In January of 2008, four people admitted to killing a teenage runaway over a game of Monopoly, the deadliest board of all. The previous April, Hartford police found the battered body of Alexandria Clouse-Desmond, 18, in a microwave oven box in a closet in a Hartford apartment next to a little green motel. Police said Clouse-Desmond was beaten, kicked, stomped with a metal shoe and strangled in an altercation that erupted during a Monopoly game. She died from asphyxiation and poor choices of playmates. Michael Davis, 22, and Darzell Weinstein, 19, pleaded guilty in Hartford Superior Court to accessory to first-degree manslaughter and tampering with evidence and will each serve 18 years in prison unless they roll doubles. Tiara Dixon and Leslie Caraballo, both 19, pleaded guilty to accessory to commit first-degree manslaughter and will serve 12 years. The prosecutor in the case, John Fahey said the original murder charges were reduced because all of the suspects suffer from some form of mental illness, presumably the same illness that leads people to believe that Monopoly is fun. The defense attorney did try to use his “Get out of Jail free” card, but the judge said no.

Laura Chavez, a 60 year-old New Mexican woman, was drinking and playing a game of Monopoly (BAD combination!) with her grandson and her boyfriend, Clyde “Butch” Smith. When Chavez suspected Smith of cheating, she sent her grandson to bed and proceeded to hit Smith over the head with a bottle and then stabbed him repeatedly with a kitchen knife. It’s always good to send the kiddies to bed before having “grown-up time” with your boyfriend . . . such as assaulting him with deadly weapons. The fight was because he was trying to take all the Free Parking money and Chavez asserted, “There is no such thing as Free Parking money. This is craziness!” That’s right, this woman knows from ‘craziness‘. Smith was covered in cuts to his head and wrist and was hospitalized, which was fine because he didn’t feel like staying the night anyway. The EMTs used a little wheelbarrow to put him into a little racecar and sped him away. When police got to the scene, they found Chavez under her porch covered in blood. A little Scottie dog had sniffed her out down there. They asked her if it was Smith’s blood and she said, “Yes. I fucked him up,” because honesty is important. She went directly to jail and did not pass “GO”.

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This is Luka’s favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon. Get ready for memory lane.

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One of Skullard’s favorite Bugs Bunny cartoons, Rabbit Punch (which is full of violence and cheating at sports) can be watched right here!

From Skullard’s Postcard Collection: Yeah, it was a bit hot in the apartment this week . . .