What the...?
I love looking at old newspapers on microfilm -- even though I'm looking for specific stories, I'm scrolling through hundreds of pages with fabulous ads and other, unrelated content. Sometimes a particular headline will catch my eye, and I'll read the story. The following is by far the most bizarre item I've come across in the Buffalo Evening News in the last two days:
WEARING PINK HAT LEADS TO BEATING
CHICAGO, Jan. 29 [1947] -- Mrs. Eleanor Webster, 41, sees red when she sees a pink hat, she said Tuesday.
Mrs. Webster was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge on the complaint of Mrs. Sarah Warsaw, 46. Mrs. Warsaw said she was walking down a street Tuesday -- wearing a pink hat -- when Mrs. Webster, a total stranger, screamed her dislike for pink hats, knocked her down and began beating her.
"I just don't like pink hats," Mrs. Webster told police.
She was released under $75 bond pending a hearing.
17 comments:
WTF, indeed! That's just so...odd.
Jeepers. How did Bob Geldof fail to write a song about that one?
Wow. In 1947 it only cost $75 to beat up someone in an ugly hat! Those were the days.
Um... yeah. People are weird.
i have some pink yarn for a beret...oddly enough, this totally makes me want to cast on!
Uh oh, I'm making a pink hat right now. I'd better give it to someone I don't like very much...
Perhaps it was a raspberry beret?
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She wore a
Raspberry beret
The kind u find in a second hand store
Raspberry beret
And if it was warm she wouldn't wear much more
truly a "what the???????" moment after reading that!
as with Jodi, totally made me think of "I don't like Mondays."
awesome story. hilarious!
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Thanks for sharing. Made my morning!
Ha! Proving that the "good old days" were just as weird and random as the present.
Funny, I have a similar reaction to purple hats.
;)
I KNEW those "Red Hat Ladies" were really a street gang. I KNEW it and no one believed me. Now I have proof.
(Pleh. "Friends don't let friends wear red and purple together.")
I really dislike pink, but I would never go out of my way to beat someone up about it.
Ah yes, the Red Hat Ladies, that Bluestockings splinter group.
I hear Buffalo winters will do that to people.
Finally. Historical evidence to support my loathing of pink hats and desire to rule the world through their expulsion.
I like the attacker's reasoning- "I don't like pink hats". At least she's succinct!
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