Selfish B*#@*RD ruins family

I just spent the beginning of my weekend with the winner of the 2006 inconsiderate ass**$% award. This nimrod was such a control freak that he threw away EVERYTHING all because his wife of six years wanted to take their 4yr old daughter and 1 1/2yr old son out for a ride in the car.

When she readies the children for the car Mr. Muttonhead threatened to do the obvious thing..... YEP, suicide. When the wife tells him to get a grip and walks out the door with the kids Mr. Dipstick pulls out his gun and starts pulling the trigger with the muzzle securely planted to his head.

I guess he thought the furtive move toward completion of his warped, selfish power struggle would make his wife run back into his arms and forget about a day with her beautiful, charming children. however, this sort of ME,ME,ME crap had apparently been an on-going thing and was getting way too old for her. She later told us he'd done this same stupid sh** many times before, so she had continued out the door.

Each of the prior times, so we were told, this guy would pull the trigger so the hammer would raise ALMOST to the point of falling before he'd put the gun down. Well, this time Captain Crapstain pulled just a little too hard and the gun fired.

In the end this poor bas****'s warped mental state couldn't accept that the mother of his two wonderful children would want to spend time with them and this slack-jawed genius wound up on his living room floor with a bullet in his head.

We arrived to a broken, no, shattered wife crying on the front walkway trying not to scare the children. The kids were thankfully NOT in the room when it happened. But how do you tell your little girl, who worshiped her father and let everyone else know it, that daddy preferred a bullet to spending time with her.

If I had known him sooner I may have some heartache over his loss, but I have no pity left for this moron of an ex-person. My soul goes to the survivors. My heart positively aches for his wife, daughter and son.

It doesn't matter if you call it Mental illness or a personality disorder, either way this sh**head threw away what I always thought every man should cherish most...the true love of a wife and the unconditional love of your children. Either way a wife is now a heartbroken widow and 2 more children must grow up without the one person they both adored without question.

If you know someone who displays this or similar types of behavior DO NOT SIT AND WAIT. Get them help. Talk to them. Let them know you care. DO SOMETHING, because no child deserves to live without their Mommy & Daddy. If you see this man in your actions... get help, please.

Carnage and Contempt for Others

Today, only hours apart, two more people died on the roads of central Florida. I mention these senseless deaths for two very important reasons. First, and foremost, both of the men killed today were law enforcement officers. Second, and much more troubling, both men were killed in the most disturbing type of traffic crash; the hit and run.

Deputy Michael A. Callin, a 26-year-old motorcycle officer with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, was conducting traffic enforcement in the area of Universal Studios when a speeding driver ran him over and fled the scene. Deputy Callin's femoral artery was severed, he lost part of his right leg, and eventually died from his injuries.

The second crash claimed the life of Haines City (Polk County) police officer Phoenix M. Braithwaite who was killed in a head-on collision with a mini-van as he was riding to work on a motorcycle. The driver of the van tried to overtake other vehicles on the two lane roadway hitting and killing Officer Braithwaite. Officer Braithwaite had been with the 42 officer Haines City Police Department for only TEN months.

In these cases both suspects have been located and arrested, but this side of the story only makes me more upset. The nineteen year old driver, whom it appears, deliberately ignored, then aimed for and killed Deputy Callin was, like the suspect in my February 17th posting, driving with a suspended driver's license. In fact he's had over a dozen violations over the last two years for driving without a license, not paying tickets and Failure To Appear for court.

The driver who killed Officer Braithwaite appears to be an illegal alien and may not even have a valid license (reported but unconfirmed at this time).

These deaths highlight the fragility of life and I encourage you all to enjoy and cherish every day as if it were your last. They spotlight the fact that if two trained law enforcement officers can fall victim to these renegades who thumb their noses at the law and at society as a whole then YOU are just as vulnerable. Most importantly these deaths underscore AGAIN what I have said every time I am asked:

The drivers who killed BROWARD COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF RYAN SEGUIN (on 2-15-06), ORANGE COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF MICHAEL CALLIN, and HAINES CITY POLICE OFFICER PHOENIX BRAITHWAITE legally, morally, and any way you slice it SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DRIVING!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't say it any clearer than that. If those drivers had obeyed the law and we as a community had made sure he didn't drive, all of these men would be alive today.

As for us, we ignore these things because we think they don't directly affect us and are really "not that big of a deal". After all "who really gets hurt by traffic law breakers?", "It's another type of taxation", "The State just wants more money".

These are not, "victimless crimes". I challenge any of you to look these officer's parents, wives, and children in the eyes and tell THEM this is a victimless crime.