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A French Quarter armed robber can’t handle the truth:

Roy Lee Gant, a Lucky Dog vendor in the French Quarter, may look like an easy mark for an armed robber.

He wears a candy-cane-striped button-up shirt. He wheels around sausage and condiments to sell in a 1,200-pound cart shaped like a ballpark wiener, opting to make ends meet in the manner of Ignatius J. Reilly in “A Confederacy of Dunces.”

None of that oozes toughness. But Gant is a former U.S. Marine, trained in hand-to-hand combat. And a 42-year-old man accused of attempting to rob Gant at knifepoint the night of Dec. 5 found that out too late, New Orleans police say.

He’ll have a few years to think about the fact that things aren’t always what they seem.

Along the lines of messing with the wrong people, Blackfive has a story about a local school board unfit to shine the shoes of the man whose career they’re trying to destroy over a lousy school uniform dispute.  Is there anything more obnoxious than a low level bureaucrat?  Go read the story and see how you can help a military family whose savings is now wiped out and who needs to hire a lawyer, have a better Christmas.  Even if you can only Paypal them $5, $10, or $20 bucks it’s worth doing to show you support them.