Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Holy Matrimony Batman! The French must be putting something in the champagne these days. First we have the battling bride, and now we have Michael VanStrate, a wedding guest, biting off a man's finger, smearing cake in a nine-year-old's face, and knocking out a 49-year-old woman: VanStrate, an invited guest of the Owosso-area couple, "was causing altercations and arguments with other guests" at the Friday night reception, [Corunna Police Sgt. Kevin] Clark said. "He was asked to leave a couple times, and he'd leave and come back in." After witnesses said VanStrate, who is 6-foot-2 and weighs 260 pounds, smeared cake on the boy's face, Clark said "the father came to the son's rescue, struggling with the suspect, and he apparently had his finger bit off at that time." And they say June is the month for weddings. UPDATE: It gets even better. An apparently "unsatisfactory" male stripper was beaten after "performing" at a bachelorette party. File under  Stuff That Don't Fit Anywhere Else 8:14:41 AM