"Football and NASCAR, The Dawin Award Cocktail: We Knew One Day, It Would Kill Him"
A South Carolina Gamecocks fan fatally shot a friend over a $20 bet on a weekend football game, authorities said.
James Walter Quick watched the South Carolina-Clemson game Saturday at his friend's house in Lexington, S.C., about 100 miles south of Charlotte. The Gamecocks came from behind and won, 31-28.
Quick celebrated.
But his friend, Clemson fan Richard Allen Johnson, said the Tigers shouldn't have lost and refused to pay, authorities said. So Quick left the house and retrieved a high-powered rifle from his Chevrolet Corsica.
"He went back in and told Richard, `I want my money or I'm going to shoot you,' " said Lexington County Sheriff James Metts, adding that both had been drinking beer.
Metts said Johnson's wife and several friends told police that Johnson then said: "You can't shoot me, I'm invisible."
And Quick replied, "No you're not."
Needless to say, this story doesn't end well for Richard Johnson.
On a related note, I'm not missing the South today.
posted by Biff Loman at 2:56 PM
3 Comments:
Perhaps the beginning of the end for Mr. Johnson was when he said "You can't shoot me, I'm invisible!"
Why push it when someone is pointing a gun at you?
I'm going to go out on a limb, here, and say, as they so often do in the South, that he was "eat up with the dumb-ass."
I think that's why his family has reacted with such sang-froid. They've been expecting this since baby's first mullet.
I'd say that this is why stupid and liquor never mix well. It's all fun and games until someone gets shot.
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