Ugh. The thought of leathery skinned radicals who never matured emotionally and have not aged well at all getting high and blowing each other between rounds of Russian Roulette made me throw up a little. By the gods! These people are in their 50s and 60s. When the hell do you grow up, settle down and start having sex that doesn’t involve the risk of injury or death?

From Crimesider:

PORTLAND, Maine (CBS/AP) Bruce LaVallee-Davidson, an outspoken gay rights activist who publicly fought for gay marriage, has been convicted of manslaughter in a bizarre sex game accident that included drugs and guns.

Both the prosecution and the defense had agreed that LaVallee-Davidson, a 50-year-old Skowhegan, Maine farmer and avid gun collector, didn’t intend to kill his friend, Fred Wilson, during a drug-fueled, three-way sex party that lasted 12 hours. But prosecutors contended that LaVallee-Davidson should have checked that the gun they were using to heighten their sexual role playing wasn’t loaded before handling it.

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Police say that the shooting occurred while a third man, James Pombriant, was engaged in a sex act with Wilson in the dungeon-like basement of Wilson’s Colonial home in a middle-class neighborhood two blocks from the ocean.

Pombriant testified that the shot rang out and there was a moment of silence before Lavallee-Davidson said, “I think I killed him.”

One of his lawyers, Mike Whipple, said his client checked three times over the course of the night to make sure the .44-caliber Rossi revolver wasn’t loaded. Whipple contends it’s likely Wilson loaded the gun while Lavallee-Davidson briefly stepped away to use the bathroom.

When Lavallee-Davidson returned, Wilson asked him to put the gun to his head and pull the trigger to intensify his pleasure, the defense had argued. On the first try, there was a click when Lavallee-Davidson pulled the trigger. Wilson asked him to do it again, and there was a flash, the defense said.

Oh man. Once you read that you will never look at three old dudes sitting around together the same again. Though some will be quick to blame the homosexuality of the victim and his friends, the obvious culprit here is a drug culture merged with sado-masochism. It is clear that Wilson wanted to die and chose to do it this way. I would put forward that sans drug use he would have been less likely to make such a bizarre decision and certainly wouldn’t have set up a situation that would send his friend to jail.

What kind of drug use are we talking about here? Typical boomer Peter Pan syndrome stuff:

The fatal shooting happened after Wilson, Lavallee-Davidson and a third man had been smoking pot, consuming the party drug GBL, huffing aerosol inhalants and having sex over a 12-hour period in the basement of Wilson’s Colonial home in a middle-class neighborhood two blocks from the ocean.

The third participant, James Pombriant, 65, of Auburn, testified he first thought the others were playing a sick joke on him when he saw the flash of a handgun after hours of partying.

Grow up boomers. I can’t think of a less dignified way to go than this and the victim’s supposed friend is now on his way to jail. But of course if we had legalized drugs this story would have had a (dare I say) happy ending, right legalizers?

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