Overreaction

This story is from the you can't touch this files. As in, you can't make this stuff up!

Dateline Torrington, Connecticut, a teenager hears her Mom screaming through the bedroom door. Apparently she does not listen closely to the screams, and assumes her mother is being assaulted. She rushes off to round up four of her friends. They grab a baseball bat, throw open the door, and proceed to beat the snot out of the mother's boyfriend, a twenty-five year old named, Roger Swanson. Turns out Mom wasn't screaming because they were fighting, it was an "f" word, but not fighting. However, the incensed teens did not give Swanson time to state his case.

He was sent to the hospital with a black eye among other minor injuries. The woman's daughter, whose name is not being released, along with two other seventeen year-old locals and a nineteen year-old friend, were arrested and charged with assault and conspiracy by Torrington police.