What does it say about the small town/Houston bedroom community I live in when the local paper has a weekly mini feature entitled "dumb criminal of the week"? Sort of like the Darwin awards Texas style?
1. Last week -A crminal in the local jail decided to kill himself by hanging. All he had was a shoe lace. He didn't have anything to attach the shoe lace to, nor anything to step of jump off. The only knot he knew how to tie was a slip knot. So he made a slip knot, put the loop around his neck, put his arm up in the air and started pulling. The knot tightened. He never lost consciousness but needed surgery to remove the knot.
2. This week- The police broke a local burglary ring and set up a watch for one of the suspects outside his home. When he arrived, they arrested him, entered the home, seized a garage full of stolen computer and electronic goods and took everything back to the station. They left a car on watch. Sure enough, a second suspect showed up, entered the house, came out looking mystified and approached the car with the blacked out windows and asked them if they were "the law". When they said yes, he announced he had been robbed. So as not to disappoint him they walked him back inside the house and looked at where the missing items had been before they arrested him.
There is still a car there watching for yet another suspect.
Still more Texas silliness.
The state legislature is debating whether or not to make the chuck wagon the official state vehicle. Only problem is that if they do, they will have to put in a chuck wagon lane right next to the HOV lane on all the freeways.
Our local grocery store has added cup holders to the shopping carts. This is because there is a Starbucks as you walk in and apparently shoppers were having trouble balancing their coupon books, cell phones, purses , not to mention the three screaming children and lattes.
Whatever happened hands free driving?
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