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Girl beats off muggers with marching band baton
(Thanks to DavCat and N1LUL)
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Girl beats off muggers with marching band baton
(Thanks to DavCat and N1LUL)
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Yeah...well...the baton girl at my high school graduated early, was rumored to be with Sylvester Stallone in Paris (the photos were inconclusive), and wound up on the cover of the swimsuit issue of one of Sports Illustrated's competitors.
Posted by: oneblankspace | April 30, 2009 at 08:56 AM
Is that how Baton Rouge got it's name?
Posted by: NotSherly | April 30, 2009 at 09:00 AM
That's gotta hurt. Although I guess some guys are into that kind of thing, or so I've heard.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | April 30, 2009 at 09:01 AM
Ow ow ow ow owieee ow. Ouch.
Could be worse. I hear some of the blog ladies beat off guys with machetes.
Posted by: wiredog | April 30, 2009 at 09:02 AM
"...looking for a man who was holding his bloodied nose and (his) limping....baton"
Posted by: trustf8 | April 30, 2009 at 09:04 AM
wiredog, only the ones that deserve it ;-P
Posted by: Siouxie | April 30, 2009 at 09:37 AM
All but one (she was a sax player) of my girlfriends twirled something in the band front, so I can certainly understand the appeal.
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | April 30, 2009 at 09:45 AM
I was a majorette in high school. I always figured the reason that batons were so heavy was to protect ourselves from the 'cool' kids that made fun of us. These guys are lucky she didn't have her fire batons with her.
Posted by: nursecindy | April 30, 2009 at 09:57 AM
The story doesn't specify whether it was a twirling baton or the much more massive mace of a drum major. Either way, it's a victory for band geeks everywhere ("geeks" used in a proud rather than negative sense.) Band kids are the greatest--they are the smartest, funniest and nicest students in any school.
Posted by: Tinkerbell | April 30, 2009 at 10:05 AM
You don't mess with us cheerleaders either...!
Posted by: Claire Bennet | April 30, 2009 at 10:09 AM
The moral to this story is don't mess with the marching band girls
I love the inference that there are acceptable demographics for mugging ibn the country.
Posted by: MartiniShark | April 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM
One little word, just one little word...
Posted by: Cheesewiz | April 30, 2009 at 10:17 AM
I think I saw that playing in Times Square before they cleaned it up.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | April 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Go GIRRL!! YAY!
Posted by: Tash | April 30, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Go Band Girl!
Posted by: Margaritaville | April 30, 2009 at 12:30 PM
"Deputies searched near Quartz Hill High School for the muggers, looking for a man who was holding his bloodied nose and the other limping."
Also with contented lazy smiles.
Posted by: padraig | April 30, 2009 at 12:32 PM
One time, at band camp...
Posted by: Siouxie | April 30, 2009 at 02:50 PM
Didn't Winston Churchill say, "Muggers are criminals off with which a cheerleader should not beat."
See, a little attention to grammar and nobody would of had nothing to embarrassed of.
Posted by: padraig | April 30, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Excuse me, "be" embarrassed of. Wouldn't want you folks to think I was epigrammatical.
Posted by: padraig | April 30, 2009 at 03:18 PM
I immediately emailed this to my Jr. High Drum Major.
Once a band geek, always a band geek. You go, girl!
Posted by: cowprintrabbit | April 30, 2009 at 05:02 PM
Sub editors...
aiming to amuse with every issue
or
english excruciators / excruciatrix?
padraig, loved the winnie "off with which a..."
Posted by: Al Iterative | April 30, 2009 at 05:53 PM
Good for her! I just watched the Sandra Bullock movie where she's an FBI agent in a beauty pageant, and for her "talent" she demonstrates self-defense on some hapless wuss and knocks him cold.
Posted by: Guin | April 30, 2009 at 07:05 PM