[AnAmericanMother]

I know.

And when the pig beats them up they show up in court with two black eyes and a missing tooth and drop the charges "Buhkawz Ah LUUUUUVV Him!"

Just makes you want to cry. But you can't save people from themselves.

Since you mention it, he does look like the poster child for "trailer trash". There's a certain facial type (and expression) that goes with the lowest of the low Southern non-working poor. My grandmother (and Florence King in her masterly book Southern Ladies and Gentlemen )described it as "that garfish look." He's got it.

[Paul Atreides]

One night I was watching COPS, and a guy was being hauled away because his girlfriend called the cops on him for hitting her. Immediately when the cops told him to put his hands behind his back the girl stops sobbing and asking them not to do it. As they put him in the car, the girl says to the guy "I luuuuv you!", to which the guy doesn't reply. She is left sobbing on the sidewalk.