In a nod to my good friend Cliff over at spiralbound.net, I here share a story picked up via the Associated Press entitled Washington Official Held in Coffee Mug Attack.

Fire commissioners Allen Yanity and Jim Bosch – both of Lakebay, Washington and aged 71 and 64, respectively – are in the midst of a year-long feud wherein Yanity has accused Bosch of extortion and attempting to force him off the commission, while Bosch has accused Yanity of harassment and intimidation.

Standing with their wives during a break at a local meeting, threats and insults were exchanged and, fearing physical violence upon his wife from an arm-raising Bosch, Yanity stepped in and cracked him on the head with a coffee mug.

Bosch was brought to a local hospital, where staples were used to close the wound on his head.

Yanity was charged with second-degree assault and plead not guilty, after which he was released on $10,000 bail.

No word as to whether or not Yanity was able to get a refill on that coffee.

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PERSONAL NOTE: I wouldn’t normally reblog a story like this, but it evokes many memories of when Cliff and I worked and had coffee together every morning. We were continuously appalled at the bad behavior of both pedestrians as well as motorists on our walk back to the office each day, and it was a running joke that we were going to hurl our coffee cup at someone out of anger. So much so was this act of coffee hurling a part of our daily consciousness, we actually designed a video game whose premise was hurling coffee cups at passing vehicles from the comfortable cafe tables in our small town. The game featured all of the local “regulars” - each of which exhibited their real-life idiosyncrasies in-game and to whom we assigned, accordingly, different point values for scoring a solid hit.

Of course, we never did actually hurl our coffee at anyone. We couldn’t justify the inconvenience of going without coffee that early in the morning, regardless of how angry we got.

And then there was the screenplay Cliff was working on, which featured a coffee-cup-wielding killer angry in a bar…

Ah yes, those were the days.

tags: bosch, lakebay, washington, yanity, assault, attack, cafe, cafe monte alto, coffee, coffee mug, fire commissioners, nh, plymouth, spiralbound.net, video games, violence, weapons

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