Gunfire next door to my house tonight

But unlike Spam Silly I'll not be paranoid and accuse everyone I hate (which for Lilly is everyone) of being behind it.

I happen to know the young hooligans who like to shoot at night. Normally it's basketballs but in certain lunar phases they get a little more Hunter Thompsonish. My only complaint with it is that it scares the shit oot of the cats, especially that .44 magnum they've got.

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Vicky Soteriou found guilty of plotting
with secret lover to kill husband
by:Anne Wright
From:Herald Sun
October 08, 2011
12:00AM
Chris and Vicky Soteriou
My darling, my killer
Chris Soteriou's relief

Chris Soteriou, pictured with his wife Vicky, thought they had the perfect life.
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Chris Soteriou pictured outside the Supreme Court during Vicky's trial. Picture: Trevor Pinder Herald Sun

THE last thing Chris Soteriou felt was a knife in his stomach. As
Chris slumped to the ground, the last thing he saw was his wife, Vicky,
watching him being stabbed.

When he woke in hospital, his throat cut and with seven stab
wounds, Vicky told him a stranger had stabbed him: a man crouched next
to their car with the intent to kill.
What she didn't tell him was that she had planned it.
Early last year, the Soterious were well known in the Greek community. Everyone liked the affluent, good-looking couple.
Anyone
who didn't know them soon would, for all the wrong reasons: Vicky's
secret life of lies, sex and deceit was about to unravel.
Chris Soteriou remembers a good life: a well-paid job, three beautiful children and a loving wife.
"She fulfilled me, she was a great mother, we had no problems, we had a great marriage," Chris said.
Husband thought he had the perfect life

"She used to tell me every day 'til death do us part'. She used to love me so much."
Chris doesn't know when things changed for Vicky.
"She never questioned me and I never questioned her," he said.

"It was a very trustworthy marriage, from my perspective anyway."
What Chris did not know was that his "loving wife" was living a lie.
On her 40th birthday in 2007, Vicky had bumped into an old flame, a married man named Ari Dimitrakis.
By 2009, they were obsessed with each other, tattooing each other's names on their ring fingers and initials on their necks.
Vicky
had a warped fascination with tattoos. She made Chris ink himself with
her name before they married, and when Ari got one too, she rewarded him
with sex.
The couple began a torrid affair of seedy sexual
encounters. Once they were even caught undressed in the back seat of a
car by police.
Vicky was a woman who liked expensive things, but
Ari, a limo driver who lived in his mother-in-law's basement, had
nothing to his name.
He was a stark contrast to Chris, who owned several properties and $250,000 in life insurance and super.
Vicky
imagined Ari in her luxurious life. She was planning a life with him,
her parents, her daughter Marie, 13, and two-year-old twins Andrew and
Dimitra.
She even bought them all grave plots together to prove it. But there was no room for Chris.
January 2 last year was Chris's 44th birthday.
His cards told him he was the best husband and father in the world.
Vicky called him "my darling husband Chris".
"Thank you for loving me so much, your wife who adores you," she wrote on his card.
She told him he was having a surprise party at one of their favourite restaurants.

"I was looking forward to it, I thought she was being loving, I was happy," Chris said.
Night from hell
Vicky never drove, but that night she was determined to get behind the wheel.
She
asked Chris to buy so many bottles of wine he struggled to carry them,
especially since the car was parked in a back street far from their
destination, the Alpha Ouzeri restaurant in Fitzroy.
Chris was
wearing his new shirt - Vicky's present from that morning - and as they
walked arm in arm she even told him he'd be getting lucky that night.
Their friends thought Vicky was acting normally.
"She was as cool as a cucumber," Chris said.
"We had a great time, we ate, we drank and we danced."

The
group then arranged to meet in the city for drinks. But as they turned
into Rose St, Chris saw a dark figure near his prized Nissan 350.
"We were walking by and just looking at this character," he said.
"As soon as we walked by he pulled me back by my leather jacket and slit my throat.

I yelled 'What's going on?' and I was yelling out to Vicky 'My love. Run, just run'."
Chris
thought he was being mugged for his wallet, until he felt blood
streaming down his neck: "I felt the blood just running down my chest. I
was starting to lose consciousness, looking around for Vicky. I
remember just seeing, and I think it was Vicky, just a shadow of someone
just standing there watching and I'm just reaching out for her. I just
fell on the footpath against the fence and I felt more stab wounds, one
by one."
Chris was in a coma for 13 days.

On January 15 at
6am, he woke to the sound of his brother's voice. He remembers Vicky's
emotional entrance and now marvels at her reaction.
"She used to come and cry on top of my bed, saying how much she loved me," he said.
Hunt for attacker
All he wanted now was to find out who had stabbed him.
Chris didn't have to wait long: his brother said police were closing in.
"I
told Vicky the police were closing in and close to making an arrest,
and I realise she was just stunned. Instead of being very pleased she
was just shocked and stunned," he said.
The next time he would see his wife would be in court.
While Chris recovered in hospital, Vicky went to police and confessed to planning the attack with Ari.
It fell to police to break the devastating news to Chris.

"I
was gutted, I just wanted to end my life. I was just in a state of
shock for days. They say love is blind. It's so true," he said.
In the following months Chris's family and friends rallied as he learned how to become a hands-on dad.
"I've
put everything on hold, my career, everything, just trying to get the
twins into a good routine and re-establish their lives," he said.
His only worry is telling his kids why their mum is in jail: "What do I tell my kids?"
But,
"I'm blessed that I've survived ...
I have an opportunity to
raise my kids.
We look forward to a bright,
new fresh start".

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by Paul Simon
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true lilly wrote:



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I forgive you for that bit of irrelevant spam. At least that one's easy on the eyes.

Billy Ruben wrote:A good thread....SPAMMED.She's hinting at her ex-cop husband planning the same thing for her...Hmmmmm,must be part of Tintins' "International Cabal of Inept Assassins",they never pull the job off...or could be bothered.

Condolences to Detective Ryan for having made the colossal mistake of having married her to begin with.