There’s nothing that leftybloggers like more than stories where a conservative Christian – usually white and male – freaks out and does something really off-color or awful. You’ve seen it; fromar Larry Craig through Tom Hackbarth, they gambol and prance around such stories like a bunch of happy little pixies. You know what I’m talking about.
Hold that thought.
I’m not one to make light of other peoples’ misfortunes. Seriously.
I read this story about the Apple Valley woman who, apparently distraught over her son’s death, lit her house on fire with her husband in it, hammered a screwdriver into her chest, and then led police on a high speed chase.
Police got a call about 9:15 a.m. saying that Rhonda Arkley, 49, had poured gasoline inside her house at 4754 142nd St. in Apple Valley and was threatening to kill herself.
When officers arrived at the home, flames were coming out of the rear of the house. Arkley, locked in her car outside of the house, was stabbing herself in the chest with a screwdriver, police said.
Her husband was in the house. He escaped, apparently with some burns.
When she saw the officers, Arkley drove away, triggering a chase that ended in neighboring Eagan, police said.
Rosemount resident Jim Corrigan was in his car trying to make a left-hand turn from Pilot Knob Road to Cliff Road when a squad car “came whipping down Cliff and backed up onto the sidewalk at the traffic lights.”
Corrigan said the officer pulled a set of road spikes out of his trunk and “waited, talking on his radio.”
“I could see in my rear-view mirror there was this car coming really fast,” Corrigan said.
The car, which he said was a station wagon, “went right over (the spikes) like it was nothing.”
According to police, as officers approached Arkley’s stopped car, she was using a hammer to pound a screwdriver into her chest.
In all seriousness, sounds like the woman needs some help, not to mention any prayers, karmic imvocations or best wishes you can peel off for her.
Although that last bit may seem ironic.
This bit here almost escaped me:
Criminal records show Arkley served a year of probation after a fifth-degree domestic assault conviction in 2005…Arkley was a DFL candidate for state Senate District 37 in 2002. At the time, she called herself very progressive and said she was active in environmental and atheist organizations.
If she had been a conservative Christian (male!) active in business and faith organizations, she’d have not only been story number one with a couple dozen local leftyblog hamsters this morning, the storyt would wind up as an episode of Law and Order.
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