[MMike]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/dueling.death.ap/index.html

This story has everything: Guns, duelling, ATV's...what else is there?

Authorities charge man with rare 'murder by duel'

WELCH, West Virginia (AP) -- The annoying buzz of an all-terrain vehicle may have triggered a deadly shootout that led police to file a rare charge of "murder by duel," authorities said.

The count, based on a dueling law that predates West Virginia's statehood, was filed Monday against Steven Bryant Simpson, 47, said State Trooper J.S. McCarty.

Simpson is accused of killing Dana Martin, 39, in an April 20 shootout a few hundred yards (or meters) from Simpson's home.

"We've had shootout-type cases, but I can't recall one quite like this where there was an argument, then the people separated and came back to the very same location, each knowing the other had a gun," said prosecutor Sid Bell.

The law, written in 1849, reads: "If any person fight a duel in this state and in so doing inflict a mortal wound, he shall be deemed guilty of murder." West Virginia became a state in 1863.

The felony carries the same penalty as first-degree murder, up to a life sentence, McCarty said.

Witnesses saw the men argue in the road, part ways to retrieve handguns and return with weapons, Bell said. Testing determined that both weapons were fired. Martin was fatally shot in the torso.

Witnesses told police that Simpson was disturbed by the roaring sound of an ATV that Martin repeatedly drove past Simpson's house while helping a woman move.

A call to Simpson's attorney, Lacy Wright Jr., was not immediately returned.

 

[$tinkle]

you ever run into a redneck on an atv while cleaning up one of your pirate trails? almost all of the ones i've seen are borderline hostile.

i think simpson will have the charges dropped. he could argue self-defense, especially being so close to his property & moonshine still.

 

[Ciaran]

I think the world would be a better place if people were allowed to duel. It's a much more honourable and noble way of exacting revenge/defending ones honour.

Each party agrees to a duel, challenger chooses weapon form, both agree on the manner in which they will fight (to death or to first blood, or yeild), and then you go at it. No innocent by-standers get killed, and since both people willingly agreed to the duel there is no legal mumbo jumbo.


"Sir! I DEMAND satisfaction!"

 

[MMike]

I think the world would be a better place if people were allowed to duel. It's a much more honourable and noble way of exacting revenge/defending ones honour.

Each party agrees to a duel, challenger chooses weapon form, both agree on the manner in which they will fight (to death or to first blood, or yeild), and then you go at it. No innocent by-standers get killed, and since both people willingly agreed to the duel there is no legal mumbo jumbo.


"Sir! I DEMAND satisfaction!"

Are you REALLY the right person to be commenting on this?


You suppose one redneck slapped the other in the face with a muddy work glove?

 

[Secret Squirrel]

I think the world would be a better place if people were allowed to duel. It's a much more honourable and noble way of exacting revenge/defending ones honour.

Each party agrees to a duel, challenger chooses weapon form, both agree on the manner in which they will fight (to death or to first blood, or yeild), and then you go at it. No innocent by-standers get killed, and since both people willingly agreed to the duel there is no legal mumbo jumbo.


"Sir! I DEMAND satisfaction!"

Heh...I thought about this a little while I watched that Speed TV show "Pinks" (The one about the 1/4 mile race where you put your car's pink slip on the line, winner take all....not the other pink...sheesh..).

Anyway, duelling is a great idea for settling disputes, in theory. On this particular show though, people just end up bitching and whining about every little thing. Same thing would happen with duelling.

"I want a 1/2 second headstart cause his bullets go faster."
"B*tch please!!"
"No....I quit....this is crap."
"You're weak!"
"You're the pansy!"
Etc. etc. etc.

 

[stevew]

I think the world would be a better place if people were allowed to duel.

You must see this.

 

[rockwool]

Duelling isn't murder, it's a sporting accident.

 

[Da Peach]

The guy should've just helped them move and get it over with. Much better for the Karma, man.

 

[Ciaran]

The guy should've just helped them move and get it over with. Much better for the Karma, man.

Absolutely!!!!!!!!!

Barring that a duel is the best route. Shoot, if deuling were legal I bet N 8 wouldn't post half the crap he does... everyone would be demanding satisfaction, and slapping him in the face with a glove.

And maybe the challenger chooses swords, or knives but not guns. Hmmm.... then who has the upper hand? Better becareful about who you challenge.

 

[MMike]

And maybe the challenger chooses swords, or knives but not guns. Hmmm.... then who has the upper hand? Better becareful about who you challenge.

I would use my rapier wit.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

I would use my rapier wit.

Ya know...they have pills to suppress those urges now...




"I'll take 'The Rapists' for 400, Alex."
"That's 'Therapists', Mr. Connery."

 

[MikeD]

That's a rapist wit.

 

[Ciaran]

I would use my rapier wit.

So your going in unarmed, then?

 

[jaydee]

I think the world would be a better place if people were allowed to duel. It's a much more honourable and noble way of exacting revenge/defending ones honour.

Each party agrees to a duel, challenger chooses weapon form, both agree on the manner in which they will fight (to death or to first blood, or yeild), and then you go at it. No innocent by-standers get killed, and since both people willingly agreed to the duel there is no legal mumbo jumbo.


"Sir! I DEMAND satisfaction!"

Why not a fistfight or even a duel of wits (I know, the guys who do this kind of stuff would be weaponless)? Any idiot can kill someone with a gun. And why exactly does someone have to die if some paranoid testosterone-crazed moron feels his honor has been assaulted? A smack upside the head would feel just as satisfying.

 

[Sandwich]

why not duel it out? that way only one mongoloid walks away instead of two...

 

[MikeD]

You know what Tina Turner has to say on this subject, don't you?

 

[Sandwich]

what's love got to do with it?

 

[MikeD]

Something about two men something something, one man...?

 

[ohio]

Something about two men something something, one man...?

Right, and then you pull upa garbage can and go beer for beer until one of you throws up. Then you high-five all your frat brothers and go back to the standard homophobic/erotic activities.

 

[MikeD]

Oh. I was thinking more chainsaws, dwarves, and bungee cords.

 

[Westy]

Oh. I was thinking more chainsaws, dwarves, and bungee cords.

For Ohio that is erotic.

 

[MikeD]

What do you mean, "For Ohio?"

 

[ohio]

what's love got to do with it?

No, stupid. "I'm your private dancer, dancing for money."