The WERD: Meat Thermometer

Meat thermometer: a thermometer used to measure the internal temperature of meat, especially roasts and steaks, and other cooked foods.

What it looks like:

Now, why is Meat Thermometer the word of the day? Evidently, it’s more exciting to take one to a movie theater than to actually use one in the kitchen. Or it is to this dude.

A man is recovering from being stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone in a movie theater, a sheriff’s department official said.
The stabbing occurred Saturday at the Cinemark 22 theater at 2600 West Avenue I in Lancaster, according to Detective Richard Cartmill of the Lancaster sheriff’s station.

The theater was packed for a 9 p.m. Saturday screening of the Martin Scorsese horror movie ‘Shutter Island’ when the victim complained about a woman near him who was using a cellphone during the show.

She and two men with her left the movie theater.

Two men returned a few minutes later and stabbed the victim, said sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.

The victim was hospitalized but is expected to survive.

Two other people who attempted to help the victim were also injured in the altercation.

Sheriff’s officials describe the suspects as black males.

One man was wearing an orange hat with an orange jacket or jersey.

The other man was dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt.

Anyone with information on the attack is asked to contact the Lancaster sheriff’s station.

Meat Thermometer.

Yes, not a knife, not a gun, not even a shiv. Meat Thermometer. What “homeboy” goes to a movie theater carrying a Meat Thermometer? Who does he think he is? Wolfgang Puck? Emeril? Martha Stewart? Was he skipping his culinary class? If so, did the news just not publish that one dude was wearing a cooking apron so that he wouldn’t COMPLETELY lose his street cred?

Hope he gets his “hood” card revoked, because wow. Meat Thermometer.

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