In case you’re in the office today and the person sitting next to you – that one with the really irritating habits – is pushing you just that little too far today…you’re not alone. From the previous week alone we’ve got a splendid roundup of people randomly snapping:

Police in Neptune Beach, Florida, said that a man had threatened two co-workers with a butcher knife on Tuesday, and said the argument started when the two men refused his request to change the channel so he could watch “American Idol.” Police were able to subdue the man, who has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.


According to the report, “American Idol” doesn’t air on Tuesdays anyway.

Maybe food is the root of your passions? In Clairton, Pennsylvania, the stabbing was hot-dog related.

Police said that Charles Westbrook was at a friend’s house last Saturday night when he chose to cook two hot dogs. It wasn’t clear from the report whether the argument related to the cooking of the hot dogs or to the fact that Westbrook ended up eating them both, but whichever it was, hopefully he enjoyed the hot dogs because he also got a knife in his right leg. He was hospitalized, and the friend, or former friend, was arrested.

And in Latvia a cinema-goer at a showing of Black Swan was killed after witnesses said a shooting resulted from an argument that “arose over how loudly the deceased man was eating his popcorn.”

As Nick Ross used to say on CrimeWatch: Don’t have nightmares…do sleep well…

Hat-tip to Lowering the Bar