And What's the Name of YOUR Town?

Marie Smothers (we don't know if she was related to Tom and Dick Smothers) was pushing 90 and for some reason we don't quite comprehend she was minding an eight year old.  More precisely, she was his guardian.

Part of her parenting technique was to permit the kid to play Grand Theft Auto IV which as we all know is a violent video game and responsible for the current unrest in Syria.  Well, maybe it wasn't a technique exactly.  More like, "Get your sorry ass out of my living room and go play with them video games."

The kid, who will remain unidentified because of his age and until someone figures out who he is and tells TMZ, went and got Miss Marie's gun and shot her in the head.

You should not be surprised this happened in a double wide, in the state of Louisiana in a town called Slaughter.

I Have to Use the Bathroom

Hmmmm ... where does one begin?

Jessica Ockman, 33, was arrested for leaving her twenty-month-old son alone in a car at a gas station while she was passed out in the restroom.

Now that could happen to just about anyone, agreed? A few too many Oxys or beers and we all might be snoozing in some random gas station pee hole.

And if we're going to be technical, we must add that the toddler wasn't actually alone in the car, but he was the only thing in it that had a pulse. The twenty-two-year-old woman behind the wheel was dead. Police do not think foul play was involved, apparently meaning the kid is not being charged in her death.

This took place in Metairie, Louisiana over the weekend, because that is the party town in the Deep South. Ockman was released after her arrest because the jail is overcrowded.

One can only wonder what the other prisoners were being held for if their offenses were worse than this.