Machete Squad

Marc turned me onto "The Pillowman," a play by Martin McDonagh about an author who is taken into custody because he's excessively perverse and violent stories are coming true and they think he is behind the crimes. It's a great premise, but the chances of that coincidence are slim....right?

In July, The NY Post reported on an assault in the hipsterrificly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg. This would be the standard police blotter copy, except that the attacker was using a machete (Crocodile Dundee did not return calls for comment), which the last time I checked was the weapon of choice in places like Rwanda, not the land of $4 organic cookies $40 used t-shirts.

As you may have guessed, it's not the kid's drinking PBR at Union Pool hacking each other into minute-steaks and the police are pointing towards the South Side Williamsburg gang "The Trinitarios."

What in this YouTube video could possibly make the cops think they had anything to do with this? Surely it's a coincidence, just like in "Pillowman"...