There Are Crazy People in Germany Too

Angered by his girlfriend’s smoking, a German man used a fire extinguisher to put out her cigarette. The apartment now looks like it snowed inside — and boyfriend was hauled downtown.

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Hauled downtown? Cancer-stick? Who’s writing this copy, Mickey Spillane? Dashiell Hammett?

She was a feisty dame, but she burned a few too many bridges in Bielefeld and needed a place to lay low. I helped her out in exchange for, shall we say, companionship? I told her when she’s under my roof the only thing that smokes is the barrel of my .44.

I only tell someone once.