Attention Food Lion shoppers: There’s a sale on potted meat in aisle 8. Also, at the front of the store there's a crazy homeless man with a knife that is threatening to kill us all.

There's drunk, then there's Myrtle Beach drunk in which you apparently lose your damn mind and start trying to slash people in the Food Lion. Who would have guessed that cheap hooch makes people stabby? I think that he was just acting out the rumble scene from Westside Story. I hear that Broadway musicals are really popular with the homeless crowd these days.

Man threatens Myrtle Beach grocery store customers with knife
Tonya Roottroot@thesunnews.com
Myrtle Beach police used a taser on a man who fought with several people inside a grocery store and threatened them with a knife, a police report showed.
The homeless man was arrested after the incident that occurred at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Food Lion at 1430 S. Kings Highway, police said. He was charged with four counts of assault, possession of an illegal weapon and resisting arrest.
Police were called to the store for a fight in progress, but when the officer arrived he saw the man inside the store through the front window with a knife threatening to kill people, the report showed.
``The suspect was waving a knife at customers and yelling that he was going to kill them,’’ the officer wrote in his report.

With all the crack dealers, burglars and other miscreants behind bars, the Surfside Beach police turn their attention to the new threat: people feeding ducks. City also has plans to tackle plumbers butt once this crisis has past.

Surfside Beach officials aim to outlaw duck feeding
Residents could no longer be allowed to feed bread to the ducks, geese or other waterfowl in Surfside Beach under a proposed ordinance.
Town Council gave preliminary approval Tuesday to the ban; one more reading is required.
Town Administrator Ed Booth said the ordinance change is needed to be in compliance with the other laws. If approved, violators of the ordinance against feeding waterfowl could face fines of up to $200 or imprisonment for no more than 30 days.

If you had South Carolina as the most violent state in the country, step up and collect your prize.

Actually, I would step up to collect the prize but I'm afraid of getting mugged...

The FBI reported Monday that the state of South Carolina has the highest per capita rate of violent crime in the country.
According to the FBI, violent crime nationwide went down 1.4 percent in 2007, but in South Carolina, violent crime went up 3 percent.

Personally, I found this statement particularly disturbing:

It's not that there's a greater number of violent crimes, but the crimes that are happening are just way more violent." Says, Santos, a Police Officer. "It's more stab wounds, same amount of victims. Same number of hit and runs, but a larger percentage of those were dragging deaths. Of course, the Hammerhead Killer didn't help out things either."