Posted on 07/04/2003 9:38:15 AM PDT by BlazingArizona
A young man bumps into a woman from his high school. She invites him into her hot tub with a group of her lady friends. You can guess where this is leading, right?
Wrong. This being Minnesota, not California, our hero starts a political argument with the women - and he's the lone liberal. They beat him up; it takes fifteen stitches.
Tony Kohout's evening in a hot tub with five women turned political and ended with doctors stitching up his eyelid.
Kohout ran into a group of women at Brine's Restaurant and Bar in Stillwater on May 24. He knew one of the women from high school. They let him join them in a hot tub at a home in Stillwater Township.
For a while it was just the usual story of five high school friends chatting in a hot tub with a guy and some Amstel Light.
"I thought, 'Wow, this is amazing,' " Kohout said. "Then it just kind of turned sour."
Talk turned to politics, and Kohout got in a dispute with Anne M. Robinson, 24, of St. Paul.
Kohout, 25, of Minneapolis, recalls it this way:
Robinson was describing working in a restaurant for about $5.25 an hour and airing concerns about competing with undocumented workers.
He told her, "That's really not that true."
They debated President George W. Bush's tax cut. Kohout declared it was only for the rich, and Robinson countered that people earned the money and it belongs to them, he said.
"We were cutting into each other's sentences," Kohout added. "We both knew we were making each other angry. It got personal."
Then Robinson lost her temper, said Elaine Bransford, who was there.
Robinson clocked Kohout in the face with a blue drinking glass, according to the felony complaint summons filed against Robinson in Washington County District Court.
"I remember seeing the glass fall," Kohout said. "I looked down and the water turned pink. My eye filled with blood and I couldn't see."
Bransford drove Kohout to Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater about 4 a.m. Doctors closed his cuts with about 15 stitches around his left eye, forehead, cheek and eyelid, Kohout said. His vision is fine.
Robinson was out of town, friends said, and she did not respond to repeated attempts to interview her for this story. The criminal complaint said she told a sheriff's deputy, "I know I hit him."
Robinson has been charged with second-degree assault in connection with the incident. A conviction could carry prison time. Her first appearance is scheduled for 9 a.m. Aug. 5 in Washington County District Court.
"The unusual part was the fight. It was really out of character for Anne," Bransford said of Robinson. "It was sure a crazy night," Bransford said. "I'm trying to forget about it."
Kohout is waiting to see how bad the scar around his eye will be, but he has already drawn some conclusions from the evening.
"It certainly wasn't very smart to get into a heated debate with someone you don't know well," he said. "I'll probably be more careful about what I say to people."
So9
There is nothing quite like launching a torpedo right through your own golden opportunities. If there are non-lethal equivalents to the Darwin Awards, I think we have a candidate.
The Social Darwin Awards: Given to that person who has so contributed to the improvement of the gene pool by failing to get it on with five women in a hot tub after a night of drinking?
Rule #1:
When you are the lone male in a hot tub with 5 women who have been drinking Agree with everything they say and who knows where it might lead.
Nah, surely it'd be sufficient to require a license for owners, run a background check on all purchasers, and impose a seven-day waiting period before delivery of the projectiles.
Speaking of projectiles, recent Twins pitching woes might dictate that the club should check out this hurler and see how she fares with a baseball at 60'6".
I guess that means the D-head pressed charges...
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