And in shoe-related news:
A trans-identified male in Germany has been sentenced to an indefinite stay at a psychiatric ward as part of his sentence for exhibitionism and violent assaults on women.
Yes, I know. Another entry for our Thing That Never Happens file.
But first, a flashback:
In October of 2008, Klaus attacked a 52-year-old woman, violently pulling her to the ground and sitting on her in an attempt to try and pull her boots off her legs. According to a General Anzeiger report from the time, Klaus fled to the forest to try the boots on, at which point he got “real excitement.”
Don’t ask.
After being tracked down by police, investigators found a whole collection of women’s boots at his home.
A pattern repeated upon his release, and hence a second, present-day appearance in court. But this time, with added kinks and complications:
The 56-year-old man from Troisdorf had to stand trial at the regional court in Bonn for threats, grievous bodily harm and exposing his penis to women on a train. But during the trial, the court had to weigh whether or not to pursue the charges against Klaus for exhibitionism due to his gender identity.
In Germany, only males can be charged with exhibitionism of the penis, and because Klaus identified as “female,” it was initially unclear whether the charge could apply to him.
Because this is where we are now. Or where the Germans are, at least.
Happily, the court decided that, as the gentleman, referred to only as Klaus, had not yet legally asserted his claim of being the opposite sex, the charges of exhibitionism were indeed applicable. And so, another spell in Bedlam.
Still, I suspect those new silicone pseudo-breasts, acquired between stays, may be some consolation.
Perhaps less happily,
Klaus was handed his sentence just one day before Germany’s new self-identification law came into force. He is now entitled to change his legal sex and be placed on a women’s ward at the psychiatric hospital he will be housed at.
A comfort to all concerned, I’m sure.
After all, what could possibly go wrong when housing with women a mentally ill man who likes to hold knives to women’s throats before stealing their footwear, and hoarding said footwear for sexual purposes? A man who delights in stalking women, assaulting them, and waving his tallywhacker at mothers with their young daughters.
A man who is referred to in the German media, somewhat surreally, as a woman, a she-person, despite being identified via the very male genetic material left at the scenes of his crimes.
Oh, and should you be concerned about the whereabouts of all those stolen items, fear not:
The defendant now hoards hundreds of boots and handbags in a large number of boxes; she had even taken her treasures with her to prison, where they were stored.
Her treasures, obligingly stored.
Update, via the comments:
Alice quotes this from the bizarrely misleading German news coverage:
Because she wanted to tear women’s boots off their feet, a woman – then still a man – was convicted in 2009.
She then adds, not unreasonably,
Indeed. And for the women he robbed and assaulted, and the women and girls at whom he flashed his penis, it must be quite odd, and probably aggravating, to hear media reports of some entirely imaginary shoe-robbing, penis-flashing woman.
As noted here previously regarding a not dissimilar incident:
For the passers-by who intervened and overpowered Mr Beekmeyer, it must have been quite strange to see subsequent reports in which this shirtless man was referred to by the police and the media as a woman. As if their own, first-hand perceptions, from mere inches away, were somehow wildly and implausibly inaccurate.
And,
When a shirtless, deranged man – a man attacking a breastfeeding mother and her four-month-old baby – is referred to by the Vancouver Police Department, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Vancouver Sun, as a woman – despite all video and photographic evidence – then we’re in surreal territory. And the mismatch of claim and reality is not neutral or benign. It is corrosive. Not least to any trust in the Vancouver Police Department, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Vancouver Sun – the probity of which is, necessarily, called into question.
But we live in unhinged times. In which observable reality is something to be ignored.
This blog is kept afloat by the tip jar buttons below.
I remember the gold-plated connectors but not any Magic Rocks.
As a matter of fact, gold plated connectors still exist. I even saw them on (Monster Cable brand?) power cords and surge suppressors, accompanied by a Best Buy salesman trying to convince me that the gold plating improved the sound quality
Oh David, David, David, David.
Such dismaying language. Such an invidious comparison.
I have to ask, WHY ARE YOU HATING ON WEREWOLVES? Dammit, what have werewolves ever done to you?
I hope we’re not getting into Calvin and Hobbes Get Rid of Slimy Girls territory.
Magazine for black racists stirs up more paranoia about Trump.
How can they bring back slavery? The Democrats lost.
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To further add to your delight I recall but cannot find Wokies losing it over Calvin and Hobbs because (of course) they completely missed the point.
I’ll just leave this here.
Heh. But I vaguely recall hearing similar carping years earlier.
I detect a bit of a resemblance to Sideshow Bob.
And in the subsequent thread, an interesting discussion of crime statistics ensues.
“We are managing the decline of SEPTA [the Philadelphia public transit authority]”
The real problems: mismanagement and this, which is also mismanagement.
Brings to mind the sheela na gig.
Oh dear.
Are you going to tell him? I’m not going to tell him.
I’d forgotten about that clown.
Now I’ll have to do it all over again.
I just find it curious that she seems to regard a black child as a disgraceful thing.
I’m already voting for Trump. You don’t have to persuade me.
I, too, miss the concept of shame.
Well, that’s one way to maintain that aura of mystery.
He thought Planet Fitness was a “judgement free zone”.
Did someone mention tardive dyskinesia?
The truth will out.
salesman trying to convince me that the gold plating improved the sound quality
My favourite was a blind audio test of a number of soi-disant audiophiles who were unable to tell the difference between a $100 gold-plated RCA cable connecting an audio receiver to a speaker, and a wire coat hanger straightened out and forcefully jammed into the jack.
Did someone mention tardive dyskinesia?
Yeah, but your leg spontaneously combusting in the middle of the night is one of the rarer symptoms.
re: blue bracelets
If you’re navigating a dangerous population, and you’re trying to distinguish the safe from the dangerous, why would you mark yourself in such an obvious way?
I mean, the “dangerous” people know about the bracelets too, so wouldn’t wearing a blue bracelet make you a target of the evil MAGAs? Isn’t this like the Jews voluntarily putting on yellow stars during Nazi Germany so they could find each other?
Imma guess that they know damned good and well that half the country isn’t actually dangerous, so they’re free to wear blue bracelets, risking only scorn from red America, but not actual danger.
True, but also remember how delusional and victim-aspiring these people can be. Some are likely trying to kinda Smollett out an incident to martyr themselves for the greater good. Perhaps even suicide-by-MAGA.
After that ad came up several times on my Ace of Spades feed and got me thinking about it way too much, I think what that picture is trying to do is conflate common leg cramps with involuntary muscle movements. I guess. Unless leg cramps are a mild form of TD? That is what the cool kids call it, right? TD?
WTP: leg and foot cramps tend to be related to electrolyte issues, typically a minor potassium or magnesium shortage. These generally resolve (and fairly quickly) with OTC supplements taken with water, or topical application of magnesium oil or butter. TD can have other causes but is most commonly an iatrogenic disorder stemming from long-term use of certain meds. I was much struck by the illustration myself, but that’s mostly because I didn’t check it closely and it just looked to me like the entire lower limb was detaching from the body. Which I guess can happen, but not usually associated with TD.
Heh.™ I don’t remember that one, but I do remember a similar double blind test in which audiophiles were unable to tell the difference between a cheap CD player and a $1000 audiophile model. (And this was in the early days of CD’s when $1000 was worth much more than today.)
What’s more, nothing prevents those evil MAGAs from wearing blue bracelets to deceive their prey. Just as predatory males pose as “male feminists”.
Meanwhile, these liberal women continue to yell their support for Hamas and islamo-fascism in general.
I do wonder how many of these women could be fruitfully compared to early Christians who sought to demonstrate their piety by provoking the Roman authorities into martyring them: They could have quietly lived as Christians, unmolested, but they fervently wanted to die to prove their faith.
If you’re navigating a dangerous population, and you’re trying to distinguish the safe from the dangerous, why would you mark yourself in such an obvious way?
You’re listening to the words coming out of their mouths instead of looking at what they actually do and what the benefits are to them.
It’s literal politics-as-fashion. It’s just a way of signaling that they have only the most fashionable opinions, dahling.