Detective Laura McCallister

An Associated Press article, Fight Erupts at Shoe Sale; Customer Shot:

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Chaos broke out at a shoe sale in Turkey this week, and one person got shot in the foot, a news agency reported.

The incident Friday occurred in Karabuk…[at a] retailer that was selling pairs of shoes for as little as $6… When customers rebelled against orders to close the store because of overcrowding and started to fight with one another and with salespeople, a store employee shot his gun into the air… The bullet struck the foot of a customer…

Now being a normal person, I am supposed to roll my eyes and make an indignant tsk at the fact that a shoe sale would incite violence. Then, I am to remember the picture of the poor woman losing her wig as she’s trampled by an onslaught of Walmart shoppers after those damn cheap laptops. I am then to do a little math in my head: women + shoes + sale = oh yeah, believe you me. Suddenly the roll of the eyes and the perfect tsk are to become a commiserating chuckle.

If I were a normal person, cuz that ain’t what happened in my gray matter.

This portion of the article bears repeating: a store employee shot his gun into the air [and] struck the foot of a customer [at a shoe sale].

Was the customer standing on his/her head to have received this bullet that was shot in the air? Hanging from the ceiling? Dancing on the dumbass Ceiling with Lionel Ritchie? Looking for a 6 1/2 narrow on the top of the shoe racks? What? That’s what I wanna know.

And… If a person at a shoe sale gets shot in the foot, I just thank Goddess Moon that it was not a sale at Victoria’s Secret (ouch!)…

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