Linda Masse, a Laconia NH resident was charged with attempted assault, resisting arrest and criminal mischief after attacking her husband with an axe. The couple had been drinking when Mr. Masse declared he wanted to leave his wife, during an argument over their marriage.

The violence erupted when Masse grabbed a collector’s axe off the wall, and started to chase Mr. Masse around the house screaming that she was going to kill him.

The courts have defines the axe Masse was wielding as a weapon that could cause serious harm or death. Mrs. Masse in court referred to this lethal weapon as a toy.

Not only did Mrs. Masse vandalize her husbands’ car, she also destroyed several household articles, including a glass door.

Mr. Masse made his escape from his enraged, axe-wielding wife by running across the street to a neighbor’s house, locking the door, and calling the police.

The neighbor Jennifer Morrill says she saw the entire event from the start: "I saw the whole thing," Morrill said. "She went quiet for five minutes, and all of a sudden, she just cracked and went at him with an ax." She also says, "I was trying to convince her to put it down, but she wasn't listening to anybody."

Linda Masse was combative and resistive police say during her arrest and transport.

Well, it seems to me that because Masse is a woman, the charges placed upon her are quite lenient for her crimes.

Understand, this woman erupted violently, grabbed a lethal weapon of the wall, and chased her husband around the house until he could make his escape to a neighbor’s home and call police. She destroyed property both inside the house and Mr. Masses car outside with her "toy axe". She gave the police a bunch of flak and resisted her arrest.

And what? She is charged with attempted assault, resisting arrest and criminal mischief? WTF?

Chasing somebody around the house while swinging a deadly weapon, and damaging property during the chase is hardly an attempt at assault. It's straight up assault. Criminal mischief? A misdemeanor? You have got to be kidding me.

If any man had committed these criminal acts, he would undoubtedly be charged with Assault with the intent to commit bodily harm, assault with a dangerous/deadly weapon, maybe even attempted murder, and lastly without a doubt SPOUSAL ABUSE and DOMESTIC VIOLENCE! A man would not see daylight for at least 5 years - at LEAST.

Unfortunately this seems to be just another case of women getting off easy and yet another example of gender-bias in the courtroom.

It appears that justice really is blind, at least when it comes to female criminal behavior.

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