Freak of Nomenclature, Canadian Division
Lethbridge, Alta., Canada, saw its first homicide in two years, when a 29-year-old man was found stabbed to death in a rooming house’s hallway. Lethbridge regional police say they have a suspect in custody, and that the motive was neither “random” nor drug-related. A neighbor down the hall realized something was amiss when he got up in the morning. “I saw the blood on the floor,” Robert Hall said. Early reports named the deceased as Brent Good Dagger, but that unlikely name was declared an “also known as” and was soon corrected to his real name: Brent Blaise Stabbed Last. (RC/Lethbridge Herald) ...You have to wonder what his parents were thinking, eh?Author’s Note: Several readers complained that my tagline made fun of Stabbed Last’s surname, when it was obviously a “First Nation” (native Canadian) name. That it was such is obvious. I also thought it was obvious that family names are passed down, and that his parents didn’t choose that name for him. No, I was making ironic reference to his not-native-sounding given name, “Brent”! The joke fell flat, sure, but there’s a difference between a failed joke and making fun of someone’s surname, which I generally don’t do other than to point out the ironic oddity of someone named Good Dagger/Stabbed Last dying ...by being stabbed. And I chose to call more attention to his name by joking about his given name. Shrug
Original Publication Date: 04 September 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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