There's a strange local news story about a 36-year-old man who stabbed a teenager at a convenience store "over a pair of pants." The teenager is in the hospital and the grown man is in jail.
I think it should be illegal for a reporter to leave us hanging with a story like that. Read it yourself and see if you don't come away with the same question:
What kind of pants were they?
Where did the pants come from? Do they sell pants in convenience stores? What kind of pants are so desirable that you'd stab someone over them?
Is there a pants shortage? Are these pants that would make my butt look small? Can I stab somebody and get a pair?
I wrote the reporter asking for more info. on the pants. I explained to him that I need this information to try to make sense of the world.
I'll let you know if I find out.
After stabbing the young man and stealing his pants, the older man got arrested for further harassing the youth with his knife… it seems that the older man stabbed the younger man in the butt, relieved him of his pants, saw that that there was a knife hole in them and threatened to stab the young man again if he continued to refuse to exchange the pants.
:)
Posted by: Angry | July 04, 2008 at 08:08 AM