Greven went inside and retrieved the knife, and then "swung it wildly, nearly missing her and her bike."

So he hit her. A near miss is a hit.

"Today is a good day to die. I'm not going back to jail, someone is going to die,"

And promptly followed her into a jail. (Okay fine, not a real jail, but they still have holding cells)

slayer199: "Today is a good day to die. I'm not going back to jail, someone is going to die"

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I see we already have this taken care of.

"Perhaps today is a good day to die. Ramming speed."

Was her name Amy?

I imagine a screen flashed in his mind like Grand Theft Auto:

"The girl got away"

As his car slows for a second and the chase music drops out.

FTA: "delivered several knee strikes to his midsection"

A hah ha ha ha ha

There's gotta be a video, all police stations have video cameras, right?

Sybarite: BurnShrike: Greven went inside and retrieved the knife, and then "swung it wildly, nearly missing her and her bike."

So he hit her. A near miss is a hit.



So when you hear that two airplanes had a near miss, you assume they hit each other?

"A near miss" and "nearly missing" are not the same thing...

Fiction Fan: Bullshiat

If your endoskeleton is a hyperalloy combat chasis then maybe you can take on a whole police station but you might not actually have a girlfriend. Since terminators don't bleed much when they're cut I'm guessing they don't have enough blood pressure to get it up.

"... then delivered several knee strikes to his midsection." took me completely by surprise.

The alleged victim, who had an active restraining order against Greven that ended today, chose not to renew the order during a District Court hearing Monday.

Yeah, he just chased you into a police station while brandishing a large knife. He probably got it all out of his system.

I thought it only applies to Immortals and churches

red5ish: The alleged victim....alleged, alleged?

Why not just use her name? "The alleged victim" is such an awkward construction, and in this case "alleged" is just a bad choice of words.

Because not using her name is precisely the intention of choosing such a mangled term. Most jurisdictions go out of their way to protect the identity of - if you'll excuse me - alleged victims of domestic and sexual assault, especially if they're children. There's a lot of reasons for doing so, most based sadly on how real cases worked out.

BurnShrike: So he hit her. A near miss is a hit.

You're using the wrong definition of 'near'.

1 at or to a short distance away; nearby : a bomb exploding somewhere near | [ comparative ] she took a step nearer.
2 a short time away in the future : the time for his retirement was drawing near.
3 [as submodifier ] almost : a near perfect fit.

You're assuming the use is as a submodifier, meaning almost. However, the primary use of the word means a short distance away. A near miss means the objects were close to each other when they missed, not that it was almost a miss.

BurnShrike: Greven went inside and retrieved the knife, and then "swung it wildly, nearly missing her and her bike."

So he hit her. A near miss is a hit.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that had a problem with this.

BurnShrike: Greven went inside and retrieved the knife, and then "swung it wildly, nearly missing her and her bike."

So he hit her. A near miss is a hit.

"Today is a good day to die. I'm not going back to jail, someone is going to die,"

And promptly followed her into a jail. (Okay fine, not a real jail, but they still have holding cells)

That's the first thing I noticed. Who proofreads this stuff, a chimpanzee?

what_now: The alleged victim, who had an active restraining order against Greven that ended today, chose not to renew the order during a District Court hearing Monday.

Wait...what?

TFA said it was an "on again, off again" relationship. Of course she didn't renew the order - it would make it hard for her to visit him in prison.

MandM: The alleged victim, who had an active restraining order against Greven that ended today, chose not to renew the order during a District Court hearing Monday.

Wait...what?


How many stories on fark about a women being killed by an estranged, spouse, boyfirend, girldfriend, whatever ended with "And she had a restraining order against the person"? It seems to piss them off more.

Not only this, but the guy was denied bail. She would have had to come back every few months to keep the restraining order and this guy isn't going anywhere. The restraining order didn't stop this guy from hunting her down with a knife into a police station. If that didn't stop him what are the chances that a legal order is going to do it?

3 [as submodifier ] almost : a near perfect fit.

This is the context the word was used. It the example it to mean "close to or almost". So a near perfect fit could be said as it was almost perfect. A "near miss" then could be said as an "almost missed" therefor he almost missed her but did not, so he hit her.

ShawnDoc: BurnShrike:
So he hit her. A near miss is a hit.

Nope. "Nearly missed" would be a hit. A "near miss" means you missed, but not much.

I take it no one in this thread remembers George Carlin, "Oh look they nearly missed".

chionophile: Sybarite: BurnShrike: Greven went inside and retrieved the knife, and then "swung it wildly, nearly missing her and her bike."

So he hit her. A near miss is a hit.



So when you hear that two airplanes had a near miss, you assume they hit each other?

"A near miss" and "nearly missing" are not the same thing...

This - like a dead snake and a deadly snake.

The woman told police she had been riding her bike down Washington Street when she noticed Greven, with whom she had an "on and off" two-year relationship, the report said.

I bet she liked his "bad-boy" antics.

Dumb biatch probably deserved the thumping.

First of all she had a restraining order on this guy so what does the dumb wench do? Why she takes a bike ride over to the guys house... How much you want to bed she taunted the guy from the street, and provoked a man she was scared enough to file a court order against. Fricken half whit "alleged victim" my ass. If this guy didn't kill her the next one she taunts into a frenzy will.

slayer199: "Today is a good day to die. I'm not going back to jail, someone is going to die"

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Came here to say this. That officer is a hero for taking down a Klingon in hand-to-hand combat.

HotWingConspiracy: The woman told police she had been riding her bike down Washington Street when she noticed Greven, with whom she had an "on and off" two-year relationship, the report said.

I bet she liked his "bad-boy" antics.

I was wondering about that. He's obviously a winnar, and she is the kind of girl that dates them.

Baelz: Dumb biatch probably deserved the thumping.

First of all she had a restraining order on this guy so what does the dumb wench do? Why she takes a bike ride over to the guys house... How much you want to bed she taunted the guy from the street, and provoked a man she was scared enough to file a court order against. Fricken half whit "alleged victim" my ass. If this guy didn't kill her the next one she taunts into a frenzy will.

what_now: The alleged victim, who had an active restraining order against Greven that ended today, chose not to renew the order during a District Court hearing Monday.

Wait...what?

She still loves him.

Hold on a minute subby. In Wisconsin (in Fox Lake, I believe), there was a man who chased his wife into the police station and killed her. Probably didn't help that the police station was closed. And, in small towns here in Wisconsin, if you beat your spouse, they will separate you and give you the cooling off period, especially if you know the cop. It feels like domestic violence intervention is not a high priority here. Not many women's shelter unless you live in an urban area.

/Hate the small town-ness mentality (administratively speaking)
//Love the low crime in smalltownville. the worst problem that I've had is getting tepee'd

The alleged victim, who had an active restraining order against Greven that ended today, chose not to renew the order during a District Court hearing Monday.

Why the fark not? What you think he's going to restrain himself in the future?! He chased you with a butcher knife into a farkin' police station!

I don't give a fark about a restraining order. If I'm in love with a woman, then no stupid piece of bureaucratic shiat paper is going to keep me away from her. I've found that women get overwhelmed with all the attention I want to give them -- calling them to see where they are, testing them to make sure they're faithful, toughening them up emotionally and physically. Sometimes they just need to get away for a little while, which makes my cabin upstate a perfect place for them to unwind. Don't get me wrong - I'm not some sort of possessive maniac. If she wants to leave, and proves it to me, then I will let her go, though no one will ever love her and she's going to be miserable without me.

jayphat: what_now: The alleged victim, who had an active restraining order against Greven that ended today, chose not to renew the order during a District Court hearing Monday.

Wait...what?

I was hoping I wasn't the only one to catch that.
"But he's a good man your honor and I love him."

what_now: The alleged victim, who had an active restraining order against Greven that ended today, chose not to renew the order during a District Court hearing Monday.

Wait...what?

Well, considering how well her existing restraining order worked...

No one noticed this yet?

Officer Raymond Therrien reported seeing the 42-year-old woman being "chased frantically" toward the department entrance by a man later identified as Constantine Greven, 40, of 26 Washington St.

and

The woman told police she had been riding her bike down Washington Street when she noticed Greven, with whom she had an "on and off" two-year relationship

She waited patiently on her bike while this guy runs into the house to rummage through his kitchen to find a knife. Yaaaa right.

Hope this guy gets a good Lawyer, and his neighbors come forward about this chick. No way she is innocent in all this. You don't accidentally ride up to your violent, ex-con, ex-boyfriends house on your bike and innocently stop to hang out and wait to be innocently chased into a police station.