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Stinky The Clown

(67,676 posts)
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 04:51 PM Jun 2013

Today in Murder Trials

Last edited Wed Jun 12, 2013, 11:00 PM - Edit history (2)

First up, in Boston, is the start of the trial for 83 year old Southie, Whitey Bulger. A long time on the lam, the long arm of the law (and a girlfriend) finally got him. Whitey still enjoys something of a Robin Hood personna in some circles.



Next up is George "Nightwatch" Zimmerman. Jury selection is now underway but is reported to be going very slowly. I think this has the potential to be a societal flash point when the trials ends later this summer. I find it surprising that the judge has decided not to sequester the jury.



Last up was that scumbag from Cleveland, Ariel Castro. He had a hearing today. It lasted less than one minute. He pleaded not guilty to the nearly 400 counts against him. His bail was kept at $8M. Having induced a miscarriage in one of his captives, he could be charged with murder.







Can anyone muster any sympathy for any of these three? I know I sure can't.






edited to remove the trailing "b" in "lam" . . . . in response to the funny post with the pictures of the rodeo kid by our new friend, Mr. Hundred Dollar Portrait, and the snark laden chastisement from my Friend From Back Home, catnhatnh.



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Today in Murder Trials (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Jun 2013 OP
Nice job of listing them in order of Vileness REP Jun 2013 #1
Innocent until proven guilty davidn3600 Jun 2013 #2
Correct . . . . oh, and for the record . . . . Stinky The Clown Jun 2013 #4
Bulger is 83? Interesting reading about him. No sympathy for any of them. uppityperson Jun 2013 #3
And 19 years ago today Politicalboi Jun 2013 #5
Ha ha! Mr. Bulger was on the lamb, eh? Nimajneb Nilknarf Jun 2013 #6
Knowing the term "on the lam" (correct spelling) was archaic... catnhatnh Jun 2013 #7

REP

(21,691 posts)
1. Nice job of listing them in order of Vileness
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 04:57 PM
Jun 2013

Hard to pick a winner in this bunch, but the other two make Bulger look merely "vile." Quite an, uh, accomplishment for the other two, considering what a vicious little ratfucker Bulger is.

Stinky The Clown

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4. Correct . . . . oh, and for the record . . . .
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 05:05 PM
Jun 2013

. . . . I oppose the death penalty, even for scumbags like these.

 

Nimajneb Nilknarf

(319 posts)
6. Ha ha! Mr. Bulger was on the lamb, eh?
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 05:40 PM
Jun 2013


This one seems to have the hang of it!



This rodeo stuff looks like grand fun. We didn't have anything like that in the 18th Century.

catnhatnh

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7. Knowing the term "on the lam" (correct spelling) was archaic...
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 08:10 PM
Jun 2013

and confused by how "lamb"s were involved I googled...

"On the lam" or "on the run" often refers to fugitives. Mencken's The American Language and The Thesaurus of American Slang proclaim that lam, lamister, and "on the lam" — all referring to a hasty departure — were common in thieves' slang before the turn of the 20th century. Mencken quotes a newspaper report on the origin of 'lam' which actually traces it indirectly back to Shakespeare's time.

Its origin should be obvious to anyone who runs over several colloquial phrases for leavetaking, such as 'beat it' and 'hit the trail'. The allusion in 'lam' is to 'beat,' and 'beat it' is Old English, meaning 'to leave.' During the period of George Ade's 'Fables in Slang' (1900), cabaret society delight in talking slang, and 'lam' was current. Like many other terms, it went under in the flood of new usages of those days, but was preserved in criminal slang. A quarter of a century later it reappeared.
Mencken also quotes a story from the New York Herald Tribune in 1938 which reported that "one of the oldest police officers in New York said that he had heard 'on the lam' thirty years ago."

From WIKI entry on "fugitives"

But the photo of on the lamb was a riot...

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