Ohio woman shot to death over Easter attire spat

[onehandle]

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Police in Ohio say a woman shot her cousin to death during an argument that started because one woman didn't think the other was dressed properly for Easter dinner.

Columbus police say 19-year-old Danielle Pickens showed up Sunday night at the home of Evelyn Burgess wearing a T-shirt and jean shorts. Detective Steven Eppert says 42-year-old Burgess told officers she thought the outfit was inappropriate and disrespectful.

The women fought. Police say Pickens walked outside to leave and Burgess shot her in the head with a handgun. Pickens died at a hospital early Monday.

Eppert says Burgess told investigators she didn't mean to shoot Pickens.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100406/ap_on_re_us/us_easter_outfit_shooting

[47of74]

1. Another God Warrior at work here?

Ugh.

[Katya Mullethov]

9. I dont see anything about a keffiyeh---- just jeans and a tee

No , a reasonable person would have to assume that someone "disrespected her-n-shit" .

[saltpoint]

2. Nothing says Easter like packing heat and blowing away your relatives

over what they're wearing. If that doesn't capture the very essence of the holiday, I just don't know what does.

[Captain Hilts]

3. If this were England, they'd have to thrash each other with their purses, but since this is the US..

they can go at it with firearms.

[saltpoint]

5. The whole shooting someone to death thing just seems to

run contrary to the spirit of the holiday, or am I just over-reacting?

:hi:

[Captain Hilts]

6. Somehow, Easter does seem uniquely inappropriate for such activities. nt

[HereSince1628]

10. Not if the woman rises from the dead. n/t

[slackmaster]

22. You don't understand our culture

http://www.smh.com.au/world/obama-gives-order-for-snipers-to-shoot-pirates-to-free-captain-20090413-a45t.html

[Name removed]

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[Glassunion]

20. Purses?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1035669/uk-girl-stabbed-after-football-loss

Happy Easter! Is that what she gets for rooting for ManU? :sarcasm:

[cabluedem]

21. its all about death with these creeps. too afraid to fight they just shoot first.

[slackmaster]

23. Yes, they could have settled it with a simple slap-fest

Crazy women.

[tburnsten]

30. That doesn't pass the sniff test there bub

Mainly because the person murdered her cousin who was leaving. Not going outside to have a good 'ole fashioned fist fight.


By the way, why do you think it is a good thing for people to engage in violent physical altercations?

That's the message you are sending with your post.

[cabluedem]

36. You forgot to add "in my opinion". You are wrong, of course.

[tburnsten]

37. I am sure I am not the only person who interpreted your post the way you wanted it to be interpreted

which is that it is clearly a very representative action to be expected of people who have carry permits. Because you have been on a wild little hate-rampage against people who legally obtain a carry permit and are six million in number in the U.S., causing many less problems than people without carry permits, which this woman almost certainly was not.

That paragraph was awful, but that's ok, I'm not really writing for you, I'm writing for all the lurkers here who maybe don't know that much about the issues involved, and are not aware that you happen to be pretty intentionally clueless about the data on concealed carry permit holders.

Which, given a little context, is plainly obvious when you lump some dirtbag who murdered her own cousin over her SO checking her out, with the six million concealed carry permit holders who are "too scared to fight so they just kill", is that how you phrased it?

[MineralMan]

4. Goodbye, Columbus!

[proteus_lives]

7. Ban Easter attire

[rrneck]

25. Ban attire.

:evilgrin:

Might make concealed carry a little complicated though...

[Glassunion]

29. I like how you think.

This could be really good. In my case it would be really bad.

You did not notice the little sticker on your gun that read "for external use only"?

[rrneck]

32. Heh.

Yeah, and I would definitely have to go hammerless.

[onehandle]

31. Did you just pull that out of your ass?

...is what you would say to a naked concealed carrier when they suddenly produced a gun.

:+

[rrneck]

33. ...

:rofl:

[Euromutt]

39. Heh.

Actually, I seem to recall reading about some knife designed during WWII to be carried behind the scrotum (on one's "taint," essentially) to avoid detection during frisks; the designer, who may have been Rex Applegate, took a delight in getting responses along the lines of "you carry it where?!"

[chill_wind]

8. Jealousy?

According to family members who were present, Burgess got mad when her husband took notice of the T-shirt and jean shorts that Danielle Pickens was wearing.


Here's a pic. She was quite pretty.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/04/06/inappropriate-easter-outfit-blamed-in-death.html?sid=101

[Blue Owl]

11. One nasty bee in that Easter bonnet

:wtf:

[cowman]

12. Meanwhile back

on the ranch. You know the rest of the story

[ashling]

13. Some people simply won't be

caught dead wearing white shoes before Easter.

:rofl:

[Speck Tater]

14. The human race is fatally flawed and doomed to extinction. nt

[rrneck]

24. Yeah, and it appears to be a DIY project. nt

[cabluedem]

15. guns. not just for men anymore. I don't like your dress...BOOM!!!!

[cowman]

16. You never did reply

about your claim that so called assault weapons were banned in ca.

[tburnsten]

38. When have guns ever been for men only? Got a link for ya bud

http://www.corneredcat.com/

[Tejas]

17. Was afraid this would involve Lady Gaga,

thankfully my fears were unfounded.

[jeepnstein]

18. There's got to be a lot more to this story.

People just don't kill one another over bad fashion. That may have been what started the argument but there's got to be more to it than that.

Of course she didn't mean to shoot Pickens. That's why she hit her in the head. An awful lot of this story won't be told until the murder trial.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

26. One would hope so

[Euromutt]

34. You're right

If Mrs. Burgess were in the habit of shooting people over something as trivial as what they were wearing, she would have killed someone long before now. There has got to be something that goes deeper.

[GreenStormCloud]

41. Yep. Check out this article.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100406/ap_on_re_us/us_easter_outfit_shooting

Picture of the shooter is there too. Dead girl, picture linked up thread is pretty and appears to have a cute figure.

Piture of the shooter is at my link. She is somewhat less than pretty to put it kindly.

From the article:

"Evelyn Burgess was angry at Danielle over her outfit and accused her of flaunting her looks around other men at the party, including Burgess' husband, Ralinda Pickens said."

I grant that I am reading between the lines, but I would not be surprised to learn that her husband had been screwing the pretty one and the wife suspected it.

[slackmaster]

19. Did she spit ON someone?

I suspect that family has some other problems besides disagreeing about clothing.

[chaplainM]

27. "Tonight, TLC presents a Very Special 'What Not to Wear.'" eom

[GreenStormCloud]

28. The article says that Burgess was upset that her husband noticed the outfit.

Pickens was good-looking and wearing jeans shorts and a T-shirt. Yep, I bet Burgess 42-yr old husband took notice. And everything went downhill from there.

[one-eyed fat man]

42. yep, she may have been out of estrogen

but she wasn't out of bullets. Will novel use of menopausal mood swings be a defense strategy?

Somebody already tried "Twinkies", and got convicted anyway, so too many Easter Bunny ears probably won't work either.

[jazzhound]

40. Seriously, onehandle..........

.........you need to change your moniker from onehandle to onetrickpony.

[onehandle]

43. Kick. nt

[shadowrider]

44. C'mon man. You can do better than recycling an ariticle you put up from nearly a year ago. n/t