Posted on 12/05/2005 8:13:08 PM PST by Will_Zurmacht
Mirecki hospitalized after beating
By Ron Knox, Eric Weslander (Contact)
Originally published 05:37 p.m., December 5, 2005 Updated 06:31 p.m., December 5, 2005
Douglas County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the reported beating of a Kansas University professor who gained recent notoriety for his Internet tirades against Christian fundamentalists.
Kansas University religious studies professor Paul Mirecki reported he was beaten by two men about 6:40 a.m. today on a roadside in rural Douglas County. In a series of interviews late this afternoon, Mirecki said the men who beat him were making references to the controversy that has propelled him into the headlines in recent weeks. Mirecki
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“I didn’t know them, but I’m sure they knew me,” he said.
Mirecki said he was driving to breakfast when he noticed the men tailgating him in a pickup truck.
“I just pulled over hoping they would pass, and then they pulled up real close behind,” he said. “They got out, and I made the mistake of getting out.”
He said the men beat him about the upper body with their fists, and he said he thinks they struck him with a metal object. He was treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
“I’m mostly shaken up, and I got some bruises and sore spots,” he said.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Officials are classifying the case as an aggravated battery. They wouldn’t say exactly where the incident happened, citing the ongoing investigation
The sheriff’s department is looking for the suspects, described as two white males between ages 30 and 40, one wearing a red visor and wool gloves, and both wearing jeans. They were last seen in a large pickup truck.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 843-TIPS or the sheriff’s office at 841-0007.
Mirecki recently wrote online that he planned to teach intelligent design as mythology in an upcoming course. He wrote it would be a “nice slap” in the “big fat face” of fundamentalists.
The remarks caused an uproar, Mirecki apologized, and KU announced last week the class would be canceled.
Nyuh-uh! This one stinks to high heaven.
Hey, you with the sensible, rational commentary. Cut that out. < g >
Carl Eller.
You're right of course. I'll just get back to what I know best, posting unpleasant, condescending, arrogant flames against poor creationists who stumble unwitting into crevo debates. I'll make them regret they ever mentioned the cambrian explosion or the 2LOT, and slap their big fat faces with the power of my godless rhetoric.
Oh... wait... what are you two guys holding that tyre iron looking at me like that for?
"Cause and effect. "Nature" takes it's course."
You just can't stop gloating over this man's beating, can you?
Not very Christian of you.
"Who wants to take bets that this turns out to be phony?"
It sounds like it. It would take a serious wuss to beat someone with a metal object and for them to only get away with scrapes and bruises.
It also has too many hokey references. A pickup truck? Two white males? He is looking to make the "stupid rednecks want to fight instead of talk" ploy.
If it did happen, I hope they jail whoever did it. But my bet is on that this is a staged event.
And, we musn't forget, another icon of liberal ideologies, where the end justifies the means.....WARD CHURCHILL, the non-Native American Indian, Native American. : )
This is a miserable thread. If any thread belongs in the Smokey Backroom, this one does.
I thought that great satire; akin to the SNL skit w/ Steve Martin as a smart caveman and Bill Murray as a Neanderthal. Steve makes fun of Bill, is real witty. Then Bill bashes him with a rock. That's just evolution in action, isn't it?
Those ID zealots are always found in red pickups. But profiling restrictions are hampering police efforts. /s
Yup
I also thought of that one instantly
The Klintoons took it to an art form
Oh my goodness! You found a blogger who was less than credible. I'm astonished!
Puhleeeeaaaaasssseeee.
You've smoked me out. Before the redcoats return to establish Divinely Rightful Rule over the rebellious colonists we have first sent spies to forment dispute and chaos, by faking attacks on prominent controversial citizens.
MUWHAHAHAHAHA!!!! All Hail Charles III, Emperor of America!
Yup
Pansy "Brawls" himself
You're right about that. The "national surrogates" need to work on being a little less transparent with their biased reporting.
The man's a liar.
He bought one of those Clapper thingies to turn his lights on and off and one night, while returning home from grocery shopping, he opened the door, the Clapper turned the lights on, he dropped a can of Pork&Beans, the lights went off, he tripped over the fallen can, spilled the rest of his groceries, and the Clapper turned the lights back on.
He's just too proud to admit it.
Imposing a "King Billy" on the Irish Catholic Americans might be seen as unduly provocative.
99% of them woudn't know who King Billy was. ;-)
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