The Starbucks Option
Sometimes, political disagreements get rather heated. The rhetoric can escalate and names can be called. As a last resort, political opponents can reach into their bag of tricks and pull out the dreaded Starbucks option. That's where they beat the living heck out of an opponent with a coffee mug.
KEY CENTER, Wash. - A local fire commissioner was charged with assaulting a fellow commissioner with a coffee mug, the latest outbreak in a feud that a sheriff's spokesman says needs to end "before someone gets killed."
The commissioners, 71-year-old Allen Yanity and 64-year-old Jim Bosch, both of Lakebay, got into a heated exchange Tuesday during a break in a meeting as they were standing with their wives, sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said.
Yanity bashed Bosch repeatedly on the head with a coffee mug, Troyer said. A cut on Bosch's head required staples to close, prosecutors said.
Yanity said he didn't know exactly what happened during the struggle but that he might have hit Bosch with a coffee mug, according to prosecutors.
Yanity, elected to the Fire Protection District 16 panel last year, has accused Bosch of trying to force him off the commission by extortion. Bosch, first elected in 1998, has accused Yanity of harassing and intimidating him.
"They need to figure out how to get their organization in order," Troyer told the News Tribune of Tacoma. "We want this stopped before someone gets killed."
Someone needs an anger management class. And a lot less caffeine. A Styrofoam cup is also a really good idea.
By Thomas, Thursday, 26 April , 2007 @ 1:40 am
Wow, and I thought local politics in Atlanta were a joke. I guess, by comparison, we’re downright classy.
By Hurricane Shirley, Thursday, 26 April , 2007 @ 12:39 pm
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “where’s the fire?”
Seriously, if these guys acted like this with their wives standing right there, I give up.