Brigitte Get Your Gun

In which the TNoftheAWSPWTBIM moves from our "hooved animals in police custody" theme to our "teens misbehaving" theme.*

Conference or no conference, I could not stand to skip this week's Thursday News of the Absurd Will Someone Please Write This Book Inspirational Moment (TNoftheAWSPWTBIM).

Sometimes, I have to search high and wide for odd news that's appropriate. Sometimes, the news inspires a question in me that is unrelated to the actual story (like Tank on the Lam). This week the story jumped up and hit me in the head from the headline alone:

From Reuters:

Teen Girl's Bank Robbing Days Over

Apparently, French police arrested a 16 year-old girl who "played a crucial role in six previous bank robberies since the beginning of July, threatening staff with a gun to force them to open security doors to let in two or three masked accomplices."

Wow. Will someone please write me this book? Not the story of how a 16 year-old girl falls in with a crowd of bank robbers. Meh. Too serious. I want a first person girl-led adventure story in the voice of a French Annie Oakley. I want dopey co-robbers and men who don't think she can best them until she shoots their berets** off. And I want a satisfying reason she lets herself get caught in the end (because they'd never catch her if she didn't let them).

And after you write it, I want a cut of the movie rights. But I can't think who could play Brigitte. Hmm...***

* Just think of the poor souls who are going to google "teens misbehaving" and end up here. Serves them right. Heh heh.
** Yes, I am aware that not everyone in France wears berets. But I like the image.
*** ...much fight urge to spend all the time allotted for revising today playing around on internet casting movie of book nobody has written...