Boone allegedly told police that they thought it would be funny if he got inside the suitcase, Fox 35 Orlando reported. She allegedly said they were drinking at the time and she passed out on her bed. When she woke up-- hours later-- she allegedly said she found him unresponsive and not breathing....But she made videos, which police retrieved from her phone.
Deputies said Boone is heard laughing and saying, "For everything you've done to me, [expletive] you! Stupid!"ADDED: Not exactly on point, but I thought about The Velvet Underground's "The Gift":
Spoken-word lyrics here. Excerpt:
Waldo Jeffers had reached his limit. It was now mid-August, which meant he had been separated from Marsha for more than two months.... He didn't have enough money to go to Wisconsin in the accepted fashion, true, but why not mail himself?... He bought masking tape, a staple gun and a medium sized cardboard box just right for a person of his build. He judged that with a minimum of jostling he could ride quite comfortably. A few air holes, some water, perhaps some midnight snacks, and it would probably be as good as going tourist!...From the annotations at the link:
[MUCH LATER.] Inside the package, Waldo quivered with excitement as he listened to the muffled voices..... Marsha walked around the carton and read the ink-scratched label. "Ah, god it's from Waldo!"... Inside the package, Waldo was so transfixed with excitement that he could barely breathe. His skin felt prickly from the heat, and he could feel his heart beating in his throat. It would be soon. Sheila stood quite upright and walked around to the other side of the package. Then she sank down to her knees, grasped the cutter by both handles, took a deep breath, and plunged the long blade through the middle of the package, through the masking tape, through the cardboard, through the cushioning and (thud) right through the center of Waldo Jeffers' head, which split slightly and caused little rhythmic arcs of red to pulsate gently in the morning sun.
The sound of the blade plunging through the cardboard, “right through the centre of Waldo Jeffers’ head,” was [Lou] Reed stabbing a canteloupe [sp] with a knife. Frank Zappa, also working at Mayfair with The Mothers Of Invention, was there. “He said, ‘You’ll get a better sound if you do it this way,’” Reed recalled. “And then he says, ‘You know, I’m really surprised how much I like your album,’” referring to the ‘Banana’ LP. “Surprised? OK.” Reed smiled. “He was being friendly.”I like how there's a banana and a cantaloupe in that paragraph.
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Floridians being themselves.
He dies a winner.
Pack up all my cares and woes
Feeling low here I go
Bye, bye Torres
There is something in the water in that state that isn't just gators.
This happened in Florida? That's shocking.
Wasn't it, Her Body? And Her Suitcase?
Didn't she, Have A RIGHT, TO CHOSE?
You fascist Bastards would FORCE her to deliver ?
Doesn't a WOMAN, have The RIGHT?
protip:
IF you're going to murder someone
AND you feel you NEED to video it
DON'T let the police see the video
I understand this is a subtle metaphor on the current political theatre of primaries and caucuses but can’t quite wrap my mind around the ultimate lesson to be learned here.
Unless there’s a moment when Boone as “Bloomberg” yells out “I bought this suitcase!” That would clarify things a bit. Not much.
Makes me think of that line from "Vertigo": "You shouldn't keep souvenirs of a killing. You shouldn't have been that sentimental."
It's the phosphate in the water from the Floridian aquifer.
Waldo forgot to mail himself.
Oh yeah and by the way Orlando is not in Florida, it's pure Alabama once you get outside of Harry Potter world and Disneyland and all the other stupid amusement parks.
"Frank Zappa is the most untalented musician I've ever heard... He can't play rock 'n roll because he's a loser...". Lou Reed
This story makes my palms sweat.
White Light White Heat - great album!
I'm not saying that the suitcase routine is good thing, but what size suitcase do you think would hold Crazy Bernie?
Too lowbrow for the resident Nitschke scholar apparently.
Will this be considered for a Darwin award?
I'm not saying that the suitcase routine is good thing, but what size suitcase do you think would hold Crazy Bernie?
In one piece or many?
"Florida Man"
Spoken-word lyrics
I'm glad that is like, so passe.
Ann Althouse said...
"You shouldn't keep souvenirs of a killing.
I can't personally think, of a single time that i've EVER videoed me killing someone
AND, i'm SURE; that i have NEVER left such a video, on my phone; while waiting for the cops
it Really Seems, like some people don't think their murders through; not before, not even After!
"Well I'm bagged and packed, it's time to go,
I'm dyin' here on the hotel floor,
Can't seem to wake you up, to say goodbye ..."
paraphrasing John Denver
It's the gravity. All of America's losers fall out of the north east, middle Atlantic and mid western States because of the Earth's rotational gravity. They end up here doing outlandish things once reserved for the rest of America. Sigh. And it used to be such a nice place....
Thanks, Gilbar. You just reminded me of the coen brother movie I want to re-watch Blood Simple
Sounds like an open and shut case! hahahaha
There's Waldo!
@Heartless Aztec:
It's the gravity. All of America's losers fall out of the north east, middle Atlantic and mid western States because of the Earth's rotational gravity. They end up here doing outlandish things once reserved for the rest of America. Sigh. And it used to be such a nice place....
I'm second to no one in my disdain for snowbirds, but come on. Florida has always been a crazy place. It was settled by people before the advent of A/C and mosquito repellent.
"For everything you've done to me, [expletive] you! Stupid!"
I do have to agree with the Stupid part. Who decides to let someone who you have been cheating on, choking, abusing and in general doesn't really like you very much....to zip you into a suitcase or lock you into a trunk.
Stupid.
I guess he never heard about a woman scorned.
She should claim he was killed by CIA agents who are trying to frame her.
Also...hid and seek requires that the person you are hiding from doesn't know where you are. Her zipping him into the suitcase sorta negates that part of the game.
Dumb and dumber.
You people think Florida is bad. Obviously you've never been to San Berdoo or Fontana
Thanks DBQ I didn't read the article. Sounds like it was a righteous kill.this is exactly what those wannabe Hollywood actresses should have done to Harvey
Let’s play what if you had to defend this woman on the second-degree murder charge. She filmed 3 hours apart and the man was alive in both videos. That proves he was getting enough air to survive. After that she goes into her drunk sleep, which negates the required intent for second degree murder. Then he does something in the suitcase that causes his death, negating causation. He voluntarily got into the suitcase. While she was awake she was justified in her inaction because she was afraid for her own safety to let him out until he calmed down, a stand your ground defense. No duty to release a person who wants to do you harm. That was Trayvon Martin’s mistake.
Sounds like an open and shut case! hahahaha
This is a serious matter. People should zip it with the puns.
If she would have just explained that her boyfriend was an Obama administration whistleblower, I'm sure the authorities would have quickly determined that his death while zipped inside a suitcase was an obvious "suicide".
I vaguely recall a TV drama from the late 1960s, like a made-for-TV movie but just one hour, about a German man, a West Berliner (not a doughnut) whose fiancée is a resident of East Berlin. She's trapped there when the Wall goes up, and because she is a popular artist (ballet dancer?) she is denied an exit visa. The boyfriend concocts a plan to get her out in a suitcase. He travels regularly through Checkpoint Charlie carrying a big suitcase loaded with heavy stuff — books and papers, perhaps — then he goes back to the West carrying the very same load of stuff. The guards inspect the case thoroughly dozens of times but eventually get used to him and his luggage. So they let him through without inspection if he leaves near the end of their shift when they're hungry and bored.
Meanwhile, the girl is busy practicing contorting herself to fit inside the suitcase. To do so she can wear nothing but a leotard. Finally, they decide the time is ripe for escape, but the appointed day coincides with a sound cold snap followed by heavy snow. For some reason, the Stasi border guards impose a delay at the checkpoint and the man must put the case down on the snow to avoid suspicion. In the end he gets through but the girl nearly freezes to death. She recovers and the happy ending follows.
Howard Sounds like it was a righteous kill.this is exactly what those wannabe Hollywood actresses should have done to Harvey
Actually, I'm thinking he is a contender for a Darwin award. And her for videoing the whole thing......deserves some sort of runner up category.
Florida man (and woman) isn't a meme for no reason.
RIP David Roback of Opal and Mazzy Star.
He can't play rock 'n roll because he's a loser.
I guess Reed never heard No No No. There's a different version on "Ruben and the Jets", but all I can find are crummy sounding "vinyl" posts.
"Makes me think of that line from 'Vertigo': "'You shouldn't keep souvenirs of a killing. You shouldn't have been that sentimental.'"
As we've learned in the years since, killers who keep souvenirs of their killings do so not for sentimental reasons, but because it allows them to relive their murders in their minds and savor again their pleasure in the killings.(This is most often found among serial killers.)
"White Light / White Heat" has a great joke on it which I didn't perceive for around 40 years, when I got the CD. Side one ends with "Here She Comes Now," the verse an endlessly repeated drone 'Now, [if] she ever comes now now, She ever comes now now, She ever comes...' and "I Heard Her Call My Name" kicks off side two which opens with Lou Reed screaming, "HERE she comes now!" accompanied by a totally berserk guitar flip out. It just had never registered with me as a punchline. I don't know that it was worth the 40 year wait, but I laughed out loud.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
but because it allows them to relive their murders in their minds and savor again their pleasure in the killings.
Those are sentimental reasons. Collecting souvenirs in order to sell them would be a non-sentimental reason.
They both seem likely winners of the Darwin Award. Except his award is posthumous and she'll accept on his behalf.
I love childhood memories when I had things confused.
I confused the box the giants used to carry the people around in Land of the Giants with promos for the TV series "Man in a Suitcase", which was about a traveling spy who "lived out of a suitcase".
Man in a Suitcase is a British television private eye thriller series produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. It originally aired in the United Kingdom on ITV from 27 September 1967 to 17 April 1968. ABC broadcast episodes of Man in a Suitcase in the United States from 3 May to 20 September 1968.
For the song by The Police, see Man in a Suitcase (song).
Are they voters?
Can't find the Woody Guthrie version, so Pete Seeger will have to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8DK3VpiGYQ
And, in a related story, let's not forget Flat Stanley.
The boyfriend concocts a plan to get her out in a suitcase.
The suitcase can be seen at Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, a museum devoted to escapes across the wall.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-europe-germany-brandenburg-berlin-checkpoint-charlie-berlin-wall-museum-49923608.html
Her mistake was in not disposing of the body. Plenty of dead people in suitcases on forensic files and cold case files.
Anyway, bought Nico's solo album and it was so bad I took it back for a refund. Had to argue with the guy about it but I was broke and mercurial back in those days.
Pack up all your cares and woes,
here we go,
swinging low,
Bye-bye blackbird....
Quaestor: I remember seeing that show. I hadn't thought about it since then (I was young) but I recall that it seemed so pathetically sad, the harmless people tormented by state functionaries. I believe that the young woman survived, more or less, initially at least. It made an impression on me at the time about what governments can do to helpless citizens.
Heartless Aztek: I like your take on the physics here. Certainly, the rotation of the Earth makes places like Florida advantageous for putting things into orbit (why the residents there don't take the hint, I can't say).
What is your take on the well-known oversupply of end-of-the-road weirdos in Alaska?
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
And smile, smile, smile,
While you've a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile, boys, that's the style.
What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
And smile, smile, smile.
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