Friday, July 09, 2010

Man held his mother hostage for not doing his ironing

A 29-year-old Villa Rica man apparently expected his mother to iron his clothes for him. And when she wouldn't, he pulled a gun and held her hostage for several hours, police said. Robert Edward Tyrrell Jr. remained in jail on Wednesday without bond, Sgt. Marc Griffith with the Carroll County Sheriff's Office said.

Tyrrell faces aggravated assault and false imprisonment following the June 30 incident, Griffith said. "He wanted her to do some ironing, and when she said ‘no,' they got into an argument," Griffith said. "He told her ‘ironing is woman's work.' "



Tyrrell, who lives with his parents, then pulled out a gun and took his 51-year-old mother's keys and cellphones, Griffith said. The man refused to let the woman leave for at least six hours, investigators said.

“Mama finally said, ‘I’m not ironing your clothes,' and he went cuckoo on her," Griffith said. The woman was later able to get out of the home and drive to a police station to report the incident, and deputies were dispatched to the home. Eventually, Tyrrell surrendered without incident, Griffith said.

4 comments:

Foreigner1 said...

<span>I'll admit- I too pull a gun on my wife when she refuses to fold my clothes properly. those are Grave matters you know. I mean- What will become of this world when mothers refuse to iron and when wives stop doing trivial things in the household??? 
 
*DONT_KNOW* :-P *DONT_KNOW* </span>
Ehhhhhhhhhhhh and it is considered normal that he even HAS a gun for starters????????

cath said...

Foreigner1: The gun you pull on your wife, it's the same one you keep in the oven, right?

Foreigner1 said...

How did you guess???

:-P

L said...

Ironing is woman's work?

It's kind of hard to feel sorry for the woman, considering she was the one who raised such a lovely young man.  Those misogynistic ideas came from somewhere...