They should have stopped with the maple syrup
March 31st, 2011 at 3:00 pm by David FarrarEdward Gay in the NZ Herald reports:
Two women who discovered they were sleeping with the same man poured maple syrup in his bed, cooked his shoes in a microwave and threatened to make public explicit photographs he had sent them.
I wonder how long you have to cook shoes for in a microwave until they are done, and what happens to the shoes?
They then blackmailed the man – whose name is suppressed – by threatening to send photographs of his genitals to his workplace, bank and a cafe where his daughter worked unless he paid them $4000 each.
This is where they went wrong. If they had just stuck to the maple syrup and the shoes, then no jury would convict them. But blackmail is not good.
They would have been better with the maple syrup to tie him to the bed first, and then pour the maple syrup over him and the bed. If in a really bad mood, you also then leave a dog or two in the room!
Crown prosecutor Fletcher Pilditch said the offending was premeditated and serious.
He said the pair should be jailed, and proposed a term of between 12 months and two and a half years in prison.
Justice Woodhouse said he gave the women credit for their early guilty pleas.
“I do not consider the harm to the complainant or to his family from this offending will be long term,” he said.
“Any long-term harm will occur from the complainant’s conduct, which was morally reprehensible.”
But despite this, the women’s conduct could not be condoned.
Sounds like the Judge is not too sympathethic to the complainant.
Stories of revenge upon cheating exes are welcome in the comments!
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March 31st, 2011 at 3:09 pm
While being tied to a bed by two women and covered in maple syrup could be strangely arousing in the right circumstances, if they had done that to the man and he objected it could have been a kidnapping charge they were facing, which is usually punished far worse than some blackmail over a dick shot.
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Not a dog no no no! The Indians used Ants.
Prick deserved it.
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 3:16 pm
It never ceases to amaze me how people over-react to the circumstances in their life. Don’t people have boundaries anymore?
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 3:22 pm
I think judges should stick to the law and STFU when it comes to morals.
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 3:38 pm
The blackmail was a bridge too far.
Otherwise, I’m with the judge.
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 3:44 pm
This rubbish was on the front page of the Herald.
Vote:Surely there was something else that could have merited front page treatment such as Libyia, the Japanese Earthquake or even our very own Christchurch Earthquake.
March 31st, 2011 at 4:00 pm
alex – would this have been better? http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz/?p=22080
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 4:06 pm
A leaf from the Swedish girls guide book to sex with Julian Assange?
BTW Brian Smaller, i think the technical term for tying the guy up would be false imprisonment.
[DPF: I was not suggesting the two women tie him up by force. I'm pretty sure they could get him to agree. And I'm not sure if it is a crime to not take action to free someone who has agreed to be tied up?]
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 4:07 pm
beautox says:
Hear hear. Nasty whiff of vigilantism in this post DPF. Tying people to a bed against their will is also illegal, you know. And being a cad doesn’t mean it’s open season on your wallet or your maple syrup covered genitalia.
Men – and, I might add, women – have been doing this since a cavewoman dragged a mammoth home and found her husband had clubbed another Neanderthal on the head in her absence.
Perhaps if one took a more pessimistic view of one’s fellow humans, as I tend to, one wouldn’t be so surprised and hurt when they live down to your expectations :-/
[DPF: I was not suggesting they tie him to his bed against his will. I was suggesting one of them gets him to consent to being tied up, and then once he is, the other appears, and see his face as he realises the game is up]
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 4:12 pm
WOW, sex in the Winderstrom household must be a thing to behold… or at least call noise control about.
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Agree with LR @3:15 – no boundaries in evidence here. They were lucky that they struck a paternalistic judge who preferred to levy some moral judgment on the man involved.
Vote:…. and if the blackmailing vigilantes had been men and the victim a woman?
March 31st, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Keeping someone tied up against their will, even if they consented to begin with, is also illegal. If I didn’t value my liberty so much I’d give the “DPF defence” a go and see if I could rope you in as an accessory for suggesting it isn’t
@Murray:
Generally, no one beholds me having sex, so clearly you’ve outed yourself as an exhibitionist. Can we shortly expect a leaked sex tape?
[DPF: But they are not keeping him tied up. The ropes are. I'm not sure you can get charged for not doing something. Having said that, not keen to be a test case!]
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 5:04 pm
“I’m not sure if it is a crime to not take action to free someone who has agreed to be tied up?”
No means no David.
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Hell being tied up by two women and having maple syrup poured on me sounds like a lot of fun. I wonder what occupation I should take up next ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJd21zPeLxY&feature=related
I loved the MP application form.
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 6:21 pm
for less middle aged nonsense and up to date info on sexual mores,
go here
http://roissy.wordpress.com/the-sixteen-commandments-of-poon/
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Yes it’s sooo de riguer isn’t it that a woman can engage in ‘emppowering’ acts of criminality and we are invited to flock to their side and affirm their nasty vindictive streaks with ‘You go sista!’ hi-five?
Imagine if it had been two guys being cuckolded by one woman, I dare say there are those who would have applauded the woman’s ‘fiesty’ act of lself-affirmation and suggested that the guys were a pair of dicks for getting so hoodwinked…
My point being that thisissue is rife with the kinds of double-standards that have so infested our judgement that now we have the pulpit of te elaw pronouncing its sympathy for people who commit vindictive acts of criminal damage – as long as they are ‘women’, but would throw the book at and censure a man for similar cowardly acts.
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 6:38 pm
apologies for the typos but the phone went. One of my several mistresses begging me to come back . . .
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Now if they had tied him too the bed and then covered him with syrup, chocolate and cream then called the girls surfing team in to slowly lick it all off +-/! he would never double up again.
Vote:Just imagine a room full of birds in bikini’s licking the dick (head) I mean!
March 31st, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Seem to recall that a women once used super glue in the middle of the night……
Vote:Hands and geniitals had be separated by a surgeon
March 31st, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Do you pay more for maple syrup?
Vote:Dime would know. Just the normal charge like honey, marmite, vegemite (ozzies) golden syrup ..
Cockeys Joy, what is that?
March 31st, 2011 at 10:06 pm
I saw a stand up comedian do a great skit on divorce getting nasty, one line that has stuck in my mind is something like; Don’t go crazy and cut up her clothes – study her wardrobe, replace as much of it as you can with the same garments 1 size smaller.
[DPF: Now that is evil]
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Shhhhh, don’t go giving Darren ideas.
Vote:March 31st, 2011 at 11:14 pm
I take it from the lack of stories in the comments that Kiwiblog commenters don’t get much
Mine is the woman in Nelson who found the Mini belonging to the other femme who stole her man – she got her friend (bloke who drives a concrete truck) to back the said truck up to it, chute down, windscreen blown in by said chute, concrete starts pouring at speed.
It blew all the tyres and poured out the windscreen.
A Mini will hold about 2.6 cubic metres of concrete
Vote:April 1st, 2011 at 6:04 am
“I take it from the lack of stories in the comments that Kiwiblog commenters don’t get much.”
I think you petty much nailed the demographic there, Engineer.
Vote:April 1st, 2011 at 6:21 am
Apart from the moral judgements from the judge which others have already on enraged on the also appears from the reports lack of any reparations. I would imagine these woman have cause at least $1000 worth of damage to personal items that this victim is out of pocket for.
Vote:April 1st, 2011 at 8:46 am
Has no one noticed recently how much maple syrup costs?
Vote:April 1st, 2011 at 8:50 am
“Two women who discovered they were sleeping with the same man poured maple syrup in his bed…”
Was it a big bed or were they that drunk? How could you miss an extra person?
Vote:April 3rd, 2011 at 12:01 pm
They say “Hell hath no fury such as a woman scorned” but, some of the most vengeful people I’ve seen in unrequited or wronged love situations have been men and some hang on to their resentment for years .
Agree though, the mischief making could be dismissed and difficult to prove or pin with charges (vandalism? harrassment? trespass? I assume they had keys to his residence) but blackmail is unlawful and a step too far
Vote:April 3rd, 2011 at 12:29 pm
“I take it from the lack of stories in the comments that Kiwiblog commenters don’t get much”
The other way of reading it is that right-wing folks cheat less and are less vindictive
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