.