Kentucky State Police say four people are at UK hospital and two are in critical condition after a domestic stabbing incident in the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park in Georgetown late Friday night. Police say two men and one woman were involved, but they are not sure about the fourth victim.
There is so much to say here – I don’t exactly know where to start.
First, let’s just get this out of my system – the Ponderosa trailer park is THREE MILES from my house! When I give people directions to my house from Lexington, I always tell them to go through the trailer park (and not to worry, I don’t live in the trailer park, they just have to go through it), but now I better rethink my directions. Well, let me rephrase that, if I like the person, I better rethink my directions. If I don’t care about them, not only am I taking them that route, but making sure they stop at Uncle Charlie’s Meats (no, I’m not making that up – don’t you totally trust a steak from that guy?) along the way.
Witnesses tell LEX18 their neighbor on Reno Drive came home drunk and found his wife with another man.
Pop quiz: Sounds like the start to a:
a. Bad screenplay
b. Bad country song
c. Bad rap song
d. All of the above
Witnesses say the man stabbed his wife and then stabbed his wife's boyfriend--slashing his neck and his stomach, and then tripped and stabbed himself.
You trip and stab yourself, really? When your drunk ass went on this rampage, I guarantee that’s not what you pictured happening, is it? This is why we don’t trust drunks with sharp objects, or objects that shoot projectiles. Period.
Somehow, police say a fourth victim is involved, but they are not sure exactly how he or she got stabbed.
Drunk story subject moment complete, onto elitist reporter moment: Okay, look, I understand the need to write on deadline, but must you write in such a way that it makes the Kentucky State Police look like complete derelicts and you look incredibly lazy? It’s easy enough to write around it, for example, “Details about the fourth victim have not yet been released.” See, it could mean the cops are idiots, but it could be as simple as the fact it was a minor and they don’t release details about minors (at least not initially).
Police say the couple's children were inside the mobile home when this happened, but were not hurt.
Was it really necessary to tack this on? I really prefer the delusion these morons did not procreate. For multiple reasons. The empathetic part of me (albeit a small one, I admit) does feel for the kids and what they have to go through with both their parents being stabbed? And how do you explain your daddy stabbed your mommy? Moreover though, I prefer to think they don’t have kids because I like to believe idiots like this are unable to procreate.
jboyer at Oct 25th 2010 7:21 PM
this story is nowhere near what happened if yall wanted the story yall should try and get the facts straight first before yall make someone look bad and plaster false info. thanks
And then there’s the comment, which brings out my favorite debate from the newsroom. Every week we ran a story that reported the results from the week’s online poll, and featured quotes of users’ comments. It goes without saying many of these comments were riddled with misspellings, grammatical mistakes, lack of punctuation, run-on sentences, and even some that, no matter how hard we tried, we still didn’t know what they were trying to say. The weekly debate was simple: Do we clean up the grammar so it is suitable for publication, or do we print it as-is, making them look like complete idiots? One train of thought is that we want everything to be up to the same standards within the paper, so yes, you edit it; then there’s the train of thought where we don’t change what people say, so you don’t. In the end, we always found some of the dumbest comments, ones we longed to use as pull quotes, enjoyed the good laugh, but then we ended up using the less-interesting but more-suitable-for-print quotes. Sigh. Journalistic morals prevail.
But, being that this isn’t the newsroom, we can go off on these idiots all we want – the lack of capitalization, correct punctuation and overuse of y’all (minus the apostrophe, of course), are enough to make me twitchy in and of itself. But I love, love, love the fact it was posted THREE days after the initial story, probably by the sister of the female victim, who is so wanting to be baited so she can tell the “real truth” about what happened. Does anyone really care? Unless the truth is even funnier than what’s been reported, shut your mouth and scamper on back to the trailer park, mmmkay?
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