Isn't it ironic?

[gazza]

>This is an unbelievable twist of fate!!!!

>At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science........AAFS
>President Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal
>complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story:
>
>On March 23, 1994...... the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald
>Opus, and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr. Opus
>had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit
>suicide.. He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency. As he
>fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast
>passing through a window, which killed him instantly.
>
>Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety net had been
>installed just below the eighth floor level to protect some building
>workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his
>suicide the way he had planned.
>
>"Ordinarily," Dr Mills continued, "Someone who sets out to commit suicide
>and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he
>intended, is still defined as committing suicide." That Mr. Opus was shot
>on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful
>because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had
>a homicide on his hands.
>
>The room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied
>by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously, and he was
>threatening her with a shotgun! The man was so upset that when he pulled
>the trigger, he completely missed his wife, and the pellets went through
>the window, striking Mr. Opus. When one intends to kill subject "A" but
>kills subject "B" in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject
>"B."
>
>When confronted with the murder charge, the old man and his wife were both
>adamant, and both said that they thought the shotgun was not loaded. The
>old man said it was a long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the
>unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing
>of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, assuming the gun had been
>accidentally loaded.
>
>The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's
>son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident..
>
>It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and
>the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun
>threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would
>shoot his mother.
>
>Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty of the murder
>even though he didn't actually pull the trigger. The case now becomes one
>of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.
>
>Now comes the exquisite twist... Further investigation revealed that the
>son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over
>the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to
>jump off the ten-story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a
>shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. The son, Ronald Opus,
>had actually murdered himself. So the medical examiner closed the case as a
>suicide.
>
>A true story from Associated Press, (Reported by Kurt Westervelt
>
>

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whats the odds

[davidg]

That will teach him

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karma dealt with him good and proper

[sam3317]

It's an urban myth mate. Check this out
http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...htm?once=true&