Car Crashes Archbishop's Fence, Gunshots Fired

When I first heard about this incident, I heard soemthing to the effect that an angry woman had crashed throught the fence at the Archbishop's residence and that gunshots were fire - and, of course, I began to imagine all sorts of things, not yet knowing the details. I had imagined that, perhaps, a disgruntled teacher had become unhinged over the Archdiocese's refusal to recognize the local attempt of union organizing of elementary teachers or maybe a deranged woman upset over St Stanislaus or the sexual abuse crisis.

A car driven by an angry wife crashed about 7:45 a.m. Wednesday through the fence surrounding the home of St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke at Lindell Boulevard and Taylor Avenue, St. Louis police said.

The car was being driven by a woman who had been fighting with her husband, police said. When she crashed into the fence, on the Taylor Avenue side, she was trying to run down her husband, who was on foot, police added. The husband then fired two shots at his wife, which missed, before he fled.

And children were in the car! What a fine example mommy sets for them. And, thankfully, they were not harmed or killed by her loving husband.

They may be in the hands of the state by now, considering that the woman and her husband appear to be negligent parents.

Archbishop Burke was not available for comment since he is in Rome.