fracas

Over at CNN, Anna Jane Grossman writes about women seeking revenge for relationships gone wrong using Terri Garr as an example.

The article is peppered with other examples of how women have felt “empowered” after having been wronged, by committing such acts as rigging the phone of the offender, to forward his calls to a gay-sex hotline, sneaking into the home to turn up the heat and gluing the controls at that setting, a woman distributing fliers of her ex with the phrase “I have herpes” scrawled on it, microwaving their spouse’s pets and more.

About Terri, Anna writes:

“Enraged, Garr says she drove to her boyfriend’s house in 1990 and did what many a scorned woman has only dreamed of: She smashed all his windows.”

Later, she explains that Garr’s ex was present at the time and called police.

“But the policeman arrives and says, ‘Oh! Ms. Garr! Are you OK?’ the actress said, ‘Now I am.’ And I left,” she says, adding that no charges were pressed. The police officer “thought I was the victim,” says Garr. “And really, I was.”

Although to be fair, the book mentioned in the article does have a section dealing with acts of revenge committed against women, by the wronged men… the focus is mainly on women getting even with those naughty, philandering men. Probably what prompted me to write something was that as per the Garr qhotes provided in the article, it doesn’t appear that Teri had regrets for what she did. While I have been known to enjoy singing along to Carrie Underwood’s Before He Cheats, I’d like to take this opportunity to say this to Terri and all the other women (or men) out there who think this kind of thing is ok.

It’s really not, and you know… funny or not, smashing someone’s windows (as well as many of the other acts described in the book and the CNN article) is a criminal act. Take up kick boxing or something, and five years later you won’t be swimming in remorse, finding yourself the lucky partner of yet another less than perfect ”mate” (in a prison somewhere), or for those brainiac celebs… years later there won’t be some smart ass blogger able to title a post with your name followed by “Criminal Acts“.

Read the rest of the article here. Enjoy the video below for the music, and file the ideas under “stupid“.