#68: SHORT KING SUPREMACY 👑

💘 LOVE - Toronto newlyweds go viral over 16-inch height difference

🚓 CRIME - Orillia woman, 47, arrested after allegedly pushing stranger into lake, fleeing police

👩‍❤️‍👨 RELATIONSHIPS - Vancouver Island man jailed 6 months, banned from internet for 2 years after posting ‘revenge porn’ of former girlfriend

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A Toronto newlywed couple is going viral for their extreme height difference after posting their wedding photos online.

Anita Wing Lee is 5’4”. Her husband Tim Muttoo is 4’.

Wing Lee said “it took a while” for her to develop a romantic attraction to Muttoo.

“He’s the one who told me he liked me first,” she told CTV News. “At the time we were really good friends and it caught me off guard.”

Wing Lee said she spent “a couple weeks” thinking after Muttoo’s amorous confession.

“What does it mean if I tell Tim I like him back?” she said. “Do I even like Tim? I had to think through that.”

“We were so used to being friends. He had great friend vibes.”

“I knew that when I told him that I liked him, that it was game over. Like, we were going to be together.”

Wing Lee said she finally took the plunge with Muttoo after realizing he had many of the qualities she was looking for in a romantic partner.

“He’s kind. He’s a leader. He’s got a lot of vision,” she said.

Muttoo says it also took time for him to see Wing Lee as more than a friend.

“Initially I was just seeing Anita as a friend as well,” he said. “Building a great friendship, taking long walks and talking.”

“And then, when she started doing these things and we started to really build the connection, I caught feelings. And it happened.”

The couple’s wedding photos received thousands of views online, mostly drawing derogatory comments about the couple’s 16-inch height difference.

Wing Lee can’t handle the comments, so Muttoo has taken on the role of her “comments bodyguard.”

But it’s not all bad.

“We have gotten some incredibly, like, touching comments,” Wing Lee said. “People who really feel like we just opened up their hearts and what they thought was possible with love.”

Muttoo, who co-founded the water charities H2O4ALL and One Drop Global, is a soon-to-be-published author. 

His forthcoming book Love Can Grow explores finding purpose, building relationships, and his journey of love with Wing Lee.

twis set to be released on Sept. 1.

An Orillia woman was arrested following a brief foot chase by police last weekend after she allegedly pushed a woman into the lake.

The two women began fighting at Orillia's Waterfront Festival on Sunday Aug. 9 around 5 PM when one of them was “pushed into the water of Lake Couchiching.”

Bystanders and Orillia firefighters jumped in to rescue the woman and administer first aid.

She was taken up the street to Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, where she remains in stable condition.

After a brief pursuit, police arrested 47-year-old Kristy LaCroix of Orillia and charged her with aggravated assault, resisting a peace officer, and two counts of failure to comply with a Probation Order.

The charges have not yet been proven in court.

_{Source: Orillia Matters}

WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT 🔞 

A Vancouver Island man has been sentenced to up to six months in prison for posting intimate videos of his former girlfriend on the internet.

The man—identified in the court decision as “C.L.M.” or “Mr. M.”—is also barred from accessing the internet (or possessing any device capable of accessing the internet) for 18 months after his release.

His ex-girlfriend—whose name is protected by a publication ban—told the Nanaimo RCMP back in June 2023 that he was threatening to post intimate videos of her on the internet after she’d broken up with him.

The couple dated briefly in 2021.

Mr. M sent his ex-girlfriend a link to one of the videos, which she had sent to him while they were dating. Her face wasn’t visible in the video, but Mr. M had inserted a picture of her face in the corner of the frame.

He also sent her a voice recording on Signal, saying:

“Do you really want your friends and family and co-workers to see you and hear you in your, in your most personal moments? Is it really worth it to come after me for doing f—ing nothing to you? Is that worth it? Cause that’s what’s gonna f—ing happen, and worse.”

Within days, Mr. M published three videos of the former couple having sex on a fetish website.

“One of the videos showed the victim’s face,” according to an agreed statement of facts in the case. “The victim could easily identify herself in all of the videos.”

Mr. M messaged her that same day, saying, “Okay, I guess instead of trying to talk to you I’ll just put my energy into video distribution.”

Two weeks later, the woman and her brother saw a screenshot showing a Facebook account named “Don Johnson” that was posting more nude photos of her.

But that screenshot—they later found out—was only an image created by Mr. M to look like a real Facebook page distributing the photos despite them never actually being posted.

The woman’s brother commented on one of the non-intimate posts of his sister. “Don Johnson” replied: “I’m going to post everything now.”

Mr. M was eventually arrested and the videos were taken down. 

In a victim impact statement provided to the court, his ex-girlfriend described how she has lived in a “constant state of anxiety” since the videos were published. 

“She has experienced panic attacks,” the judge wrote. “She writes about being unable to enjoy her child’s kindergarten graduation, being paranoid instead of what other parents were thinking of her. She described the overall incident as humiliating. She had put trust in Mr. M. and he broke that trust.”

This is Mr. M’s second incarceration. In 2021, he was sentenced to 44 days in jail and 18 months probation for extorting a former intimate partner.