Posted on 09/24/2003 1:12:25 PM PDT by bedolido
FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) -- A Cherokee County brother and sister have been charged with robbing their great-grandfather of $250 and leaving him for dead, police said.
DeKalb County Sheriff Cecil Reed said the siblings apparently wanted money to buy crack cocaine. Both are in DeKalb County Jail on first-degree robbery charges, Reed said.
Reed said Ernest C. Goza, 89, of the Mt. Vernon community in DeKalb County, heard a knock at his door at 4 a.m. on Sept. 14 and found his great-granddaughter, 27-year-old Jennifer Goza, standing at the doorstep.
Goza, who had been living alone and in poor health since his wife died, let her inside, Reed said. After a very short visit, she went outside and then came back in the house with her brother, Waylon Curt Goza, the sheriff said.
Reed said Waylon Goza began beating his great-grandfather with a wooden stick. Jennifer Goza then took Ernest Goza's wallet, and the two then left the house, Reed said.
"He was badly beaten, and it took all his strength to get up and go over to his son's house for help," Reed told the Fort Payne Times-Journal.
Ernest Goza's son took him to DeKalb Baptist hospital, and he later was transferred to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn., Reed said. Goza spent three days in Erlanger's trauma unit and was unable to speak to investigators until Monday.
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Uhh.....none. It was merely an arbitrary moralistic statement of opinion.
You're a HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE fan too?!?!? How could you be so cool, yet be wrong about so much politically? :-)
What parent would say their children were better children when not smoking/drinking?
What great-grandfather would say his great-grandchildren were better great-grandchildren when not smoking/drinking?
I am sure they had to have lunch money at school. Unless they took their lunch every day. And never bought milk there. My daughter liked the chocolate milk at school. She used to call quarters "choklit milks" because she knew she could buy a 1/2 pint of chocolate milk with a quarter.
She never beat the crap out of her great grandparents, though.
Then why did they wait till they did to rob him?
Because they'd stolen from all their usual sources, needed an easy mark, and a stray thought about great granddad slithered across the foul surfaces of what passes for their brains?
So the fact that their first purchase after the robbery was crack---that was sheer coincidence?
She never beat the crap out of her great grandparents, though.
If she was jonesing for a legal chocolate milk, she could pay for it without robbing her grandparents.
It's called "levity." Might want to try it sometime. Makes the day go better.
Were I to sum up my whole set of political beliefs, I'd list it as follows:
Rabidly pro-military
Rabidly in favor of exercising military and diplomatic strength to achieve US foreign policy goals
Generally pro-gun for the law abiding
In favor of a business-fostering economic and regulatory policy
Pro-development
Prefer reasonable, community consensus zoning and planning, same with environmental controls - not abandoning the field to developers, but not giving greenies much of a chance, either
Rationally tough on crime (and put marijuana in a different category than other drugs)
Prefer competent, efficient government that wisely budgets and spends, as opposed to taking a doctrinaire approach
If government does all these things well, then it doesn't have time or the inclination to muck about that much on overbroad laws on gays, affirmative action, what people do in their bedrooms, abortion, etc. And at the same time, everybody makes a good living.
;)
So alcohol would be in the same category as heroin and cocaine? Interesting.
BTW, I'd shut that sucker down, given my druthers.
Why not? It's deadly, addictive, and mind-altering.
I'd shut that sucker down, given my druthers.
Why can you get your druthers for "narcotics" but not for alcohol?
And people drank alcohol before they learned to write, and once they did learn to write, it appeared in everything from holy books to recipes. Its a traditional exception to regulatory laws due to its longstanding status with every society save certain religious radicals, and you won't be getting that changed.
Why not? It's deadly, addictive, and mind-altering.
The quintessential DARE BS
Provide evidence for your claim that it's BS.
Slavery used to have longstanding status, but that was changed. And alcohol's traditional exception to regulatory laws WAS changed once---have you heard how that turned out?
Find someone who has a 20 year history with cocaine, smack or methamphetamine, and tell me if they can say the same thing.
Narcotics don't enjoy the same widespread acceptance.
| Drug Category | Proportion of Users That Ever Became Dependent (%) |
|---|---|
| Tobacco | 32 |
| Alcohol | 15 |
| Marijuana (including hashish) | 9 |
| Cocaine | 17 |
| Heroin | 23 |
- Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base (1999), Institute of Medicine
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