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Man blames booze -- not racism -- for church pipe-bomb incident
Richard M. Blonski, who is white, says he drank a huge amount of Southern Comfort whiskey and “a bunch of beers” before trying to bomb a chuch with a black membership. "I think I did it because I am mad at myself," he says. "I am mad at myself because I am not going anywhere in my life." (Buffalo News)July 9, 2009 | Permalink
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Logical patterns of behavior ==> Do nothing with your life. Get mad at "ones self". Get DRUNK. Bomb church.
Yeah, lock him up and throw the key in the lake.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jul 9, 2009 6:55:59 AM
If you have to hit rock bottom before you can start to recover, I'd say he's arrived.
Posted by: RichmondTom | Jul 9, 2009 7:03:40 AM
You're going somewhere now, Einstein - prison!
Posted by: Drake Timbershaft | Jul 9, 2009 7:15:04 AM
I can believe it.
I have done truly stupid things under the influence of SoCo (although I have never blown up a church). SoCo should be a controlled substance.
It probably caused the previous 2 stories! LOL!
Posted by: RockyMtnMac | Jul 9, 2009 7:35:11 AM
Planting a pipe bomb in a church is a natural response to a booze-fueled fit of existential despair.
Either that, or the guy's a drunken, drug-addled, asshat loser.
Posted by: Phranqlin | Jul 9, 2009 7:35:25 AM
So RMM, you like you some Southern Comfort?
Posted by: LimeGreenLizard | Jul 9, 2009 8:05:46 AM
SoCO gets me in trouble LGL.
Posted by: RockyMtnMac | Jul 9, 2009 8:12:51 AM
HEY HE JUST HAD A BAD DAY AND WHAT IS ONE LESS CHURCH ANYWAY.
Posted by: MONKEY JERKm | Jul 9, 2009 8:16:02 AM
"also told agents that he had consumed a huge amount of Southern Comfort whiskey ."
Please note the "also". The guy didn't blame anyone but himself. And properly identified his problem. I ferociously glad that the bomb didn't go off; and that he had enough cojones to man up and say "yeah, that was me, no excuse, being a jackass."
Would that some of the commenters here were able to do the same.
Posted by: nellagain | Jul 9, 2009 8:17:03 AM
Damn, remember the good ol' days when we used to use southern comfort to get women naked(or make them look prettier, whatever the case may have been).
I once again find myself weeping for the future of america.(now hangs head and sobs hysterically)
Posted by: angrysockmonkey | Jul 9, 2009 8:26:41 AM
I read a commentary recently about the trend of people trying to escape punishment/condemnation/blame for some truly heinous offenses by just saying "well, I did it and I should be commended for having admitted I did it."
Not good enough, Sugar. It's time to learn the difference between taking responsibility and having to account for your actions.
Tyrone, his new cell mate, might also have some thoughts on this subject.
Posted by: jj2 | Jul 9, 2009 8:43:04 AM
nell, what? The man was caught read-handed...attempting to bomb a church? And making some vague swing at guessing he's mad at himself is a mitigating factor? I got stuck on his attempting to plant a bomb. Not cool.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jul 9, 2009 8:44:09 AM
All those here who've gotten down on themselves and worked it off in a haze of booze and/or drugs, raise your hand. (raises hand)
All those here who've gotten down on themselves and worked it off in a haze of booze and/or drugs, and planted a bomb, raise your hand.
...
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jul 9, 2009 8:49:36 AM
Point taken, Nell. The photo of the guy is telling. Look at his eyes. Despair, remorse, fear, anguish. Not the sort of look we usually snark about in the OS&RR.
Then again, we humans snark to make us feel better about ourselves because of the stupid crap we've done. If someone did something "stupider", we get to feel better by making fun of them...
I snark, therefor I am.
Posted by: LimeGreenLizard | Jul 9, 2009 8:54:57 AM
"I got caught so I'll make up a sob story to try to weasel out of it."
I just heard radio news which included a recording of the excuse of fawn-shovel-bashing woman in yesterday's story. She said (omitting the goofy way she pronounced her words), "Its eyes made contact with my eyes. It was going wild! I thought how soon is it going to jump up and bite my head off!" Oh, right, lady. You're totally exonerated. Fawns are known for biting off human heads.
Posted by: Sheila | Jul 9, 2009 9:44:06 AM
SoCo will do that to ya! I dare anyone to challenge that!
Posted by: thing1 | Jul 9, 2009 10:11:16 AM
"Point taken, Nell. The photo of the guy is telling. Look at his eyes. Despair, remorse, fear, anguish. Not the sort of look we usually snark about in the OS&RR."
What's wrong with you people? I'm sorry I do not see remorse or any of the adjectives you use to describe this creep. He got caught....does that take cojones?
Posted by: kevy | Jul 9, 2009 10:17:21 AM
nellagain;
can't help but notice a bit of bitters with you lately.
stationwagon breakdown?
Posted by: thomas | Jul 9, 2009 2:46:13 PM
Hey! Kevy. Calm down for a minute. I'm not letting this guy off. Just saying some people are fucked up and actually know it. Are you pissed off that he doesn't give some B.S. excuse? The guy confessed. How much more do we we hear B.S. excuses? He did wrong and admitted it. He's gone, dude. He'd be much more fodder for the cannons if he's cried out some crap excuse. I say we send him to jail. But at least he owned up.
Instead of saying a magic Jew on a tortilla told him to do it.
Posted by: LimeGreenLizard | Jul 9, 2009 3:37:22 PM
Glad it didn't go off and no one was hurt. However I think he confessed to the stuff he confessed to to avoid the extra time that it being a hate crime would have given him. Some people's bigotry doesn't come out until the 5th or 6th shot when they've lost every inhibition.
This way he looks repentant and can probably ask for the mercy of the court, some AA and work release or home imprisonment.
Posted by: David | Jul 10, 2009 1:43:54 AM
I can't believe none of y'all got this:
"...I am mad at myself because I am not going anywhere in my life. I have an addiction to pills and alcohol . . . I feel like I am a failure to my girl and my kids.”
Guess what, you don't have to "feel" that way anymore. You've just proved it. BTW, you're also a looser at making pipebombs which work.
Once again, moron. If he was feeling that way, responsbile people go get help. Duh, if you're not going anywhere in life, and you're depressed, you do something to fix your life. Not make others feel miserable. Grow yourself some manhood and take control of your life!
Posted by: Worker | Jul 10, 2009 7:37:24 AM
Limegreen, all I saying is that his picture does not show me (just me I'm talking about) despair, fear, remorse.
Posted by: kevy | Jul 10, 2009 9:49:17 AM
Commenting late because of egregious logic (or lack of it; I am not going to work that out).
I drink more than any five of you.
Take that as a given.
First point.
But one glass of SoCo is beyond my limit.
Stuff's blended.
Stuff's evil.
It's only saving grace is that I can hardly think how anyone could get drunk on it.
Second point.
He made a pipe bomb while drunk?
Let us assume that he has a cast iron stomach able to withstand the vile trauma he is inflicting on it.
Most of us, yes even me, will stay away from explosives while under the influence.
Third point.
He might well have had this little SOB set aside for a rainy day; a day in which he had a bit of liquid courage; but that is being NOT NICE to my fellow man to even think that.
Fourth point.
Good thing he was too much of a dumbass to get it right; and too damn bad he was still sober enough for it not to go horribly wrong for him.
Posted by: Icecycle | Jul 13, 2009 6:51:29 PM
