Friday, August 25, 2006

It's Bad Behavior Friday™! -- Impulse control edition

Houston is agog over a suburban woman who is accused of having an affair with a teenage neighbor boy; she may also have born the youth's child. In Missouri, a man was sentenced to 20 days in jail for breaking into his ex-wife's email account and sending her relatives dirty pictures of her they had taken when they were married. A Florida man was sentenced to six years in a software piracy case in Virginia.

People have boundary issues, don't they?

In Prince George Co., Maryland, a man was convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges for extorting money from a security firm seeking a government contract. In New Jersey, a construction contractor was sentenced in a wide-ranging bribery scandal involving the Paterson schools. And in Los Angeles, a former mayoral aide surrendered to face charges in another bribery scandal, this one involving Taiwan companies trying to score contracts with the city.

This is America, people. We don't just pay people off like in some banana republic. We hold fundraisers and have a democratic election, whereupon the people who wrote the checks get the business. That's how it works.

A New York chef who had just come home from work at a "ritsy" restaurant was strangled by an intruder who might be the same person who killed an aide to former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani -- both "were found naked and strangled."

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