Posted on 08/17/2011 5:53:59 AM PDT by topher
GALVESTON, Texas – A Texas man was behind bars Monday after breaking into a stranger's apartment and biting her neck, claiming he was a 500-year-old vampire who "needed to feed," the Houston Chronicle reported.
Lyle Monroe Bensley, 19, is being held on a charge of burglary with intent to commit assault after the incident, which occurred early Saturday in Galveston, Texas, about 50 miles southeast of Houston.
Wearing only boxer shorts, Bensley forced his way into the apartment of a woman he did not know and made growling and hissing noises while biting and hitting his victim in her bed, officers told the paper.
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CHARLIE CHAN OBSERVE THAT TOO MUCH TV MAKE CRIMINAL BATTY
* Looks like someone is spending way too much time in Mom & Dad’s basement watching Twilight and True Blood, and playing Dungeons & Dragons. Getting a job and supporting yourself has a way of curing these types of delusions. *
The 11 sided die claims another nerd
This is so ironic. Last weekend was at a hamburger party and nephew had new girlfriend to show off.
The pudgey little pig had more tatoos than a circus lady with many depicting caskets and vampires. When asked if this was some Goth thing, she said “Oh no, we are into vampires and have caskets at home”.
When I was growing up the old folks were deadon right saying “idle minds are the devil’s workshop”.
A growing share of America is not worth saving.
Tattoos have become de rigeur with my generation. I have 4, but they’re all concealed or concealable with a long-sleeved shirt. I have no skulls, reapers, naked women on my body. I have patriotic ink, I have Christian ink, I have some Latin scrawled on my arms. Momma didn’t raise a fool.
But to get inked because you feel like imitating the life of vamps is laughable and sad. In 15 - 20 years when they’ve got kids in their teens, they’re going to have to explain why there are skulls and caskets on their bodies.
Kids today, along with the parents raising them, are oblivious to the idea of consequences following actions. It’s all about immediate gratification anymore.
Man, people are so screwed up today, our youth is so screwed up I don’t want to be alive 30 or 40 years from now, and thank goodness I wont be ...
If you come in for an interview with me, I see a Tat, it’s going to be a very short interview.
Some Catholic missions sell plastic bottles labeled Holy Water, and have holy water on site for those who want some. However, if you buy just the empty bottle and fill it with tap water, you get some of the most interesting reactions when you pull it out with pseudo-vampire Goth kids around.
Really curious on the motivation. Help me here, maybe there is some redeeming value I am just blind to. If its just peer pressure, my Mom had a very good answer, "if all your friends are sticking their heads in the oven, you are going to do the same?"
I would start by asking your age, but that’s not only inappropriate but immaterial.
When I was 18, I was pushing 400 lbs, looked like crap, had zero if not negative self-esteem, never had a girlfriend, and I was always down on myself. Getting ink and piercings were my way of rebelling against a society I thought was against me.
It wasn’t until I moved back home from college that I realized that the fly-by-night college friends I made were just that, and now I have to face a job market with tattoos and piercings.
Well needless to say the piercings went pretty quick. The tattoos, well, they’re permanent, but I have no regrets. Like I said, I have patriotic, Christian, and meaningful (to me) scripts for tats. An American flag, Our Lady of Guadeloupe, and some Latin on my arms are all I sport. The practice became silly to me when I thought, “I’m paying these people $100 an hour to mark up my body and have nothing but marks on my body.”
Money won over all else. Hence the reason I can’t understand how people spend so much money to mark themselves up with skulls, spider webs (a prison tat), Grim Reapers, and naked women.
A funny epilogue: I was actually the “trendsetter” among my friends for tats. I led, friends followed. Sadly, many of those friends didn’t follow my lead when I stopped. Then again, most of those folks are on the 10 year plan for college.
“Let’s see - ear hoop thingies, cutsey lip piercing, neato-bad-a$$ neck tatoo, smug wrinkled brow - his costume is just about complete. Another hollow-boy with no skills to support himself and no moral compass with which to live at peace in society, but he sure looks cool!”
Dude’s got eye and eyebrow makeup on too.
“Let’s see - ear hoop thingies, cutsey lip piercing, neato-bad-a$$ neck tatoo, smug wrinkled brow - his costume is just about complete. Another hollow-boy with no skills to support himself and no moral compass with which to live at peace in society, but he sure looks cool!”
Dude’s got eye and eyebrow makeup on too. Still, don’t you think he’d be much prettier if he smiled?
...breaking into a stranger's apartment and biting her neck...How can the act of biting someone's neck be construed as "intent" to commit assault? If she's got bite marks on her neck, I'd think it went BEYOND "intent"....a charge of burglary with intent to commit assault...
Can’t speak to any other’s person’s motivation but my youngest son has a WW II style tat on his right calf and another of the same style on his left, in honor of his grandads who served in the war, one in the Army and the other in the Navy.
Hopefully your youngest also conducts himself in every way that honors his patriotic Grandfathers.
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