LA Times: Jason Momoa injured in attack

[metalheart777]

5 is a normal number. Too much more and it may seem like the punishment doesn't fit the crime. You don't give long prision sentences for an assualt. If anything I thought 5 was a little high

He scarred someone's face for life and 5 is a little high?!? I'd have given the coward 10. His punishment is a joke, especially considering (like someone already said) that he won't serve all 5 years.

Here's to hoping he becomes someone's ***** in the joint!

~ mh777

[jelgate]

He scarred someone's face for life and 5 is a little high?!? I'd have given the coward 10. His punishment is a joke, especially considering (like someone already said) that he won't serve all 5 years.

Here's to hoping he becomes someone's ***** in the joint!

~ mh777

Californian law wouldn't allow that

[prion]

Since we know little of the details involved in the case, we can only hazard a guess if 5 years is too much or too little. I'm just glad he is getting jail time.

[Phantom6]

My thought too.



Glass has been banned from loads of pubs in Sydney (Australia) after 11pm or something, for that reason. But in strange news, some Swiss researchers have won the "Ig Nobel" Peace Prize (they are awarded for strange research) for discovering that full beer bottles are less dangerous than empty ones when you are whacked over the head with one.

That's because the fluid actually assists in shock absorption and even displacement of the force over the bottles surface, resulting in less shattering and more even breaking.

[WishIwasJoes]

OMG I cannot believe how some people cannot control their rage and act like freakin animals. Get well soon Jason!

[retiredat44]

how weird! there was another nutcase with a similar name who killed an actress:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/ar...ive_017259.htm

His name was Bardo,,,

The Bando another nutcase attacks an actor..

just strange the name sounded familiar, so I looked it up,,,

[prion]

how weird! there was another nutcase with a similar name who killed an actress:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/ar...ive_017259.htm

His name was Bardo,,,

The Bando another nutcase attacks an actor..

just strange the name sounded familiar, so I looked it up,,,

Oh yeah, he killed Rebecca Shaefer. Poor girl.

OMG I cannot believe how some people cannot control their rage and act like freakin animals. Get well soon Jason!

Think he's fine now, at least folks at cons say he seems to be doing fine.

[WishIwasJoes]

lol guess he must be since he was cast lead in that new Tv show. I was gone from gate world for a bit and I was just shocked to read that. Glad to hear he is doing well.

[KEK]

He scarred someone's face for life and 5 is a little high?!? I'd have given the coward 10. His punishment is a joke, especially considering (like someone already said) that he won't serve all 5 years.

Here's to hoping he becomes someone's ***** in the joint!

~ mh777

What would 10 years achieve that 5 wouldn't? He's no more likely to learn his lesson, if anything he'll come out more alienated with society and a more hardened criminal then when he went in. Everyone does stupid things when they're drunk, ruining someone's life in the name of 'punishment' doesn't do anybody any good.

[Teyla-Joy]

Dude! I had know Idea that happen to him. wow Glad hes ok.

[Teal'c1123]

O.M.G that is terrible fing ass that did that. . . . . . im in new zealand and we dont get that sort of news =(

[Huaracocha]

Only just found out about this - nasty and it sounds like he was lucky not to lose an eye. Anyone know how much of the Khal Drogo look from Game of Thrones is scarring and how much makeup?

Also 5 years for smashing a pint glass in someone's face with a maximum sentence of 7 years for this type of assault? Here in England they like to charge glassing / bottling around the face and neck as GBH (grievous bodily harm) section 18 which carries a maximum sentence of life. Which may be going too far the other way admittedly..

Californian law confuses me when you compare that sentence to cruel and unusual 3 strikes sentences like Santos Reyes (26 to life for cheating on a driving test) or Leandro Andrade (50 to life for stealing 9 video tapes). At least with proposition 36 they don't send people down for 25 to life on 3 strikes for having a spliff in their pocket I guess!

[KEK]

I'd hesitate to say the book should have been thrown at him. We don't know the circumstances behind it, or was Jason did (or didn't as the case may be) do to provoke it. It is a very nasty type of attack though, one of my mates who I went to school with lost an eye from it.

[morrismike]

true, insurance companies can help, but i think when they deny a case like the one above, they should actually go out and talk to the person and see what life is like. i still think viagra and stuff like that should be out of pocket.

I read in the papers recently that they're trying to ban glass pints somewhere in the UK due to their use as a weapon, so...

Pint glasses don't assault people, people swinging pint glasses do.

[morrismike]

That's because the fluid actually assists in shock absorption and even displacement of the force over the bottles surface, resulting in less shattering and more even breaking.

a full beer bottle is far more dangerous than an empty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBus...93_Bottle_Bash