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Because, why not have another Zimmerman thread. Every other thread gets Zimmermanded anyway.

It's over! Zimmerman's wife files for divorce

Less than two months after her husband, George Zimmerman, was found not guilty in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Shellie Zimmerman is filing for divorce.

Kelly Sims, Shellie Zimmerman's attorney, confirmed to CNN that documents were filed Thursday afternoon in Florida's Seminole County Courthouse.

George Zimmerman's brother, Robert Zimmerman Jr, also tweeted the news.

Last week, Shellie Zimmerman made an appearance on Good Morning America and said her marriage was "in jeopardy."

She said she would "have to think about" staying in the marriage, and expressed guilt and regret regarding her actions following Martin's death in February 2012. She recently pleaded guilty to perjury for lying about the state of her family's finances during a bond hearing in April 2012. She had claimed she and her husband were broke, when in reality they had collected about $135,000 in donations.

"I can rationalize a lot of reasons for why I was misleading, but the truth is I knew I was lying,” Shellie Zimmerman told ABC. “I wish a lot things were different. I can’t tell you how many times I have laid at night saying 'God, I wish these circumstances had been different.'”

Zimmerman also said the publicity around the polarizing trial forced her and her husband to live in constant fear.

"I think we have been pretty much like gypsies," she said in the ABC interview. "We lived in a 20-foot trailer in the woods scared every night that someone was going to find us and that we’d be out in the woods alone and that it would be horrific."

Since his acquittal, George Zimmerman has been in the headlines several times. In late July, he reportedly helped a family escape from an overturned SUV. A report from the Seminole County Sheriff's Office confirmed his involvement.

More recently, Zimmerman was pulled over in traffic not once, but twice. The first time, he was given a verbal warning for a traffic violation in Texas, and reportedly told officers he had a firearm in his glove compartment. The second time was in Florida Tuesday, when he was issued a $256 ticket for speeding.

Zimmerman was acquitted of Martin's shooting death by a jury of six women on July 13.

I like where she wants him to have to maintain a life insurance policy with her getting the beneifts of it.

Thats pretty wack job donkey-cave to me.

All because people cant leave well enough alone.

 Frazzled wrote:
I like where she wants him to have to maintain a life insurance policy with her getting the beneifts of it.

Thats pretty wack job donkey-cave to me.

They don't have any kids do they? I think all I have seen is custody of dogs.

I could see it a tiny bit if she is filing for alimony, but it's still shaky.

Now if they had kids and she is requesting a court order for him to have life insurance with the kids getting benefits, then I wouldn't blink an eye about the request.

 d-usa wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
I like where she wants him to have to maintain a life insurance policy with her getting the beneifts of it.

Thats pretty wack job donkey-cave to me.

They don't have any kids do they? I think all I have seen is custody of dogs.

I could see it a tiny bit if she is filing for alimony, but it's still shaky.

Now if they had kids and she is requesting a court order for him to have life insurance with the kids getting benefits, then I wouldn't blink an eye about the request.

If Zimmerman had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.


Too soon?

 pities2004 wrote:

 d-usa wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
I like where she wants him to have to maintain a life insurance policy with her getting the beneifts of it.

Thats pretty wack job donkey-cave to me.

They don't have any kids do they? I think all I have seen is custody of dogs.

I could see it a tiny bit if she is filing for alimony, but it's still shaky.

Now if they had kids and she is requesting a court order for him to have life insurance with the kids getting benefits, then I wouldn't blink an eye about the request.

If Zimmerman had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.


Too soon?

Zimmerman'ed already...

Back to OP: Divorce is a sucky thing... very rarely a "clean" disengagement.

 pities2004 wrote:

If Zimmerman had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.


Too soon?

Yes it was.

If only she had been armed, he wouldn't have divorced her.

pities2004 wrote:

 d-usa wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
I like where she wants him to have to maintain a life insurance policy with her getting the beneifts of it.

Thats pretty wack job donkey-cave to me.

They don't have any kids do they? I think all I have seen is custody of dogs.

I could see it a tiny bit if she is filing for alimony, but it's still shaky.

Now if they had kids and she is requesting a court order for him to have life insurance with the kids getting benefits, then I wouldn't blink an eye about the request.

If Zimmerman had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.


Too soon?

It's never too soon. And you also Zimmerman'd the Zimmerman thread, so bonus points for that.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/us/george-zimmerman-detained/index.html

The saga continues...

Yea...do us all a favor dude and don't breed.

 Frazzled wrote:
Yea...do us all a favor dude and don't breed.

Who are you talking to?

Zimmerman and similar slack jawed yokels.

Justice for Shellie.

I heard Zims has been known to pull a gatt when losing a fight.

Wife not filing charges:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/us/george-zimmerman-detained/index.html?c=homepage-t

He sounds like a winner though.

I'll just leave this leftover here:



How long must he suffer for us all?

I am shocked to learn that a guy who walks around his neighbourhood at night with a gun might be a little erratic in his personal behaviour.

 sebster wrote:
I am shocked to learn that a guy who walks around his neighbourhood at night with a gun might be a little erratic in his personal behaviour.

Lots of Americans concealed carry, and it doesn't have anything to do with being erratic.

He's just standing his ground.

 Hordini wrote:
Lots of Americans concealed carry, and it doesn't have anything to do with being erratic.

Read what I said. Read every word of this; "a guy who walks around his neighbourhood at night with a gun".

Get the difference between what I said and what you read? A guy goes out with his family for dinner, and he concealed carries... whatever. A guy goes out at night, patrolling the neighbourhood streets by himself with a gun... probably a little bit nutty.

In his defense, his wife was wearing a hoodie.

You know, George, in retrospect it may have been a better idea to just stay in the car.

He's starting to live an interesting life. He seems to be good at escalating confrontations, I can see this ending with someone shooting him one day.

I love that everyone is automatically assuming he was at fault or something. I've seen many a messy divorce where the wife called the cops on her husband claiming an "altercation" to help get the courts in her favor.

Let the Zimmerman hatred flow though. No one wanted to wait for facts the first time he made the news, why bother now?

 sebster wrote:

 Hordini wrote:
Lots of Americans concealed carry, and it doesn't have anything to do with being erratic.

Read what I said. Read every word of this; "a guy who walks around his neighbourhood at night with a gun".

Get the difference between what I said and what you read? A guy goes out with his family for dinner, and he concealed carries... whatever. A guy goes out at night, patrolling the neighbourhood streets by himself with a gun... probably a little bit nutty.

Well, when I read "a guy who walks around his neighborhood at night with a gun," I don't immediately think of "patrolling the neighborhood streets by himself with a gun." The point being, most people who are serious about concealed carry generally try to carry as often as possible, which would include any time they're walking around their neighborhood at night.


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 djones520 wrote:
I love that everyone is automatically assuming he was at fault or something. I've seen many a messy divorce where the wife called the cops on her husband claiming an "altercation" to help get the courts in her favor.

Let the Zimmerman hatred flow though. No one wanted to wait for facts the first time he made the news, why bother now?

I think it's interesting. Even if we temporarily assume he is at fault in this case, I wonder how much of this behavior has to do with his original personality, and how much of it has to do with the effect of the stresses of the trial and the media ruining his life for the past year or more. Not that that justifies or condones domestic violence or anything of the sort, but I wouldn't be quick to assume that these things are necessarily happening just because it's they way he's always been.

 Hordini wrote:
Well, when I read "a guy who walks around his neighborhood at night with a gun," I don't immediately think of "patrolling the neighborhood streets by himself with a gun."

I think you probably should have, especially considering we're talking about the Zimmerman case here.

 sebster wrote:

 Hordini wrote:
Well, when I read "a guy who walks around his neighborhood at night with a gun," I don't immediately think of "patrolling the neighborhood streets by himself with a gun."

I think you probably should have, especially considering we're talking about the Zimmerman case here.

Zimmerman was on his way to (or returning from, I forget which) Target by means of automobile when he spotted Martin and called the police. I'm not sure why referencing patrolling the neighborhood on foot with a gun would be at all relevant.

 Hordini wrote:
Not that that justifies or condones domestic violence or anything of the sort, but I wouldn't be quick to assume that these things are necessarily happening just because it's they way he's always been.

Is this another way of saying he didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose him?

In any event, it's unfortunate this state that allows the spouse to drop battery charges to avoid further criminal prosecution. I know in many states you cannot do it, and I think the latter is probably the better method - in that charges go forward at the police's determination that battery has probably occurred, rather then based upon the willingness of a cowed and batter spouse to testify.

I'm not saying this is the case with Zimmerman, I'm speaking in generalities. Who knows what actually happened so far.

 Seaward wrote:
Zimmerman was on his way to (or returning from, I forget which) Target by means of automobile when he spotted Martin and called the police. I'm not sure why referencing patrolling the neighborhood on foot with a gun would be at all relevant.

Zimmerman reported what, a dozen suspicious incidents in the previous six months? Maybe every single time he witnessed a crime he was out on a personal errand. Maybe Zimmerman is a modern day Jessica Fletcher, who just happens to always be in the area when a crime is committed through complete, miraculous chance.

Or maybe its pretty fething obvious to the world that Zimmerman patrolled his area looking for any possible criminal activity.