YIKES!-A real life "Gimp" (shudder)

[underpants]

Mods this is a one paragraph story
http://www.sovo.com/2004/11-19/news/police/pibs.cfm

Friday, November 19, 2004
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former flower shop owner who sexually assaulted, tortured and held a Texas man captive in the basement of his store lost his appeal last week. Roger Van had asked the Nebraska Supreme Court to vacate his conviction because his victim agreed to such treatment. Van was sentenced to up to 30 years in prison on several counts, including sexual assault and false imprisonment, related to the 2001 incident at his flower shop in Wayne. Defense lawyer Melissa Wentling alleged that Van’s conviction was unconstitutional because the “Nebraska Legislature did not intend these statutes to apply to conduct that occurs during a private, consensual relationship” involving bondage and torture. Van’s lawyers had argued that the 36-year-old Houston man, identified in court papers as J.G.C., consented to being beaten, bound and branded. Before meeting in Wayne, Van and the man exchanged scores of messages and negotiated a no-limits relationship involving torture and bondage, defense lawyers said. In one e-mail message, J.G.C indicated he might try to escape and that Van should prevent that from happening.

[GOPisEvil]

1. It takes all types to fill the freeways.

[underpants]

4. Flowers? Let's see what we have in the back...come on...

:scared: :scared:

[short bus president]

2. Erm... if this is consensual,

what's with the police and such?

[BiggJawn]

5. I can think of a few things...

The "authorities" may be operating on a Catch-22 here, in that it could be argued that no SANE person would consent to being beaten and tied-up and gawd-knows-what else, so therefore, they must be mentally diminished, thus being a "person in need of services" and that's why the police stepped in.

Kind of like the homo-erotic cannibal case in Germany. The victim had given his consent to being slaughtered and eaten in that case.

[Minimus]

3. that whole scene in Pulp Fiction is so bizarre.

Bring out the gimp.

The gimp's sleeping

Well wake him.