Scum of the Fucking Earth

Let me rephrase that, in the interest of accuracy and fairness.

If scum could take a dump, and that dump was left to fester in a puddle of slug piss, these two pieces of subhuman trash would be the microbial growth resulting thereon.

Police arrest pair in attack on woman, 76, in Peabody

Wanda Lisk said the men who stormed into her Peabody home yesterday
morning held a knife to her throat and punched her. She said they also
were armed with a hammer. At right,l Richard W. Turner (right), 19, of
Beverly and Joshua Geggatt, 21, of Danvers pleaded not guilty to armed
robbery, among other charges, in Peabody District Court yesterday.
(Photos by Lisa Poole for the Boston Globe)

PEABODY -- In just five words, Wanda A. Lisk told what drove her to fight two armed men who stormed into the 76-year-old woman's home yesterday, leaving bruises on her face and fear in her heart.

"I didn't want to die," she said.

Lisk was attacked about 3 a.m. while sleeping on the couch in her home on Daniel Terrace , a dead-end street in a south Peabody subdivision. Lisk's basement in-law apartment was destroyed recently by flooding , so she was sleeping in the second-floor unit that belongs to her grandson, Joseph Deleskey , according to her son, Fred Lisk .

Wanda Lisk said she was awakened when two men shined a flashlight in her eyes. They had hoods pulled down to their noses, making it impossible for her to make out their faces. She urged them to take what they wanted and then leave her house -- and her -- alone. They chose otherwise.

"You are going to die," she quoted one of her attackers as saying.

Wanda Lisk said the men were armed with a knife and a hammer and that one held the knife to her throat. When she resisted, the man started punching her. When she pulled his finger back so hard she thinks she broke it, the punching escalated.

"I twisted the finger, and then he really gave it to me," she said. Her right eye was blackened and swollen shut.

Words almost fail me.

And, what story would be complete without the obligatory glowing character references provided by the scumbag's sympathetic sperm receptacles.

"He never meant to hurt anybody. Josh wouldn't hurt a woman," [Geggatt's girlfriend, Susan] Lothrop said.

[snip]

[Danielle Wood, Turner's girlfriend] said Turner had past involvement with state social work and mental health agencies and is taking medication for a variety of emotional problems.

"He's got post-traumatic stress disorder," she said, adding, "He's not a bad kid."

That makes two high-profile incidents of hammer-related violence in Massachusetts in a week's time. How long before we see some idiot up on Beacon Hill calling for some "common sense" hammer control legislation?

Any individual who requires a hammer for the purposes of carpentry, masonry, or home improvement work shall register the hammer with the local police department on an annual basis and, upon payment of an appropriate annual registration fee as determined by the local granting authority, shall be issued a permit authorizing him to possess the hammer solely for the purposes stated and subject to any restrictions, which the licensing authority deems appropriate.

Think I'm being over-dramatic?

UPDATE: This one's priceless.

Danielle Wood, 17, who has been dating Turner, said she thinks it's a case of "good intentions gone a little wrong."

Just...wow.

And, I'm gonna go waaaaaaaay out on the proverbial limb once again and assume that this is the same 21-year-old Joshua Geggatt who was arretsed in Beverly less than a week ago.

Beverly

Saturday

* Joshua Geggatt, 21, of 27 Harriman Road, Raymond, N.H., was arrested and charged with malicious destruction of property and threatening to commit a crime at 9:48 p.m. after police received a report of a fight at Federal and Chase streets.

...and throw away the key.