Creep of the Week - August 3, 1996
Welton Burden, of Albany, Georgia, found a somewhat different way to express grief this week after his neighbor, Alice Hawthorne, was killed by the Olympic bomb blast. While Alice's husband, John, was in Atlanta to make funeral arrangements and visit his injured daughter, also a victim of the bomb, Welton displayed his Good Neighbor policy by breaking into the Hawthorne's home through the front window and stealing the television and VCR. Not only is Welton a truly loathsome, sorry excuse for a human being, however, he's also stupid. He was caught by bragging to his friends about the crime, giving away details that only the culprit could have known.
Breaking and entering is now such a common crime that under most other circumstances, it doesn't attract any attention beyond that of the home owners who have their lives complicated by police, insurance guys and their own lost sense of security. But these are not most circumstances and Welton will soon find that the long arm of the law is the least of his worries. Over the last month, we've had to endure a barrage of terrorist activity for which no has been arrested. We've been teased with accusations about Iran's involvement in the Saudi bombing and that pitiful, egocentric security guard as the prime suspect for the Atlanta blast, but so far, no prisoners. Welton may not be a bomber, but he's the closest thing we have right now, so he's going to be the target of all our pent-up rage and scorn. Makes you long for the days of posses and lynch mobs, doesn't it?
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