D.C. as a city is the victim of a lot of stereotypes — the murder capital, crackhead mayor, bad baseball team. One of those is true, but there are at least a handful of other U.S. cities with worse murder rates than us these days, and the worst thing people have dug up about Adrian Fenty is that he appeared in an ad promoting the District wearing his parents’ store’s logo on his shirt. Not exactly “bitch set me up.” But despite all our progress, sometimes D.C.’s stereotypes can still feel true. Especially if you are a very unlucky guy, or maybe a very slow target.

Overheard of the Week:

At the GW Emergency Room at 4 a.m., from the next bed over:

Doctor: “Do you have any medical problems we should know about?”
Man: “Nope…(long pause)…except Hepatitis C…and I’ve been shot four times.”

After the jump, dangerous internal fireworks, multicultural sandwiches, and comparative geography.

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