Better be careful when you purge your Facebook friends. You could end up with a criminal record! Check out the latest edition of Noseweek, I read the lead article with mounting
degrees of anger and hysteria. Some sweetheart has reproduced it on Facebook so you can read the full story there, but I’ll summarise it for you.
Guy dates girl.
Guy dumps girl.
Girl is pissed.
Girl starts sending freaky Facebook
messages to guy and all guy’s female friends.
Guy messages girl to ask her to stop or he
will unfriend her of Facebook.
Girl gets domestic-violence interdict
against guy.
Guy loses job.
Guy loses current girlfriend.
There are a lot other complicated factors
including the ex-girl chumming up with the current girl and convincing her that
when a man gets angry and walks out on you it constitutes a physical threat.
Obviously, neither of them has been in a situation where a man constitutes a
physical threat.
Aside from the amusing miscarriage of
justice in this case and a clear case of bunny boiling from the ex-girlfriend,
my anger stems from the way in which this woman has made a travesty out of the
real horror of domestic violence.
She has turned the system away from the
people it is meant to protect and used it as a weapon of abuse against someone
else.
Sadly, this happens all to often. You can
traipse into a magistrate’s court spin a tale of woe, swear under oath it is
true and Hey Presto send someone to jail. It is the perfect tool for any
passive aggressive. The point of is that when a man or a woman is in real
danger the system looks and works as a joke. It doesn’t protect those who need
it. It doesn’t protect those who are accused either.
A domestic-violence interdict is not a
restraining order. It allows a person the
right to call the police should an act of verbal, psychological or physical
abuse take place. The police then cart off the offending party to the nearest
cell to spend the next 24 hours until they cool down. Then they can go home. I
guess it is a form of aversion therapy.
The problem is that we haven’t set down
what constitutes verbal, psychological or physical abuse clearly enough.
For
example, telling your wife when she asks that yes her bum does look big in
that, should not be reason enough to spend a night in jail. If unfriending
someone on Facebook is abusive, then rather fall back on, “It’s not you, it’s
just a bad cut”. The silent treatment when one is pissed off shouldn’t be reason
to spend a night behind bars either, but could be construed as psychological
abuse.
Question: Does excessive snoring count as
psychological abuse?
I’ve always maintained that if you happen to put a pillow
over the offending subject’s head while suffering sleep deprivation you should
not be held guilty of murder in any degree. It’s self defence that!
This pathetic excuse for a human being Danielle Vermaas should face criminal charges for what she did. Her actions are a slap in the face for real victims of abuse
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ReplyDeleteShe needs to go to the loony bin. I was at school with her sister when there mother went loco loony and had to go stay at the mental asylum
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for both Chaplin and Fine. This whole thing came down to one lie told by douche bag Vermaas to Fine about this "cross dating" crap. Vermaas's and Chaplin's cell phone records through triangulation show that the last time they were within five kms of each other was four days after his first date with Fine. Vermaas made up this bullshit out of spite, jealousy and envy. She made a fool out of herself chasing after Chaplin so she punnished him by taking away the person he cared about and in the process made a fool out of Fine. The restraining order was just to make him look like a bad person so that when he tried to speak to Fine afterwards she wouldnt believe what he said. To be a man in this situation is a no win situation because if you dont try and address the situation then the lie is left but if you try and talk about it then you just end up looking like you are harassing people.
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