January 6, 2013 - 6:20 pm
You can read the story here. The gist: A musician realized he left his phone in a cab, and the guy who found it started sending emails to women using a dating app that was on it. So the musician used a lure to get the guy to bring his phone back, where the musician was waiting with a pair of choices: A $20 bill and a hammer. No word on whether the phrase “Hammer time” was deployed.
The finder chose the $20 bill.
Good choice, obviously. More Americans died from hammer blows than from rifle shots last year.
Speaking of rifle shots–the problem with mass shootings seems to be crazy folks. Perhaps if the President and the juicebox Puritans who are so convinced of their own brilliance and everone else’s imbecility would spend less time trying to punish all in a battle that will bring nothing but divisivness and instead moved forward on that which would mitigate the effects of many mental issues (and probably other things), a hell of a lot of people would be better off.
The problem with the Lanza guy appears to have something to do with his Satanism and _maybe_ his veganism (if they don’t eat just the right combination of foods, vegans lack amino acids and can lose some brain function).
More Americans died from hammer blows than from rifle shots last year.
Well, then obviously something needs to be done. A waiting period & background check before buying a hammer. Nothing over 30 rounds of nails. Paperwork in quadruplicate – 1 copy each for dealer, consumer, BATF & Obama’s files. Must obtain a license to carry a concealed hammer. Mandatory hammer locks in homes with child(ren) under 10. No black, scary-looking hammers. No hammer-show loopholes.
” . . . the right of the people to keep and bear hammers shall not be infringed.”
If this were a just society, the musician would have given the crook the $20 is that’s what he wanted AND the hammer anyway. Then he’d have his phone, $20, and could say the crook tried to rob him at the meet. But since this isn’t, the police would probably arrest the musician merely for this stunt it being politically incorrect to threaten a crook during the commission of a crime, not to mention doing the cops’ job for them.