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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Crime Drunken Golf Game Ends with a Friend Stabbed in the Face, Police Say

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:30 AM

Posted by news intern Ben Steiner

This incident began on Super Bowl Sunday with a friendly wager between two San Francisco 49ers fans and ended the next day with stabbing, according to a Seattle police report.

A man had bet his friend that the Baltimore Ravens would lose, the report says, but the fellow 49ers fan denied the $20 dollar proposition because he could not bring himself to bet against his own team. But they did make a bet the next day: They bet $10 on who would win a game of golf—inside the apartment—that involved a Jack in the Box head as the golf ball.

The police report notes, not surprisingly, that both men had "drank alcohol."

Police say that when the Superbowl bet suggester lost the game of golf, "he became agitated and threw three dollars to the ground and said, 'that's all I got.'" The two proceeded to argue about the previous day's Superbowl bet, with one saying his friend still owed $20 and the other man saying he never bet in the first place.

That's when things went from stupid to nasty. When the golf winner tried to leave the apartment, the report explains, the other man "pulled out a butterfly knife and stabbed [the winning golfer] in the face (right side between the jaw lines)," the SPD says. The victim tackled his assailant to the ground, fled to the lobby, and called for help.

Responding to the scene, Officer Anh Hoang arrested the butterfly-knife-wielder and sent the victim to Harborview Medical Center. According to Medic One the "wound was deep and he was lucky that the butterfly knife missed his vain [sic]."

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I thought this was how all golf games ended

Posted by Chef Thunder on February 9, 2013 at 10:41 AM

"vain [six]" made me laugh.

Posted by Faber on February 9, 2013 at 10:52 AM

between the jaw lines?

Posted by Max Solomon on February 9, 2013 at 11:03 AM

Sounds like every day in the Candlestick Park parking lots. Cold winds and colder blades.

Posted by camlux on February 9, 2013 at 11:20 AM

Poor drunken winning golfer, if only he'd had a gun!

Posted by Ken Mehlman on February 9, 2013 at 11:21 AM

Imagine how much more lethal it would have been if one, or both, had had a gun (not as interesting, but more along the lethal line.)

Posted by judybrowni on February 9, 2013 at 12:25 PM

Yes, things could have been worse if they had shot each other, but since they only had a knife, they would now be dead if a squad of armed mercenaries had broken in right then to kill them.

Posted by seatackled on February 9, 2013 at 2:01 PM