She's a stripper *Gasp*

A woman in Houston named Susan Wright is on trial charged with tying her husband to their bed and killing him by stabbing him more than 200 times.

I don't really know if this is getting national coverage, but it's getting a lot of coverage here locally. The murder was brutal and sensational so everyone is on the edge of their seats waiting to see what will come out next. It still boggles my mind how the media will continue to keep breaking new things in stories as they go along. If they run out of really newsworthy new facts, they just find anything and report it.

There was drama in the courtroom yesterday because two of the DAs reenacted their version of the murder. A female ADA straddled a male ADA on the bloody bed and showed how they think the murder occurred. It was newsworthy, I guess, to see one prosecutor sitting atop another pretending to stab him during sex and the defendant was sitting a few feet away crying. The bed still has the blood stains on it. This wasn't enough though. Toward the end of the broadcast, the station I was watching dropped the newest bombshell. It turns out Susan used to be a stripper before she got married. *cue the dramatic music*

I don't know how many of you are familiar with Houston, but there are topless clubs around every corner here. It would shock me if any city in the country had more topless clubs. You can't throw a stick here without hitting a stripper. Half the women I've met since I moved to Houston are either strippers now or used to be. That percentage is higher when you limit it to women that grew up here. The density of strippers in Houston and the reason for it is probably a topic for another post. The point is that a woman being a former stripper is not news in Houston.

I just have a hard time believing that this is something they really believe is newsworthy. They say it like it somehow gives some insight into Susan Wright as a person. I know it's probably scandalous in most places, but I'd bet there are 100,000 strippers or former strippers living in Houston right now. That number is probably low, but I don't know for sure. The fact that she used to be a stripper doesn't speak to whether she killed her husband or not, and it's certainly not some kind of blockbuster discovery.

She said no.

Or did she?
According to several news reports I've heard and seen today, at an NBA game this weekend a man proposed during a halftime stunt. Supposedly he dressed as a bank mascot and his would-be fiance tried to win free tickets to a future game. She was blind folded and supposed to locate the mascot by following the hotter/colder screams of the crowd. When she found him and presumably won the tickets, he took off the costume to reveal himself, knelt to propose, and she bolted. I can't imagine how bad that would suck. The big screen at the game just said "SHE SAID NO!".

This story also has a link to the video.

According to this story from The Wizards' Homepage, the whole thing was a setup. It was a good fake. It fooled a lot of people. I heard it on sports radio this morning, and they were claiming to have confirmed it as real.

I do post sometimes.