That's some MO: grab crotch, hearty tug. Men, women, it doesn't matter. She's going to rip you up.

Why do I click the links? Scary. *shudder*

Now that's what I call manslaughter!

And given your track record, SEK, I think you need to be doing some serious touching/knocking on wood.

No, not that wood.

Incidentally, are you going to be at UnfoggeDCon again?

Now that's what I call manslaughter!

And given your track record, SEK, I think you need to be doing some serious touching/knocking on wood.

No, not that wood.

Incidentally, are you going to be at UnfoggeDCon again?

Crap. What just happened?

Nooooo NNNooooooooo NoOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo NOnononnono No. No. No. No. nanananannnNOnonono NO!!!1!

owowowowowowww....

Apo, you're holding back - how is it that your great state came to have a law against "malicious castration" anyway?!

Here ya go, Tom.

O M G

Ms. Dawson is evidently a Kung Fu master, expert in both the Drunken Monkey and Iron Hand styles.

It can't really be that easy to castrate a man with one's bare hands, can it?

I would think it wouldn't be any harder than ripping off an ear, which isn't that hard to do.

Umm, or so I've been told.

8: That law was first passed in 1754? What the heck has been going on in your state?

I note that the law you`ve cited applies only to castration "without malice aforethought" - what happens if the castration was deliberate, but NOT well-intentioned?

Finally, I see thta the law covers all body parts, but is first and foremost concerned about testicles. That`s not sexist, but just the way things have always been. In a civilized society, balls simply must be protected, with the full power of the state, even against accidents or voluntary acts.

What the heck has been going on in your state?

NO MAN'S TESTICLES ARE SAFE ON TOBACCO ROAD!

what happens if the castration was deliberate, but NOT well-intentioned?

Malicious castration became illegal in 1831.

NO MAN'S TESTICLES ARE SAFE ON TOBACCO ROAD!

Probably unwise to leave your testicles on *any* road, now that I think about it.

14: If Malicious castration became illegal in 1831, but consensual castration was made illegal in 1754, I gotta wonder about your founders` priorities. I`d worry first about protecting my own family jewels before I`d thing to legislate to stop others from giving them away. There`s got to be an explanation.

Is this a test? Oh, balls!

consensual castration

My guess is it was accidental castration, not consensual castration, that was at issue.

18: Accidentally hurting someone in NC is a crime, if they lose any body part? That certainly goes beyond the point of criminal law, as there is no culpability, absent situations of reckless disregard, which this does not address.

BTW, since we`re on the subject, have you heard that the wife of this guy Dumond (released by Huckabee) suggested that he might have castrated himself?

absent situations of reckless disregard

Or criminal negligence. And that's almost certainly what the law was intended to address. Accidentally killing someone is generally a crime too in most if not all jurisdictions.

17, 19: Sorry, I wasn`t reading the law carefully. Taking a look back, it addresses cases where the perp acts "on purpose and unlawfully, but without malice aforethought" - second or third degree mayhem in the heat of the moment, rather than planned violence, in other words.