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TexasTowelie

(112,118 posts)
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 07:45 PM Mar 2015

Texas woman smiles with pride after setting fire to yoga studio to ‘get rid of the devil’s temple’



A Texas woman explained her unusual mug shot after she was arrested and charged with setting fire to a yoga studio.

“Most people can’t understand the smiling mug shot,” Nancy Duarte told KTVT-TV from jail.

The 41-year-old Duarte, who goes by Suzanne, said she smiled in the photo to help let go of the anger that drove her to American Power Yoga with a baseball bat and can of gasoline, reported the TV station.

She said the studio had brought her “so much pain and suffering” during an ongoing dispute with two men associated with the Dallas business.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/texas-woman-smiles-with-pride-after-setting-fire-to-yoga-studio-to-get-rid-of-the-devils-temple/



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Texas woman smiles with pride after setting fire to yoga studio to ‘get rid of the devil’s temple’ (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2015 OP
I hope she gets all the help she so desperately needs. nt Xipe Totec Mar 2015 #1
It's sad, isn't it? Cooley Hurd Mar 2015 #3
She deserves compassion, care and understanding from all of us. Xipe Totec Mar 2015 #4
And everyone calls Florida crazy. liberal N proud Mar 2015 #2
I was going to make a joke comparing Texas woman to Florida man, TexasTowelie Mar 2015 #5
There must be more than one yoga studio in Dallas. Downwinder Mar 2015 #6
the stupid, it BURNS. pansypoo53219 Mar 2015 #7

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)
4. She deserves compassion, care and understanding from all of us.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 07:57 PM
Mar 2015

It breaks my heart when I see people so disconnected from the here and now.

TexasTowelie

(112,118 posts)
5. I was going to make a joke comparing Texas woman to Florida man,
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 08:05 PM
Mar 2015

but I didn't want Skittles to kick my ass, yes indeed.

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