Dumb Criminals

Never Bring a Bat to a Weed Trimmer Fight

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006 • Filed under Assaults

Never Bring a Bat to a Weed Trimmer Fight ANOTHER ONE OF LIFE’S LITTLE LESSONS #387: You know people are dumb when the guy swinging the hammer is the sanest of the bunch.

FRUIT COVE, Fla. (AP)- The supervisor went for a bat. The employee whipped out a weed trimmer. Another worker used a hammer to break up the fight.

That’s the scene St. Johns County authorities described Tuesday after a lawn service supervisor criticized one of his worker’s grass-cutting skills, The Florida Times-Union reported.

Lance Tywan Wamley, 26, of Hollywood, Fla., is charged with threatening several men with a 34-inch baseball bat and then hitting one man in the chest. The worker, Eric J. Torres, 23, defended himself with a weed trimmer, authorities said.

A man with a bat, a weed whacker and a hammer get in a fight – if they just would have walked into a bar, it probably would have ended with a punchline instead of an indictment.

What possesses a man to try and injure someone with a weed whacker anyway? You should only chase a man half down the block with a weed whacker if he’s (a) coming after you with a Chia Pet or (b) he’s got a mullet.

Torres was treated for injuries at a hospital. Wamley received a charge of felony assault and battery. The man with the hammer received the Nobel Peace Prize after losing out to Nelson Mandela, Bono and the guy who saved a school bus of children from falling off a bridge with a jigsaw.

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