It seems that the father of two French tennis players (one player happens to be 16) has been drugging his children’s opponents on 27 different occasions.
One of the opponents, 25-year old Alexandre Lagardere, allegedly saw Pere Fauviau tampering with his water bottle before a match. Lagardere then complained about fatigue after the match, slept for two hours, then started driving home. Police believe that he fell asleep behind the wheel, crashed, and is now dead.
He (Christophe Fauviau - the father) has said that he was suffering from heavy stress from watching the careers of his children spiral out of control, and being “gripped by panic and anguish.”
Listen, fucker…I think your kids, and their past and future foes, are the ones that should be “gripped by panic and anguish.”
The continued pressure that some parents place on their children is mind-boggling. Just because you’ve decided that your kids HAVE to be the seconds (and, I guess, third) coming of Christ doesn’t mean that you have to take it upon yourself to ensure that they fucking win.
You killed a person![sup]*[/sup] All because you couldn’t accept the fact that not all children are special. In fact, most of them are rather ordinary.
This sort of thing upsets me more than just about any other news story I happen to come across. People get so caught up in the fact that their little kid may be decent at something that they decide to take matters into their own hands to ensure that the parents can sponge off of them, and not have to work anymore.
If there’s a Hell, I hope it has a special circle for people like this fucktard.
For many people, “average” or “ordinary” are bad words. Sometimes I can’t blame people for thinking that way, but I don’t think it excuses bad behavior.
Yeesh. All I do is get Michaela placed in the best GATE program available, review her homework before she turns it in, and insist that she bring home (and study) her science book for the week preceding a test.
I’m not exactly leading the pack in terms of giving my daughter a leg up, am I?
Gee, I thought it would have been an US sports dad. It’s nice to see that being a giant fucking asshole is so universal. It is truely what makes us human.
The idiot deserves a lot more than 20 years for “unintentional” death, however, I think we ought to reserve some condemnation for the police.
They had evidence handed to them a month earlier. Even with insufficient evidence for an arrest, should not something have been done to interrupt Fauviau’s actions at subsequent events?
What about the wanton endangerment of the other people who could have been killed when Lagardere crashed? There could have been many more deaths due to this.
Maybe about the same. The mom who hired a hitman to murder off her daughter’s cheerleading rival (and her mother) got 10 years, but was released from prison after only 6 months to serve the rest of her sentence on probation.
Drugging opponents’ water bottles so they won’t play as well? That sounds like something the Really Rottens would have done in the Laff-a-Lympics. I wonder if this guy had been watching too many cartoons or broad comedies.
In one case, you have someone who didn’t intend to kill anyone, but who still caused someone to die through deliberately reckless and endangering behavior.
In the other, you have someone who was very definitely trying to kill two people and hired someone for that purpose, but failed because the hitman turned her in.
I’d be hard pressed to come up with a good, consistent argument for one getting a stiffer sentence than the other.
