Who’s responsible for doing these dishes? In yet my second reference within a month to the hit television show, It’s Always Sunny In Philidelphia, a Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, man is facing charges after authorities say he fired a gun at another man during an argument over, of all things, the dishes!

According to the Carbondale Police Department, officers were dispatched to Laural and Rock Street on October 9th responding to reports of a fight and a gunshot at around 7:30 pm. When police caught up with the alleged suspect who had fled the scene, Frank Kleinbauer, 47, of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, tried to pin the shenanigans on his wife. What a guy!

Police say Kleinbauer claimed his wife had shot a firearm loaded with blanks at a man outside their home on Rock Street. Officers were skeptical, however, as the story makes zero sense on multiple levels. Who keeps a gun loaded with blanks? Who fires said blanks at a random pedestrian? Who in the hell behaves like this and tries to incriminate his wife, unless of course there are preexisting marital issues? And if there weren’t, there are now.

Eventually, officers arrived at the residence where they took a statement from the victim. According to the affidavit, the fight began after Kleinbauer’s mother yelled at the victim for refusing to do the dishes. Investigators say that the yelling was followed by Kleinbauer himself punching the victim in the face before heading upstairs to retrieve a firearm. Upon return,  Kleinbauer pointed his gun at the victim and fired. 

That’s when the victim then fled, running outside to his sister’s home where Kleinbauer allegedly followed him at first before going back into his own home and then returning once again to apologize for shooting at the victim. He shot at him, but hey, at least he apologized.

For anyone who may have thought the gun loaded with blanks could actually be plausible, it wasn’t. Further investigation revealed to detectives that the firearm used in the incident was in fact loaded with real ammunition. Also to the surprise of nobody whatsoever, court records conclude that it was Kleinbauer, and not his wife, who fired the shot. 

Frank Kleinbauer has been charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. 

Luckily, no injuries were reported related to the incident other than some soreness from shaking my head. Thankfully neck tattoo wasn’t much of a shot, so everyone lives to fight another day. This story leaves me with more questions than answers, like how did his wife feel about getting the finger falsely pointed at her by her own husband? What I really want to know is, who ended up doing the damn dishes?

23 COMMENTS

  1. Neck tats. Always a good way to announce you have lousy judgement.

    I knew a family like this in WV. 3 of the sons were in the pen at the same time. 2 of the sons accused the 3rd of being a ‘punk’ in prison. In order to salvage his honor he murdered his brothers.

    White trash earns that title.

  2. When it comes to Whites, the number of tats on an individual is directly proportional to that individual’s dysfunction. It’s symptomatic of mental illness and anti-social behavior.

  3. Tattoos are already a sign of someone with poor decision-making skills -neck and facial tats only up that ante by nine thousand.

    I find it extremely handy that disturbed people mark themselves so that it isn’t hard to identify and subsequently avoid them.

    • Interesting argument, Nikita.

      [looks at my own tattoos and wonders how they somehow indicate poor decision-making skills when considering my professional degree and high salary, longstanding loving marriage to my first-and-only wife, adult children who are upstanding members of society, my mentoring program in which I counsel young marrieds, etc…]

      • “[looks at my own tattoos and wonders how they somehow indicate poor decision-making skills…”

        Yah, but are they neck tats?

        (Somehow, I doubt they are, but I am surprised you have tats in the first place, being how you are of a similar ‘vintage’ to myself…)

  4. It used to be that one tat was fine, two was borderline, but three was a strong indicator of having spent time in prison. Nowadays, with so many sporting tats, full sleeves, massive back and leg art, that old saw doesn’t work. Instead, it has become neck and face tattoos as a neon sign proclaiming one’s felony incarceration record.

    • Times haven’t changed. People are just too accepting of broken people and their crazy. Crazy is what crazy does. They mark themselves so you can avoid them. Of you fail to heed the warning then whatever happens is on you.

    • My wife has three tats. Three small stars on her forearm she got after completing chemo for cervical cancer.

      Never been to prison, yet.

      But she’s only 59 so there’s still time.

      • Yep, going tattoo-less is now counter-culture and the old hippy Left is now “The Man”. Crazy times and probably going to get crazier!

    • “It used to be that one tat was fine, two was borderline, but three was a strong indicator of having spent time in prison.”

      Teardrop tats near the eye are common on some felons, one for each year “in the big house”…

  5. Gee whizz, I’ve seen some police officers with tattoos.
    Some even on their necks.
    Ahhhhhh hah, that explains a few things.
    Now back to the dishes.
    Paper plates save lives.
    I’ve noticed the world has gotten more violent after the pandemic, or could it be the Mars turning red along with the blood moon?
    Earthquakes,strife,pestilence, signs in the sky, wars and rumors of war.
    What the world needs is more bttfckin transformers and less belief in a higher deity.
    Weeds are easy to grow.

    • Tats + cops is just more of the same.

      Avoid plus avoid… carry the one and add the zero..
      ought, ought, ought, double-ought…works out to: avoid.

  6. Bumps on the head that correspond to skillet dents are sometimes deserved. Don’t tell my wife I said so, lest you encourage her.

  7. When I went to airborne school some of the guys couldn’t wait to get to Victory Drive for a tat. I’m still friends with a guy that got three. He regrets it to this day.

    • The tattoo removal business is a bigger part of the economy than the tattoo creating business.

      Other people’s regrets are extremely profitable.

      • “The tattoo removal business is a bigger part of the economy than the tattoo creating business.”

        Source links, please.

  8. Tattoo’s on the neck is a red flag suggesting that the person is making some very poor life choices and screams “don’t hire me”. Tats related to military service is totally OK. Young people today get some of the stupidest tattoos. I can only guess a bad home life, It’s a cry for help.

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