Timing Fails

Two quick entries for the "People with timing issues" list.

First, a fistfight between two women at a McDonald's hiring event ended up with three people, including the owner of the restaurant, injured after being hit by a car. The two pugilistic applicants were arrested.  Ummm, ladies?  I'm no expert in the little things that you should and should not do to get hired in this highly competitive job market, but running over the owner of the business you're applying to must be covered somewhere in the brochure.  Next time, wait until after the interview to try to beat one of your co-applicants senseless.

Next, a group of "militant Muslims" in London is planning on holding a "forceful" demonstration during the upcoming marriage between Prince William and the fortunate genetic donor he's grafting onto the blood line.  The stated purpose of the demonstration is to disrupt the event.  Now, it's been quite a while since I was in London, but my guess is that the most punked-out, anti-social skinhead in the British Isles would be more than willing going to curb stomp your silly selves if you jump out in front of the House Cavalry during the drive to the church.  To call the average Londoner proud to be British is like saying that it's a little loud to be a door gunner on a helicopter in Helmand province.  My guess is that if this group of people finds a way to disrupt the festivities, a few Londoners ranging from WWII vets to 19 year old anarchists are going to re-enact that great British tradition of placing heads on pikes over the river Thames.  Allah forbid someone gets really stupid and takes a shot at the happy couple or blows themselves up during the procession.  That might show Muslim organizations how Crusaders really act when they've got their dander up.

Little Dog Takes a Big Chomp

A greeter at a Home Depot in Canada lost part of her nose to the chomp of a Shih Tzu.  The owner is probably going to be charged with a crime, and the dog may need to be put down.

I personally don't care for small dogs.  I'm sure that most of them are perfectly wonderful, and at least as friendly as our two slobbery mutts.  But my mother had Yorkies.  The only good thing I can say about those little furballs is that they make good burglar alarms.  I can't count the number of times I got busted coming in after curfew when my step-dad heard them losing their bloody minds as I eased the front door open.  Other than that, they were mean, bitey, hairy little beasts who should have been left to hunt rats at the bottom of some British coal mine.

People need to learn that even though something is small and cute, it can still be mean as a snake, especially to strangers.  Lots of people carry their small dogs around like a handbag, and bad things can happen.  Little dogs tend to be nervous to begin with, and when you take an overbred toy whatever and drag them through 18 unfamiliar environments, they're going to get a bit snappy.

Hopefully the lady who was bitten can get proper reconstructive surgery, and hopefully the lady who owned the dog suffers a bit for it.  Lord knows her rag mop fashion accessory will suffer because of her owner's inability to leave the dog at home.