With each passing day, I grow more and more obsessed with the story of Senator Rand Paul and his neighbor, Rene Boucher. Last weekend, Kentucky’s junior senator was getting ready to mow his lawn in his affluent Bowling Green neighborhood when his neighbor Rene Boucher apparently tackled him and attacked him so violently that Senator Paul has six broken ribs and cannot even travel now. Senator Paul tweeted this yesterday:
I appreciate all of the support from everyone. A medical update: final report indicates six broken ribs & new X-ray shows a pleural effusion
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 8, 2017
That is one violent attack, right? While Rand Paul isn’t some big, strong dude in the peak of health and fitness, I imagine he’s in pretty decent shape for a man his age and it would take a lot of violence to leave these kinds of injuries. We heard previously that the cause of the attack was NOT because of politics – Boucher is apparently quite liberal/progressive – but because of petty neighbor stuff, like landscaping. Sources previously claimed that Rand Paul had a small pumpkin patch and that violated his homeowners’ association rules or something, so maybe pumpkins were the root of everything. But Senator Paul retweeted this Washington Examiner article disputing the idea that the root of the attack was over lawncare.
The Bowling Green, Ky. neighbor who allegedly sucker attack Sen. Rand Paul last weekend, causing six broken ribs, was aggressively anti-Trump and anti-GOP in his social media, calling for the impeachment of the president and urging Russia investigator Robert Mueller to “fry Trump’s gonads.” Rene Boucher’s lawyer said that politics played no part and it has been suggested that the two verbally tussled over lawn clippings, leaving the impression that the Republican Kentucky senator was a negligent landscaper.
But seven neighbors in the Rivergreen gated community told Secrets Wednesday that the Pauls are friendly homeowners who kept their property tidy.
“The Paul’s landscaping looks just like everyone’s place in Rivergreen. Wish I could get him to cut my lawn,” said neighbor Robert Warner. “As a friend, neighbor and senator, Rand has been first class in every way. What I find amazing is the fact that he cuts his own grass. Our neighborhood is fortunate that the Paul’s live here,” he added.
All seven neighbors expressed shock at the “scary” attack on Paul as he was doing yard work last Saturday and they dismissed reports that it was the result of poor landscaping. However, they are puzzled about why Boucher, 59, allegedly tackled Paul, 54, who was wearing ear plugs at the time. Boucher has been charged with assault.
“The stories of a ‘landscaping dispute’ or a dispute of any sort between Rand Paul and Rene Boucher are erroneous and unfounded. The reason for Mr. Boucher’s bizarre attack is known only to him. Statements to the contrary are irresponsible and unnecessary,” said neighbor Travis Creed. He added, “Speculation regarding Boucher’s motive has led to an unfair characterization of the Pauls and their home. The Pauls are and always have been great neighbors and friends. They take pride in their property and maintain it accordingly. Rand has enjoyed working on and maintaining his lawn for as long as I have known him.”
[From The Washington Examiner]
The rest of the article includes quotes from additional neighbors, all of whom swear up and down that Rand Paul kept a tidy yard and that no one had an issue with his landscaping. I felt like I was going crazy the other day because I didn’t really believe the “landscaping dispute” story, so it’s nice to feel like my instincts were right. Wealthy people can fight over petty, picayune things, obviously, but this assault definitely felt different. I’m still not sure if I buy that it was over politics though. It just feels so personal, doesn’t it?
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Well, just because other neighbors think his yard looks great, doesn’t mean his crazy neighbor doesn’t hate looking at his pumpkins….
It’s worth noting that the Washington Examiner is a conservative paper. So this glowing piece about Rand Paul that he took time to retweet makes me think he has something to hide. Also, Rene Boucher may be hiding something too because that’s a lot of rage allegedly over pumpkins and lawn clippings. I won’t speculate further but I have a few of guesses. They all involve sex, though.🤔 😉
ETA: Ok I do have a non-sex theory. Rand Paul also has a slick mouth. So possibly he sassed the wrong person. It may have been a lawn thing, then Paul said something nasty. 🤔
I want the truth!
1. No way is Rand Paul interesting enough to have a sex scandal
2. The Washington Examiner is basically toilet paper, with a right wing slant.
3. The very fact he linked to an article in that paper, probably bought and paid for by the GOP, shows me that he definitely WANTS us to think this is political. Which somehow extra implies, to me, that it isn’t political at all.
Thank you. I refuse to have the same theory as right-wing nut jobs on facebook. None of whom are my friends, but when you click on a trending story you often go, not to a journalist’s story, but a crazy person sharing publicly and saying: “I knew he was a liberal attacking Paul because (insert crazy theory about how important/righteous Rand Paul is)!!!” I don’t know about sex. I think it’s landscaping and the shame of an untidy lawn is too much to bear in his demographic and constituency and must be fought with a planted (ha ha) story.
They really went overboard on the praise, didn’t they? Not only is he a wonderful neighbor and man, but a great senator, too, they say. And they quoted multiple people saying that his house and lawn are well kept. Is Rand Paul really super upset by the fact that people now think he doesn’t mow his lawn nicely? Or has too many leaves? Or has some kind of messy, ugly looking compost pile and pumpkin patch? That seems to be the main takeaway from this article: Senator Paul’s yard is well maintained. Maybe lawncare is a high priority to Republicans and Paul’s worried that people won’t vote for him if they think he’s living some kind of trashy, unkempt existence. The emphasis on his well kept property sounds like some kind of class and race signaling.
Years ago, CNN reporter Dana Bash had a fling with Paul’s father, Ron. Nut don’t fall too far from the tree much?
I’m definitely sticking with “stay away from my wife/daughter.”
Yeah I think it’s personal too. That guy is not going to attack a sitting Senator with a very public persona over politics this late in the game. If it was that it would have been months ago.
OOOooooooooOO. I had not thought about it & I think you might be on to something…
I’ve thought along those lines from the very beginning…it’s got to be something really personal and / or scandalous. Genreally speaking, no-one would tackle a neighbor hard enough to break ribs and cause freaking pleural effusion because they think pumpkins are ugly.
Bingo. I’ve been in this camp for a while. I can’t wait until the tea spills.
Bingo. I have a feeling we’re about to find out Rand Paul is not the family man he wants us to think he is.
I don’t know – it would be a really stupid idea for him to suggest that the fight was about something other than lawn care if he was trying to hide something. But then Rand Paul isn’t the brightest bulb…
Plausible explanation for why the neighbor would “mow” him down.
🤣
Grab me a chair, I’m sitting here. Paul retweeted this article to blame the crazy unhinged liberal, when in reality he’s probably deflecting from the true reason his neighbor was pissed enough to break six of his ribs. That’s definitely personal. It’s a tale as old as Trump~ blame the democrats.
I’m team “keep it in your pants”, too.
yup, it’s what I said from the get-go and I STILL firmly believe that’s the case.
Paul wants you to think it’s politics, but I’m not buying what he’s selling.
I don’t know, the Washington Post reported that Boucher is divorced and lives alone.
Does Boucher have sons or daughters at home?
+1
ok, a lot of these comments are blaming the victim. Can’t we just sit back and wait to find out if it’s something disgusting of the sort that people are suggesting?
Let’s be honest. People have done seriously unhinged things because of politics, especially lately.
No blame just questions. Why????
+1
Boucher just could’ve been drunk. I don’t follow politics closely, but some Republican senators and congressman are about as anti-Trump as the Democrats. So Boucher could be a strong Democrat or a strong Trumper who sits alone and drinks getting madder and madder. And Paul was about to get on a riding lawn mower — Boucher may have just shoved him into the machine. Or … since Paul is deaf in one ear and was wearing those earmuffs to protect his good ear, maybe Boucher tried to start a civil conversation and got enraged Paul wouldn’t even acknowledge his presence. I hope we find out.
Nobody is blaming the victim, I don’t think. We are not denying he was attacked. We just don’t believe why he was attacked. Is that blaming the victim?
Yeah, lawn care generally does not inspire otherwise level-headed people to tackle each other. A takedown form behind…that’s an advanced-level manoever. I’ve always thought that this smells of someone slept with someone else’s wife. Boucher is divorced you say….hmm.
The landscaping story smelled off to me.
I definitely thought it was possible that it was actually over the lawn lol where I grew up (Southern California) that was definitely something that would’ve happened and I have seen people get into each other’s faces for stuff that is that trivial and stupid lol
My guess is it was frustration over politics though
My grandmother is the kind of person who’s always been OBSESSIVE about her lawn. I have an uncle on the other side of the family who is also incredibly particular about the exact way that his lawn is mowed. These are Canadian’s too – and not in any kind of gated community. I recall hearing my grandmother complaining about neighbors (who she genuinely liked a lot) because their leaves kept blowing onto her property in the fall because they wouldn’t go rake them very often. So I can only imagine this kind of attitude is more prevalent in richer, gated communities where everyone has their property looking *perfect*.
I think the thing that surprises me the most though, is that these people are mowing their own lawn. My grandmother was mowing hers right into her mid-eighties and only stopped because she had an emergency hip replacement. She went through a few companies before finding one who does it up to her expectations – and she’s had the money that she could have always hired someone – but not senator money. I personally have bad allergies, so I hate yard work. If I had the funds, I’d have people taking care of ALL of it. I just can’t imagine a guy with that kind of a job and income WANTING to mow his own lawn.
The fact that they take care of their own lawns surprised me too! I didn’t grow up in the gated RHOC neighborhood (I lived out side of it) but I’m pretty sure they all had people doing their yard work rather than doing it themselves.
Now that I think about it, I’m 99% sure I saw neighbors beef with each other once because one of them didn’t cut their lemon tree back enough and *gasp!* a lemon fell into the neighbor’s yard 🙄
Ha, my next door neighbor (in Chicago here) is the same way. He mows his lawn literally every other day because he wants it perfectly manicured (don’t get me started on the fossil fuels he needlessly expends along with the poison he sprays on his weeds instead of pulling them) and he gets irritated when my any stray leaves drop onto his property.
I admit I take a bit of passive aggressive pleasure in not raking until pretty much all the leaves have fallen so I don’t have to do it more than once!
But – free lemons!
I feel like I’d be a terrible snooty rich person, haha. I’d probably have some passive aggressive topiary trees created if someone got on me about trimming my plants back.
Honestly, it’s 3C (37F) today, and I was supposed to cut back our giant quince bush thing a couple of weeks ago (the previous home owner was part of a garden club so I have a ton of beautiful plants that I don’t know how to properly care for) and I’ve been saying I need to trim it for the last two years. It’s now at least 7 or 8 feet tall, and I’d need a giant ladder to deal with it. And I’m only 5’2″ which a very limited arm span – so it’s not a great scenario, but totally my fault. I really need to make an effort to prune the stuff that’s supposed to be pruned in fall this weekend – or it’ll be too late if I want things to flower in the spring. I feel bad for my neighbors, honestly. But we live out in the municipality, not in town, or remotely close to a city, so at least I have that. And my neighbors are nice, and have varying levels of patience for their own gardens, so it’s not a huge deal.
I grew up in gated communities in LA & Orange County and no one mowed their own lawns or did their own yard work.
I’m sure it was a ride on. Prob a real fancy one with a cup holder and a cooler under the seat.
My step father is obsessed with their lawn too, and used to drag one of those herbicide poison things around with the lawnmower until I gave him a copy of Silent Spring to read. Thankfully he quit with the poisoning because he loves birds.
I once had a “friend” threaten to gouge out my eyes with a spoon because I put a rut in his lawn. When I was a kid an old man in the neighborhood grabbed our football that went on his grass and pulled out a giant knife and stabbed the ball. People can be crazy when it comes to their lawn.
This is all making me very grateful for my mild mannered Midwest neighborhood. If something is “wrong” with your lawn, the neighbors either don’t care or offer to help or do it for you lol
Haha, I once had a neighbour text everyone living in the apartment block, saying he would use garden wire and strangle the person (me…) who had damaged the raspberry bushes he had planted.
@Esmom: hello neighbor! I love over in WI 🙂
@Erinn: right?! It’s like they’d never heard “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade” lol
I’m really loving these stories of crazy lawn people though 😂
If you watch Judge Judy, people are always going to court over lawn issues.
But the timing for political angst seems off. Mueller is closing in on the Trumpers, for one thing. If he’s so angry with The Donald, he should be in a good mood and ordering a new popcorn popper.
This just keeps getting more and more bizarre. Whatever his and my politics are, as a fellow human being, I wish him a healthy recovery. And his assailant needs to be thrown in jail.
Is rand paul married? Perhaps someone coveted thy neighbors wife and the neighbor didn’t appreciate it?? I have no idea…neighbors are petty but over a lawn? Nah. Something smells off
He is. And their son already has three alcohol-related convictions in his early twenties, including DUI and assaulting a flight attendant. God bless the family values & personal responsibility party!
Being from the school of Judge Judy, something missing here. You don’t attack someone for no reason…..there’s more to this story. I also know that many neighbours live in the land of petty and they will jump you over grass & pumpkins sooooo it could go either way.
I agree. Something provoked an attack that severe and I don’t believe it was pumpkins. To provoke that kind of anger had to be something personal.
Agreed. These two have been neighbors for several years now. This guy either snapped or else something had been brewing for a long time between them that no one is willing to talk about.
Court shows (Judge Judy, People’s Court, etc) are my guilty pleasure and they have crazy neighbor disputes all the time. There are people suing their neighbor over fences, leaves, etc. As the judges get deeper into their questions there is always something that comes out where small things have built up into gigantic issues and the pettiness has been going on for years until one of the neighbors goes over the edge.
This attack was deeply personal. Since he had been living next to the Senator for years if it had been about politics he would have gone after him years ago.
Yep- don’t pee on my leg & tell me it’s raining! The school of Judge Judy is all you need.
A neighbor of one of my friend’s parents, a retired cop, shot and killed another neighbor over their dog always going into his yard. Apparently they had words about it and he went into his house, got his gun, came back out, went over into the neighbors yard (he went back to doing his yard work) and shot him. He died on the way to the hospital. He had a wife and college-aged son. All because of his dog going into the neighbors yard.
Wow. And that is a perfect example of why nobody needs a gun in their house.
People definitely go berserk over yard issues, so it could be just that. It could also be that Paul fell in a weird way because a piece of yard equipment was involved and got way more injured than he should have.
They’ve probably had a private beef over who knows what for years. These things build up and nobody else really knows about them until they erupt. Attacking someone over “politics” is extremely vague, and most people don’t get that worked up over broad ideas. It’s usually something specific. One event, one particular policy, one insult, not a general and ill defined disagreement. Wonder what it really is.
Though I think it’s kind of funny that the neighborhood tripped all over themselves to declare the Paul’s landscaping immaculate and how delighted they all were to live near them.
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You should be both proud and ashamed of yourself for this post.
Aaaaand you win. Shut the Internet down for the day. Everyone go outside.
You win!
Lol!
hahaha!!
ok i’m dead now…. shut it down, you win!
All the stars!
@melody
😂😂😂😂hysterical!!! And yes the school of Judge Judy is all one needs. This stinks to high heaven.
haha
This comment! Insert appropriate gif here.
Dude, please. My job involves contact with people from the upper classes all the time. These people are petty AF. They are precisely the kind of people bored enough with their wealth to fight over lawn care.
Co-sign, Veronica. I find the argument being over yard maintenance 100% believable. Something that should be clarified: Paul and his assailant have adjoining properties, and these are not small properties. There is plenty of room for Paul to have had something like an offending compost pile that wasn’t visible to the other neighbors who are now lining up to praise Paul’s lawn. Also, the assailant was unmarried and, I think, lives alone, so I’m not buying this “Paul was sleeping with / harassing Neighbor’s female relative” angle.
Washington Examiner is a far-right rag, and it’s no surprise they’re looking to blame this on demonic liberal rage. But can you take see Kentucky cops writing a liberal socialist up for only 4th-degree misdemeanor assault (which is their way of saying, “we barely even consider this a crime”) after injuring a sitting US senator like this, if they thought it was a politically motivated attack? Clearly the cops thought it was a neighbor beef that got out of hand (frankly, I think they were wrong not to initially arrest on a more serious charge).
Tl;dr: this is totally the sort of thing bored rich white people go nuts over, particularly if they’re not super-rich enough to have a household manager and lawyer on retainer to handle this stuff for them.
I don’t know whether you know many physicians, but they’re generally not the type that sits home bored and looking to be entertained by physical violence. This was a personal and visceral reaction to something serious.
Also check out the lack of Republicans running to the media to make political points about liberals physically attacking Republicans for their political points. They are just wishing him good healing. I think they too think this could be either stupid petty neighbor beef or smutty. Their silence is enough proof that this has nothing to do with politics.
Boucher is retired, so he has time on his hands. Also, there is plenty of bullying of junior staff by physicians at hospitals, up to and including physical assault. Doctors are as capable of petty obsessions and physical intimidation as anyone else.
Exactly
If it were over politics, why now? It sounds like they lived next door to each other for over 10 years. During that time Paul has done a lot of things that would upset someone with progressive leanings.
Don’t buy it.
I don’t buy that it was about politics either.
For whatever reason, it seems that Dr Boucher loathes Sen. Paul. They’ve lived next door for some years, no? That’s a lot of time and opportunity for hatred to fester. Sometimes as well people have crises and lose their minds —it may be that Dr. Boucher is not on an even keel. I’m sure we’ll find out eventually.
Still think this was more about someone boinking someone they shouldn’t, given the level of violence and that it was premeditated rather than taking place during an argument (as you would expect if it had been about politics).
Or maybe I’ve watched too many procedural dramas….
If it was lawn care, then the proper channels through the HOA would have occurred and if that was not satisfactory, then court.
I just cannot imagine a doctor putting his career on the line for pumpkins. I just cannot wrap my head around.
Something else went down. Big.
This reeks of someone sleeping with someone they shouldn’t have, no way you suddenly beat the stuffing out of someone because you disagree with what they are doing in the senate, Paul’s politics and senate record have been odious from the start. I can’t wait for the other shoe to finally drop on this one.
The local rumor (at least according to twitter, so big grain of salt) is that Paul’s son who is in his mid 20s is involved with the neighbors barely legal daughter. Rand’s son has also been charged with assault and DUIs. Granted, I’m not sure why the father would beat Rand instead of Rand’s son but it would make sense for this type of personal attack.
*Although people with HOA can be petty and crazy when it comes to lawn disputes.
@div
Ah, this makes sense. I think we will find out more.
Considering this past year, I guess I’m surprised that more Republican Senators haven’t been attacked.😁
Do you remember the Senator who was shot on the baseball field? Is that funny?
People are getting way too worked up about politics. If you read biographies of past presidents, there has always been conflict between the parties. The difference is we didnt’ have twitter/facebook/internet fanning the flames and people being absolutely obsessed. Best thing to do when you are feeling that way is to turn off the computer and go outside and be among people. We can all find ways to get along if we try.
I think there were quite a few political assassinations before electronic media. And it’s perfectly sensible to be worked up about a vile authoritarian as POTUS. It’s not acceptable to advocate or use violence though, but I don’t think Giddy was doing that.
The Washington Examiner is now a notoriously right wing paper. The fact that Paul’s spokesperson kept downplaying this at first is fishy & now tweeting this out, in contrast to the original downplayed statements, is weird. I actually somewhat buy the lawn dispute more, as crazy as that sounds, since the Post’s sources say this has been an ongoing issue for years and it’s not the first time I’ve heard of such craziness from folks with a HOA. I also think that the jokes about an affair with “Flora” might be on to something.
*Take it with a huge grain of salt, but apparently locals on twitter have been tweeting that the local rumor is that Paul’s son, who is in his mid 20s and has had some issues with DUIs and being charged with assault, is apparently involved with the neighbors barely legal daughter.
That rumour sounds awfully detailed and would explain the intensity of the attack. If Paul is defending his son then I can see a dad losing it on him. Especially if the son was abusive to the daughter.
My husband is our HOA President (God help me). I can attest to the BIZARRE crap neighbors fight over-even in “expensive” neighborhoods. He even had someone threaten him physically because of where his truck was parked one day while he was putting up cameras at our pool. (My husband is not a fighter, nor does he look like one. Me, I’m a redneck from the hills, but my hubby is as sweet, mild-mannered, even-keeled, and classy as they come.)
Was just going to say that about the Examiner.
Hmmm. In the NY Times profile from a few years back, cited by several sources, Paul was composting and didn’t care about HOA rules. Something still smells off.
Who knows what actually happened. People fight over politics and they also fight over lawns and pumpkin and maybe the assailant is a violent man who went off. What we do know is that the Washington Examiner is a conservative-leaning newspaper. The neighbours sound either like Stepford people or like truly appreciative (and well-to-do) neighbours. Rand didn’t deserve that assault. No one who has been assaulted or killed for reasons of politics or pumpkins this year has deserved it. The US is going through a wave of political violence, both random and organized, and it’s disturbing.
I think the rumour of it relating to Paul’s sketchy son being with the doctor’s daughter fits more into why an attack like this would happen. It’s personal and if Paul’s son who already has had legal problems is behind the anger, the Paul’s spokesperson would try to divert the narrative.
Wow. That explanation might actually fit better than either of the other two, and fit this story placement in the Washington Examiner.
Sound like some kind of personal dispute that may or may not have involved politics. I guess Paul should be grateful Boucher didn’t set out to settle it with a gun.
I love that saying they had a landscape issue or an illegal pumpkin patch was referred to as “unfair characterization of the Pauls and their home”. Talk about a snowflake!
But seriously, the neighbor should not have attacked him, no excuse for that. Hope RP is recovering well, and thankful for all his government supplied heath insurance.
Government health insurance that he wanted to take away from his fellow Americans, too.
I actually still think that it’s something petty related to to their yards or property. Paul lives in a gated community and was mowing the lawn when he was attacked. Was the assumption ever that it was specifically about him not taking care of his property? There are a hundred other things to fight over, from fences to where people put their lawn clippings to tree management.
Was he mowing the neighbor’s yard instead of his own? Was he blowing the clippings into the neighbor’s property?
I’m not saying he slept with his wife, but he totally slept with his wife. Nothing else makes sense.
Boucher doesn’t have a wife. Also, I find it hard to imagine that even Rand Paul’s own wife wants to sleep with him.
Lol! 😂
His girlfriend then? Unless this was politically motivated (which by now the right would be using like crazy) it doesn’t make any sense. And honestly you’d be shocked and who women would sleep with.
Even with only my measly 4 college credits in Forensic Psychology I’m comfortable telling you this is clearly a very personal and intimate situation. And the way everyone is tiptoeing around? Well I see two possibilities; involvement with a wife or daughter…or involvement having nothing to do with a wife or daughter. *Ahem* We will see.
Ohhh! Maybe. Something secretive about this and that would be a scandal. Hmmm.
Gated wealthy people behaving badly.
I don’t know. Trump and his sheer awfulness can sometimes put me into a HULK SMASH! headspace, ya know?
Was this cat a former football player? Cause he apparently can take down hard.
Rand Paul has to at least have some inkling of why his neighbor attacked him so aggressively. Nobody just randomly attacks someone like that without longstanding beef or deep personal issues (unless his neighbor has a history of psychiatric problems and has a history of randomly attacking neighbors and this really doesn’t seem to be the case).
Yeah, sex. It’s about some sex somewhere. Paul keeping his response so low key means he knows something he wants to keep under cover.
Good point. If it were something little or harmless, he’d be saying it.
I’m going with closeted gay lovers’ fight until someone proves otherwise! Please let this be my Christmas present, Santa.
Omg, that would be hilarious
Haha!
LOL!
I stand by my previous statement that this was WAY more than a relatively healthy guy tackling another relatively healthy guy from behind. Six broken ribs??
Unless they tumbled over a giant retaining wall into a stone statue of a gargoyle, there had to have been a bat or some sustained, rage-beating with steel-toed boots involved here.
This was extremely violent to cause that kind of damage. Several weeks ago, I was hit in the ribs by the fender of my running away farm tractor and was, miraculously, knocked down and not run over. I had ONE broken rib. I’m with you. Having a hard time believing Boucher was able to do this much harm with just fists or a hard tackle.
Or a baseball bat,maybe?
Six ribs doesn’t really imply extreme violence, it can also mean a very strategically aimed hit. Not the point but just saying. I also agree this is probably related to a “ you touch my wife/daughter/me/son and I touch you back.” Kind of situation. They went right to politics as an explanation and that’s just pandering to the mouth breathers.
Yeah, this was personal. Probably involving one of their wives. And the fact that Rand Paul isn’t saying what it was about makes me think my instincts are correct.
This definitely wasn’t over politics alone. Maybe that played a part for why they didn’t get along generally, but Rand Paul has always been conservative/crazy/libertarian etc. There wasn’t a big vote last week that would have caused a major conflict or anything.
I’m going with the sex theory.
Lawn clippings or no, check out The Daily Show’s take on it. Be sure to watch to the end! lol
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/1dlrnb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-rand-paul-s-backyard-brawl
Completely agree that this feels like the kind of violence that has its origins in personal, intimate, intense anger. About something. I mean… could politics affect someone this much? Living as neighbors with someone like Rand Paul and knowing day in and day out that he is systematically undermining our society, voting for laws that strip people of benefits and social support networks they need? Working as a physician and maybe seeing the impact of that on patients first-hand? I think it probably could lead to that kind of personal anger. Then again, I don’t know. This just seems…. weird to me. Like there is something else going on.
Anesthesiologists like Boucher don’t usually work much directly with awake patients. They might possibly question them before surgery to try to find out if they have a personal or family history of bad reactions to anesthetics, although that might be done by someone else. Their job is generally to closely monitor the patient and take steps if it looks as though the patient is clearing the anesthetic too fast or too slowly or is having a bad reaction to it. They’re part of the surgical team, not a general practitioner.
He also seems to be described as a pain management specialist, in that capacity he might work with individual patients as well as on teams. Management of post-surgery pain is an important issue, pain can interfere with healing.
Thank you for this article! I’ve been trying to figure out the real story for days. And, yes, this attach seems personal and not related to landscaping.
So the neighborhoods say that it’s definitely not about landscaping, but they have no clue what it’s about. Mmmmhmmm. Lol.
This is a misleading headline. We still don’t know why he was assaulted.
They used to work together years ago as well. Workplace drama can be as petty and volcanic as neighbor/lawn drama. Add them both together and let that fester a while – you’ll get somebody going ballistic for just being looked at the wrong way.
I’d be interested in seeing photos of these lawns. They must be really something.
I saw an aerial shot and they’re huge. One of the late night comedians said there was 1.5 acres between them…. What do people do with all that land?!?
Attacks like this usually mean marital affair.
The latest: federal charges will be filed against the assailant. I don’t know if Paul being a senator is relevant, but the Attorney General believes the assault was politically motivated.
So suspicious, much mystery. The seeds of dispute must have been planted early, and eventually bloomed into this fight. I wonder who has the dirt on the actual reason and will it leaf our dear dim bulb Senator embarassed and red faced like a tomato? Will his reputation be soiled even further? Will he get raked through the coals? Will more revelations crop up? Are the other neighbours sitting on the fence? We must dig further and weed out the truth, especially in our current political landscape. Oy, water fuss.
Have you thought about writing for Stephen Colbert?
So, is Rand Paul going to pay for all of his medical expenses entirely out of his own pocket? Or is he gonna rely on the health insurance that he gets from the Senate, that has been so generously provided for him via the tax payers of America? Because if it’s the latter, then what’s the difference between him and the people whom he thinks are simply draining the system by relying on others to pay for problems that are entirely of their own making.
Also, doesn’t he believe in personal responsibility? Why is he out here putting the blame on the neighbour that beat him up? Maybe he should have been more careful, or run away when he saw the guy coming and avoided the whole debacle entirely. Maybe he just shouldn’t have moved into that neighbourhood. Maybe he shouldn’t have been standing outside where the guy could see him. All I’m saying is, there’s an awful lot of blame going around to someone else when he should have just done the responsible thing and not existed in the first place.
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Sorry but the Washington Examiner is a right wing rag and the Republicans blame “progressives and Democrats” for everything. Every mass shooter is a dirty “liberal.” Every bad person is somehow a progressive. The ironic thing is that usually it’s the other way around. Pot…meet kettle!