Days of Wine & Roses
Monday, 16 July 2007 | 20:39
Photo: malescot.com
From Yahoo.com:
“It started about midnight on June 16 when a group of friends was finishing a dinner of marinated steaks and jumbo shrimp on the back patio of a District of Columbia home. That’s when a hooded man slid through an open gate and pointed a handgun at the head of a 14-year-old girl. ‘Give me your money, or I’ll start shooting,’ he said, according to D.C. police and witnesses.
‘We were just finishing dinner,’ Cristina “Cha Cha” Rowan, 43, told the man. ‘Why don’t you have a glass of wine with us?’
The intruder had a sip of their Chateau Malescot St-Exupery and said, ‘Damn, that’s good wine.’ The robber, with his hood down, took another sip and a bite of Camembert cheese. He put the gun in his sweatpants. ‘I think I may have come to the wrong house,’ he said before apologizing. ‘Can I get a hug?’”
(Full story here.)
Ah, the power of strong wine and human touch. It warms the heart, really.




















