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Last updated on August 5th, 2017 at 04:09 am
A robbery averted:
Bill Barnes says he was scratching off a losing $2 lottery ticket inside a gas station when he felt a hand slip into his front-left pants pocket, where he had $300 in cash.
He immediately grabbed the person’s wrist with his left hand and started throwing punches with his right, landing six or seven blows before a store manager intervened.
“I guess he thought I was an easy mark,” Barnes, 72, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story Tuesday.
He’s an ex-Marine, former Golden Gloves boxer, and a retired iron worker. The thief may as well have thrown himself in front of freeway traffic.
Mr. Barnes is a tough man, being a former Marine and all.
The only “ex-Marine” that I know of is John “Full Retreat” Murtha. He ain’t anywhere near the same class as Mr. Barnes.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 27 at 12:34 PM • permalink
I think Heinlein said it best, in The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress: “Never tease an old dog, they might still have one bite left.”
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 06 27 at 12:42 PM • permalink
Kent County sheriff’s deputies said the store manager quickly came around the counter. The three of them struggled through the front door, where two witnesses said the manager slammed Rae to the ground and held him there.
“There was blood everywhere,” said another manager on duty, Abby Ostrom, 25.
Sometimes someone will say, “You should see the other guy.” In this case, I think I would.
I hope this terrible man is arrested forthwith for assaulting this unfortunate fellow who is doubtless “depraved ‘cuz he was deprived.” What would happen if everyone took it on himself to apprehend and pummel society’s victims?
/sarcasm
Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 06 27 at 12:55 PM • permalink
- Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 06 27 at 01:00 PM • permalink
There you all go, setting yourselves up as judge, jury and executioner! This is exactly the kind of stuff that MW jumps on. Aren’t you overlooking the perfectly logical possibility that Jesse Rae was actually trying to put money into Mr. Barnes’ pocket, you know, maybe make a donation to the Marine Corps Association?
Aren’t you overlooking the perfectly logical possibility that Jesse Rae was actually trying to put money into Mr. Barnes’ pocket, you know, maybe make a donation to the Marine Corps Association?
Heh, see also an old Red Skelton gag. Caught with his hand in the pocket of another man’s coat, Skelton’s character says, “I’m just trying to keep my hand warm.” And then when asked why he has his hand on the guy’s wallet, he replies, “There’s nothing warmer than leather.”
yup, all three strikes at once…Jesse….
yyyyuuuurrrrr OUTTA here!!!
Now that I think about it, he’s lucky he didn’t get his neck broken……
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 06 27 at 01:33 PM • permalink
Jezz, just look at the guy’s photo. He looks like he could chew nails and crap steel bars.
I’ll always take the Marine in that fight.
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 06 27 at 01:41 PM • permalink
Were any doors injured in the confrontation?
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 06 27 at 01:43 PM • permalink
A mugger? Hell, that ain’t nothin’!
#22: Pioneers always are, Ash; just like you Aussies.
BTW, the bear story is via Ace of Spades, who embellishes it to hilarious effect (caution: language may not be safe for work).
paco, notice once again that they used the term “ex-marine” rather than former marine. Some of these reporters need to join the military. And great, the guy got a ticket. They probably didn’t even let him keep the bear…….
I wonder if he would have gotten the ticket if a racoon had gotten into his cooler…..
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 06 27 at 02:32 PM • permalink
I’m thinking there are three little boys by the last name of Everhart who will not be presenting Dad with any disciplinary problems into the foreseeable future.
No-one taking on the old man here….
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 06 27 at 02:34 PM • permalink
Locally a female gas station manager chased off a thief with an aluminum baesball bat. Further north two liquor store owners shot a would-be robber, who was subsequently captured after he collapsed because of his wounds.
Posted by mythusmage on 2007 06 27 at 04:18 PM • permalink
This has been out there a while, but it’s a good example of the general theme. Video and audio of 911 call, grandmother shoots intruder, shoots him again, voice of 911 operator (talking to the grandaughter) saying, “She needs to stop shooting him”.
Only thing worse than messing w/ military men is messing w/ military wives
Spill, brett. There’s got to be a story behind a comment like that.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 27 at 06:18 PM • permalink
Video and audio of 911 call, grandmother shoots intruder, shoots him again, voice of 911 operator (talking to the grandaughter) saying, “She needs to stop shooting him”.
But…that’s the way the girls are down in Texas.
Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 06 27 at 06:27 PM • permalink
Yeah, hello again Cid! I have been around, but not able to post as frequently as before – limited access in the new job. How’s yourself?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 27 at 06:50 PM • permalink
The attack happened the same weekend that an 11-year-old boy was killed by a black bear while camping in a forest in Utah. Sam Ives was found mauled to death after he was pulled screaming from his tent in the Uinta National Forest, about 30 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
Authorities said it was the first recorded fatal attack by a black bear in that state. His family said there was no food in the tent to attract a bear.
Sad postscript. They were wrong though about there being no “food” in the tent – from the bear’s point of view, anyway.
Glad to help, Cid. Are those ducks still giving you static at the golf course?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 27 at 07:08 PM • permalink
Completely O/T, but I thought y’all might enjoy some wacky Afghan AC130 antics!.
The only thing that’d be better than this would be seeing Mullah Omar have his turban peeled off by some shiela in fishnets then be repeatedly slapped on the top of his baldy head by a bloke wearing a bus conductors hat sideways.
I use to fly gliders with an old bloke called Bill,I think he was the oldest glider pilot in Australia.He was a Foward Observer in WW2,he would crawl forward under fire of the Japs to call in fire support.He hated the Japanese right up until the day he died,would not shake hands,talk even look at them when Japanese pilots were around,Everyone would say “come on Bill”. He would just grunt and look away.We used to talk alot and he would tell me about the war,I geuss coming across Aussie soldiers stripped hanging upside down being made ready to be eaten would harden your outlook on life i geuss. He was a tough grumpy old barstard, we called him john wayne because he loked like john wayne and you could not tell him anything,He would always say “Women,Kids and dogs have got no place being at a Gliding club”He was coming in to land one day in a club lebelle and decided that an instrument was more important than watching where he was going, He clipped a tree and ground looped,Everyone was, SHIT poor old Bill has gone west,When they got to him he was abusing the instrument,his shoulder smashed out one side of the cockpit and his knee the other.He was fine just a limp,the fiberglass glider was fucked,Until the day he died you could not tell him “No Bill you justed fucked up”. it was always that instrument
This appeared in the news yesterday.
A Melbourne man has been charged after he allegedly fired a shot through the front door of his Geelong East home to scare off burglars.
A number of people broke into the man’s home and cut the power.
The 43-year-old man was inside with a woman and a young girl.
He armed himself with a rifle and allegedly fired one shot through the front door towards the attempted burglars who fled the scene.
Police recovered the rifle and charged the man with conduct endangering life and firearm offences.
A group of them and they cut the power, he was inside with two girls, one a minor, so he fired a warning shot. Conduct endangering life. The lesson learnt is: if you have to defend yourself with violence in your own home then make sure the only way the buggers leave is wrapped in carpet.
#45, Habib: Completely O/T, but I thought y’all might enjoy some wacky Afghan AC130 antics!.
The only things missing were the stockings and garter belts!
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2007 06 27 at 09:56 PM • permalink
#48—Grimmy—I understand Webb has applied.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 27 at 10:13 PM • permalink
- #47:
Does this guy have a legal defense fund set up yet? I’ll give.#35 Swinish:
Just a hunch.#32:
I love it. God Bless Texas. You know I wouldn’t be telling Grandma she needs to be doing anything when she’s got herself worked up into a shootin’ mood. She’ll quit when the magazine’s empty or she’s shot her fill.
#48 Another for the list Grimmy: Charles Whitman
#32 “She needs to stop shooting him”.
Didn’t sound to me like she was out of ammo and he was still breathing, so that cease fire thing was a little premature.
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 06 28 at 01:45 AM • permalink
The Left has called for the ex-marine to be jailed for not engaging in a meaningful dialogue with his attacker….
Posted by Fast Eddie on 2007 06 28 at 02:58 AM • permalink
- IT is true, Texas women have been known to be a tough lot. My best friend’s grandmother was one such. We called her Mama Knuckles, because she always carried a set of brass knuckles in her purse. And believe me brother, she would not hesitate to use them either. Nice lady. Wicked right jab.
Talking about cantankerous old WWII vets, I had a neighbor growing up who’d been an infantry paratrooper with the 82nd ABN. He’d slugged it out through the Benelux and across Germany. I remember how he’d sit in a lawn chair, way back inside his garage, sitting in the shadows drinking beer and watching. I used to think how strange and creepy that was. Funny thing is now I feel like doing the exact same thing.
- Who says insurgencies cannot be defeated by force?
After their military defeat by regular forces, the occupied population produced terrorists who engaged in bombings, sniping, poisonings, and other attacks on occupation forces and on the civilian population. They operated as irregulars in small terror units, armed with automatic weapons and bazookas.
Women and minors as young as eight participated in the terror attacks. They attempted to build weapons of mass destruction, using chemical poisons. They assassinated officials of the occupation regime. They had a special obsession with torturing and murdering “collaborators.” They murdered hundreds of civilians, while thousands of the terrorists themselves were killed by the occupation armed forces. The occupiers responded to terror with brutality and force, sometimes using collective punishment.
The above does not refer to or describe the anti-American and anti-British terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nor does it describe Palestinian terrorism against Israel launched from the West Bank and Gaza.
What it does refer to is the campaign of terrorism directed against Allied forces in Europe in the aftermath of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
More self defense, from a citizen who refused to be a helpless victim.
#46: My dad was a Forward Artillery Observer, 29th Division, WWII. He didn’t like the Germans, but he couldn’t STAND the French.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 06 28 at 09:40 AM • permalink
BTW, video of the pickpocket beatdown is up now:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=113_1183041752
Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2007 06 28 at 03:41 PM • permalink
I hope I’m as tough when I’m 72. Damn it,I hope I’m as tough now.