Headline lyric from “The Promised Land” — Darkness on the Edge of Town

The Associated Press reported today that an Australian woman stabbed her husband to death with a kitchen knife over the music of Bruce Springsteen. The incident took place in 2006; today she was sentenced to eight years in prison. Now, I’ve known people who would kill to get their hands on Springsteen tickets, but this incident was apparently spurred by something far less serious:

On the night of the killing, she tried to play a Springsteen CD and he took if off the stereo, triggering a bitter argument. “I mean, who the hell doesn’t like Bruce Springsteen, for God’s sake?” Cooper told police in a record of interview presented to the court. “I just picked up a knife and I went ‘boom’.”

Based on this quote alone, I say acquit! The murder seems totally justified to me. You don’t step between a woman and the Boss. You just don’t do it.

Read the whole story here.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band play the Rose Garden on Friday, March 28th. Amazingly, tickets are still available here.