Stupid Criminals: A Spittin' Image Is Not One You Want

Over at View From The Porch, Tam notes of two different denizens of Michigan behaving badly in newsworthy ways.

It will be no surprise to anyone that the shooter in the Flint killing of a security guard is a felon in possession of a firearm.

This is no surprise, because, well, Flint.

Apparently the guard was shot because he disrespected a female memebr of the family by not letting her into the store unmasked.

To most people that's a senseless reason to kill someone doing their job. For some people however, it is normal for them (but still not excusable or appropriate by any civilized standard) to react in such a way when they feel their family is "disrespected".

Now we can add another example of a Michigander with poor impulse control behaving badly:

The Detroit Free Press: Roseville woman accused of assaulting employee, spitting on police in grocery store

A Roseville woman was charged after authorities said she spit on police officers at a St. Clair Shores grocery store, where she assaulted an employee who told her to leave because she wasn't wearing a face mask.

Not a particularly great way to win friends and influence people there.

Keep your spit to yourselves, ok?

Quarantine and the coronavirus and the pressure resulting from it is resulting in people getting their heads screwed on a little too tight right now and acting out in unacceptable ways.

Be careful out there, there's far too many people out and about under pressure with both poor impulse control and anger issues, and not many opportunities to relieve the pressure right now.