Friday, February 06, 2009

Okay, so it's been a while since something has gotten me to the point of actually wanting to write something. Get off my back.

So, why today? Because of this:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18637190/detail.html

For those of you who may be clickably challenged, this is a link to a news story out of Colorado Springs, CO, that covers the crime spree of that most sinister of intergalactic species, the Klingon’s. Time to get your kids behind locked doors and warm up your Warp Drives and dilithium crystals, folks. Worf and the boys have come to town and they mean business.

Essentially, a man attempted to rob two 7-11 convenience stores with a mask and a Batleth, a double edged Klingon sword used in the Star Trek series. Now, this itself is very funny…if you didn’t laugh right away, I’m afraid your WTF bone needs replacing, please see your practitioner at your earliest convenience. Run, don’t walk. But, this is one of those heart warming tales that just continues to give. I’ll list a few of my favorite musings generated from this slice of heaven:

1. How bad is the economy when Trekker’s have to hold up convenience stores to pay for all those conventions? Oh, and it’s not Trekkie’s; I’ve read that they find that a demeaning term and seeing what lengths they will go to, I don’t want to piss ‘em off.

2. How cute is it that at BOTH stores, the clerks not only knew what the bandit was brandishing as a weapon, but also what is was CALLED?

3. There are actually comments by the readers of this Nobel Prize winning article that are actually written in Klingon-ese!

4. He got an undisclosed sum from the first store. He got nothing from the second store because “the clerk refused and the robber ran off”. Can’t you just picture the first clerk saying, “What, I could have just told him ‘No’? Damn!”

You just can’t make this stuff up, people. Oh, well…as they say in Colorado Springs, “yIn tIq 'ej chep”.