Photo by dizfunkshinal Tuesday's Metro Police shooting was not just unusual in that it was the first fatal shooting in the agency's history, but in that a bystander was injured as well. While we wait for more details to emerge from HPD, which is leading the investigation, Hair Balls checked in with a criminology expert about the incidence of bystander shootings."It's just a rare phenomenon," says David Klinger, a professor of criminology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. "...Police
Photos by Jeff BalkeWe don't know who this character is supposed to be, but she was killing some Japanese opera.The costumes are expected. The fanciful, the extraordinary, the bizarre, the obscurely referenced, the painstakingly planned and the larger than life weren't surprising -- after all, this was a cosplay (short for "costume roleplay) convention. What was unexpected, however, was the gender-bending everywhere that we looked.
The most gorgeous men were dressed as exotic women, whil
