Wednesday, January 7, 2009
News "Soldier dies after bar fight over Jimmy Buffett song"
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:44 PM
David Schmader posted this in The Morning News post on Slog, and it's such a weird/sad/weird again story that I can't help but repost:
A soldier from Fort Bragg died this morning in Denver from injuries suffered from a bar fight in Steamboat Springs on Friday night over a Jimmy Buffett song.Richard Lopez, 37, of Fayetteville, N.C., was pronounced dead at 4:16 a.m. today at Denver Health Medical Center. An autopsy by the Arapahoe County Coroner's office is scheduled for Tuesday.
The incident occurred before 12:15 a.m. Friday when police were called to a fight between five people outside the Tap House.
"The initial disagreement was about music being played on the jukebox," said Rae, adding that it was a Jimmy Buffet song.
"Richard Lopez and two other individuals put on the song, but two other individuals did not agree with it."
It was not known which Jimmy Buffett song was being played at the time, but the fight was taken outside the bar.
My dad loves Jimmy Buffett. As a kid, I had to listen to that damn "Fruitcakes" song over and over again, and as annoying as that got at times, I can't imagine killing a man over a Jimmy Buffett song. More so, I can't imagine dying over a Jimmy Buffett song.
(On another note: For those who were speculating that violence only happens in the hiphop music scene, and that the music played a role in the recent shootings at Chop Suey, I guess this blows a hole through that theory, huh? If a man can die over goddamn Jimmy Buffett, no band/song/genre is safe.)
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This shit keeps up, you white people in your 40s are going to have to own up to what Jimmy Buffet makes you do,
You move to the suburbs. Start voting Repub. You think you're 1/16th Cherokee for some fuckin' reason and you blow a few grand every year going to some place like Tahoe to get drunker and lazier and fatter and embarrassingly sunburnt for 2 weeks listening to fucking Margaritaville on infinte loop.
..and now this?
Don't pretend there's not a problem here. I'm looking at you Fnarf. I now you're not one of those Jimmy Buffet white folks and I understand it's an unfortunate minority aspect of what goes on n the white community. Something you have no control over and I understand that most of you are law abiding, hard working people. But you can't deny that there's something to be concerned about in Margaritaville.
How am I supposed to magically discern which Buffet tunes are safe? Tell me the rules for knowing which Roadhouse is the one I can drink Yard Glass Alabama Slammers in without having to die over playing the wrong Buffett song?
I say let them all move to the suburbs, vote repub and lie to themselves about their heritage until they play the wrong Buffet song. They won't be missed here.
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