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2am Tobacco Addiction leads to Kidnapping ! -- who said smoking isn't harmful to
one's health?
By Dahleen Glanton and John Bebow
Chicago Tribune
March 14, 2005
ATLANTA -- If she hadn't run out of cigarettes, Ashley Smith might never have
met the former Baltimore man accused of killing an Atlanta judge and three
others.
Instead, a late-night run for smokes became an opportunity for Brian Nichols to
put a gun to her side and force his way into the suburban apartment she had
moved into two days earlier, she said. Within hours, they agreed that God had
brought them together.
At first he had wrapped her up with tape and an extension cord, she said. She
thought he might try to strangle her. Eventually, her calm manner seemed to calm
him.
"I don't want to hurt you," she recalled Nichols telling her. "I don't want to
hurt anybody else."
They talked throughout the night, Smith, 26, said in a conference with Atlanta
news media last night, a day after the arrest of the suspect alleged to have
killed four people in a rampage beginning Friday morning at the Fulton County
Courthouse.
Smith said that during her seven-hour hostage ordeal, they talked about the book
she was reading, her 5-year-old daughter and the death of her husband four years
ago.
"I told him that if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mommy or daddy,"
she said.
She begged him to let her go see her daughter Saturday morning. At first he said
no. Then he said maybe. Then he asked for her help to ditch a pickup truck
allegedly taken after the killing of an off-duty federal agent.
She went with him, took her cell phone, thought about calling police, but
concluded she might get caught in some sort of crossfire between Nichols and
police. So she waited.
He told her he just wanted to relax in her place for a few days, watch
television and eat some real food. She cooked him breakfast -- pancakes with
butter. He put his guns under her bed -- and let her flee at 9:30 a.m. Saturday
to see her daughter.
"He just wanted some normalness in his life right then," she said. "He said he
thought I was an angel sent from God. And that he was lost and God led him right
to me."
Smith was accosted as she arrived home at 2 a.m. after her trip to a convenience
store to buy cigarettes. Nichols spotted her in the parking lot of her apartment
complex and approached her with a gun as she was about to enter her apartment,
she said.
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2am Tobacco Addiction leads to Kidnapping ! -- who said smoking isn't
harmful to one's health?
By Dahleen Glanton and John Bebow
Chicago Tribune
March 14, 2005
ATLANTA -- If she hadn't run out of cigarettes, Ashley Smith might never
have met the former Baltimore man accused of killing an Atlanta judge and
three others.
Instead, a late-night run for smokes became an opportunity for Brian
Nichols to put a gun to her side and force his way into the suburban
apartment she had moved into two days earlier, she said. Within hours,
they agreed that God had brought them together.
At first he had wrapped her up with tape and an extension cord, she said.
She thought he might try to strangle her. Eventually, her calm manner
seemed to calm him.
"I don't want to hurt you," she recalled Nichols telling her. "I don't
want to hurt anybody else."
They talked throughout the night, Smith, 26, said in a conference with
Atlanta news media last night, a day after the arrest of the suspect
alleged to have killed four people in a rampage beginning Friday morning
at the Fulton County Courthouse.
Smith said that during her seven-hour hostage ordeal, they talked about
the book she was reading, her 5-year-old daughter and the death of her
husband four years ago.
"I told him that if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mommy or
daddy," she said.
She begged him to let her go see her daughter Saturday morning. At first
he said no. Then he said maybe. Then he asked for her help to ditch a
pickup truck allegedly taken after the killing of an off-duty federal
agent.
She went with him, took her cell phone, thought about calling police, but
concluded she might get caught in some sort of crossfire between Nichols
and police. So she waited.
He told her he just wanted to relax in her place for a few days, watch
television and eat some real food. She cooked him breakfast -- pancakes
with butter. He put his guns under her bed -- and let her flee at 9:30
a.m. Saturday to see her daughter.
"He just wanted some normalness in his life right then," she said. "He
said he thought I was an angel sent from God. And that he was lost and God
led him right to me."
Smith was accosted as she arrived home at 2 a.m. after her trip to a
convenience store to buy cigarettes. Nichols spotted her in the parking
lot of her apartment complex and approached her with a gun as she was
about to enter her apartment, she said.
Great story. But you're interpretation is all wrong Prof. Jones. If not
for tobacco, this killer may still be on the loose!!
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LOL I thought she went out at 2:00am for figs! Obviously it was cigs!
Still, being out at 2:00am for anything but a total emergency made me
wonder.... And a Good Christian Woman like that so addicted to nicotine
that she had to go out at 2:00am.
yD -- cynical
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JTS wrote:
Great story. But you're interpretation is all wrong Prof. Jones. If
not for tobacco, this killer may still be on the loose!!
Good point, we need more smokers to help save the world
from murderous criminals by using themselves as bait.
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yaffadina2@aol.com wrote:
LOL I thought she went out at 2:00am for figs! Obviously it was
cigs! Still, being out at 2:00am for anything but a total emergency
made me wonder.... And a Good Christian Woman like that so addicted
to nicotine that she had to go out at 2:00am.
She's a single mom who's husband was killed in a knife-fight.
Could she be anything else but a drug addict?
yD -- cynical
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Dock J.Perry wrote:
I love the moral of the story..... EVEN angels sent from GOD
smoke...... D.P.
Here's a WhiteTrash NewsFlash for you Docky Wocky --
no matter how much tobacco you suck suck suck, you
ain't gonna see any part of Heaven.
Now go suck another one you pathetic drug addict!
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"- Prof. Jonez" wrote:
yaffadina2@aol.com wrote:
She's a single mom who's husband was killed in a knife-fight.
Could she be anything else but a drug addict?
Yeah, she could. I admit that it is very odd to go out at 2 a.m. to buy
cigs BUT there could be reasons. Maybe she got off work at 1 a.m., for
example. I don't know. Furthermore, I don't think a junkie would have been
able to keep her cool and calm that guy the way she did -- I don't think a
junkie could hold up that well under the stress and the fear. I could be
wrong. The girl doesn't look like a drug user, either.
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" \"- Prof. Jonez\"" <jonez@norcom.ca> wrote:
yaffadina2@aol.com wrote:
She's a single mom who's husband was killed in a knife-fight.
Could she be anything else but a drug addict?
In a perfect world she would have been married to you.
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