After an allegedly kinky and drug-fueled Sunday night, weatherman Brett Cummins of Little Rock, Arkansas’s KARK-TV was discovered asleep in an empty hot tub—next to a dead man wearing nothing but a dog collar. According to The Arkansas Democrat & Gazette, Chris Barbour—who said he’d been drinking and doing drugs with both Cummins and the victim, 24-year-old Dexter Williams—found Cummins snoring in the unfilled whirlpool. When the meterologist, 33, woke up and saw Williams was unconscious and blue, he screamed, ran out of the bathroom, vomited on the living room carpet and left the premises. (He returned to talk to police.)
Though detectives discovered a small ring of blood around the bottom of the tub, they’re waiting for the coroner’s report to determine the cause of death. Cummins, who has not appeared on the air this week, is not currently considered a suspect.
We don’t know if Cummins is gay—though, let’s face it, gay weathermen aren’t exactly a rarity—but the comments section in the Gazette piece is filled with some lovely speculation on the matter.
Oh puleeze!!!
This closet case brings this twinkie over to his friend’s house to party. Things get out of hand and a little kinky, its two against one, and oops the twinkie ends up dead. So one of them drains the tub, and Mr. Local Weather Man goes home to take a “silkwood shower” and then returns to the scene of the “accident”. I have nothing but sympathy for the poor boys family. But if the police can’t figure this one out…..I give up.
Okay boys you’re now free to trash me any way you choose.
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A dog collar. People are just getting to accept homosexuals, Brett Cummins. You have to rub their faces in this morbid fetish?! Here we are, trying to prove how normal we can be, monogamous, healthy, married and boring, just like everybody else, then this weatherman comes along to throw a wrench in our plans. One step forward, two steps back in Arkansas.
http://scallywagandvagabond.co.....-dead-man/
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@scallywag: Please — those who hate gays will hate us no matter how vanilla the sex is. Plenty of heteros use kink as well, so I don’t find a simple dog collar outside the mainstream.
But seriously — do you really think that every person who uses a dog collar is thinking, “gosh, what if my partner should die unexpectedly during sex tonight, and how will straight people view this, and it sets back gay rights another generation?”
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@I won’t grow up: Well I am certainly glad that with all of a dozen paragraphs of information (assuming you at-least read the linked article) you have been able to determine the exact circumstances of Mr. William’s death.
I personally don’t see why they don’t just do away with the whole criminal justice system and replace it with psychics like you; the world would be much simpler, to say nothing of safer…
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@Gay Veteran: It wasn’t a person. It was some kind of ugly dog. And it’s sad when a dog dies, but not a tragedy.
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@scallywag: I think you are overreacting a little. I’m a heterosexual female who has never thought gay folks were odd in any way. People are born the way they’re born and should be accepted regardless of how they are. There are straight people who do a lot “weirder” things than wear a collar. Sure there will likely be ignorant straight people throwing around the usual derogatory terms about gays, but they’d be doing that even without this situation happening.
If it was an accidental death, I hope the weatherman is able to return to work. But with a scandal like that, I’d be surprised if the tv station lets him back in. Isn’t Arkansas one of those more conservative states overall?
I’ll admit I lol’d at the midget comment.
As for why a heterosexual female is reading this forum, I googled for cummins and the word gay to see if he was gay and found this thread. He’s a nice looking chap, and in my opinion waaaay too many nice looking men are gay. /sigh
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KARK-TV?!? LOL that is proof enough that he’s gay!