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Sub Category : Horror

Desanctification is the deliberate act of vandalism or burglary that deprives a person or an object of its sanctification or sacred status . When you directed your wife to dispose of her late husband s ashes . You sojourned to cause her to dispose of the urn and it’s contents in an illegal manner.

When you wife, Martha, obeyed you and dropped the urn into a public trash bin you , and she did knowingly desecrate his grave . After numerous consultations with many legal authorities on the topic it is best described in the words of President Barrack O’ Bama “ There is no punishment which can justly fit the heinous nature of the offense. Therefore, you are to be punished under spiritual or Biblical law.

The laws of Moses decree that the thief will repay what he has taken from the victim seven fold. This court so orders that you will purchase seven urns identical to the one you caused to be shattered in the Waste Management dumpster located at 322 Jacobs road . You will find the ashes of Glenn Allen Hume and return them to his widow seven fold. The court does not care how you produce the items and the content only that it be done . Seven days from this date you will deliver the urns and ashes of the departed to his widow with the DNA diagnostic proof every ash is that of the victim.

Your honor, there is no way I can comply. How do I resurrect the dead ? How do I locate and recover the ashes ? If it pleases the court, your honor , how am I expected to not only find his original urn and ashes but to authentically reproduce them in sufficient quantity to fill seven urns .

Mister Nesbitt, there are some acts of arrogance that can never be undone. Hopefully, this portion of the sentence will teach you, some sarcastic words can never be taken back. Son, no amount of restitution can ever atone for this one deliberate act . It is my hope , the hope of this court you will learn for every carelessly spoken word there is a consequence that will be paid. For this heinous act there can be no forgiveness. You will complete the sentence anyway you can .

The wife of the convict and widow of the victim approached the judge , “ Your honor , The convict will not be able to serve the sentence handed down by this court . It is impossible. With the permission of the court I wish to recommend a series of alternative punishments that will partially satisfy the debt to the community and family. Silence filled the court room . Would Martha recommend leniency on behalf of her former husband ? Or would she seek an alternative punishment that could possibly restore some of her first husband’s honor . What atonement would she suggest to bring restoration of honor to Glenn Allen Hume.

Proceed ,

Your honor , I respectfully recommend the defendant and I be removed from this place and be extradited to the state of Louisiana where we will both be keelhauled no less than one hundred twenty , sixty times from starboard to port or port to starboard., the court’s discretion prevailing . I humbly recommend we then he keelhauled an additional sixty times from the bow to the stern of the Audrey Anne or one of her sister ships the Paula Dean or the Patricia Anne . Respectfully sir, is there a better way to restore honor to the captain of a commercial shrimp trawler ? I submit to you , and the court an ancient mariner’s punishment for a crime committed against an ancient mariner

It has been entered into court record ; it is so ordered . With the following amendments , prior to the Keelhauling both parties will be taken aboard the commercial trawler where they will each be bound to a sturdy structure . They will be stripped of all clothing . You and the defendant will be flogged . When the Audrey Anne or one of her sister ships reaches the sharp infested waters beyond the two mile limit you both will be keelhauled in the manner you have set forth .

The two were transported back to Louisiana. Immediately after the process of the legal paper work the two were taken aboard the Audrey Anne where Captain Paul Leonard Accord welcomed Martha back aboard her vessel . The Detective showed the legal paperwork to Captain Accord and explained the pair were aboard for keelhauling , a form of naval corporal punishment .

Captain Accord read the orders , He began with Martha , Martha you are accused of desantification of the cremated remains of your former spouse and captain ; Woman, how plead you ?

Guilty , This formal list of charges names you as the accomplice not, the initiator of such crime . As we were once family , I must ask why? I was ordered to dispose of the urn and ashes by my husband .

Bind her hands and feet for keelhauling , drag her body to the most secure post on this vessel . I sentence her to 120 lashes with the Cat o nine . Do likewise with her lover . The lovers will be flogged and keelhauled together .

One hundred twenty lashes fell across the exposed back and buttocks of the criminal pair . Martha successfully suppressed her urge to scream out in pain. As lash after lash cut into her flesh she bit her lips and moaned but, not one tear would she shed. As the flogging continued Martha refrained from screaming out the pleas for mercy . Her crime was worse than Michael’s so, for her, there could be no mercy.

When her bound body was released for attachment to the Keelhaul ropes Captain Accord ask her why did you not cry . I know the flogger hurts ; it hurts like Hell . So why no tears, no cries for mercy ?

Cousin, Lenny , I am guilty the sentence is far to merciful as is . Then the captain bent low to whisper in her ear . I can adjust the keel ropes where escape is possible.

No, carry out the sentence ; I deserve the same mercy and consideration any criminal in my position would receive. Carry out the sentence equally.

As you wish .

Captain Accord stood between the two condemned prisoners ; The ideal outcome of this sentence is you both survive and will be pulled from the Abyss alive .

The first possible outcome is unfortunate , it is highly possible that the Bull sharks, the tiger sharks, and every shark in the Gulf will attempt to feed on your flesh. You know how sharks are attracted to the scent of blood , Should this happen it is possible there will be a feeding frenzy. I say with great remorse ; in such an event , neither of you will survive very long.

\The second possibility being , you are both keelhauled the required one hundred twenty times. Each time you pass beneath the keel of the boat the barnacles which have attached themselves to the underside of this vessel will slice and dice your backs, your buttocks, and your legs to shreds . Following the one hundred twentieth pass the deck hands will haul you back aboard as rapidly as possible.

The third and final outcome is, you are lowered to a depth where the barnacles will not rip your flesh at all. In this scenario the likely outcome will be you both will drown . it’s the sharks , the barnacles , or drowning . I do not envy your odds of emerging from this punishment alive . . AMEN !

Martha was the first to be brought up she was unconscious but alive . The First officer summoned a coast guard cutter and Angel Flight to transport her to the trauma center at LSUNO . Then the deck hands brought Michael aboard . He was more dead than alive still, the Captain called for the coast guard and a second Air Evacuation The crew took him to the nearest Trauma center in The Florida keys . MAY GOD TAKE PITY ON YOUR DEMENTED SOUL . MAY HE GRANT YOU ABSOLUTION AND ETERNAL PEACE Amen !! Because if you ever come aboard my vessel again you’re dead !!