Cry-Baby #1:Saverio Ballante
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The incident: A guy allegedly used an illegal move in a game of chess.
The appropriate response: Consulting the internet.
The actual response: His opponent stabbed him to death before attempting to eat his heart.
Earlier this week, Italian born Saverio Bellante phoned emergency services to report a murder at the house he shared with his landlord, Tom O’Gorman in Dublin, Ireland.
Police arrived at the house and found Tom’s mutilated body. Saverio told them that he had murdered Tom and eaten his heart.
When asked why he’d killed Tom, Saverio said that they’d fallen out over a game of chess they’d been playing for over a year. Apparently Tom had tried to use an illegal move.
During the dispute, Tom asked Saverio to leave the house, so Severio stabbed him multiple times in the chest with a kitchen knife. He also beat him with a dumbbell.
A post-mortem examination of the corpse revealed that, though Tom’s heart was still present, one of his lungs had been removed. Police said that they were “unable to locate” it.
They added that the post-mortem was unable to determine whether or not Tom was alive at the time his body was mutilated.
Saverio declined assistance from a state-funded attorney, and will be representing himself in court.
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Cry-Baby #2: Curtis Reeves
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The incident: Someone was texting in a cinema during the movie previews.
The appropriate response: Nothing. It’s the previews.
The actual response: The man sitting behind the texter fatally shot him.
On Monday of this week, married couple and parents of one, Chad and Nicole Oulson, took some time out of their schedule to go on a date. After, dropping off their three-year-old daughter at a daycare centre, they ate lunch together and went to see the movie Lone Survivor at the Grove 16 cinema in Wesley Chapel, near Tampa, Florida.
During the previews for the movie, Chad sent a text to his daughter’s daycare worker.
71-year-old Curtis Reeves, who was sitting in the row behind the Oulsons, was not impressed by this, and said something to the young couple.
It’s not totally clear what happened next. But, after “exchanging words”, with Chad, Curtis pulled out a .380 auto handgun and fired at Chad. The bullet passed through the hand of Chad’s wife Nicole, who had reached out to try and protect her husband, and hit Chad in the chest.
The shot turned out to be fatal. According to witnesses, as Chad lay dying, he said, “I can’t believe I got shot.”
During his preliminary court hearing, Curtis’ attorneys claimed that he shot Chad in self defence. “The alleged victim attacked him, at that point in time he has every right to defend himself,” Curtis’ attorney, Robert Escobar, told the court. Adding that Chad had thrown an “unknown object” that may have been a bag of popcorn at Curtis.
Luckily, Judge Lynn Tepper didn’t buy the defence. “It may or may not have been popcorn,” she said in court. “An unknown object does not equal taking out a gun… It doesn’t warrant taking out a gun and firing it at someone’s chest.”
This, apparently, was not the first time Curtis had overreacted to a movie-watching texter. An unnamed woman contacted police to say that she witnessed Curtis in the same cinema last month, yelling at a woman who had been texting during the previews. She claims he also followed the woman to the restroom.
Curtis is being held without bail.
Who is the bigger cry-baby? Previously: The woman who had a tantrum because her plane seat wouldn’t recline Vs. the guy who went on hunger strike against gay marriage
Winner: The hunger-striking homophobe!!!
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