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A woman was recently tricked by geese into stabbing her granddaughter to death and was facing the death penalty. Now she's been found not guilty for reason of insanity. Nobody has announced any plans to try to identify the guilty geese and bring them to justice though. Fucking geese always get away with it.


http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/24/toddler.slain.ap/index.html

It worked for her. She got to kill, and now gets an all-expense paid home and lots of drugs.

Good for her. I guess.

I caught a bit of day time tv when I was off sick recently. I saw one programme where a woman claimed a psychic horse had told her to marry a complete stranger.

Chimps with spears, evil geese and matchmaking horses - are the animals finally rising up to stomp humanity under paw?

It worked for her. She got to kill, and now gets an all-expense paid home and lots of drugs.

It worked for her. She got to kill, and now gets an all-expense paid home and lots of drugs.

because people can't simply be insane and therefore should always get death penalty when they commit a murder?

I for one welcome our new geese overlords.

Take that, Ifreann:D

So, where can I get one of these geese? :cool:

This story is so disturbing and sad.

Of course DK...I mean, EO, is going to insist that we immediately start executing the mentally ill. Oh wait...he already has.

It worked for her. She got to kill, and now gets an all-expense paid home and lots of drugs.

Take my word for it; psychiatric hospitals aren't all they are cracked up to be. Many prisons are nicer. :p

I've never understood the "defence by insanity", but then I'm not sure I really believe in "justice" and "punishment" - I just think criminals should be prevented from harming the public further. If that's accomplished by locking them up, what does it matter if you call it a jail or a lunatic asylum?

Hmmm.... Paté d'enfant anyone?

Take my word for it; psychiatric hospitals aren't all they are cracked up to be. Many prisons are nicer. :p

It depends on the hospital, and it depends on what they diagnose you with, and what drugs they use on you.

Sure, repeated ECT and thorazine is no fun. But there are other treatments.

I've never understood the "defence by insanity", but then I'm not sure I really believe in "justice" and "punishment" - I just think criminals should be prevented from harming the public further. If that's accomplished by locking them up, what does it matter if you call it a jail or a lunatic asylum?

*sigh*

May I suggest you read up on it then? I'll give you some hints: Criminal behaviour caused by an illness, and crimes perpretated by choice. Punishment as a tool to stop crime. Punishment ineffective to stop acts caused by illness. Release contingent on the disease being treated, unlike jail time.

A woman was recently tricked by geese into stabbing her granddaughter to death and was facing the death penalty. Now she's been found not guilty for reason of insanity. Nobody has announced any plans to try to identify the guilty geese and bring them to justice though. Fucking geese always get away with it.


http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/24/toddler.slain.ap/index.html


I cry Foul!

the woman probably just got a bit down, ended up falling into a bad flock, you know how those gaggles are, no planing, just winging it from place to place, putting things on their bills.

I cry Foul!

the woman probably just got a bit down, ended up falling into a bad flock, you know how those gaggles are, no planing, just winging it from place to place, putting things on their bills.


They were probably just honked off. If it had been ducks they would have quacked up while chickens would have just gone off like a bunch of cackling hens.

Funny, the other day a goose told me to rob the bank. Thank God I didn't listen. :p

can you guess what they (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a192/piggy_g87/DCFN0013-1.jpg) were telling ME to do?

Once again you thwart my plans Geese! You haven't seen the last of me! Europa will be mine! Mine I tell you! Mwahahahahahahahahaha!

*takes pill*

Whoa, that woman has some serious issues that need dealing with.

I cry Foul!

the woman probably just got a bit down, ended up falling into a bad flock, you know how those gaggles are, no planing, just winging it from place to place, putting things on their bills.



Well I cry Fowl!

Funny, the other day a goose told me to rob the bank. Thank God I didn't listen. :p

Lol

What a silly goose!

>.>
<.<

Cheesy jokes aside, this lady deserves to die. She killed a baby, people.

"The baby wouldn't stop crying. I just flipped"

Doesn't sound like insanity to me, but a petty bitch who deserves the rack.

Cheesy jokes aside, this lady deserves to die. She killed a baby, people.

"The baby wouldn't stop crying. I just flipped"

Doesn't sound like insanity to me, but a petty bitch who deserves the rack.

Dude, she thought geese were telling her to do things. She was crazy. It's not like she just goes around killing babies for their fine, soft skins which can be sewn into lovely gowns.

It's not like she just goes around killing babies for their fine, soft skins which can be sewn into lovely gowns.

"It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again."

"It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again."

"Don't you hurt my dog, bitch!"

I cry Foul!

the woman probably just got a bit down, ended up falling into a bad flock, you know how those gaggles are, no planing, just winging it from place to place, putting things on their bills.

Gold.

Funny, the other day a goose told me to rob the bank. Thank God I didn't listen. :p

These geese know no limits! The other day a goose was trying to convince me to buy pets.com stock.

Dude, she thought geese were telling her to do things. She was crazy. It's not like she just goes around killing babies for their fine, soft skins which can be sewn into lovely gowns.

I know what my excuse will be next I commit a crime.....

I know what my excuse will be next I commit a crime.....
Find Ifreann... Eat his eyeballs...
PedroTheGoose told you to do it...

Take my word for it; psychiatric hospitals aren't all they are cracked up to be. Many prisons are nicer. :p

Personal expieriance?

So.....I shouldn't listen to the geese? Umm.....

*goes home and buries the bodies*

Cheesy jokes aside, this lady deserves to die. She killed a baby, people.

"The baby wouldn't stop crying. I just flipped"

Doesn't sound like insanity to me, but a petty bitch who deserves the rack.

WTF would that accomplish ... deter other people who think geese tell them to do shit?

Please if they are that fucking gone there is no amount of punishment that will make one bit of difference

Court records showed she had been admitted to hospitals for psychiatric care at least six times in 2005, including six weeks before the slaying.
What were this kid's parents thinking when they left her with this woman?!

What were this kid's parents thinking when they left her with this woman?!

They should be the one charged with criminal neglect

WTF would that accomplish ... deter other people who think geese tell them to do shit?

Please if they are that fucking gone there is no amount of punishment that will make one bit of difference

Unless the geese were telling her to make the kid stop crying, it's quite likely that she killed the baby for a rational reason unrelated to her being batshit insane.

A woman was recently tricked by geese...

I know it's terrible, but I broke out laughing halfway through this first sentence. Naturally, I guiltily stopped as I read further...still, it's officially sealed now: I'm going straight to hell.

Unless the geese were telling her to make the kid stop crying, it's quite likely that she killed the baby for a rational reason unrelated to her being batshit insane.

So, there are rational reasons for killing a baby that won't stop crying?

OK, this I have to hear. Please list them. Numbers are optional but encouraged.

And I'm willing to take "It was a typo" for an answer. In fact, I really, really hope it's a typo. Or else that the word "rational" doesn't mean what you think it means.

You know, this isn't the first tragedy geese have caused. Fucking geese. :mad:

You know, this isn't the first tragedy geese have caused. Fucking geese. :mad:

Actually, it was a swan that was ultimately responsible for the Trojan War, not a goose. A lot of people make that mistake. :p

What were this kid's parents thinking when they left her with this woman?!

Probably, "okay, she's mentally ill...but she's also a grandmother. No way she'd harm the baby".

What were this kid's parents thinking when they left her with this woman?!

"Admitted to hospitals for psychiatric care" =/= "particularly likely to stab babies." I have been admitted to hospitals for psychiatric care, and I'm entirely sane and not in the least bit violent. I assure you that I can be trusted not to murder people.

Now, unlike me, this woman obviously is not entirely sane, but there's nothing in the article to suggest a history of violence, and thus no particular reason to believe her son or daughter would think that she might be a danger to the child.