What would you do…if your adult kids confront you for stealing two cans of beer from their front porch cooler without asking—and you have alcoholic biochemistry? (TAR Lite #35)
Would you:
1. Apologize?
2. Go buy a six-pack for the kids to make it up to them?
3. Replace the two beers and promise the kids you'll never again take their beer without asking?
4. Buy a couple of beers to replace the stolen ones, but then try to tear down the kids' front door with a pickax when they lock themselves in their home after refusing to talk to you?
Congratulations is you selected # 4, which is what Elvis Rhodes, 55, did. When his son, Christopher, 28, refused to open the door because he was afraid of dad due to prior violence (surprise!), Elvis grabbed a pickax and tried to chop through the front door. Christopher grabbed a shotgun and fired ...