It’s like a King of the Hill episode directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Larry Mugrage, a 15-year-old Ohio kid whose pre-mortem hobbies included going to school and breathing, was murdered on March 21st by yard enthusiast Charles Martin. Larry was crossing Mr. Martin’s lawn when Martin, age 66, shot him twice in the chest. As Larry courteously staggered to his own lawn to die, his killer calmly picked up the phone and informed the police of his crime. “I’m being harassed by him and his parents for five years and today I just blew it up,” he explained.
Although neighbors don’t remember any harassment by the Mugrage family, they do recall Charles Martin spending hours working in his meticulously groomed yard. They also remember seeing Martin measuring his grass with a ruler.
The moral of the story is, never trust a guy with a ruler. Or a gun. A ruler or a gun.
[tags]Charles Martin, lawn, murder, crime[/tags]