what the hell is depopulating?After I broke up with her, one of my ex girlfriends texted me a whole bunch of times hoping to get back together. At first every couple days, then every couple of weeks. Even a couple years later I would get a text now and then.
Was I harassed?
Sometimes I think these things are overblown. Clearly Mike should have dropped it after the police contacted him -- just because of the way our society is. But unless there was anything threatening or menacing in his text messages I don't think the volume or frequency of them should give rise to criminal charges. I know they do. That's the way we made the law -- but maybe we got it wrong.
Another example -- in the early days before we were married and just after we were married my wife and I had a lot of awful fights. Sometimes she threw a lot of stuff around. Sometimes she stormed out. A few times I yelled at her too. Nobody got hurt but a lot of property got damaged. Eventually we figured out how to accomodate one another and since then--15+ years of marriage. But what if she had called the police? Then they would have forced us not to talk to each other, probably helped her get a peace bond, and we never would have resolved our issues, and 15+ years of marriage would not have happened.
Maybe we aren't recognizing human relationships for what they are -- messy, and almost never according to the rules. It seems the laws we have imagine people are far calmer and far more rational than any actual human being is. No one fits the model the courts imagine.
That said, there's certainly a problem with women ending up dead or badly beaten because a guy who can't control his emotions reacts after breaking up. We've indexed on trying to make sure that never happens, but we've undervalued making messy relationships work out. In simpler times when a couple had a huge fight their inlaws, or some village eldar, or some parish priest, would sit down with them and force them to work it out. And I can't help wondering if in the end they were happier, than sitting alone, safe and secure in the knowledge that a peace bond was keeping them from having a sometimes stormy relationship.
Is this one of the reasons why we are de-populating? All our social institutions seem designed to make it easier for couples to fail. I'm sure you like that -- you're a divorce lawyer. But maybe a lot of people would be better off if they knuckled down and did what it took to make their relationships work out, rather than running to the police or the courts or whatever at the first sign of any minor incompatibility in the relationship.
Maybe next time a furiously arguing couple call police instead of helping them get a peace bond, the police should sit them down with a counselor who helps them try and stay together, but with a little less drama.
Mike Bullard Charged with Criminal Harassment
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Hahaha.
Hey Mike, you reading this????
Your show isn't funny, you aren't funny, and you had the worst guests. Combined with your awful interviewing skills, watching grass grow is more entertaining. BUT, your arrest is funny.
I actually saw one of your shows getting free tickets. It was hosted at that building just north of Yonge/Bloor. The BEST PART of the show was the free food bar every audience member could eat.
I can handle getting coldcocked in the face, unless she's built like George Chuvalo, she's not going to hurt me much. This would be an entirely different matter:
Cynthia Mulligan looks crazy enough to frank Bullard again when the heat cools. But she doesn't look like the type, to me anyway, that would shell out memorable sex. However, Emily Vukovic looks like the type that would make your eyeballs vibrate.
It goes to show, that you can be a no-talent hack and get a decent looking girl, just because you are flirting with notoriety and seemingly famous (here anyways).
I never liked Bullard myself, as he wasn't funny at all. He got lucky at a time when someone thought we needed a Canadian talk show. Bullard must have a deep throat and swallows, there's no way he got this on his "other" talents.
I never liked Bullard myself, as he wasn't funny at all. He got lucky at a time when someone thought we needed a Canadian talk show. Bullard must have a deep throat and swallows, there's no way he got this on his "other" talents.
