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Two people have been charged
in a fight that broke out between neighbors attending a baby shower
Sunday, during which a woman knocked another unconscious with a shovel
and a man allegedly threatened a crowd with a shotgun.
(Thanks to queensbee)
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The participants must have hailed from Florida.
Posted by: snif | September 19, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Shovels? Shotguns? Sounds like a zombie movie. Knock 'em dead, boys.
Posted by: Elon Weintraub | September 19, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Those Mormons sure are a lotta fun!
Posted by: Cap'n Helga Beerbong | September 19, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Arrr! Sounds like me relatives had a right jolly time! Arr!!
Posted by: The Dastardly Diva, Scourge of the High Seas | September 19, 2008 at 10:34 AM
I had the chance to attend a baby shower once in my life, before our oldest was born. And man, I gotta be honest, it was a LOT less than exciting than that. (Though to this day I still can't help saying "Awwwwwww!" whenever anyone holds up a onesie...)
Posted by: Scott (aka, Dirty Tom Cash) | September 19, 2008 at 10:40 AM
They reproduce . . .
:-(
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves ‹(•¿•)› | September 19, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Idiocy is international; I saw a fistfight break out between parents at a puppet show for little kids at the Jardin de Luxembourg in Paris . . .
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves ‹(•¿•)› | September 19, 2008 at 10:44 AM
Given that it happened in Utah, alcohol may NOT have been involved.
Posted by: Braniff | September 19, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Shoddy journalism. They left out the WHY.
Posted by: Pirate Doris, the Badly Burnt | September 19, 2008 at 10:57 AM
I bet that baby's mullet is already growing in the womb. Poor baby.
Posted by: Pirate Lizzy The Dreaded Curser | September 19, 2008 at 11:06 AM
Classy!
Posted by: Leetie Rough Wench | September 19, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Redneck shower games?
Posted by: Cap'n Helga Beerbong | September 19, 2008 at 11:20 AM
the woman was unconscious until the police arrived?? then she suddenly woke up?
i agree. poor reporting. they probably were debating whether it was butter or parkay.
and out there in mormon land, no drinking, and no coffee or tea - so it must have been the refined air, yeah, that's the ticket.
Posted by: queensbee | September 19, 2008 at 11:46 AM
A shotgun for the father, sure, if the baby is a girl.
But a shovel? What kind of shower present is that? Sheesh. Some people have no sense of etiquette. What would Ms. Manners say?
Posted by: SpecialNobodie | September 19, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Sadly, Braniff, alchohol was most certainly involved ! We learned this last trip to Sundance, that the Secret Order of Closet Drinking Mormons has quadrupled in the last 5 years. Only now, they travel to Wyoming to get their hooch.
Wouldn't do to go to the state store like the rest of the heretics and possibly get found out !
Posted by: Lazy Eye Bella | September 19, 2008 at 11:52 AM
arrrr! name three body parrrts ye'd wish to be shot in!
Posted by: insomniac | September 19, 2008 at 12:05 PM
ARRRRRR! They be missin' a sharp machete for a real fun time!
Posted by: Cap'n Helga Beerbong | September 19, 2008 at 12:18 PM
They were fightin' over who be making the beer run to Wyoming.
Instead of rock, paper, scissors, they play shovel, slingblade, shotgun.
Posted by: Annie Port-in-a-Storrrrrm | September 19, 2008 at 12:22 PM
I don't understand how this happened in Utah and not Florida. Of course, they would have had to substitute the shovel and shotgun for a machete and dead chicken.
Posted by: Suzy Wenchgirl | September 19, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Aye, Wench. How true that be.
Posted by: Cap'n Helga Beerbong | September 19, 2008 at 12:56 PM
i guess none of them needed hitting on the head lessons.
Posted by: queensbee | September 19, 2008 at 12:56 PM
What kind of shower present is that? What would Ms. Manners say?
Gentle bloglit - Thank you for asking.
It depends on the amount of solid matter one expects to find in the tike's nappies. Certain Redneck families take a great deal of pride in the prodigious weight of their offspring's output. I'm sure this mother meant well by bringing a shovel to the baby shower. However, impacting another guest's head with said gift is in poor taste indeed.
Posted by: Ms Manners | September 19, 2008 at 01:10 PM
*SNORK* @ Ms. Manners !
Posted by: Lazy Eye Bella | September 19, 2008 at 01:30 PM
If this is how they behave at the baby shower, imagine the raucous hilarity that might ensue at the first birthday party!
Posted by: klezmerphan | September 19, 2008 at 02:25 PM
Loved the address where this happened.
"Yeah, my Plumbago was acting up that day!"
Posted by: Captain Jack Kidd | September 19, 2008 at 03:01 PM
I live at the home that hosted the baby shower. Alcohol was a HUUUUUUGE factor and NONE of the parties were MORMON...NONE!!!! This story was the most poorly reported story ever in Utah!! The baby shower ended at 7:30pm and the fight was later at 2:00am...never happened during the baby shower at all, in fact several hours afterwards!! Once again the reporter basically came up with thier own story and turned it into a publisher and BAM you all know everything right?? LOL notta chance!!
Posted by: Zac | September 22, 2008 at 07:39 PM