This should be an SNL skit on what menopausal women should not do
Today I heard the funniest NPR documentary I've ever heard. I was quite literally on the floor with hysterics. The narrator introduced it as a very moving, and important story, that they put a lot of heart into. It's about "what do you do, when the worst thing possible happens?" The story starts with her family hearing that Jen Angel, the owner of a local bakery has been injured in a car accident. They visit the scene, and, oddly, it's in the parking lot of a bank, and her car is still there, and relatively intact. What happened? She was robbed, the robbers broke her window, took her things, she ran after the car, got caught in the door, was dragged for fifty feet, and was grievously injured. Sad, ed? And, it gets worse. She ends up being declared brain dead after a couple of weeks. Really sad, eh? Especially for her withdrawn, sensitive highly intelligent boyfriend, Ishmael. It was his intelligence that attracted Jen to him, and his sensitivity. He's really broken up.
And, he gets even more broken up over the next few weeks. Until, they arrest Ishmael for Jen's murder. It seems he was the car's driver, and he wanted to rob his own girlfriend.
Weird, eh? Well, maybe not that all weird. You see, about halfway through his hour documentary we find out that Ishmael is only 18 years old. And, Jen Angel was 48 years old. No law against that of course, but, particularly with an "intelligent and withdrawn" -- i.e. mentally unstable -- young man in an intimate relationship with a much older woman, the probability of violence gets rather high, doesn't it? And, I would hazard a guess, it wasn't his intelligence that attracted Jan Angel to Ishmael, but having a little stud-muffin to be her little boyfriend, who she could "mother", or, something like that, anyway. And, Ishmael wanted a sugar momma. And, he got one. But, he wanted more money. And, that didn't work out too well, did it?
So, what can we learn from this story? Older women should not get involved with much younger men, barely legal men, particularly if they're mentally unstable. It won't work out. It might get them killed. It probably will get them hurt.
What's really hysterically funny is that NPR tries to turn this into a profound story about social justice, and why people shouldn't be sent to prison, but reintegrated into society.
As it turns out, eventually, the prosecutor offers Ishmael a plea bargain, and he gets just seven years in prison -- he could have gotten life in prison -- and the judge agrees. Of course, the reason they do this, is that the judge and the prosecutor are well aware that Jen Angel was the effective instigator of this incredibly sordid story by her stupidity the menopausal lust! And, that Ishmael was just a kid being manipulated by her.
However, NPR seem to think it was their arguments for the evils of incarceration that got Ishmeal the light sentence! Don't think so, folks.

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