AUDIO: AXE-THROWING BEER HALLS NOW HAVE "AXE YOUR EX" NIGHTS
You’ve maybe heard of these new bars popping up around the country where you can drink beer and throw axes at targets. The trend started in Canada and is now making its way into the U.S. More than a few of these places have begun “Axe Your Ex” nights, where you can throw axes at pictures of your ex. Stumpy’s Hatchet House in Eatontown, New Jersey is one of these places. Trish Oliphant, co-owner of Stumpy’s, says, “We encourage people to really bury the hatchet, so to speak, so they can move forward to a brighter and better future. It’s better than sitting home and eating a gallon of ice cream.” One woman who threw axes at pictures of her ex-husband, Michele Herzog, a 36-year-old from Islip, Long Island, loved the experience. “It was awesome and very stress-relieving,” she says. And you don’t have to just focus on an ex-spouse or lover. Oliphant says one woman recently celebrated breaking free from a bad business partner. “Her sister had me put pictures of (the business partner) on the target,” Oliphant says. “She was hysterically laughing.”
* That’s what you want – a person with an axe getting hysterical.
* By the way, I know what you’re thinking, and no, the Secret Service would not take kindly to you using pictures of Trump or Hillary.
* If you want to do that, you’ll have to do it at home.
* This is all fun and games, until someone figures they can cut out the bar as the middleman and just start throwing axes directly at the source.
* “It’s better than sitting home and eating a gallon of ice cream.” We’ll be the judge of that.
* You know what they call bars in Canada where you can throw an axe? Bars.
* My, that concept didn’t take long to devolve into something ugly, did it?
* Oh well, I suppose it’s better than the traditional method of revenge: Putting a sex tape with your ex on the Internet.
* I don’t think the phrase “bury the hatchet” means to bury it in a picture of your ex.
* Actually the phrase “bury the hatchet” was a peace ceremony among early Native Americans – specifically with the Iroquois Confederacy.
* I love it when the Wacky New Research Team springs into action. Thanks, Wikipedia!
CLIP: Arnold Schwartzenegger yelling. “Get to the chopper!”
