Man in "I [Heart] My Marriage" t-shirt arrested for domestic battery
This gentleman was arrested on Monday for attempting to strangle his wife. Bradley Gellert, of Apollo Beach, Florida, was indeed wearing the "I [heart] My Marriage" t-shirt at the time of the arrest. From WTSP:
Man wearing an "I Heart My Marriage" t-shirt arrested for choking wife (Thanks, Tara McGinley!)The arrest report says that the couple were arguing over drugs, and during the fight at their home, Gellert screamed in his wife's face, threw things, grabbed her neck and strangled her, and knocked her to the ground.
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Is it even possible someone would do something contradictory to the message they wear on their shirt? Say it ain't so.
The article doesn't mention that while he was strangling her, he was screaming, "I HEART MY MARRIAGE!!" repeatedly.
FTW the guy loves his marriage but hates his wife
♥ the institution, hate the inmate.
Ironic hipster violence.
Milton Glaser
He Really needs a T-shirt that says.
I [club] My Wife.
10/10 for style, but minus several million for good thinking.
@loserkid
I will give you that FTW.
[what you didn't see, was the slogan on the back of the t-shirt]
... but I ♥ my drugs more ...
It was the Copperplate font that gave it away.
am i allowed to laugh at this?
@loserkid
re: FTW
I am sorry to inform you the previously awarded FTW has been withdrawn from your account to make an FTW available to Maddy.
I believe this is an example of that "sanctity of marriage" business all of those Prop. 8 supporters were talking about.
Attempted to strangle his wife? Would that not be attempted murder? What an odd crime.
Now if this happened in a southern trailer park, it would just be affirmation of their love. You know, the guy gets puts in cuffs the lady screams in tears " I love him! " they waste the cops time and go and have sex when the cops leave.
A concise commentary on the bumper-sticker mentality.
♥
"You keep using that symbol. I do not think it means what you think it means."
http://img148.imageshack.us/img14/8764/marriage2.jpg
The only thing they have in common is their hatred for one another.
PEEEEEPLE.....
Seeeriousley...
You are all missing the real punchline here...
from the smoking gun:
"The "I ♥ My Marriage" shirt was a promotional item tied to the 2008 movie "Fireproof,"
a Christian-themed film starring KIRK CAMERON. The movie, a hit in evangelical circles, centers on a fireman's religious awakening and his simultaneous effort to save a failing marriage."
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0316093marriage1.html
Looking at this man YOU JUST KNOW he is a HUGE Kirk Cameron fan!!!!!
@loserkid, grimc and maddy, i'm sorry to inform you that i am taking the FTW, and re-awarding it, this time to hokano.
Bumlooker@#15 -- I know that neighborhood pretty well -- and it's about as close as you can get to a southern trailer park without actually having wheels under the houses.
Just up the road are million-dollar houses (well, they used to be before property values hit the skids) -- and there's guys in THAT neighborhood who think that taking drugs and smacking your wife around are okay, too.
Arrested for domestic battery? Should'a bought a Cheng Shin battery. Much cheaper.
Love the marriage, hate the spouse.
Reminds me of a picture I saw of a pickup in traffic with bumper stickers that said "Hang up and drive" and "guns don't kill people, drivers with cellphones do". Meanwhile, the driver was in his car on his cellphone.
Perhaps he was being ironic when he was wearing the shirt.
One thing for sure is that you don't have to be in a trailer park to do drugs and beat your wife. Only difference between a trailer park and a million dollar home is, thicker walls to muffle the screaming.
I'm very thankful for thicker walls.
@12. Yes you can laugh at this.
Ratdog, at least he was honest about his intentions!
Ahhhh, cruel irony....thy name is florida! thanx, dood. for getting our state back on the right track!
Boingfark?
@25 - You mean this pic?
he was either wearing the shirt ironically or strangling his wife ironically. or they were married ironically.
FTW wars? Do we get to vote? Or is it like, say, professional boxing organizations with their own awarded titles?
I say #7 is today's FTW champion.
He was confused when he purchased the shirt. He thought the symbol was the international "Biohazard" glyph.
His "I #2663; My Wife" shirt was in the wash?
(Sorry...I'll stop now.)
There is nothing funny about domestic violence and spousal abuse.
Can someone please forward this to Alanis Morrisette as an example of real irony?
This made me laugh ,the best yuck I have had all week.
Just photoshop the words Police Dept.Photo in here
and you have the tee shirt winner of the month
If you outlaw irony, only criminals will be ironic.
As the saying goes, you can't judge a book by the cover...
MinVaren,
Yeah, thats the one. Thanks, I was having trouble remembering where I saw that picture.
What a nut job, I guess he loves his marriage so much that he would put is wife in a yoke (aka choke).
Personally, I find the disgrace brought to marriage by homosexuals to be positively refreshing after seeing stuff like this...
No mention of the drugs they were fighting over. Maybe they both suffer from GERD. Bet it was Prilosec then.
he need a new shirt,
I (BEET) my wife....
It's like the guy in a 'I have a big dick' shirt or driving a sports car...you know it's small.
Umm...am I the only one who thinks this dude looks exactly like Corey HEART?
"I love my marriage... to death?"
I wonder which of the 12 tribes was that of the lawyers who introduced the "...till death does us apart..." loophole... All the trouble stems from there.
boingz wiff me wiffs
[insert drug of choice]
i ♥ inanity
may we have a funeral for irony now plz?
I'm pretty sure that's a promise keepers shirt. Remember the christian family oriented movement that hit its peak about 4-5 years ago.
Not to be smart, but how can this article begin with "This gentleman…?"