Wednesday, 4 July 2012

A Letter to the Editor From the Editor


Incidentally, the cops are showing up because of you. When we called for an ambulance and said that someone had set someone else's face on fire, they insisted on sending a cruiser too, to protect the ambulance. I don't want to tell you how to react to this information, because I don't know who you are and I don't care what happens to you. I don't think you crashed my party, although advertising the party as an “acid-punch freakout” led to a lot of people I don't know sneaking into my house. Little did they know that acid-punch freakout meant brawling with balloons full of hydrochloric acid taped to our knuckles, so at least they got what they deserved. People with glasses got the worst of it. When the fists hit their face, the balloons split open on the frames, so they all ended up pretty mangled. I don't want to say that they lost the acid-punch freakout party, because everyone has chemical burns, but they definitely got the worst of it.

So I don't think you're the kind of person to sneak into my house once you heard that a bitchin party was going to happen here. I just think whoever brought you doesn't want to own up to knowing you right now, because only a legitimately crazy person would think that spraying a tube of hemorrhoid cream onto a face covered with hydrochloric acid would end in anything other than a ball of flames. I guess it was the smartest thing to pull out of the medicine cabinet, but apparently it only puts out one kind of burning, and reacts violently with hydrochloric acid. And by the way, you owe me a tube of hemorrhoid cream. You can keep that one, because I would love to see the look on the face of the cop that searches your pockets. But I won't see that, because I'm not going to jail.

Seriously now, everyone will think you're crazy if you try and tell them what went down here. “How would they attach balloons to their knuckles?” they'll say, then laugh in your face and call you crazy. No one will figure out we used tape. And there are enough meth-lab explosions around here to explain away all the people with glasses showing up in the emergency room with chemically burned faces, so we're covered on that angle too.

Now I'm no lawyer, if you want to split hairs technically I'm a janitor, but don't tell anyone where you were or what you were doing when this happened. They'll give you the right to remain silent, I suggest you take full advantage. At some point during the interrogation an officer will come through the door pretending to be your friend. This is a lie. There are no friends in prison. Any of the ex-cons here will tell you that.

Oh wow, you can totally hear the sirens. There's a lot of them coming. No chance running now, what were you thinking just standing here the whole time I've been talking? Wait! Some advice. The only job they'll give you once you get out of prison will involve pushing a broom around, so don't bust your brain getting a G.E.D or anything like that while you're inside. The good part of your life is pretty much over, is what I'm saying, and I'm really proud of you actually. Taking one for the team like this. I can't believe how lucky I am to have such swell friends, who bring people I don't know around to pin crimes on. Oh wow, there's like 3 cruisers on the lawn. You should lie down with your hands behind your head, they like it when they get to put you on the ground. If you're out in time, you should come to my next party, a Northern Michigan key party! You pick a set of keys out of a bowl, and then your hands are duct taped to the steeri.... okay, I guess you want to hear your rights. Thanks for coming!

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