I'm wrapping up a magazine story about this wretched case surrounding Drew Peterson (the Bolingbrook, Ill. police sergeant, for those who only listen to NPR and read the Economist, whose third wife is dead, fourth wife is missing). It's been quite a journey, but a little dark! I believe for my next story, I will focus on golf, or maybe daffodils.
Anyway: I'm set up for Google news feeds for Bolingbrook, so I get every story or blog entry relating to this suburb. I've been working on the story for more than three months. Boy, do I know a lot about Bolingbrook! Ask me anything!
Occasionally, such quirky devotion to a random town is rewarded with a news story you might not otherwise have read. Like this news brief, from today's Joliet Daily Herald:
"A Bolingbrook man was found guilty Thursday of firing a gun into a crowd of men last year, Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said. Christopher Gunn, 25, faces up to 14 years in prison when he is sentenced May 8 before Circuit Judge Amy Bertani Tomczak. A Will County jury found Gunn guilty on one count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, according to a release from Glasgow's office. Gunn fired between five and six shots into a crowd of men standing outside Bolingbrook's Jamestown townhouse complex on Nov. 8, according to the news release. No one was injured, but several witnesses said they saw Gunn fire the weapon."
Nothing the judge can do will punish this fellow more than the embarrassment of being named "Gunn" and somehow emptying your revolver into a "crowd of men" and injuring no one.
Dare I speculate, maybe Gunn was loaded?
Comments (6)
Because you've been forced to be immersed in that dreadful Bolingbrooke case (which, in fact I am familiar with and so you have my sympathies) I am willing to forgive you that extremely bad pun...on Gunn!
Since apparently we're all getting another ton of snow this weekend, I recommend taking Scout out in the backyard and helping her make a snow fort. There is nothing better than kids to maintain perspective, and take your mind off anything unpleasant!
Posted by Kristen | March 7, 2008 8:09 AM
Posted on March 7, 2008 08:09
I know you know Kristen, that once that pun crossed my mind I had no choice but to blog it. What, was I NOT going to blog it? And sit here, chortling about it too myself. "Tee hee. Gunn was loaded! Tee hee!"
No, that's not what bloggers do. Bloggers blog.
(And twits tweet.)
Posted by David Murray | March 7, 2008 10:55 AM
Posted on March 7, 2008 10:55
Did you just call me a twit??? Not, you understand, that I haven't been called worse, but really, Harrumph!
Posted by Kristen | March 7, 2008 12:43 PM
Posted on March 7, 2008 12:43
You don't tweet, do you Kristen?
Posted by David Murray | March 7, 2008 1:10 PM
Posted on March 7, 2008 13:10
When will there be so much tweeting and twitting that no one reads anything any more?
Posted by Diane | March 7, 2008 3:10 PM
Posted on March 7, 2008 15:10
For the record, I never called Kristen a twit. And so ends this snit.
Posted by David Murray | March 8, 2008 11:18 AM
Posted on March 8, 2008 11:18