The Beer Hunter

Here‘s a crime story you don’t see every day:

A St. Louis man was shot to death Sunday night over a warm beer, police said.

St. Louis police say a woman shot her husband, who was about 70 years old, four to five times in the chest after he tried giving her a warm can of Stag beer.

Police said the wife admitted shooting him about 5:40 p.m. in the kitchen of their home in the 5100 block of Terry Avenue. Police said the home had no electricity at the time.

My guess is that she shot him over the fact their house had no electricity. The warm beer was just incidental. And speaking of beer, this story involves Dominique Byrd, a rookie tight end with the St. Louis Rams:

Byrd is alleged to have grabbed a woman’s buttocks. When a man standing nearby challenged Byrd, police said, the Rams player grabbed a beer bottle and struck the man in the head. The bottle broke, and the man was taken to a hospital and got stitches to close the wound, police said.

No telling if the beer in the bottle was warm, cold, or reaching an ambient temperature in someone’s stomach.

But it doesn’t matter. The real issue here is that my hometown seems to be developing a bit of a problem. Time for an intervention?

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