The venerable institution known as the Texas Boy's State held their annual gathering here recently. I have posted before about my own experiences while attending Boy's State, but if you missed those, Boy's State is a week-long gathering of junior-year high school students who live in "cities" and nominate, campaign and elect officials and delegates to a legislative body that passes meaningless laws and resolutions. You know, sort of like real life.
It should not surprise you - given the current political climate - that this years delegates passed "legislation" for Texas to secede from the Union. The sponsoring body - the American Legion - was not pleased.
The growing season is in full swing at our house. Time to make some salsa.
And speaking of hot sauce... A local woman has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after attacking another woman with a hot sauce bottle following a karaoke performance, according to a report by CBS Austin.
Austin police responded to a call concerning an altercation between two women who sing karaoke at a local bar every week. According to the report, 52-year-old Elsa Martin Garcia began to yell at a second woman, who had just finished singing, about the woman’s performance.
Then the situation, which the station reports was caught on a cell phone video, escalated to the point that Garcia hit the woman in the head a “glass bottle of hot sauce.” According to the station, police found a broken hot sauce bottle on a table and said the victim had lacerations on her face.
Talk about your music critic!
And in a somewhat related story, an Austin man is accused of stealing beers and throwing them at the store clerk who tried to stop him.
A man who police identified as 47-year-old Douglas Wright Jr. was heading out the door of the Wells Grocery bodega with a stolen 12-pack of Dos Equis when the store clerk jumped over the counter and tried to stop him from leaving, an arrest affidavit said.
A shoving match broke out between the two before Wright punched the clerk in the face several times, the affidavit said. The clerk retreated toward the back of the store, he told police, but Wright then hurled several cans of the stolen beer at him.
Wright told police officers he stole the beer because he was “out of money,” had repeatedly stolen beer from the store in the past and admitted to punching and throwing beers at the store owner.
Take your pick. Can of beer or bottle of salsa. It's a tough town.
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