July 30, 2002

1:40 AM

Heaven-or-hell argument ends with shotgun slaying
An argument over who was going to heaven and who was going to hell ended with one Texas man shooting another to death with a shotgun, police said Monday.
So now we'll never know who was right - or does murder 1 and effective suicide suggest a spell in the "other place"?
posted by zimbobzim (18 comments total)

religion + alcohol + gun + trailer park = good time in texas
posted by donkeyschlong at 1:48 AM on July 30, 2002

I feel sure this made it into the national news because of the dateline: Godley, Texas.
posted by coelecanth at 4:52 AM on July 30, 2002

it is stories like this that makes me proud to be a texan.
posted by birdherder at 5:07 AM on July 30, 2002

you think Stoker's the one going to hell?
posted by tolkhan at 5:35 AM on July 30, 2002

Being from Texas, I'd like to be offended by the gross stereotyping of donkeyschlong's post....but being from Texas, I can't deny the truth of it.
posted by thewittyname at 5:42 AM on July 30, 2002

I haven't been to Godley, but I have been to the town right down the road, Clenley.
posted by dhartung at 5:51 AM on July 30, 2002

*groans*
posted by SpecialK at 7:53 AM on July 30, 2002

I wonder if the argument ended with "I'll see you in hell!"

Now that would have been portentous.
posted by insomnyuk at 8:02 AM on July 30, 2002

the local churches should stop sponsoring "Hard liquor and Handgun" night.
posted by clavdivs at 8:08 AM on July 30, 2002

I'm not sure if this solved the argument of whether there is a heaven or hell, but it sure is a good example of Darwin's Law in action.
posted by misterioso at 8:09 AM on July 30, 2002

I haven't been to Godley, but I have been to the town right down the road, Clenley.

Jeez, don't do that -- I'm getting strange looks for laughing at my computer.
posted by me3dia at 8:12 AM on July 30, 2002

At least the Texas Conveyor Belt of Death won't be burdened, eh?
posted by fold_and_mutilate at 8:13 AM on July 30, 2002

I wonder if the argument ended with "I'll see you in hell!"

I wonder if the guy also yelled "I don't deserve to die like this!" and the other guy responded, icily: "Deserves got nothing to do with it..."

Ok, ok, you can all tell what movie I watched over the weekend...
posted by adampsyche at 8:17 AM on July 30, 2002

I don't know about these guys, but I'm suddenly reasonably sure that dhartung is going to hell.
posted by Skot at 8:20 AM on July 30, 2002

Wherever they go, I hope I'm in the other place.
posted by Red58 at 8:35 AM on July 30, 2002

religion + alcohol + gun + trailer park = good time in texas

One day!  One day all the small towns in Texas will magically disappear and be replaced by cultured, tolerant centers of learning... one day...

At least the Texas Conveyor Belt of Death won't be burdened, eh?

I dunno.  One of the guys is charged with first-degree murder.

Ok, ok, you can all tell what movie I watched over the weekend...
"I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned."

Wherever they go, I hope I'm in the other place.

No kidding.  My personal idea of heaven does not include people like this.
posted by nath at 9:50 AM on July 30, 2002

This is what happens when you teach people insane cosmologies. Whether one if going to eternal damnation or paradise must cause lots of existential anxiety. Oh course, we could never, ever hold those who preach these beliefs even-partialy responsible for the stupidity they cause. That would be un'merican!

I wonder if Do could have been convicted of anything had he survived.
posted by skallas at 4:47 PM on July 30, 2002

And we have a winner!

You better bury Ned right. You better not cut up nor otherwise harm no whores, or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches.
posted by adampsyche at 4:59 PM on July 30, 2002