re: Who here knows someone that's been convicted of a violent crime?

That dude is a monster. Walk in and tell the mom he shot her son...then finish him off while leaving? Ugh,

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Darth Vader did a couple years for stealing a tank and cruising around Tuscaloosa.

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Nah, if I'd have had access to a tank and free run of Tuscaloosa for a while, BDS would have a new look and Denny Chimes would be toast.

Google Marine Cpl. Thomas Dewayne Dinger

He is my mother's nephew who murdered her brother, SIL and 14 year old nephew. 1987. I was a soph in HS. My cousin was AWOL from the Marines.

Changed our family forever pretty much. I vividly recall not only all of the details but the round table talk on how my GF, uncles and much older cousins were going to take him out either in jail or court. There was basically the plan and debate who wanted to sacrifice their life for ours.

We have a huge family on that side and the women were hysterical not knowing what would happen next. I don't until this day know how they did it but the women prevailed and my cousin is rotting in jail with no chance of parole. They chose not to accept the DP, which was eminent, and petitioned to keep him alive and in hell until his demise comes one way or another.

As if this post, not a single relative has contacted nor inquired about him in any way.

I know a guy we called Muffin (nickname was so odd, I never remembered his real name, Mark something..). He robbed a retired NOPD officer for his Oxycontin and Rolex. There was a gun fight and the retired officer died. This is not my friend, but someone I knew as a friend of a guy I bough pot from when I was 19. I know people doing long stretches for distribution, but the was the only violent one.
Oh other than this guy Ezra who used to live down the street from me. He was arguing with a guy about 8-9 years ago. The guy picked up a tire iron and clocked Ezra in the head. Didn't knock him out though. Ezra got the iron and beat the guy so bad he is a paraplegic vegetable for life. He got 12 years for the attack.
(even though it was kinda understandable, who wouldn't try to beat a guy to death that just hit you in the head with a tire iron)

I don't believe I know anyone who has spent significant time in jail.

One of my sisters friends was shot in the forehead by her husband last year and then he killed himself. They had been arguing that week and he sent the kids to a family members and right when she walked in the front door from work BLAM he shot her in the very middle of her forehead and then he blew his own brains out. The craziest part is SHE LIVED! She stumbled outside and was found by a neighbor who had heard the shots. She is totally fine these days besides the big scar in the middle of her forehead, the doctors said she had one of the thickest skulls they had ever seen and it would have killed 99 out of 100 people. The weird thing is she still talks fondly about him on Facebook and always says how much she misses him.....bitches be crazy!

Ya and I guess he had hit her like a month before after he lost his job, which is why they had been arguing, but she didn't leave because they had 2 little kids together. In the note he left he said he felt like a failure and was going to kill himself but didn't want her to be with anyone else after he was gone so he was going to kill her as well. Who does that?

Buddy of mine in my old meighborhood is convicted of 2nd degree murder. He was the Government's scape goat for Blackwater's troubles in Afgjanistan.

My two first cousins (they're brothers) are doing hard time in Texas. One of them got into a bar fight that spilled into the parking lot. He ran to his car and got a baseball bat outta the trunk and started cracking skulls. Ended up killing one of the original instigators. Boom. Doing 15 yrs.
The other brother broke into his ex wife's home and raped her. He fled the state and they arrested his arse in the Waffle House parking lot off Highland Rd by Blue Bayou. I forget how long he's supposed to do.
My mothers side of the family is pure white trash