Punk'd
Sick.
A 26-year-old punk chick scalped a 16-year-old punk chick "apparently as punishment for her disrespectful behavior toward women":
Dahle is accused of tying up the teenager and cutting away a 6-by-8-inch section of her scalp. She allegedly used a 4-inch knife to cut away the crown and back portion of the scalp. ...No snarky comments, but I have to wonder about the story's angle regarding the motive. I'm curious as to how a 16-year-old girl's "disrespect" toward women could be egregious enough to warrant another woman slicing off several dozen square inches of skin from the girl's head."When I say this gal was scalped, she was truly scalped," said Bill Braddock, chief deputy of Boise County. "The top of her head, her hair, was completely cut off. The motive, as near as we've been told by witnesses, was retaliation for acting in a way that the adult perceived as being offensive to women as a gender."
Braddock said the victim, Dahle and another teenage girl who witnessed the attack were long-term acquaintances who belonged to the same clique. ...
Police were alerted after Dahle allegedly dropped the teen off at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center in Boise, Braddock said. Sheila said her face and body were covered with blood when Dahle left her at the hospital.
Authorities recovered the scalp, which had been left behind at the hot springs, but doctors were unable to reattach it, Braddock said.
Not being an expert in the ethical codes of teen and young adult punk gangs, it strikes me as a bit off that this girl's "crime" was cited as "disrespect". Girls aren't usually that physically aggressive -- especially when the victim is so much younger. The article briefly hints that there were "sexual overtones" to the incident -- which would make a lot more sense than the whole "disrespect" angle. Was this an expression of jealous rage? A Lorena-Bobbitt-style act of revenge?
Either way, it would do a lot better to explain the complete wacktitude of this woman's violent behavior. Yeah, it's still nuts, but it makes a lot more sense than some gobbledegook about defending the violation of gender roles and interrelational mores in microsocial minority communities.
Posted by Matt at February 9, 2005 12:30 PM
