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TeaBaggins said:
The 90s was really something. I remember when the Lorena Bobbitt stuff happened, and people joked about it and sided with John. It turns out John abused and raped her, and that's why she snapped.
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I remember that. I'm fairly sure the story presented was that he cheated on her, she found out, then cut his dick off, went for a drive and chucked it out the window.
 
The guy just came off as scum. So scummy that I actually can sympathize over why she did it.

"Lorena, who immigrated from Ecuador and worked long hours as a manicurist, alleged that John was both verbally and sexually abusive. After a night of heavy drinking, John allegedly raped Lorena, prompting her to act in a moment of distress. In a dramatic turn of events, she severed his penis with a knife and subsequently disposed of it while driving."

Yep. I called it.
 
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During their marriage, Lorena admitted to shoplifting dresses from a Nordstrom store, for which she did community service, and stealing around $7,000 from Bisutti, her friend and employer. Bisutti found out, and made her pay the money back.

“She abused Janna Bisutti by stealing all that money,” John Bobbitt said. “She didn't need to do that. Especially with somebody who brought her in, gave her a job, fed her. And we were close friend of hers.”

Then Lorena learned that she was pregnant. She told ABC News in 1993 that she was excited to have a child, but that John told her he didn’t think she was up to the task of motherhood.

She got an abortion, and told ABC News in 1993 that she was afraid if she didn’t, John would leave her.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/john-bobbitt-speaks-25-years-wife-infamously-cut/story?id=60023049



They were pretty much made for each other, reading that.
 
I always liked the Law & Order take on it, with Lorena being played by Kathrine Narducci, who is likely most famous for playing Artie Bucco's wife on the Sopranos.

And yes, John Wayne Bobbitt showing up on WWF was related to his incident in a story with Val Venis, a wrestler with a porn star gimmick who had run afoul of some Japanese guys who were going to 'choppy choppy [his] penis' with a katana, only last minute shrinkage (hey, a Seinfeld reference! How much more 90s can this paragraph get?) saved him and he reminisced with Bobbitt over it.
 
I mean that's fucked up, but it's in not on the same level as John sexually abusing.

Both are shitty, but he'll always be the worst.

But yeah, the 90s were weird. When Mary Kay Letourneau raped that boy, people actually defended her instead of calling her out for raping a 12 year old boy she knew since 2nd grade and groomed.
 
Turquoise said:
criminally diverse
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haha, you invented a new slur for black people

Questions are a Burden said:
They were pretty much made for each other, reading that.
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Yeah even if the guy was a total piece of garbage who had it coming, she could've just stabbed him in the throat or something. I figure it takes a certain kind of character to mutilate somebody's genitals and leave them to bleed out, regardless of circumstances.
 
Calandrino said:
haha, you invented a new slur for black people


Yeah even if the guy was a total piece of garbage who had it coming, she could've just stabbed him in the throat or something. I figure it takes a certain kind of character to mutilate somebody's genitals and leave them to bleed out, regardless of circumstances.
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AND to take the offending member for a quick drive and fire it out the window, so it couldn't be re-attached. Bitch.

How the fuck did they find it, anyway?
 
Spergerella Junior said:
I always get the Bobbit incident confused with Amy Fisher/Joey Buttafuoco. What a time to be alive.
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Amy Fisher is a great one. All that drama over some ugly Jim Belushi fucker.

As for the dick mutilation, I kind of get it. He was raping her, probably multiple times, so she cut it off.
 
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Mola Ram said:
True, but the evidence in that trial -- which was an absolute clown show; I think a lot of people forget, even more than the intricacies of different evidentiary burdens, how absolutely shitheaded that prosecution team and Judge Ito were -- was pretty damning. It was as clear a case of jury nullification as one can imagine.
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I watched most of it at the time and the two major culprits (other than the incompetent prosecutors) were Fuhrman and Vannatter. I pretty much called the verdict when they had Fuhrman testify about not saying nigger and then they had a huge tape of him constantly saying nigger, talking about framing niggers, and otherwise just committing obvious perjury. When your star witness gets truthnuked like that, your case is crippled.

Then Vannatter was an arrogant, supercilious piece of shit and literally admitted he'd just left blood samples out in his car for hours, often unaccompanied, just basically being spoiled, and was basically "yeah so what" when cross examined. He came across as completely unreliable.

There were also a lot of other issues. Judge Ito was retarded and let the defense, entirely improperly, call DNA evidence into question as if it were something like voodoo (the broken chain of custody thanks to Vannatter already fucked this part of the case up). Then there was the famous glove trick from Cochran. Then they let the defense basically fake up O.J.'s house with pictures of black people and stuff like that, when before they doctored it, he had basically nothing but pictures of white people on his walls.

I'm pretty sure O.J. did it, but if I were on that jury and saw ONLY what that jury saw, I would have had to acquit myself.
Mola Ram said:
Nullification can happen for any reason whatsoever. The jury is never required to explain its verdict.
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It actually sometimes is. On motion by a party or by the court itself, the jury can be issued a special jury questionnaire requiring it to explain its factual findings. FRCP 49 is the federal version of this.
 
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Mark Fuhrman was just weird in general. I read his book on Terri Schiavo and the whole thing was very.....conservative reading I suppose and had an agenda, considering it tried to attack her husband.

So looking back on his behavior for the OJ thing, it doesn't even surprise me.

Now, Cochran. He brings me back to the topic of just how guilty Michael Jackson might have been with children, considering he was acquitted, just like OJ was....hm. Now, who was Jackson's lawyer? That's right. Johnny Cochran.
 
often puzzled said:
Herb Baumeister got away with a lot because his wife is-- I don't even know what to call her. Willfully blind? Willfully ignorant? She was completely in denial that her husband was gay, so who knows what else she ignored. Her interactions with police were pretty interesting.
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Baumeister had a mansion and a successful business. There was an incentive for his wife to be in denial about Herb being gay or a serial killer. I don’t think it is anything more complicated than that. When you’re rich, mental defects are just considered quirks.
The Feline Solution 2 said:
I think the funniest OJ thing is that he somehow still managed to land his ass in prison for that bungled robbery/kidnapping thing years later. Just completely moronic.
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He is black after all.
TeaBaggins said:
It boggles my mind that the court listened to those 911 calls where OJ was obviously wanting to hurt her, and none of that made an impact on how guilty he was.
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For context, this was a couple years after Rodney Kang. The racial angle was laid on thick during the trial. If you thought he was guilty, you hated black people. This is what a big chunk of the country, including many whites, thought. A lot of the same sentiment arose once again when the movie came out about it a few years ago.
Mola Ram said:
If I Did It
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That was ballsy to write that book.
TeaBaggins said:
The 90s was really something. I remember when the Lorena Bobbitt stuff happened, and people joked about it and sided with John. It turns out John abused and raped her, and that's why she snapped.
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This is not correct. The spin was “you go girl!” I don’t think anyone sided with John and he became a punchline. I think he eventually got a fake cock and was in a couple pornos.
 
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