I was wondering if you heard about WABC radio newsman George Weber getting murdered by a responder to one of his solicitations for rough sex on Craigslist. Even though I'm not into BDSM, I totally respect people who are into it and really appreciate all the advice you give people about practicing it. So it was really shocking to read how this person got murdered after basically breaking every-single-one of your rules on the subject:

1. He sought a non-professional to get his BDSM on.
2. He pumped this non-professional full of coke and vodka.
3. This non-professional was a friggin' minor!

And before people say "Oh but sometimes you can't tell their age." I have to tell you that me and a friend saw that kid, that same night, at the E-G-7 subway station and he did not look 18. When we saw the blood and his hand, our first thought was "high school fight gone wrong." We asked him if he was OK. The MTA person at the booth seemed to be taking care of him and we left. Only to read about this horrible incident later.

Could you please tell people out there one-more-time to be little more careful with their lives? Nobody deserves such a horrible attack, but it seems like this Weber person was really putting himself in a ridiculously dangerous situation.

Shocked and Awed

I had heard about the murder, of course, and it's heartbreaking and sickening and maddening all at once. My column next week is about the murder. Just fucking tragic.