[Sca-cooks] twinkies, oop ot

[margali]

<evil grin>
OK, there....twinkies. now start discussing=)


> When Dan White killed San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor
> George Moscone in 1978, but argued successfully that he had
> diminished capacity because of a depression that was exemplified by
> eating too much junk food, the "Twinkie Defense" was born. In
> December 2003, U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow of South Dakota was convicted
> of manslaughter for causing a traffic fatality, despite a defense
> that he had diminished capacity due to low blood sugar from his
> diabetes. Presumably, then (though Janklow did not specifically say
> so), the accident, the death, and his conviction would never have
> happened if only he had eaten some Twinkies. [Sioux Falls Argus
> Leader, 12-1-03]


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