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Smith said the argument escalated after "I turned on the TV and she got mad."
"She punched me in the groin," Smith said. He said Bell also hit him with a coffee canister and a bedpan.
"It was full of pee," he said.
In response, Smith said, "I hit her once and that was it. Maybe twice."
Although Bell had both hands and part of both legs amputated because of a childhood illness, Smith said, she can still be violent when she loses her temper.
"She’ll swing, push me down and choke me with her nubs," Smith said. He said she also hit him with her wheelchair.
Sure it started off violent, but there are wedding bells at the end.
Bell agreed Monday that there was hitting on both sides. She said she plans to marry Smith and doesn’t want him to serve jail time.
Tailor made for a Hollywood movie, I say. That or Jerry Springer.
The video of Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz and their attendants dancing down the aisle at their wedding has over 13 million views on YouTube. Neither Chris Brown, whose song “Forever” served as the processional music, nor Sony Music demanded a takedown of the video. Rather, they requested click-to-buy links to Amazon and iTunes from YouTube, and sales of the year-old song skyrocketed. But what about Jill and Kevin? They appeared on morning TV to talk about the video, but haven’t made any money. Instead, they are using their sudden fame to raise funds for charity. From their website:
We have been through a lot in life, but have come through each experience stronger and more in love with each other. Our experience since we posted the video has been incredible. We would never have expected this response to our wedding entrance in a million years.
We hope to direct this positivity to a good cause. Due to the circumstances surrounding the song in our wedding video, we have chosen the Sheila Wellstone Institute.
Sheila Wellstone was an advocate, organizer, and national champion in the effort to end domestic violence in our communities.
There is a donation button on the site. Link
Not content with allowing old men to marry underaged girls, a Saudi Arabia judge is doing one better in promoting equal treatment of womenkind in the Kingdom:
Husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi judge said recently during a seminar on domestic violence, Saudi media reported Sunday.
Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily newspaper based in Riyadh, reported that Judge Hamad Al-Razine said that "if a person gives SR 1,200 [$320] to his wife and she spends 900 riyals [$240] to purchase an abaya [the black cover that women in Saudi Arabia must wear] from a brand shop and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment."
Update 5/11/08 – Clarification: it’s not the same judge that ruled that the marriage between a 58-year-old man and the 8-year-old girl was legitimate – Thanks seefish3!
