D&D Beatdown — What a dipshit. Now the public humiliation.
A Marion County Jail corrections officer was fired after an internal affairs investigation determined he struck his wife in an argument over his buying Dungeons and Dragons fantasy toys.
Investigators say Edward Bonthron and wife Lori Jo Bonthron were arguing at their home last month over whether he was paying too much for the toys.
Lori Jo Bonthron told investigators she was hit, pushed and choked.
Gwownvirt loves me more than you do!
Then again, maybe she just wanted him to buy wholesale.
Hey, those (us) nerds have a lot of pent up rage. You don’t want to mess with our obsession; it’ll just backfire on you.
HAVE you seen the prices on the 3.0 and 3.5 rules settings…
$15-45 per BOOK…
They are pricing themselves into bankruptcy..And a SLOW seath. and there isnt a BIG used market yet..
Sounds about right for today’s society, choosing material goods of no real value over a human being. Sad.
“Lori Jo Bonthron *told* investigators she was hit”
Women have lots of power these days. Only the mention of domestic violence, rape, sexual harrassment will make husbands, boyfriends, coworkers and employers shutter with fear of reprisal. In this case, the guy lost his job. As in anything in life, it could be true but it could also be using the knowledge of the system to get your way. Maybe his wife was just perturbed that her husband was not paying enough attention to her (a woman’s primary motive as a female) and created and prodded her husband to hit her. Women know men and know how to manipulate them which is a skill that has been honed by them over millions of years because they cannot overpower a male by physical force. Employers do not follow the stringent rules of “innocent until proven guilty”. They were afraid of a lawsuit of sexual harrassment that would have cost them plenty of money if she filed charges against her employer. It was cheaper, safer and easier just to dispose of the male employee. That is what society has made us believe: men are DISPOSABLE. Millions of men have died in wartime. Hundreds of thousands of men take on riskier jobs like coal-mining, construction and lumbering. Men’s life expectancy is less than women’s. Women have made men think they are the more powerful. Look at your own life and see what you do for your wife, girlfriend and companion. She’s got you wrapped around her pinky but you think that $10,000 pinky wrap is her way of honoring you.
Look, he was wrong to strike his wife, I’ll say that up front. However, I am a role-playing geek, love sci-fi and video games. My wife lets me induldge and I try to keep to a budget… however….
I was watching the 40-year-old-virgin. I looked at Andy’s apartment: awesome action figures, a big screen TV with an awesome video game chair. I have to tell you, I walked away thinking, “damn… why did I lose my virginity?”
BTW: #2, Buy the Mongoose Pocket Players Handbook, Pocket Gamemaster’s Guide and Pocket d20 Modern Handbook. All the same info, no art, half the price.
I do think pen and paper RPGs tend to be high prived, but the ones that sell have the good 4-color artwork, high grade paper and are mostly hardcover. You pay a price for that quality in the smaller quantites you need for a niche market.
Eric, have you ever struck a guy? What if his wife struck him first? You see, you want equal rights for women but you don’t treat them with equal rights you treat them with higher rights. Which is not necessarily bad, but admit that you are being inconsistent.
#8: David, actually, I don’t really hit guys either, but I was talking from the point of view from a spousal relationship. I have gotten pisssed at my wife, and she at me, but I will NEVER strike her. If she struck me first I would back up and get out of it.
You are right though, I am being inconsistant with your world view, however in my world view I amnot inconsistant. I believe that certain civilities are nice to keep. I never offer my hand to shake a woman’s hand in a social circumstance unless she offers hers;in a business relationship I offer my hand to shake regardless of male or female. My wife loves to get flowers, or have the door opened for her by me. I enjoy doing it.
I have to say, you picked an odd point to argue. That said, I would also never hit her because during the divorce caused by it she might get custody of my actionfigures and D&D items. Gotta protect the family jewels.
7. Pedro, how do you know something that you don’t know that you don’t even know?
“That said, I would also never hit her because during the divorce caused by it she might get custody of my actionfigures and D&D items. Gotta protect the family jewels.”
9. Eric, this is precisely what I find disheartening in today’s world. You put material objects above humanity. Your FEAR of LOSING these material objects determines your behaviour. You love your wife by proxy.
#12 David: Have a sense of humor.That was in jest (it obviously conflicts with my own commentsin the paragraph above). I find the lack of social grace in todays society to be disheartening; you believe it is the was a “equal” society should be.
However, we each have our worldview. In yours you are right, in mine I am right, and it is these worldviews that we judge actions and events through.
Eric, worldviews are not equal. There are higher worldviews. People are reaching for Satan’s which is the accumulation of material worth whether that is money, sex, status, power or fame. For me, the point of life is too lose everything. Lose money, lose sex, lose status, lose power and lose fame. The point of life is to exit this physical plane the same way we came in: with nothing. It is only by shedding all material objects, and ideas and knowledge, and eventually even the physical body that we will permitted into Heaven, seated at the Right Hand of the Father.
Again your worldview, and it is not an absolute. I do not share it.
Look, I think this conversation is a bit much for this blog commentary. If you wish do discuss it more then please start a cage match in the discussion forum. Call it worldview or something. If you do i will join you their. Otherwise, have a nice day.
Forget innocent until proven guilty. If it is a sex crime of wife assault, you are automatically guilty.
david….your mothership is still waiting…..please board immediatly.
You’re right: “Onlt the mention of domestic violence, rape… can make her husband, boyfriends, … fear of reprisal.” Doe anybody remember October 2004? Watch out, America; if it can happen to Bill O’Reilly, it can happen to you!
David… your own god probably looks down on you in disgust.