News in Meat, Part III
Mike Smith
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This concludes our admittedly ill-conceived series of the news in meat.
(For parts one and two, click here and here. Or just scroll down.)
And now, for a final piece of meat-related New Mexicana, we turn to the April 26, 2008 issue of the Carlsbad Current-Argus—to a front-page story with the headline, “Man faces charges after brandishing barbecue fork.”
The story it tells begins in southern New Mexico, in Carlsbad, on the morning of Friday, April 18. On that particular morning, a thirty-two-year-old man by the name of John M. Givens and his wife were out in their family’s backyard, when they began to argue. Their argument intensified, Givens grew angrier and angrier, until Givens attacked his wife, purportedly tackling her to the ground and pinning her neck down with the nearest makeshift weapon—a barbecue fork—perhaps snatched from atop an outdoor grill.
Givens’s wife somehow managed to escape her (allegedly) psychotic (alleged) prick of an (allegedly) abusive husband and, according to the Current-Argus article, went “inside to care for their children, and he later joined her inside....”
Givens eventually followed his wife into their house, where he grew enraged once again upon discovering that she had, at some point, downed their very last beer. Givens then purportedly attacked her a second time, tackling her once again and this time knocking her out cold.
Police arrived at the house shortly before noon, to arrest the man and file a report, and Givens has since been charged, according the Current-Argus article, “with aggravated battery against a household member and unlawfully assaulting or striking at a household member with a deadly weapon, namely a barbecue skewer fork.”
Givens is scheduled for a preliminary in-court examination at 2 p.m. on May 8 and, most likely following that, for a lifetime of being a violent, alcoholic douche.
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