The family of major league pitcher Carl Pavano told police that a former Southington High School classmate was trying to extort money and a luxury SUV from Pavano by threatening to reveal personal information about him, according to a search warrant affidavit filed by police earlier this month.
In the affidavit, Pavano’s sister, Michelle DeGennaro, said Christian Bedard, 36, of Southington, was “attempting to extort monetary funds for his fabricated, false information” and that he believes he can hold the Pavano family “hostage” with the information.
DeGennaro filed a complaint with Southington Police in December, after receiving messages from Bedard she considered harassing on the social networking site Facebook, The messages included demands for a luxury SUV.
“The only way your brother is getting out of this… is with a heart-felt apology and a navy Range Rover with tan leather,” Bedard said in one message to DeGennaro.
...In an interview Monday, Bedard said he was writing a journal as a way of giving closure to what he said was an “emotional and physical relationship” between him and Pavano which lasted for three years while the two were high school classmates.
“I’m sure they don’t want any of this getting out there,” Bedard said Monday.
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1. flournoy Posted: March 29, 2012 at 07:50 AM (#4092067)I'm going to have to remember that line for the next time someone accidentally steps on my shoes in the street.
EDIT: Though really the focus is on the leather. If you want to phone in the apology I'm cool with that too.
Cashman really wants his money back
Carl Pavano has an arm like a leg.
I hate when people talk like this.
How were we supposed to know what kind of funds they were talking about without specifying "monetary?"
2 negatives make a positive!
We now have an industry that America leads the way in fabrication! Someone give Snapper a hug.
That thread was a trainwreck anyway.
Speaking of which, my bookmarks sidebar reads:
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because of the deleted Castro thread. I suppose many people here see the same. It's like a permanent scar.
That thread was a trainwreck anyway.
Where's the explanation? All I see is a big black hole. The thread was there one minute and gone the next.
Jim said the discussion had gotten too negative and way too far off topic. I didn't really he nuked it. I thought he was just closing it.
The last few hundred comments of that thread weren't any sort of real discussion. It was just Hutcheson and something other yelling loudly and telling everyone how stupid they are (not to pick on the BBTF lefties. All political groups here are fully capable of behaving like animals. The discussion in that thread just seemed to bring out the worst in a handful of people).
Which, if you sit down and think it through without putting your "I hate Sam Hutcheson with the heat of a thousand suns" blinders on,
Stop.
Being poor and black is a "go to jail immediately, even if you didn't do anything notable" card. (See BBC's experiences of being made to lay prostrate on the ground while having her car searched, and ask yourself, do you *really* think there was probable cause to have *BBC* on the ground on the side of the road?) Being a young black man doubles that ante.
Of course that happens and of course it's terrible and the cops should be dismissed from the force and put in jail. But it isn't rectified by mob rule over the Zimmermann/Martin case. You're trying to alleviate a structural, systemic problem (tragedy) with symbols and totems that make Oprah and Spike Lee and other celebrities feel good. It's more the ineffectivness and pointlessness -- and, really, laziness -- of these mob rituals that annoys. Plus, of course, the fact that when they're wrong, injustice ensues -- e.g., Duke lacrosse.
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Putting people on ignore and closing threads is something I'm doomed never to comprehend.
The last few hundred comments of that thread weren't any sort of real discussion. It was just Hutcheson and something other yelling loudly and telling everyone how stupid they are (not to pick on the BBTF lefties. All political groups here are fully capable of behaving like animals. The discussion in that thread just seemed to bring out the worst in a handful of people).
I agree that the thread had pretty much run its course, and I wouldn't have had any objection to Jim's simply saying, "no more comments". But that's not what he did.
Closing is nuking. It goes away. Site owner and admin said the thread should go away. So it did. There's no reason to complain about that.
Of course.
He didn't nuke it. It's still there if you want to read it. Just type Sweeney Santorum into the search bar and it's right there.
Of course.
Even if Jim hadn't mentioned your post, blaming you for anything bad is always a good idea :)
No it's not. "Closing" is "no more comments, but you can read what went before", such as the Socratic dialogue between you and Kehoskie. Nuking is what Jim did.
No, he didn't.
It's right here.
...and I say that only to be amusing...
That's helpful, and it worked, and thanks. But when you see a thread removed from the Hot Topics and from your bookmarks, searching "Sweeney Santorum" is not the first thing that comes to mind.
Again, I have no problem with closing comments to that particular thread, just its disappearance from HT and Bookmarks. Anyone coming onto the site a bit later in the day would have had no idea what had happened.
Anyway, it (the Sweeney thread, not my baby) had a good run.
Certainly. Ironically enough, I am the white devil.
Anyone coming to the site a bit later in the day and looking for that thread is familiar with the vagaries of political off-topicineering on BTF and the occasional disappearance of a thread, I think. It comes. It goes. I actually ended that thread agreeing with David. I'd hate for that to hang around so people could get the impression that that's normal behavior.
And, congrats, Guapo.
Does this mean I have to sign with the Mets?
I'm sure there is a sizable percentage of people (particularly older people) who do not know what Facebook is. My father is 66 years old which is not especially old and he recently asked what "that My Face" thing on the internet is. When writing for a general audience I think it is wise for the writer to explain more precisely, particularly when it can be done so efficiently. "The social networking site Facebook..." is hardly a lengthy tangent.
Does this mean I have to sign with the Mets?
Case in point.
It actually means you already signed with the Mets.
Who's Bonilla in this analogy?
Please don't use that horrible word again, at least until we stop paying him.
Anybody got a pack of cards?
The bar for classy in our organization is set at "not spraying reporters with bleach."
Maybe I'm way off base, but it seems similar to a baseball illiterate asking "what's a slider?" and answering with "it's an off-speed pitch".
You know what they say about the sucker at the table when playing poker? If you don't know who it is . . .
Look on the bright side, it means you're getting paid for the next 25 years.
Searching "Sweeney Santorum" is the first thing I do every day. Nothing like some Sweeney Santorum to get you out of bed in the morning.
I think it definitely means you need to start referring to yourself in the third person more...
ISam Hutcheson agrees with this post.</obligatory baseball-thread related post>
Hey now, the repetition of superfluous synonyms (or near synonyms) has been a staple of oratory since at least the Romans.
Searching "Sweeney Santorum" is the first thing I do every day. Nothing like some Sweeney Santorum to get you out of bed in the morning.
I've got Sweeney Santorum as my screen saver. My computer is greasier and more opaque than the camera lens they use to shoot Barbara Walters on "The View."
Don't people make a comment similar to that in, like, every third thread?
Yeah, right!
(from the linguist-professor joke about a double-positive making a negative)
It will be less strange to you if you start naming you children after Internet threads.
(Sweeney Santorum is an obvious choice.)
My kids Petco, John F Mabry, and Ring Ding have gotten by just fine -- my daughter, John F Mabry, complains sometimes but I think that's just because she's developing a thing for Jeremy Giambi.
I didn't know Pavano was from Southington...I have a couple of friends who are teachers there.
I don't think naming your child O.J. at this point would be a good idea.
Please don't use that horrible word again, at least until we stop paying him.
Just how long do you think Sam has to live, exactly?
Sam Hutcheson will live forever. Sam Hutcheson is the white devil!
I know you are, but what am I?
Yea, those cars are faaaaaaabulous.
What an inadvertently great line. It's a little overwrought to start, but it reaches fabulous levels of delusion by the end. You can almost see the initiative driving away from him in a luxury SUV.
Note to blackmailers: don't talk price. It makes you look weak. Talk threat, and let the victim talk price.
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