So this man, he loves this woman so much that he gets mad, and he ends up blinding her. Now his name's Bert, and Bert's a lawyer. He's also kind of a weird guy, but one day Bert meets this woman, Linda, and Bert thinks Linda is fantastic.
He wants to be with her real bad, so he tries everything he can to win her over. He takes her out on expensive dates, he buys her gifts, and he parks outside her house every morning so he can give her a ride to work. Lucky for him, it kind of works; she eventually gives in and agrees to date him, and they end up in a relationship.
But that's when things go horribly wrong, because they date for about a year, and then one night during one of their dates, he drops a bomb on her: Bert is actually already married. He's already got a wife and kid, and this news devastates Linda; she's really pissed off. But he tells her, "No, look, it's fine.
I'm actually in the process of getting a divorce. " Still, Linda doesn't like this at all. So then Bert tries everything he can to win her back.
He even shows up one day and shows her divorce papers, but when she investigates, those divorce papers turn out to be fake. So Linda says all this and drops Bert for good; she is done with him. Shortly after that, she composes herself, moves on with her life, and meets this guy, Larry.
She and Larry start dating, and Larry's a nice guy. After a few months, they get engaged. Then Bert hears about this engagement, and he is not taking it well.
He's angry, starts flipping out, and decides he is not going to give up; he becomes obsessed with getting Linda back. He's calling her all the time, sending her letters, flowers, and gifts. He even starts contacting her friends, asking them to deliver messages to her.
Unfortunately for him, none of that works. So he tries the only other thing he can think of: he starts threatening her. He starts throwing rocks at her window all the time, trying to intimidate her, telling her he'll have people come and "unalive" her.
As you can imagine, none of that works in terms of winning Linda back. She's still not with Bert; she's not going to get with Bert; she's still engaged to Larry. Finally, after all that, Bert just loses it.
He's going to make sure that if he can't have Linda, no one else is going to want her. So he goes and hires three goons to disfigure her. One morning, it's a normal day, and she's at her house when the doorbell rings.
She goes to answer it, and there are three men standing there. They act like they have a delivery for her, but one of them has a jar in his hand. Then, boom!
He throws a liquid in her face, and she screams because this liquid immediately starts to burn. So what is in that liquid? A bunch of lye.
You remember that chemical burn scene from *Fight Club* that burned Edward Norton's hand? That's lye, and that's what they threw in her face. It's immediately burning her up, and an ambulance rushes her to the hospital.
There, Linda spends about three months undergoing multiple surgeries trying to recover, but unfortunately, this attack ultimately leaves her permanently blind in one of her eyes and partially blind in her other eye. To make things even worse, shortly after she's discharged from the hospital, she has a long talk with Larry, and they decide to call off the engagement. They think Bert is too dangerous of a person and that he's probably going to try and hurt Larry next.
So, no more engagement. Four months later, police finally track down the goons who Bert hired to attack Linda, and they give in and confess to doing it, but they say it was all Bert's idea. Then, pow!
Bert gets arrested. Now, I don't have his mug shot, but I do have a picture of him getting arrested. He gets sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison.
However, he still has a huge problem because he's very much still in love with Linda, and he's not just going to let her go. While he's in prison, he starts to write letters to her. He tells her he misses her; he tells her he's still crazy about her.
Poor Linda—her attacker is now in prison, but even still, her life just isn't going so well. She's nearly blind now, struggling financially, living all by herself in Manhattan. She gets lonely and starts to write him back.
When Bert learns about her financial situation, he starts to send her a little money. I guess he had been doing parallel work on the side in prison, and whatever little money he makes, he sends to her. She needs that money, so they stay in regular contact, and 14 years go by.
They're still in contact, and finally, one day, Bert's sentence is over; he gets released from prison. Once he's out, he and Linda start meeting up again. Bert is actually getting a bit of media attention since his release because he's the guy who made the news years ago for hiring a couple of men to blind his ex-girlfriend by throwing lye in her face.
So he's kind of locally infamous, and he gets invited to do an interview on TV. He goes on this live TV show, and while he's there during the interview, he turns. .
. To the camera, he proposes to Linda in front of the whole world. And of course, because you know life isn't fair and we live on an upplanet, Linda says yes.
Only eight months after he's released from prison, Linda married the man who blinded her, and they live happily ever after. Here's what they look like in real life until over 20 years go by. By this time, Bert has cheated on Linda with multiple women, because of course he has.
But one of his mistresses comes forward one day and says she and Bert have had a fling for the past five years, but that recently he had been harassing her and threatening her with violence—the same thing he used to do to Linda. So this mistress goes and files charges against him, and the case eventually goes to court. Linda actually appears in court as a character witness for Bert; she's like, "Oh no, he would never hurt anyone.
" Ultimately, Bert beats most of the charges, but he does get convicted of second-degree harassment. So the couple continues on with their marriage, and then about 15 years after that trial, unfortunately, Linda passes away. Then, in a weird twist, years later, when Bert is 93, his much younger caretaker allegedly swindles him out of his $15 million fortune, right before he dies.
But that's a whole other story that's currently playing out in the courts right now. So shout out to New York!
