News in Meat, Part II
Mike Smith
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The news in meat continues. (To read part one, click here.)
Steak indirectly made the news in the town of Clovis, in east-central New Mexico, in the April 23 issue of the Clovis News Journal. There, on April 21, 2008, a nine-year-old boy tried to stab a seven-year-old girl with a steak knife, while the boy’s eleven-year-old sister held the girl down.
The seven-year-old girl had allegedly called the boy a racist name, and the boy and his sister had responded by attacking the girl, cutting her superficially on one of her legs. The injured girl’s mother, who was at work at the time of the incident, didn’t consider the wounds severe enough to need professional medical attention, and chose instead to treat the injury herself—but she did tell police about what had happened. The boy is three years too young to be taken into custody—one has to be at least twelve years old, in New Mexico—but the state’s Children, Youth and Families Department is now involved, and the boy may be prosecuted if the case cannot be settled informally.
“It is a felony aggravated battery because [a steak knife] is a deadly weapon,” said Clovis Police Captain Patrick Whitney, in the aforementioned News Journal article. “There isn’t anything much deadlier than a steak knife. It is designed to cut flesh (and meat).”
That’s true.
But is there really nothing anywhere much deadlier than a knife? Like, say, for instance, a gun? Or an atomic bomb? Or the Ebola virus?
We've had five thousand years of attempted weapon development, yet we're still stuck with basic metallurgy.
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Yes, there is. It is called "absentee parenting". Where were all of the involved children's - FATHERS ?!