I came across an interesting story in the New Orleans
Times-Picayune about the correlation
between ice cream sales and homicides.
Because it seems that whenever sales of ice cream
increase, so does violent crime.
They cite some specifically frozen dairy-related crimes—although
nothing that includes actual death. The one that intrigues me involves “looting
ice cream in a flea market”, because I’m just, you know, trying to picture a
smash-&-grab kind of thing with tubs of rocky road and blueberry swirl.
Of course, they do climb down from the headline by noting
that—yes, ice cream sales increase when the temperature rises, at about the
same rate that people pissing each other off increases, but while the two are
correlated, there’s not a causal factor.
They wouldn’t say that, however, if they cut in line at
the Baskin-Robbins store in front of a mother with three kids. Because there
would be blood on the floor, but there wouldn’t be a jury in the world that
would convict.
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