Woman allegedly beaten with frozen armadillo

[gkhouston]

From the Houston Chronicle:

Only in Texas: Dallas police are on the lookout for a man who could face assault charges for throwing a frozen armadillo at a 57-year-old woman near Dallas.

The woman, My Fox Dallas-Fort Worth reports, met the man in a parking lot to purchase the armadillo carcass, which she planned to eat.

During a fight over its price, he hit her with the animal in the leg and the chest, leaving bruises on her body.

http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/10/woman-allegedly-beaten-with-frozen-armadillo/

Two things: I didn't know that armadillo was once referred to as "Hoover ham". I wonder if this woman has always eaten armdillo or can't afford something that's probably fresh roadkill.

Second: There's a link just above this story to "After massive wildfires, Bastrop gets proactive with firefighter training". The juxtaposition made me initially think the firefighters were heaving 'dillos at arsonists...

[trumad]

1. knew it

It was either Florida or Texas.

[chrisa]

4. Oh

I thought from your title you meant that you guessed, out of all things and without reading the article, that someone was beaten with a frozen Armadillo.

"Of course! She was bludgeoned with an Armadillo! I could have guessed that with my eyes closed!" :)

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Deep in the heart of

[Ikonoklast]

3. All right, that tears it.

Just when I think I've heard it all, shit like this comes along.

[kestrel91316]

5. Not just ANY facepalm. Double facepalm.

[n2doc]

6. The other other other white meat n/t

[TexasProgresive]

16. Armadillo-Possum on the half shell. n/t

[rocktivity]

7. In school, I read a story about a woman who killed her husband with a frozen leg of lamb

Watched the police investigate the crime scene while it thawed, then invited them to stay for dinner and help eat it!

:crazy:
rocktivity

[SeattleVet]

15. That was also done as an old episode of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'

"Lamb to the Slaughter", from 1958:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmpY9cpe6g8

Re-done sometime in the 70's by Roald Dahl, I believe.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. That happened in a Carl Hiiasen novel -

only it was a frozen lizard.

Maybe that's where he got the idea.

[gkhouston]

9. Somehow, I doubt any thinking occurred in this situation. n/t

[Gregorian]

10. Other than a few bruises, no harmadillo was done.

[gkhouston]

18. I forget: can we alert on bad puns?

:7

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

11. As long as the people have a right to bear armadillos... this kind of thing will continue.

[RebelOne]

12. At first, I thought this was from The Onion. n/t

[piratefish08]

13. when frozen armadillos are outlawed, only outlaws will have frozen armadillos.

[dogknob]

14. Have you seen the way those 57-year-old women dress these days?

She was practically begging to be beaten with an armadillo.

[marmar]

17. C'est tres bizarre.

nt