Tough Assignment

by Robert Koehler on March 18, 2009

It must be tough coming up with nice things to say about a guy who kept his own daughter in an underground prison for 24 years, raped her 3,000 times and fathered seven children:

Defending Fritzl, Rudolf Mayer said his client was not a monster, as he had been portrayed by the media. “Despite the way he’s been described, try to see the accused as a human being,” he told the eight-strong jury and four replacement jurors. He argued that Fritzl could have let the cellar children die and that his determination to provide for both his “upstairs” and “downstairs” families was proof that he was not a monster.

Besides, he had a tough childhood.

{ 19 comments… read them below or add one }

1 KrZ March 18, 2009 at 10:43 am

Fritzl gives Australia a bad name.

2 misuda March 18, 2009 at 11:01 am

So thats why they call it Down Under.
Bet you wish your father had come on you when you were locked away, hey KrZ?

3 KrZ March 18, 2009 at 11:06 am

How could my father come on me when I was locked up? We didn’t even have contact visitation. 2/10. Good beginning, but failed due to illogical execution.

4 misuda March 18, 2009 at 11:19 am

Bet that logic didn’t stop you WISHING he came on you while you were getting banged up though, hey KrZ?

5 KrZ March 18, 2009 at 11:25 am

No, but it would have been nice to have some conjugal visits with my sister.

6 Robert Koehler March 18, 2009 at 11:41 am

Cut it out.

7 CactusMcHarris March 18, 2009 at 12:09 pm

#7,

Wasn’t he Austrian, not Australian?

8 odesa March 18, 2009 at 12:20 pm

CactusMcHarris u took the word out of my mouth. i have been a reader for sometime, but never got an id name and just got one right now to say that. by the way I’m not Australian.

9 eujin March 18, 2009 at 12:21 pm

He’s clearly still giving Australia a bad name.

10 KrZ March 18, 2009 at 12:37 pm
11 misuda March 18, 2009 at 12:45 pm

What sort of Australian patriot wraps himself in a New Zealand flag?
BTW, are you Canadian CactusMcHarris?

12 Jewook March 18, 2009 at 1:40 pm

You guys had me confused for a while. He’s Austrian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case

Austrian and Australian, shouldn’t be to difficult to distinguish.

13 SeoulFinn March 18, 2009 at 5:40 pm

According to the mere numbers, we can say that this sick man raped his own daughter every three days or so. How many of us have _consensual sex_ with our significant others as often… year after year after year? Well, I’m sure that this sick bastard didn’t get his kicks from the “sex” but from the power he wielded over his victim.

Mr. Frizl, no punishment is enough for the likes of you.

14 r.rac March 18, 2009 at 5:54 pm

punishment for this guy is easy, 30 years in a windowless 8×5 cell getting raped every other day sounds good enough to me

15 SeoulFinn March 18, 2009 at 8:38 pm

r.rac:

Only if we can be absolutely sure that a) Mr. Fritzl doesn’t enjoy being assaulted by other convicts, no matter how lovingly they administer the punishment, and b) Mr. Fritzl will live those 30 years and serve his sentence in full.

16 CactusMcHarris March 18, 2009 at 11:17 pm

Misuda,

Yes, although you could argue that since I find poutine right up there with baloot as ‘foods that should only be eaten as part of a criminal sentence’ I’m not ‘real’ Canadian, which is true.

17 CactusMcHarris March 18, 2009 at 11:43 pm

Sorry, he’s be too much a distraction to the other inmates. Is there an active gulag that mines lead? Send him there and let him work until he dies. But then, you’d probably have the EU’s version of the ACLU raising a stink.

18 misuda March 19, 2009 at 12:29 am

Wasn’t Adolf Hitler actually born in Australia as well.
Nation of sick bastards if you ask me!

19 CactusMcHarris March 19, 2009 at 1:05 am

You’re madder than a bag of cut snakes, Misuda. I’m sure your continued mistake of misrembering the differences between Austria and Australia bring down the houses in both Vienna and Canberra.

Remember, one’s an island, one isn’t.

One has native marsupials, one doesn’t.

One has cafes where ‘Mit Schlag’ is derigeur, one doesn’t.

Where is Hoju Man when we need him here?

Previous post:

Next post: