Thursday, July 28, 2005

Peeping Tom Done Peeped Too Long

I do believe Mr. Eaton is employing what we in the writing game call "poetic license" when he compares L.A. artist Selena Kassab to one Lara Croft. Sure, Kassab is "willowy" just like Croft, I guess, but Croft didn't fight crime in pink fuzzy slippers. That seems more of a Mrs. King (of "Scarecrow and..." fame) kind of crime-fighting footwear choice.

Still, when Kassab caught a Peeping Tom's reflection in her mirror (he had already peeped on two other lasses) she took off after him. What would have she done if she had caught him? “I really can’t say. I would have fought with everything I have and tried to take him down,” she said.

Everything she had turned out to be "a broom stick with an 8-inch blade duct-taped to the end."

On second thought, maybe she's a psychotic McGuyver with boobs.

When she failed to catch him, Kassab Photoshopped up a picture and hung it around town and then organized a paranoid and violent mob:

The girls of the building stocked golf clubs and other weapons behind their doors. One loving father sent several women bottles of pepper spray. Joanne Davis, 27, got a 53-pound German shepherd and Valerie Weeks, an expandable metal “beat stick” she keeps in her bag.

On third thought, Thelma, Louise, and the Switchblade Sisters rolled into one got nothing on Kassab.

Roanoke Times: Police make arrest in Peeping Tom case