BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is suing a neighbor who admitted tackling Paul as he mowed his yard.
The Bowling Green Daily News reports the complaint filed Friday seeks compensatory and punitive damages from neighbor Rene Boucher for “physical pain and mental suffering” from the November assault. Boucher says his actions were brought on by Paul repeatedly stacking yard debris near a shared property line. Paul suffered multiple fractured ribs.
The lawsuit charges that Paul has “been deprived of his enjoyment of life.” It also asks to prevent Boucher from contacting the Paul family or Boucher “will continue … the pattern of stalking and harassment.”
Boucher pleaded guilty to assaulting a member of Congress and was sentenced this month to 30 days in jail and a $10,000 fine.
I’d love to see what would happen if a GoFundMe was started for Boucher. I have a sneaking suspicion it’d quickly top $1 million; $300 million if all the Rand haters kicked in a buck.
OK, here’s my theory:
Rand Paul is a spiteful toad. He deliberately aggravated his neighbor and got more than he bargained for. Neighbor shouldn’t have done it but at this stage of the proceedings the soundest advice for Rand is to move. Aggravating an unstable neighbor is unwise.
There is an old saw that goes:
She was right, dead right, but she is just as dead as if she’d been wrong.
Really, that works? Can we sue the House and Senate for mental suffering? I feel brutalized by this Administration for no clear cause.
HEADLINE: LIBERTARIAN RUGGED INDIVIDUALIST IS NEITHER RUGGED NOR INDIVIDUALIST