Now this is a horrific story; what's in the water?

[babylonsister]

Edited name of state out; that's not the point of the story anyway. The point is there IS no point, it's just sick.

There's some really sick people out there...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/17/filmed.torture.ap/index.html

Cops: Man taped wife's rape, hung her from tree


ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- A 30-year-old man kidnapped, raped and tortured his wife, then hung her from a tree to film a two-hour bondage pornography video, authorities said.

The man was charged with aggravated assault and battery, sexual battery, kidnapping, and false imprisonment. He was being held in the Brevard County, Florida, jail on Tuesday in lieu of $3 million bail.

"I don't know how to even explain it," sheriff's deputy Marlon Buggs said, adding, "the victim will be mentally scarred. He humiliated her."

CNN and The Associated Press do not identify victims of sexual assault. The man was not identified in an effort to protect his wife's identity.

The couple went on a canoe trip down a canal on Saturday and pulled ashore near some trees, when he began raping her and taping it with a video camera, Buggs said. He tied her to a tree, where she hung naked for several hours, her toes grazing the ground.

He struck her with the side of a hunting knife blade, leaving bruises, then raped her again, Buggs said.

more...

[trumad]

1. I don't know...I've been drinking it since I was a kid

and I've had no urge to string my wife up.

I get a kick out of the generalization of Floridians only because those who generalize come from a state that I am sure has equal looniness.

[Not Me]

2. And most of the people I know here are not natives,

but relocated from somewhere up north.

[_testify_]

3. The funny thing is

How many Florida residents aren't native Floridians? Probably the highest ratio of any state.

Maybe these loonies aren't from Florida. Maybe they're from the OP's state, and they just go off the deep-end when they get here because of our beautiful weather.

[babylonsister]

4. After I typed that, I knew someone would take it the wrong way. I

was just trying to find any kind of explanation for this type of behavior, but there isn't any. And living in TX, I know all about the equal looniness.:crazy:

[trumad]

12. LOL---Texas? I won't even go there...

peace!

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Statistically

Florida ends up with the lion's share of loonies in this country because we are at the end of things. Once you get to Florida you can't go any further, so it's like a bottleneck. Plus the year round warm weather attracts the good and the bad.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. And we wonder why 51% of women have no spouses?

Doesn't it seem like there have been a huge number of just horrible spousal abuse and death cases lately?

Is it the Revenge of the Husbands?

[benEzra]

13. Please don't generalize to all male spouses...

last week, 149,999,999 American men did NOT tie anybody to a tree and viciously rape them.

My wife says I'm the gentlest person she's ever met, and if I weren't her husband, she'd want me to be her mother. :) Not all of us are Neandertals (metaphorically speaking--even Neandertals weren't Neandertals in that sense).

[Callalily]

7. Such insanity

can not be explained, can not even be comprehended. Very sad.

[Cobalt-60]

8. I prescribe four of her relatives/friends

a claw hammer, pliers, and a set of diagonal cutters to be left alone with this ..person for a few hours.

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Must not have read the guidelines on safe, sane, and consensual...

[lectrobyte]

10. I think Florida attracts all the psycho nut jobs, after all where was Ted

Bundy finally captured? Maybe the appendage-like shape of the state is a partial reason?

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. Nah, the Northwest has even more nut cases.

Odd, they both are places where you just have kind of hit the end of the road.

[pitohui]

14. wtf?

you're going to commit a horrific crime like this AND put it on tape? i don't know whether to stand more amazed at his stupidity or his sociopathy