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Re: Husband burns house so wife won\'t get it
I don't know how true the stories mentioned in this thread are, but I can believe they might be true because I've seen almost as bad in person. I'll never forget getting a call one night after dark on a loud disturbance with neighbors calling in to say they could see a naked man running around in the house. It was officially a city street, but actually an unpaved dirt road, and when I arrived, a small crowd had gathered in the street looking at the house in question. I have never, and probably will never again, seen anything like it. There was not a single window in the entire house that had not been broken out and clothes, sheets, blankets, curtains; cloth of all descriptions hanging out every single window. Broken furniture pieces all around the house that had been thrown through the windows. A sofa had been rammed halfway through the front door, tearing a screen door off the hinges. I had to step on and over the sofa to get into the house. Mattresses on the floors, some halfway through windows and literally not a single piece of undamaged furniture in the entire house except for a small table and two chairs in the kitchen. A man and woman (later determined to be the wife and husband's uncle) were sitting calmly in the chairs at the table. Another man (eventually determined to be the husband) had by now pulled on a pair of jeans, not a single other piece of clothing, and was the one running through the house, screaming, cursing, and destroying everything in sight. I really did not want to arrest the man in his own house, but he gave me no choice but to do so. He simply would not quit screaming, cursing, and threatening, although he had not actually harmed anyone.
Once in the car enroute to the jail, I got him calmed down enough to learn that his uncle had come to Dallas and had been living with him and his wife while looking for a job. Husband had just learned that his wife and his uncle had become a little too friendly. I told him that I could understand him being upset, mad, etc. but since he had not physically attacked either of them, "Why would you destroy your own home and property?" He looked me calmly in the eye and quietly said, "I don't know . . . . I never was too smart." I thought "truer words were never spoken." /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I don't know how true the stories mentioned in this thread are, but I can believe they might be true because I've seen almost as bad in person. I'll never forget getting a call one night after dark on a loud disturbance with neighbors calling in to say they could see a naked man running around in the house. It was officially a city street, but actually an unpaved dirt road, and when I arrived, a small crowd had gathered in the street looking at the house in question. I have never, and probably will never again, seen anything like it. There was not a single window in the entire house that had not been broken out and clothes, sheets, blankets, curtains; cloth of all descriptions hanging out every single window. Broken furniture pieces all around the house that had been thrown through the windows. A sofa had been rammed halfway through the front door, tearing a screen door off the hinges. I had to step on and over the sofa to get into the house. Mattresses on the floors, some halfway through windows and literally not a single piece of undamaged furniture in the entire house except for a small table and two chairs in the kitchen. A man and woman (later determined to be the wife and husband's uncle) were sitting calmly in the chairs at the table. Another man (eventually determined to be the husband) had by now pulled on a pair of jeans, not a single other piece of clothing, and was the one running through the house, screaming, cursing, and destroying everything in sight. I really did not want to arrest the man in his own house, but he gave me no choice but to do so. He simply would not quit screaming, cursing, and threatening, although he had not actually harmed anyone.
Once in the car enroute to the jail, I got him calmed down enough to learn that his uncle had come to Dallas and had been living with him and his wife while looking for a job. Husband had just learned that his wife and his uncle had become a little too friendly. I told him that I could understand him being upset, mad, etc. but since he had not physically attacked either of them, "Why would you destroy your own home and property?" He looked me calmly in the eye and quietly said, "I don't know . . . . I never was too smart." I thought "truer words were never spoken." /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
