SNIPPETS

DECEMBER 13,  2009

From the Boston Globe:  A grand jury has indicted a 98-year-old woman on a second-degree-murder charge for allegedly killing her 100-year-old roommate in a dispute over the room they shared at a nursing home in Dartmouth.  Laura Lundquist, who prosecutors believe is the oldest person ever charged with murder in Massachusetts, has been charged with strangling Elizabeth Barrow in the Brandon Woods Nursing Home on Sept. 24.

Remember this the next time someone tells you that older people can't be sent on combat operations.

DECEMBER 12,  2009

DUNNELLON, Fla. (AP) - A 53-year-old was arrested after allegedly hitting a man in the head with a raw steak. According to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report, the man told deputies Elsie Egan repeatedly hit him with the uncooked meat and slapped his face after he refused a piece of sliced bread. The man said he wanted a bread roll.

What do you call this?  Assault with an uncooked weapon?  Reminds me of the Hitchcock story about a woman who beats her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb.  She calls the cops and, when they arrive, serves them the murder weapon, well done.