A woman snapped and stabbed her partner to death after he objected to her listening to Bruce Springsteen music, an Australian court has been told.
The Supreme Court in Brisbane today heard Karen Lee Cooper, 50, used a long-bladed kitchen knife to stab 49-year-old Kevin Watson once in the chest because she "just got tired" of him bossing her around.
She pleaded guilty today to manslaughter and was sentenced to eight years jail.
Defence lawyer Greg Maguire said Cooper experienced a "brain snap" and ran to the kitchen and grabbed a knife, which she used to stab Mr Watson after he said he didn't want to listen to a Bruce Springsteen CD.
"Clever" use of the word boss in there, fucking Woodward & Bernstein.
And while I don't condone anyone killing anyone simply for not liking Bruce, even though I guess you could say he's an acquaintance of mine since we've met (good luck hearing about that, you know I don't like to talk about that shit), getting a mere eight years almost makes it worthwhile the next time some asshole starts popping off when I play my own 94-track version of The River, don't it?
And I do like her line of defense:
"I mean, who the hell doesn't like Bruce Springsteen, for God's sake?" she later told arresting police.
INdeed, Miss Cooper, indeed.
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