A marine, Abu Ghraib and alcoholism
NOVEMBER 2004
Amazing Antics: Stories of Alcoholism-Driven Behaviors
You'd better vote "right" or else!
Story from This is True by Randy Cassingham, with "tagline:"
"DEBATE TACTIC: Steven Soper, 18, tried to convince his girlfriend Stacey Silveira that she should vote for George W. Bush but, then he couldn't get his point across, police say, he grabbed a screwdriver and held it to her throat. Police in Boynton Beach, Fla., say he threatened that she "won't live to see the next election" unless she changed her voting preference. Police, called by a neighbor who heard the ruckus, arrived to find him holding the screwdriver to her throat, and refused to drop it. They Tasered him to subdue him. Soper, who recently enlisted in the ...
