[Vision2020] Why COULDN'T It Wait Until Half-Time??

Tim Lohrmann timlohr@yahoo.com
Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:03:25 -0700 (PDT)


Married sports-fans take note.
     TL
  

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> Woman, 70, Hurls Knife at Husband Who Wouldn't
> Prepare for Hurricane 
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> 
> By Will Greenlee
> Port St. Lucie News
> 
> September 16, 2003
> 
> Port St. Lucie * With Hurricane Isabel churning in
> the west Atlantic on Sunday, a 70-year-old woman
> hurled a knife at her husband because he chose to
> watch football instead of preparing for the storm,
> police said Monday.
> 
> Joan W. Harris faces a felony aggravated-battery
> charge in connection with the Sunday-afternoon
> incident, according to an arrest affidavit.
> 
> "Apparently, the argument began while the husband
> was watching football, and the wife was insisting he
> make hurricane preparations for Hurricane Isabel,"
> said police spokesman Officer Kacey Donnell. "He
> refused and said that he'd get to it at halftime."
> 
> The couple could not be reached for comment, despite
> an attempt by phone and a visit to their home. The
> home is owned by Robert M. and Joan W. Harris,
> according to property records.
> 
> When officers arrived Sunday, they discovered a
> "large pool" of blood on the bathroom floor, hack
> marks on bedroom doors and Harris' 71-year-old
> husband sitting on a bathroom sink with a "large
> laceration" to his right leg.
> 
> Donnell said the husband had tried to "discuss the
> matter at more length with her" at halftime.
> Meanwhile, Harris grabbed an 8-inch butcher knife
> and chased her husband of 51 years into the bedroom,
> he said.
> 
> She allegedly began "stabbing at the door before
> gaining entry and flinging the knife at him,
> catching him in the lower leg," Donnell said.
> 
> Harris told police she argued with her spouse about
> hurricane preparations before she got the knife,
> which she was going to use to slice meatloaf.
> 
> According to the police report, Harris told the 911
> dispatcher that "she threw a knife at her husband,
> and now he is bleeding."
> 
> Harris was being held Monday in the St. Lucie County
> jail.
> 
> Will Greenlee can be reached at
> will.greenlee@scripps.com. 
> 
> Copyright (c) 2003, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 


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