A mother ’s love knows no bounds. Almost. Eat her popcorn and that gentle woman can become a blood-lusting hellcat, and thank God Orville Redenbacher wasn’t alive to see this. What may well have just been an incidental act to Marko Rajic Leposava was clearly a very big deal to the woman who brought him into the world.

The 21-year-old Clackamas County, Oregon, man says his drunk mother, Lepa, flew into a rage when he ate some of her popcorn. She smacked the bowl out of his hands and then demanded he clean the mess. Marko refused and went to his room. His private bliss, however, was soon interrupted when mom stormed in wielding a knife and looking to slash some sense into him.

Detective Jim Strovink says officers arrived to find Marko with “substantial knife wounds” to his hands and face. With Lepa carted off to jail, Marko told police his biggest concern was how Mom would react to his having bled through one of her towels.

» Scott Saxon