What a shocker!

A guy named Manuel Balbin was convicted last week in Miami of torturing a "colleague" from his private social club, because the colleague allegedly stole Balbin's Playstation 2.

So what, you say?

Balbin's social club is called Satan's Disciples, and his nickname is "Insane." That's right, Manuel "Insane" Balbin.

Instead of telling the alleged thief to return the Playstation 2 like a normal person would have done, Balbin, among other things, flambéd his buddy using a lighter and a can of Axe Deodorant Body Spray. Balbin also tazed the alleged thief's right testicle. Why the right one? What exactly did righty do that was so much worse than lefty's behavior?

In the end, Balbin and other Disciples made the alleged thief put on a tube top and steal booze from a gas station before they turned him loose.

I want to feel bad for the kid, the alleged thief. But here's the deal: if you're gonna steal from a friend, steal from the one whose nickname is something like "Buddy" or "Pallie" or "Sneezy" or "Dopey" or "Smiley." Smiley would be best. No one named Manuel "Smiley" Balbin would taze your fellas for a little misunderstanding over a gaming system.

'Cause if you knowingly steal from a guy whose friends call him "Insane," then you're just tempting fate unnecessarily.

Anyway, Insane Balbin will have the next 10 years to pine for his Playstation 2.


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