Abused boy ate feces, drank urine to survive
Tuesday, Nov. 10 2009 @ 8:30AM
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| The stakes may have been incredibly low, but the good Republicans of Vernon, New Jersey tried to summon some major league intimidation against one of their own. |
Republican Richard Carson was elected to the Vernon Township council in 2007. But it seems his GOP colleagues felt he was a little too independent. So according to a racketeering suit he filed against the mayor, the local Republican chairwoman, and a cop, they decided to intimidate him into resigning.
This is a case as weird as it is bungling. According to the lawsuit, GOP chairwoman Andrea "Bunny" Cocula, Mayor Austin Carew, and officer David Hering repeatedly threatened Carson, telling him to "watch his back" and that his enemies were out to get him. They even warned him against going to the grocery store, telling him these mysterious "enemies" knew where he lived and worked...
Yet it seems these enemies were the very people warning him. And they were dumb enough to put their threats in writing. In one email, Cocula wrote to Carson, "I warned you many times, as did Austin and Dave." She also made him an outcast in the Vernon GOP, which is kinda like being rejected by a sorority that's still headquartered in the dorms.
But this tale even gets weirder, especially considering the petty backdrop of township politics. Carson says he was approached by cop Hering in the city parking lot and forced to sign prepared letters of resignation. Fearing for his safety, he complied, at which point Hering took them to Cocula, who was watching from a nearby car, the suit claims.
Carson withdrew his resignation the next day. But after Hering made a stink over being suspended for the incident, Carson decided to sue the whole lot of them for racketeering.
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