Fart fight

A simple fart in a Waco, Texas hotel room led a man to throw a knife at his flatulent friend, who then responded by stabbing the guy in the chest. The stabber was arrested. From the Associated Press:

Police said they were called to a motel on Wednesday (local time) where several men from the Houston area were sharing a room. Police said a 35-year-old man allegedly passed gas in the room on Tuesday night.

Police said one of the other men became upset, picked up a knife and threw it at the 35-year-old man, who was cut in the leg. The suspect was accused of then stabbing the man in the chest.

"Fart fight gets nasty"

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bwcbwc

Even if Texans tell you otherwise, remember that “Waco” is pronounced “Wacko”.
/irony
GoDownMoses

Bind their left wrists to one another and let’em have at it. Actually, I imagine a Fart Fight as more of a Scanners affair, them sitting across from each other, staring through the wavy fumes of poot until somebody gets a nosebleed.
Phikus

Kinda makes John Wesley Harding seem like a pussy…
Anonymous

To think that I am going to college in that town…
Anonymous

Those good ole Baylor Bears do what in the woods in Waco?
angryhippo

#13: a la Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” video?
dbcooper

I’ll see your fart stabbing and raise you a sword fight to the death.

The ages should be ignored as they were obviously part of Indianapolis’s highlander community.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/19167424/detail.html

INDIANAPOLIS — A man died Monday, days after he was stabbed in a swordfight with the grandson of a woman who was also fatally stabbed when she tried to intervene in the fight, police said.

Adolf Stegbauer, 69, died from complications of a stab wound, Indianapolis police said. Charges that were already pending against the man who police said stabbed Stegbauer, Chris Rondeau, 39, were expected to be upgraded.

Franziska Stegbauer, 77, also died as a result of stab wounds after the fight early Thursday morning, but police were not initially sure which of the men had stabbed her.

Rondeau and Adolf Stegbauer got into an argument at a home in the 5200 block of Raceway Road that escalated when one of the men grabbed a sword, prompting the other man to also brandish a sword.
jso

called to a motel on Wednesday (local time)

Seriously?
Anonymous

fart west
Anonymous

*Five* men were sharing this hotel room. The perp, one Jose Braule Ramirez, is being held pending bail and a determination of his immigration status.
Anonymous

This site is not supposed to be a directory of awful, smelly and violent things, right?
Tenn

@26 BWCBWC – born and bred Texan, and we call it Wacko. http://www.serendipity.li/waco.html

Sorry about the hiatus Takuan! Had some major issues going on that are hopefully ironed out. How you doin’?
Teller

Can’t cut cheese without a knife.
Anonymous

That stinks!
noelleisfine

oh man, “fart fight” has me giggling so hard….
Takuan

they haven’t been able to trace my whereabouts yet. You in a dorm now?
Anonymous

aggravated ASSault
Cowtown2

Not a good day for Texas on teh interwebs. :-)

Try remember folks, we’re the second largest state, by population and by area. Lots of room for lots of folks to do dumb shit.
Tenn

Not guilty on account of temporary incoherence caused by noxious fumes?
JJR1971

I’ve got a buddy in town that sometimes let’s ‘em rip in my car, and yeah, it kind of pisses me off. I mostly just roll my eyes and air the car out (roll down all windows) after I drop him off. Yeah, it’s that bad. Luckily it only takes a few seconds to air the car out when traveling above 20 mph. He’s only done it a couple of times, thank goodness.

I wonder if the flatulent one in this story had been keeping this up all evening and it was finally the fart that broke the camel’s back, or what?

Or was it an aggressively delivered, directed fart attack (his buddy maybe laying down and smart ass goes over and poots in his face)?

I’m also a Texan, and I jokingly call it “Wacko”, too. I was in Europe when the whole Branch Davidian thing went down, and everyone, after learning I was from Texas, asked me if I was from Waco? To which I’d reply “Wacko, Texas? Hell no.”
Takuan

hey Tenn! Fancy meeting you here!
A Nonny Moose

So why arrest the guy who fought back? Why not arrest the guy who threw the knife in the first place?
Anonymous

Does this posting have any relation to the echolocation post directly below?
danimagoo

Wait a minute. I just read the original story on the Waco Tribune website. It looks like the man who threw the knife then picked up the knife and stabbed the “farter”. So the guy who threw the knife was arrested. All the other guy did was fart.
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2009/04/09/04092009waccops.html
Takuan

figures a spammer picks a fart thread
Takuan

and the creator of this got US$100,000,000.00 for his last contract.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgTTD-Fr7hQ
apollonia666

“Gets” nasty? As if any altercation referred to as a “fart fight” could have possibly started out NOT nasty?
ill lich

I think the guy was angry that his friend was such a pessimist: farting is just another way of saying “life stinks.”
IamInnocent

I never really understood the wisdom of ‘an eye for an eye’ until I read this story: if the fartee had limited himself to fart back to the farter and even if the whole room of guys added to the fumes, things wouldn’t have escalated as they did. Nobody would have gotten really hurt inasmuch the wiring was up to code and nobody smoked.
starcadia

It appears the man’s SBD was not D enough.
angryhippo

That stinks.

(too easy?)
Anonymous

Sweet, we made Boing Boing! never a dull moment in Waco, TX.