English press claims Italy suspects went shopping for lingerie after the murder. Who cares?
It seems like everybody in Perugia has something to say about Amanda Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito.Today, two English newspapers are reporting on an extremely unimportant "development" in the case: that Knox and Sollecito supposedly went shopping for lingerie the day after the murder.
First off...who cares? It has already been reported by one of Kercher's close friends that Knox didn't appear particularly distraught after the killing. Some people would say this is cause for suspicion; others - myself included - don't find her lack of emotion to be particularly worthwhile one way or another.
People handle death differently. What some express through tears and visible distress, others internalize and deal with on their own. To try and make a determination of a person's guilt or innocence simply based on their external emotional response to a crime, no matter how heinous the circumstances surrounding it, is absurd.
Working from this perspective, it shouldn't be at all surprising if Knox went shopping for lingerie with her boyfriend so shortly after the incident occurred. For all we know, shopping - or sex - could be their way of handling the newfound stress.
So why am I writing about it? Well, though the news doesn't strike me as being largely important, one article in The Daily Mail features some hilarious quotes from the shop owner who claims he witnessed the suspects' so-called "strange" behavior.
Knox, 20, who calls herself Foxy Knoxy, and doctor's son Sollecito, 23, were overheard by a shopkeeper as they browsed through underwear in a clothes shop selling fashion items.The report at The Times Online, meanwhile, gives a slightly different quote from the shopkeep. This one, equally lame, is attributed to Sollecito.
Carlo Maria Scotto di Rinaldi spoke to police two days after the couple were arrested on November 6, after recognising them on the television news. "They came into the shop and were there for about 20 minutes," he said. "The girl bought a camisole and G-string.
"I heard her as she was choosing the underwear - particularly the G-string - and as they were ready to pay, in front of the till, she whispered, 'Afterwards I'm going to take you home so we can have wild sex together'."
Mr di Rinaldi said that they stayed for half an hour, and that Ms Knox bought two thongs. He overheard Mr Sollecito say to Ms Knox: “You can put these on at home and we’ll have wild sex.” He said that they spoke in English, “but I know the language and had no difficulty in understanding”.
Let's assume for a minute that these quotes are legit. For someone who attempts - albeit lamely, as The Stranger's Christopher Frizzelle has pointed out - to exhibit creativity in her writing, Amanda Knox sure has no idea how to talk dirty.
"Afterwards I'm going to take you home so we can have wild sex together"?
I've never been good at sex talk myself...but even I could think of something better to say than that.
It's so lame to draw attention to this case by using this sort of things.
Newspapers should be ashamed.
As for the "quotes" it's more likely that the wild sex line belongs to Sollecito, and Amanda must have answered something the shopkeeper didn't understand, despite his knowledge of English.
It might be wrong to judge a person's guilt or innocence solely on their external emotional response to a crime, but people's reaction to a crime will be affected by their guilt or innocence in committing that crime so it is plainly not absurd.
At best her reaction is cold and unemotional. It is certainly not normal. A person you share your apartment with has her throat cut by an unknown assailant. You wouldn't just be reacting to the fact that they had died but as far as you knew it could just as easily have been you.
"For all we know, shopping - or sex - could be their way of handling the newfound stress."
And you talk of hilarious quotes. My flatmate had her throat cut. Isn't it terrible, let's go shopping!
I think when the cops seal your drum, you need to buy socks and stuff, girls buy dat stuff
I am using words such as 'seal' loosely, apparently half of union station walked through the crime scene.
THey kind of used it 'to store' evidence. The E word is also used loosely.
It ain't looking as if she is officially going to be the evil bitch from Seattle anytime soon.