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This may be one of my favorite laws, ever
West Virginia has a great law on the books, from 1849 (before it was even a state!):
If any person fight a duel in this state and in so doing inflict a mortal wound, he shall be deemed guilty of murder.
And sumbitch if someone isn’t being charged under this law. Murder by duel!
Steven Bryant Simpson (a 47-year-old WV man) got into an argument with Dana Martin, his 39-year-old neighbor. Seems the two were verbally fighting over something, possibly about the noise coming from Martin’s all-terrain vehicle. After going back and forth a bit, the two men stormed off, got guns, and came back. Both guns were fired, and Martin was hit and killed.
If Simpson had been a fan of the show that bares his very own surname, he would’ve known that duels are nothing but trouble - Homer got himself into quite a jam when he started challenging folks to duels and messed with the wrong Texan.
…Seriously, is there anything we can’t learn from “The Simpsons?”
Comments
How long until we see "Dana Martin Shot" t-shirts?
Posted by Brian | May 3, 2007 4:32 PM
Holy crap. That's amazing. If only they'd bitten their thumbs at one another or slapped with white gloves, the world would be a safer place.
Posted by matt | May 4, 2007 9:36 AM