Today I had a wonderful moment of schadenfreude. But to explain it, I have to give some background.
Occasionally, I would take my car to the gym, and go at around 9am rather then my usual time of 7am. When I did this, there was always this guy parked up in a van, who had this incredbly massive poster (something like 10 feet by 10 feet) of an aborted, mutilated fetus. The van also has written on the front "Disobey God and GO TO HELL". He loves to park it so that everyone who goes into the gym has to see the mutilated baby. Needless to say, I hated this guy. I am not the only one. I once called the people who manage the parking lot to see why he's allowed to park there. They said it was freedom of speech, but I think it is actually advertising, which is a restricted form of speech. There wasn't anything I could do about him, evidently. But everyone already hates the guy. I learned that his giant poster had been vandalized once, but he just went out and got another one.
So today, I happen to pick up a San Mateo Daily Journal and read their headline 'Pro-life' activist jailed. When I read about his arrest, I had one of the great schadenfreude experience of my life. And I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Posted by ahyatt at November 11, 2003 02:29 PM