Mailer Of Cow Head Sentenced
A man from Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to probation and community service for mailing a severed cow head to the man who had been carrying on an affair with the mailer's wife.
Authorities in Lower Pottsgrove, northwest of Philadelphia, arrested Fife and charged him with stalking, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and harassment after he allegedly sent threatening messages and pictures to the victim between May and September 2006.
The victim received a package containing a cow's head with a puncture wound in its skull on June 1, 2006.
Police said Fife, 31, got the cow's head from a butcher's shop, claiming he wanted the dried skull for decoration. Instead, he mailed the head frozen, so as not to alert parcel carriers to the contents, police said. The box became bloody after sitting on the victim's doorstep on a warm day.
Police were able to trace the package and threatening e-mails to Fife, court documents indicate.
"My client did step over the line here, but one can certainly understand his frustration, given that the victim was carrying on an affair with my client's wife," Hilles said.
Well, of course this is a serious violation of the law. One simply cannot ship frozen, bloody cow heads about like that. Corleone's Law states that the proper contents of the package is a horse's head.
(And yes, that was a joke, people.)
By NortonPete, Tuesday, 8 January , 2008 @ 8:36 pm
As George Costanza once said; “Was that wrong?”.
I don’t know about threatening the emails so I’ll skip them.
Actually what is so wrong about mailing a cow’s head when someone is having an affair with your wife?. Seems like a passive response
to me.
By Uncle Pinky, Tuesday, 8 January , 2008 @ 9:38 pm
To get the full Corleone effect you have to sneak it into their bed.
That’s where they get you. B&E and possession of burglarious tools. Then you gotta bribe the cop or whack the DA. Too much hassle.
My name’s Uncle Pinky and I wear pin-stripe zoot suits, carry a violin case, cap it off with a Borsolino and have running boards on my car.
By martian, Wednesday, 9 January , 2008 @ 10:58 am
I’m with Uncle Pinky - his mistake was in using the US Mail. The proper delivery method is in person to the guy’s bed - while he’s sleeping in it.
By Mockin'bird, Wednesday, 9 January , 2008 @ 1:12 pm
He should ‘a used UPS.