CANADA IS A TOUGH PLACE….

When a 72-year-old Levis, Quebec, woman cleared her walk with a snowblower in December, sending some of the snow onto the adjacent property, the 43-year-old neighbor grabbed his blower and sent it back, and the two spent about 10 minutes blowing snow on each other before they stopped. (They “faced each other,” “engines roaring,” wrote the Canadian Press.) The neighbor then allegedly punched the woman (and her husband, who had come to help her) and was charged with assault. [Edmonton Sun-CP, 12-5-07]

Don’t Laugh, Don’t Laugh….

A 36-year-old man attempted to hang himself in a closet in January, but his girlfriend discovered him in time and pulled him down, but that just angered the man, who then fought with the girlfriend. A passer-by stepped in to help the woman, and in the process applied a wrestling hold to the suicidal man’s carotid artery, inadvertently killing him (San Diego, Calif.) (Irrelevant fact: The deceased’s last name was Kevorkian.) [KNSD-TV (San Diego), 2-1-08]

Hey guys…the deceased’s last name IS relevant…in a Twilight Zone sort of way

In The Long Ago before the age of Google I’m sure a lot of stuff like this happened:

1993 — Alvin Lastimado Jr., 18, was arrested in August at the Wahiawa, Hawaii, Public Library and charged with assault. He had been holding a woman against her will in his home, where he began to utter a satanic chant. In the middle of the chant, he forgot the words and told the woman he was going to the public library to look them up. The woman got free and called the police, who intercepted Lastimado in the “occult” section.

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