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Taco-For-Harmonica Stabbing

Police say a Florida man stabbed another man he had given a ride home from a bar, think­ing his pas­sen­ger had swapped a bag of tacos for his har­mon­i­cas.  Sara­sota County deputies said Bruce Richard Hood, 52, agreed to give a man a ride home from a bar Sat­ur­day, and the pas­sen­ger bought a bag of food from Taco Bell dur­ing the trip.  The pas­sen­ger told deputies he acci­den­tally grabbed the wrong bag as he got out of the vehi­cle, and Hood fol­lowed him and demanded the return of his har­mon­i­cas.  Hood allegedly stabbed the man in the wrist and chest.  Deputies said they found the bag of tacos still inside the vehi­cle.  Hood was jailed on an aggra­vated bat­tery with a deadly weapon charge.  He was ordered held in lieu of $25,000 bail.

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