Ax-wielding hair designer burns down Michigan adult store to please God
A “hair designer” in Kalamazoo, Michigan was arrested after police identified him as the ax-wielding man witnesses saw fleeing from an adult store that had been set on fire, WOOD’s Ken Kolker reports. According to police, late Wednesday afternoon Mitchell Hapner set fire to the Hollywood Nights shop. Witnesses told police that they had seen a man leaving the scene carrying an ax, and authorities quickly determined that the suspect was Hapner. When they attempted to question him, Hapner led police on a brief car chase before crashing his vehicle. The owners of Hollywood Nights set up GoFundMe page to help recoup their losses, which were apparently total.
There’s little humor to be found in an act of senseless destruction, of course; especially when it happens under such patently ridiculous circumstances. That Mitchell Hapner felt he was “doing God’s work” by trying to “eradicate pornography” is patently absurd. All he really did was destroy a small family business and several priceless family treasures. “Doing God’s work?” Since when does God allow for the destruction of private property in the guise of service?
I don’t know what Hapner’s problem is, but I’d wager that it’s probably difficult to pronounce. It’s also no reason, and hardly an excuse, for destroying a business in the name of whatever his twisted vision of God may be. It’s certainly not about pornography; it was a store that sold items allowing consenting adults to enhance enjoyment of their sex life. No one was exploited, no sins committed…except in the mind of Hapner, for whom it seems any sort of sexual pleasure is sinful.
Who know that God was such a vindictive, mean-spirited SOB?
