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Friday, June 19, 2009

Crime Rough Sex Leads to Stapler Attack

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:04 PM

King County prosecutors allege a 41-year-old Seattle man attacked his wife and girlfriend with a staple hammer at their South Seattle home earlier this month after a night of rough sex turned unpleasantly violent.

Seattle Police Department records say the 41-year-old man, his 38-year-old wife and the 24-year-old woman are "intimately involved, sharing [a] 'BDSM' Bondage Dominance, Sadomasochism relationship."

According to a police report, the man woke up his 24-year-old girlfriend for sex at about 2:00 a.m. on June 3. The 24-year-old woman—who has lived with the couple since November 2008—told police that the man had choked her during sex, but suddenly "became violent" and began punching her as the man's wife lay next to them in bed.

Police records say the man began yelling at the two women, calling them "Babylon whores" before he left the room. The man returned to the bedroom and resumed hitting the 24-year-old woman, striking her in the face more than 20 times, records say. The man then turned his attention to his wife, striking her several times.

Police records say the man then forced both women into the basement where he grabbed a "hand held contractor's 'Hammer Stapler'" and forced his wife to hit the 24-year-old woman with the stapler. According to police records, the man became angry when his wife "would not hit [the woman] hard enough to make the staples stick." The man then grabbed the hammer stapler and struck his girlfriend's breasts, records say, before he attacked his wife with the stapler.
Police say the 24-year-old woman received 20 staple wounds on her back during the attack.

After attacking both women the man left the house three hours later and went to work.

Court records indicate the man takes Lithium for manic depressive bipolar disorder and may have been off his medication during the attack. He has been charged with third degree domestic violence assault for the incident.

Court records say the man was previously convicted for assault in 1997.

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wtf?!

Posted by stinkbug on June 19, 2009 at 4:22 PM

When you're a journalist, spelling and grammar DO COUNT! :P

Posted by iridius on June 19, 2009 at 4:26 PM

"Preciously" ?

Posted by grammer police on June 19, 2009 at 4:28 PM

Maybe the guy is part pit-bull.

Posted by Collin on June 19, 2009 at 4:30 PM

"may have been off his medication during the attack." Gee, ya think?!

Posted by Geni on June 19, 2009 at 4:31 PM

That's about the worst headline I've ever fucking seen. Rough sex didn't lead to anything. How about: Insane Motherfucker Assaults Two Women For No Fucking Reason.

Posted by keshmeshi on June 19, 2009 at 4:35 PM

"preciously convicted of assault"

an unfortunately hilarious typo.

Posted by Ronan on June 19, 2009 at 4:37 PM

Before anyone states that this is the result of a non monagamous relationships - Phooey !!! to that view! That headline is terrible. This is what happens when people have serious mental illnesses; lack adequate support and resources; and don't take their medication (perhaps because they feel better.)

Posted by Theo Magyar

on June 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM

On their anniversary celebration they will fire nail guns at each other's heads. You are all invited to join the fun!

Posted by Vince on June 19, 2009 at 4:43 PM

Now THAT'S the kind of Prince Charming you want to get into a BDSM relationship with.

Posted by tacomagirl on June 19, 2009 at 5:10 PM

The girlfriends breasts are on her back?!?

Posted by laterite on June 19, 2009 at 5:22 PM

"Inadequately Treated Mental Illness Leads to Stapler Attack"

"Two Women in Ill-Advised Relationship with Unstable Wacko Get Stapled"

"Dude Staples Boobs, WTF?"

Anything, anything but implicitly blaming this on the sex, please.

Posted by balderdash

on June 19, 2009 at 5:28 PM

a staple hammer is more hammer than a stapler.

Posted by paulus on June 19, 2009 at 5:31 PM

Motherfucker was sharing a bed with his wife AND his 24-year-old girlfriend. You'd think he'd be a little more appreciative.

Posted by Greg on June 19, 2009 at 5:32 PM

"Local Blogger Defends Sex Criminal, Blames Female Victims For Liking Sex."

Too long?

Posted by lizzie on June 19, 2009 at 5:39 PM

@14: end of thread.

Posted by Massive Attack on June 19, 2009 at 6:50 PM

What a sick fuck. ARGH! I hope he gets at least fifteen yrs minimum for that shit. How traumatizing.

Posted by NumberOne on June 19, 2009 at 7:05 PM

Damn, how do I hook up sexing a younger girlfriend/mistress while my wife sleeps next to her in bed? He must be a suave man on Lithium.

Posted by Westlake, son! on June 19, 2009 at 7:06 PM

This loon has two chicks and I can't even get a date.

Welcome to Seattle.

Posted by self satisfied on June 19, 2009 at 7:08 PM

Stapler! Never thought of that one. It's embarrassing to me when I encounter the limits of my imagination.

Posted by Violet_DaGrinder

on June 19, 2009 at 7:41 PM

@11: I bet it makes dancing more fun.

Posted by pox on June 19, 2009 at 7:57 PM

Someone forgot their safe word.

Posted by julie russell

on June 19, 2009 at 8:05 PM

THIRD degree assault?

Posted by David Miller on June 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM

@22 - um, someone was violently assaulted. The tone of the initial post does a pretty good job of implying victim-blame, you don't need to go and reinforce it specifically.

Posted by lauraellyn on June 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Chicks make terrible dating decisions. Way too many girls out there want excitement and drama at any cost, and if they have to fuck bipolar wackos and ignore all the sane men to get it, well, that's what they'll do.

I don't miss being single.

Posted by schmacky on June 19, 2009 at 8:45 PM

Great news for bipolar sufferers and kinksters alike. And what a surprise: sloggers trot out the hate for the mentally ill!

Posted by kresblamania

on June 20, 2009 at 6:03 AM

@26: Mental illness is one thing. A guy going off his meds and then assaulting the two women he lives with is another thing entirely.

Posted by Greg on June 20, 2009 at 9:30 AM

I blame the women. Living with one of them is enough to make you crazy, but two???

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on June 20, 2009 at 9:39 AM

@24..It was worth it just to get you all riled up:)

P.S. I am aware this was a case of serious assault..hope he does time.

Posted by julie russell

on June 20, 2009 at 10:14 AM

@27: What?! Did he stop being ill because he went off his meds? And therefore he should be viewed as more responsible? I would say that he was probably completely out of touch with reality. He needs to be locked away in a secure treatment center until he's no longer a danger to anyone.

Cheerleading for this person to be punished is the response of a caveman. How does being locked up without treatment and being brutalized on a daily basis help anyone? It just makes us an inhumane society.

Posted by kresblamania

on June 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM

celebrate divershitty!

Posted by divershitty of my sexual anus stapler on June 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM

@24 Chill! It was a joke!

@30 Depression disorders don't make you pick up a staple gun. This guy needs to be punished for what he did.

@14 Completely agree!

Posted by sepiolida on June 21, 2009 at 7:09 AM

@32:

Bipolar, not depression. Look it up. Read some testimonials of people who live with it.

Punishment accomplishes nothing except to satisfy the sadistic impulses of savages.

Posted by kresblamania

on June 21, 2009 at 8:08 AM

You can have humane consequences for people like this that protect society. Punishment is not the only option for consequence.

Posted by kresblamania

on June 21, 2009 at 8:10 AM

Someone over 40 has likely dealt with his bipolar for a good while. He knows that undesirable things happen when he goes off his meds. He then *chose* to go off his meds. That decision had terrible consequences for the two women he lives with.

I am a huge believer in mental health support for all. But that includes responsibility on the part of us mental health patients to do what is necessary to keep our diseases in check. He didn't do that. He needs some jail time.

Think of it like Typhoid Mary; she was a victim, but she did not do what was necessary to keep others safe. So, she was quarantined against her will.

Posted by Karyn in Portland on June 22, 2009 at 8:45 AM

The medication for bipolar is not a cure. The best you can hope for is some degree of coping in your everyday life. You still need to be on constant guard about behavior and decision making.

I too am saying he should be locked away, just not in jail. My issue is to challenge people to re-examine their ideas about punishment, especially when they concern someone who appears to have been out of his mind when he committed a crime.

Posted by kresblamania

on June 22, 2009 at 11:44 AM