Ya think?

The Vega avoids the e-z-snark of writing "Bobo's World" every time there's a news story out of one of the red states that shows a certain perverse...backwardness. This one, though, was a tough one to lay off of.

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo., Dec. 26 (AP) - A woman who the police thought had tried to swallow her cellphone in an argument with her boyfriend last week was apparently the victim of an assault, the authorities said.

The police have a suspect in the incident, which sent the woman to a hospital, Sgt. Allen Kintz said. The police would not discuss what they believe happened. "It appears she didn't voluntarily swallow this phone," Sergeant Kintz said.

Early Friday, the police responded to a call from a man who said his girlfriend was having trouble breathing. Officers arrived to find the woman with a phone lodged in her throat.

The police were at first told that the boyfriend wanted the phone and the woman tried to swallow it.

What makes it "Bobo's World" is that it took a few days to come to the conclusion that, perhaps, she wasn't engaged in a telephonic version of "Deep Throat."

CORRECTED to avoid the confusion of "red" for "blue."