Weirdness All Around

The crazies were really out this past weekend in a city known for eccentric characters (Hey! You may think I am weird, but compared to other New Orleanians I am the model of normality). I thought I would pass along a sample of the the strange happenings in New Orleans by giving you a report on a few incidents that happened last weekend. Ok... I admit it's more because one is about a cell phone nut...I had to write this today. I might as well mention the others too.
In the first incident, a case of being too enraptured by a cell phone, a local man was so engrossed in his cell phone chat that he was hit by a (slow moving) freight train. That's right, The idiot was walking on a railroad track chatting about the inconsequential and did not hear the horn of the train that hit him from behind.
Though removing that fool from the human gene pool would probably be fortuitous for society, he only received minor injuries (and major embarrassment) after the collision. The cell addict, Clifford Lyons, 25, declined medical treatment for the bruises and cuts after being knocked down by the train. The train conductor had blown the train whistle and screamed at Clifford to get off the track, but as all cell phone addicts know, when on a cell phone the rest of the world is not in focus.
When police arrived to check on Clifford and issue him a citation for being both a cell addict and for trespassing on railroad property by walking on the railroad tracks, his wife muttered she "would just like to forget about it". But until she takes away Clifford's phone, I suspect more trains will have to be wary of Clifford.
A second weird incident happened at East Jefferson High School on Friday. Call this one "Friday Lady Fights", because it involved several female students fighting over some less than important issues. On campus fights between or among students here results in an automatic school suspension and automatic arrest, so these brawls are not common. Here's what happened at East Jeff.
Two lunch time fights among the girls broke out, the first one in the school cafeteria between two combatants. According to the deputy who broke up the fight it was all about which boy was "finer" than the other. Haha Since I am not more "fine" than any other man, you need not brawl about me.
As the ladies slugged it out in the cafeteria one of them lunged and nearly landed a right hand to his face, so he grabbed his pepper spray and maced her. Of course, the kids in the cafeteria loved the show and cheered as they ate their lasagna. But both girls were booked with disturbing the peace and the lady who threw the punch at the police officer was cited for resisting arrest. Appreciative students cheered as the police took the fighters away in handcuffs.
But wait! Something must have been in the air that day, because as a group of police who also responded to the cafeteria fight arrived at school they found another all female fight brewing on the campus. This one involved four girls and was about...get ready for this....I hope you don't want to fight me because I mentioned it...it was all about copied hairstyles. Some of the ladies resented the others from copying their hairstyle...Sigh...at least men fight over more concrete things.
In the course of the fight deputies again used pepper spray on two of the girls to calm them. All four were booked with disturbing the peace and resisting arrest, one on a charge of battery on a police officer. Too, a boy who witnessed the fight was cited with refusing to disperse (he was the boyfriend of one of the sluggers) after he ignored orders from deputies to leave the scene.
I assume the four fighting females will need to redo their hair style after the brawl. Let's hope they choose four different styles this time. Uh, I was going to mention another incident that happened here this past weekend but even I have a limit to bad taste.