Ohio woman pleads guilty in over-exercising death

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) – A woman has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool, repeatedly refusing to let him leave the water.

Surveillance video showed Christine Newton-John, 41, pulling James Mason around the pool by his arms and legs, said Middlefield police Chief Joseph Stehlik. (Read Full Article).

I discovered this story on reddit and was surprised at the reaction.  First, one reader correctly pointed out how as you read the article it becomes more and more unbelievable. Or as he puts it:

“exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool, repeatedly refusing to let him leave the water”

One WTF.

“Christine Newton-John, 41″

Two WTF.

“The chief said he counted 43 times in which Newton-John prevented her husband from leaving the water”

Three WTF.

“The video would have had a profound effect on a jury, Geauga County Prosecutor David Joyce said. But that wouldn’t have been enough for a conviction if Newton-John had been charged with murder.”

Four WTF.

“He knew her as John Vallandingham before she had gender reassignment surgery in 1993″

Five WTF.

“and changed her name in honor of the singer and star of the hit movie version of the musical “Grease.”"

Six WTF.

“Kentucky, where people can change their gender on their birth certificate’

 

And the second shocking thing, was all of the commenters who said they used to kill their sim characters this way! Look at some of these comments:

“I preferred trapping them in a really small room with nothing in it except for that scary clown painting and letting them suffer for a few days until they died.”

“I had a big fat Sim named “The collector” whose sole purpose was to get people into the smallest room possible, sell the door and then replace it with a window. There was a central room with rows of these windows with chairs in front of each of them, and he would sit and watch people suffer and die slowly and move on to watch the next victim. I have no idea how people play the Sims normally.”

“Yeah, I used to love throwing a party then throw everyone in the pool (move_objects on) and put all their tombstones on my front lawn.”

“Check out http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/simstorture.htm”

 

Wow.