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Why on earth did his wife ditch him? This seems like the worst punishment. I wouldn't care so much about the jail time if I had my girl on the outside waiting f

Why on earth did his wife ditch him? This seems like the worst punishment. I wouldn't care so much about the jail time if I had my girl on the outside waiting for me. Without that it would be a lonely hell.

Vivtek 15y ago
Because it's one thing for your husband to be obsessive about security theater - and it's another thing for your husband's obsessive activities to get you arrested. My wife would have divorced me, then killed me, then chopped me up and fed me to the dog, then killed the dog.
- seunosewa 15y ago
  She would say that, but one would expect love to prevail if it actually happens.
  - Vivtek 15y ago
    No, really. She's Hungarian and her entire life she's been in terror of what the police might do if one draws their attention. It's a little different from marrying a North American. It's also different if you're just minding your own business and the cops come and arrest you - but I will bet they'd had words about this beforehand, then the cops came and arrested her. And yeah, their marriage may not have been on such a solid basis anyway, who knows? Or, she's just a jerk. But it wouldn't take much of a jerk to really resent getting arrested for somebody else's windmill tilting.
- antihero 15y ago
  Jesus, that's fucked up. My girl and I go protesting in London with the full expectation of being arrested (and we have been). It does add a layer of stress, not knowing where your other half is (police usually split you up), but we decide a meeting place and it's cool.
ajays 15y ago
His wife's fortune comes from the same security establishment that her (soon to be ex-) husband was needling. Maybe her parents threatened to cut her off unless she ditched him. Who knows? In any case: it's really lame for her to ditch her partner of 15 years.
Daniel_Newby 15y ago
I expect she ditched him for epic lack of consideration. He could easily have done the G20 work anonymously, but instead set himself up to be taken down as hard and fast as possible. And his excuse to her? It was security work. Seriously, who gets their woman terrorized by armed thugs and calls it improved security? She probably saw the writing on the wall and begged him to stop, and felt utterly abandoned and betrayed when he threw her to the wolves for what amounts to an idiotic PR stunt.

Vivtek 15y ago

Because it's one thing for your husband to be obsessive about security theater - and it's another thing for your husband's obsessive activities to get you arrested. My wife would have divorced me, then killed me, then chopped me up and fed me to the dog, then killed the dog.

seunosewa 15y ago
She would say that, but one would expect love to prevail if it actually happens.
- Vivtek 15y ago
  No, really. She's Hungarian and her entire life she's been in terror of what the police might do if one draws their attention. It's a little different from marrying a North American. It's also different if you're just minding your own business and the cops come and arrest you - but I will bet they'd had words about this beforehand, then the cops came and arrested her. And yeah, their marriage may not have been on such a solid basis anyway, who knows? Or, she's just a jerk. But it wouldn't take much of a jerk to really resent getting arrested for somebody else's windmill tilting.
antihero 15y ago
Jesus, that's fucked up. My girl and I go protesting in London with the full expectation of being arrested (and we have been). It does add a layer of stress, not knowing where your other half is (police usually split you up), but we decide a meeting place and it's cool.

ajays 15y ago

His wife's fortune comes from the same security establishment that her (soon to be ex-) husband was needling. Maybe her parents threatened to cut her off unless she ditched him. Who knows? In any case: it's really lame for her to ditch her partner of 15 years.

Daniel_Newby 15y ago

I expect she ditched him for epic lack of consideration. He could easily have done the G20 work anonymously, but instead set himself up to be taken down as hard and fast as possible. And his excuse to her? It was security work. Seriously, who gets their woman terrorized by armed thugs and calls it improved security? She probably saw the writing on the wall and begged him to stop, and felt utterly abandoned and betrayed when he threw her to the wolves for what amounts to an idiotic PR stunt.