A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 15
Sometimes you see a news item that you flag simply because it’s just so… weird. Is this a movie story? ‘Hiccup Girl’ one of three charged with murder during robbery:
ST. PETERSBURG — She was just 15 when a mysterious malady turned her into an international oddity: Jennifer Ann Mee could not stop hiccupping.
The teen hiccupped up to 50 times a minute. She couldn’t sleep or go to school. The media deluged her. Eventually she got help, and the world was done with “Hiccup Girl.”
But her story went on, and St. Petersburg police said it took a horrific turn this weekend: She and two men are accused of killing Shannon Griffin, 22, in a robbery gone awry.
Police said Mee, now 19, was a co-conspirator in the plot: She was the bait.
“She knew the plan, she knew they were waiting for him,” said Maj. Mike Kovacsev, “and she brought him to their waiting arms.”
Mee and Lamont Antonio Newton, 22, and Laron Cordale Raiford, 20, were arrested Sunday on charges of first-degree murder. All are being held without bail.
Imagine hiccupping 50 times per minute. That would completely disrupt your life. You couldn’t do anything, at least not very well.
Wouldn’t that drive you a bit batty?
Anything here for a movie?