March 7, 2007
Get Gleeful
And here's your latest on Gleegate--
-One of the of the 415 Gang who was charged is in police custody, that being Brian Dwyer who surrendered to the police. He is said to have admitted to kicking one of the Yalies while he was on the ground with the intention to hurt him. The ringleader of the 415 Gang, Richard Aicardi, hasn't gone to the police yet but is telling everyone that the whole thing is more complicated than it comes off as and that he was acting in self-defense. In fact, his whole call to his "20 strong" (we see a sequel to 300 in which twenty local Catholic school boys hold off a horde of glee club members, sacrificing themselves to save San Francisco from acapella groups) because he thought he needed back up to save him from a possible glee club attack. He did admit, however, that he threw a couple of "haymakers" and for those who don't know what a haymaker is, according to the Urban Dictionary, a "haymaker" is a an exceptionally loud, resounding fart. Hmmm... maybe we grabbed the wrong definition there. On the other hand, going around viciously farting on people could be seen as assault.
-Defense attorney Whitney Leigh is not happy with all this. The parents of the kids at Yale are not happy with all this. And Gavin is not happy with all of this, even though he once played kind of wishy-washy about the whole thing. On the other hand, he said all that before, well, you know.
-Matier & Ross say that neither kid will probably become somebody's shower buddy in prison as it's a hard case to prove anything and that most experts think it'll be too impossible to get a felony charge of assault with intent to commit bodily harm. They're saying Accardi and Dwyer are probably looking at some community service work. One cool tid-bit in M&R's story is that a cop says that the Yale kids responded with Accardi's "don't mess with the 415" with a reply of "yeah, well, we're 212." So...so...sad.
The photo, by the way is Richard Aicardi's High School yearbook photo.


>>One cool tid-bit in M&R's story is that a cop says that the Yale kids responded with Accardi's "don't mess with the 415" with a reply of "yeah, well, we're 212."
I'm guessing the Yalies replied with "yeah, well, we're 203," since they live in New Haven, CT.
212 is Manhattan and the Bronx-- I'm sure not all of the Yale singers are New Yorkers.
i'll put some time into this because a very funny inside joke of some friends involves a haymaker, and typing this makes me laugh every time i type/read/think the work haymaker...
a haymaker is a haphazardly thrown punch, traditionally a wide hook. a series of haymakers is genrerally thrown when someone has no idea how to fight. it is similar in skill level to the elbow-in slapping/scratching attack/defense, although sucks way more to get hit by.
they're rarely landed and leave the person throwing the "haymaker" open to a world of pain if the opponent has any idea how to box/fight.
example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3fVYlBk9Q
unsuccessful haymakers: seconds 20-25
successful haymaker: 1:20-1:25
don't know if y'all heard this, but the right-wing hate radio hacks are not happy with this. they were hoping for a shizzle storm. see, whether they actually knew what was going on or not, what they claimed was going on was that some kids sang the National Anthem, and then some San Francisco hippies kicked the crap out of the National Anthem singers. Yes - i'm not kidding.
Mikael Savage was one of the loudest - I like to get my chuckles once in a while, and the unintended humor in right-wing hate speech is certainly that.
the entire story, of course, is that this was a cops party and the cops are terrorists and the terrorists are covering up this crime. very simple.
No dood, they actually DID sing the national anthem before the fighting. And the that group of kids was not hippies, they were Catholic high school alums and associates.
No cops were at the party until they were called in.
That kid's name should be captioned thusly: Richard "The Heymakere" Aicardi. It's Middle English, now that's funny!
Here's the other kid. Is that his booking photo? Did his lawyer tell him to make sure to wear glasses and smile? Was this one of the boys in the phrase "my boys are coming"? Not sure. The Haymakere sure looks the part, but this kid? I don't know.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2007/03/07/BAGS2OH1135.DTL&o=1