17-Year-Old Girl Slits Brother's Throat in Butter Vs. Margarine Argument

• they are after all brother and sister-and he had it comin'

• Ahhhh that dreaded butter/margarine arguement, someday it will destroy cities!!!

• Witty headlines aside, she assaulted her sibling with a BBQ Spatula, not a knife! Hardly a deadly weapon or something with which there could be any deadly intent of harm. Siblings fight, and sometimes excessively fight (as a child I lost my front tooth to my little sister stabbing me in the mouth with a screwdriver, and have even had her pull her best impression of Jack Torrance when she took an axe to my bedroom door...yet oddly enough, we came from a rather well-adjusted family although it may sound quite contrary). The charge of 4th Degree Assault was appropriate. She'll spend a week in Juvenile Hall to reconsider her actions, and maybe have to do some Community Service after she gets out. It might make her think twice before giving someone the Spatula Treatment ever again, but it is doubtful that it will ever prevent her from bickering and fighting with her sibling. (There's a perfectly good reason why all other animals boot their children from the nest at an earlier age than we do! Maybe we should consider giving our teenagers early emancipation and sending them on their way to prevent this kind of Sibling Rivalry from occurring.)

• Margarine!!!!!!!!!!! There I said it!

• Let's be honest! There's one in every family. My younger sister and I were doing dishes i was washing she was drying. Crazy bitch didn't want to dry. I threw the towel at her and told her i would do it all by myself. She grabbed a butcher knife and chased me. I literally ran 3 blocks before she stopped slashing at me. That broad is still wacked out to this day. I get the butter scene completely. Supervision kids, supervision.

• Oh Kristen, if that were only true! When my sister and I were teens, we'd go out to eat and she would frequently order grilled cheese. She would request they make it sans butter in a dry skillet. I know this because, while hiding under the table, I could still hear her placing the order.

• I think this story is funny. It's weird to me that a teenager would even notice, much less care, about the difference between margarine and butter. That being said, margarine is disgusting. Only real butter for me.

• Shannie - I'm a butter girl myself too but would still be willing to fight it out to the death. Fighting for no intelligent reason seems to be a theme we see more often then not. Plus, it was Kraft mac and cheese after all - does it really matter? BTW my kids will only eat the Kraft stuff. I don't get it?

• She probably figured if he was going to kill himself slowly by using butter instead of margarine, she might as well save their parents some money by taking care of the situation herself. I'm sure she was just being considerate and viewing the "bigger picture".

• If it was Kraft Mac & Cheese, the instructions call for margarine, since they also make Parkay. I commend her for her ability to not mess with perfection if this was in fact the case.

• They should have just consulted Paula Deen. She would've set them straight.

• I don't know CT, butter is always better. We can debate this all day but we would be smarter to just fight it out with knives...:) Oy vey, total morons.

• Parkay, butter, Parkay, butter. Come on, no one needs additional trans fats in their diet. I'd have to get out my barbecue fork too. Idiots.

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