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Underdone chops lead to mother's stabbing
ABC,NET.AU ^ | 5/23/05

Posted on 05/22/2005 8:56:07 PM PDT by TexKat

A 49-year-old Melbourne woman has pleaded guilty to stabbing her mother in the stomach because the elderly woman complained about the way her chops were cooked.

Thomastown woman Julie Smith pleaded guilty in the Victorian Supreme Court to stabbing her 70-year-old mother 48 times in the stomach with a butter knife.

The court heard the mother, an invalid, who was confined to her bed most of the time, was unhappy because the lamb chops her daughter prepared for her were not cooked enough.

The court heard Smith cooked the chops further for her mother before saying: "Here's your tea is it good enough for you?"

The daughter then smashed the plate over her mother's head, before attacking her with the knife.

Smith's lawyer told the court his client was terrified of her mother but had ended up being her full-time carer.

He said she simply snapped under the weight of fear, stress and anxiety.

The hearing continues.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: familymurder; insane; lambchops; motherstabbing
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1 posted on 05/22/2005 8:56:07 PM PDT by TexKat
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To: MEG33; No Blue States; mystery-ak; boxerblues; Allegra; Eagle Eye; sdpatriot; Dog; DollyCali; ...

Underdone chops lead to mother's stabbing ping.


2 posted on 05/22/2005 8:57:24 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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Shoulda ordered the steak.


3 posted on 05/22/2005 8:58:27 PM PDT by mcg1969
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Just imagine if she'd mentioned the dirty silverware.


4 posted on 05/22/2005 8:58:49 PM PDT by eric_da_grate (I)
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LMAO! Some people just don't know how to walk away.


5 posted on 05/22/2005 8:58:54 PM PDT by 1FASTGLOCK45 (FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
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To: TexKat
Smith's lawyer told the court his client was terrified of her mother but had ended up being her full-time carer.

She's scared of the mother? I shudder to think what she was like.

6 posted on 05/22/2005 8:59:00 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (FACT: You can get more reliable information in a beauty shop, than from the media)
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To: TexKat

Love it


7 posted on 05/22/2005 9:00:47 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache ( "I think she did too much coke, ahh you think so Doctor?")
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To: TexKat

This is getting absolutely absurd!! Can anyone point out the exact moment when this became hell on earth?


8 posted on 05/22/2005 9:00:49 PM PDT by trussell (Prayers for the children!)
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The daughter then smashed the plate over her mother's head, before attacking her with the knife.

That was uncalled for.

9 posted on 05/22/2005 9:01:11 PM PDT by scott7278 ("Please disperse...there is nothing to see here.")
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had ended up being her full-time carer.

I'm a not carer myself.

10 posted on 05/22/2005 9:01:33 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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She's scared of the mother? I shudder to think what she was like.

Another Mommie Dearest ya think!!

11 posted on 05/22/2005 9:01:40 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: TexKat

At least it wasn't in Florida this time.


12 posted on 05/22/2005 9:01:48 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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---He said she simply snapped under the weight of fear, stress and anxiety.---

I'm sure her attorney is absolutely right, but 40 years in prison should take care of that.


13 posted on 05/22/2005 9:02:55 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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Cicero wrote:

At least it wasn't in Florida this time.

--Coming soon to a Florida household near you! Brought to you by Butcher Knives, the finest cutlery money can buy./sarc


14 posted on 05/22/2005 9:04:11 PM PDT by 1FASTGLOCK45 (FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
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To: TexKat

Its all because those Aussie's don't have the right to own guns. Otherwise, she'd have shot her.


15 posted on 05/22/2005 9:04:12 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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menopause


16 posted on 05/22/2005 9:04:24 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: trussell
Can anyone point out the exact moment when this became hell on earth?

I think that it has always been here. The thing now is that we have instant worldwide media coverage via the net and cable tv.

17 posted on 05/22/2005 9:04:39 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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Well, the only good thing is this story didn't originate from Melbourne Florida!


18 posted on 05/22/2005 9:04:39 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: TexKat

hmmm, someone should have told her about outback steakhouse instead...


19 posted on 05/22/2005 9:05:11 PM PDT by Methadras (shocked!!!)
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Poor woman. Everybody hates a bad cooked meal. Who was fed up with who. "How many dang times you gonna burn those chops?"

It takes a lifetime of frustration to build and then just explodes over "burnt toast" or in this case, chops.
20 posted on 05/22/2005 9:06:26 PM PDT by endthematrix (Newsweek lied, people died)
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