BAGHDAD - Only minutes after the Iraqi High Tribunal handed down a guilty verdict in the trial of Saddam Hussein, an angry mob pulled former construction worker Reginald Denny from his red eighteen wheel truck and proceeded to beat him to a bloody pulp. Denny, who endured a similar mob-inflicted assault following the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers in the Rodney King trial, expressed dismay at his bad luck. "I always seem to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said, before losing consciousness.
Denny, who currently resides in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, was supposed to be delivering a shipment of Tickle Me Extreme Elmo dolls to a Sacramento area Toys R Us store. All major carriers transporting the highly collectible, much-sought after toy are heavily-armed, said a spokesman for the company that makes the doll, Profit Street, Inc. It is unclear why Denny did not open fire on his attackers.
Denny's wife said she wasn't sure exactly how her husband could have strayed so far off course from his original destination, but offered a possible explanation. "Reginald is a proud man, and he doesn't like to stop and ask people for directions," she said. Mrs. Denny added that this is a source of great friction in their relationship. "I've often wanted to drag him from the car and smack him around myself," she said. "But this is getting ridiculous."
