It's so cold in the STL

St. Louis should win some kind of award.

In the last month, we've had two separate incidents involving mofos getting shot and killed over some fast food. They may have even both involved Rally's, though I can't remember for certain which restaurant was involved in the first incident, and I'm too lazy to go and look it up at this point.

This most recent incident definitely involved Rally's, though.

Who knew Rally's was that big in the hood? The only one I'm familiar with is in kind of a white trash area. It just goes to show how much more familiar I am with white trash areas than I am with the hood. Chalk it up to five years spent in college out in Chicken Switch, MO.

But even the commercials you see for Rally's on TV make it seem like the kind of place hoosiers might go on a Friday night and do laps around the parking lot in their pickup trucks. They're always advertising some shit like a key lime pie milkshake with actual bits of key lime pie in it. What kind of black person do you know who would eat some shit like that?

It's hard to tell, based on the report in the Post-Dispatch, what happened in this most recent incident.

It sounds like a young brother may have taken one of his jumpoffs to Rally's to get a double cheeseburger, and her aging layabout of an aunt decided to tag along, too, thinking she might also get a double cheeseburger. Then, when she realized she didn't, she tried to shoot the young brother, but instead ended up hitting the jumpoff. (Whew!)

Check the report in the Post-Dispatch:

[18 year-old Decora] Jenkins, her boyfriend, 20, and Erika Wherry, 28, returned to Jenkins' home after ordering food from a fast-food restaurant.

Wherry and Jenkins' boyfriend began wrestling over the food, police said. Wherry then picked up a gun and fired it toward the boyfriend but instead hit Jenkins, who was standing behind her boyfriend, police said. The boyfriend was unhurt except for minor gunpowder burns. Neighbors said Wherry is Jenkins' aunt.
[...]
[Neighbor LaJoy] Andrews, 34, said Jenkins lived with Wherry, her father and younger brother, and had just earned her high school equivalency certificate last month. Andrews said Jenkins had planned to go to beauty school. Andrews described Jenkins as a "high-spirited" and "positive" person who rarely let anything bother her.

Hmm...

Reading in between the lines, you have to think, given the fact that this woman Wherry is 28 years old and had been living with her brother and his two kids, that she's a disgusting beast of a woman, and her laying waste to her 20 year-old beauty school matriculatin' niece may have had as much to do with her being jealous of the fact that the niece had someone to take her to Rally's to get a double cheeseburger as it did with the cheeseburger itself.

Though I'm sure she really was hungry as hell. The story in the Post-Dispatch suggest that she may have subsequently eaten both of the double cheeseburgers. Damn.

Checkit: St. Louis woman dies in another fast-food dispute [STLtoday]