Posted on 03/20/2007 9:54:24 PM PDT by Hi Heels
Before I even begin, please refrain from the patent pending "what do you expect if you live in California" crap. I expect to live as an American just like you.
Two things have happened over the last year that have really spoken to me. I live at the foot of the Reagan Library. It's a conservative area. Votes GOP in nearly every election. Average income in the low $80K.
The first thing was at a Vons store. A gigantic black green beret was behind me in line. I mention his race and size only because in Simi Valley there are very few Gigantic (and I'm talking huge) black green berets buying oatmeal in Vons. In fact, Simi is pretty white bread. I said, "you go ahead, I have a lot." He kindly refused. I insisted. So he went ahead. The person in front of him insisted he go ahead as well. Then the person in front of that person insisted until the soldier was at the front of the line. He put down his purchases (oatmeal and fruit) and the checker rang him up. Two people raced across the store to scan their own debit cards to pay for his purchases. Hand shakes and thank yous all around. Makes me cry to think of it.
Friday morning I pull into a gas station. I'm in my pj's because I have minor surgery that day and am taking my 16 year old daughter to school. I put the pump into the tank and start the machine. A man comes up behind me and says, "so, how's that vote working for you". I respond, "I beg your pardon?" He says, "your vote, your bumper sticker (Bush Cheney 2004). How's that working for you?" "It's working just fine, thank you," I said and turned away. "You Bushbots are all the same. You don't want to hear the truth. Now people are dying over there," he YELLED. "People died under Clinton, too, pal, in fact had he finished the job instead of getting a "job" in the oval office, we wouldn't have had to go back," I retorted. I turned back to my car and he grabbed my shoulder and turned me around. "Take your hands off me," I said. "There were no weapons of mass destruction and Bush lied....." he started until I shook his hand off my shoulder. "You attack a 50 year old woman in her pajamas at a gas station over a bumpersticker. That's pretty damn low even for a liberal," I said. "What?" he said, "I was only asking you a question."
At this point my daughter starts out of the car going "mooommmm???" (She's a red belt) "Get back in the car," I told her. Then I got in the car, too and we started to leave. As I was leaving he was standing in the gas station yelling "Sieg Heil" and giving me the Nazi salute.
I got a picture of his license plate and filed a complaint at the gas station and at the police station.
Seems the Constitution only applies if you're a liberal. My blood pressure was so high when I got to the hospital they wouldn't even operate. But if the police find this man, he's getting a lesson in civil and criminal court.
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Sounds like another case of BDS, or maybe he needs his medication adjusted.
Gonna get his wallet adjusted.
LOL! Good.
Ah. Sounds like you ran into Nancy Pelosi's son.
Never ran across a lib like that, though.
Too bad I wasn't standing by pumping gas at the next pump back - the guy's nose would still be bleeding.
I'm glad you're okay. We're not quite playing against an opponent with a full deck anymore.
Some leftist Googled my FR screenname and started harrassing me via e-mail. Being an American, I've taken matters into my own hands, but, if it continues, I will reluctantly call higher authorities into the mix.
He touched you, and verbally yealled at you. Technically thats assault. Call the cops!
Woo-Hoo for the first part and GOOD on you for following through! What a cretin. Make him sorry.
A 'good for you' bump! Keep us updated! Me thinks he messed with the wrong lady!
As you have invoked the Second Civil War and I am co-keeper of the Civil War II ping list, I hereby perform the required CWII ping.
One of John Edwards' new bloggers. Pay him no mind.
:O)
Just checking, for those in Rio Linda, the man in the first story and the man in the second story are not the same.
As for the first, I've not seen the paying for meals yet, but I've tried to go up to the servicepeople I see at the airport, to shake their hand, tell them how much they mean to us, and to really support what they do.
As for the second, and I am not trying to be facetious...how much damage can a red belt inflict? I think that guy should be lucky that he still has knees. Cause someone comes up on a woman and her red belt daughter like that, this American is pulling out a highly pressurized good ol chivalrous can of industrial strength whoop ass on that creep.
(sorry...whoop arse).
Hope you get that surgery in...can someone take you next time? Preferably a male that can spit nails? Seriesly...that would be hugh, and said creep would be pwn3d.
Next time, get dressed. ;^)
Call the Police! File a complaint!
Heck no. Next time I'm going buck naked and scare him to death.
Please add me, if you don't mind, at your convenience.
""You attack a 50 year old woman in her pajamas at a gas station over a bumpersticker. That's pretty damn low even for a liberal," I said. "What?" he said, "I was only asking you a question.""
Way to go...!!!
You reminded me of an instance when I was working in L.A., ran out of gas once and had to drive seemingly MILES into the Watts area to find a gas pump...
While I was preparing to pump my gas...a rather LARGE person of "ethnic" persuasion came over to me, scowled, and "offered" to pump my gas....with, of course the intent of scamming me for a "tip"...
So, I pulled the nozzle out of the car, pulled a butane lighter out of my pocket, turned so he was in easy "squirting" range...and sai, "WHAT did you say...???"
Now, I'm over 6 feet and this guy was HUGE and not the "physics professor" sort....
He took one LOOK at the situation before him..and my idiotic SMILE...and,
Said, "You a CRAZY MoFo"....to which I just nodded....
He left...with his eyes as big as dinner plates...!!!
I went inside to pay and the Korean owners of the convenience store were literally COWERING behind the counter...once they calmed down,
I found out this guy had been terrorizing customers for two days at that location and the owners were beside themselves that someone had stood up to him.
I called the cops on their phone and gave a description,etc.
[The WEIRD thing was that I don't smoke and I had just "accidentally" picked up that lighter earlier...]
Just a thought if you're ever caught off guard and feeling "threatened" in a gas station.....
He touched you, that's assault. I'd also consider it a "hate crime." Just like a leftist to give a Hitler salute, especially one whom supports the terrorists.
And this moron's coup de grace, he needs it explained to him that under a winner-take-all Electoral College system, your vote for a GOP President was worthless in a state the rodents have carried since 1992. My vote in TN put Dubya in office, yours couldn't.
Liberals have behaved in such a way that I assume they are floridly psychotic.File a complaint with the police. In all likelihood, the station had a security camera for insurance purposes, and the police can get the film..
He actually uttered the term "Bushbots"?
Maybe he was a FReeper Giuliani supporter?
:O)
He was just displaying his true beliefs, since Hitler was a National Socialist and all.
Whaddya bet this moron attacker is a public school teacher (or university prof) ?
I was pretty startled to hear that, too. But that's exactly what he said.
It's a hate crime too because he hates her political beliefs but unlike religious or SEXUAL beliefs, political beliefs are not protected from harassment and physical violence by special laws.
I say get the FEC on this. It is voter intimidation and I don't give a damn that we are not in an election season. It is the same type of threat.
Good post!
The world is insane. But touching you is out of line and considered an assault.
Shooting him with gas and scrambling for a lighter would have been justifiable!
(Glad you're OK)
Sock it to him.
Good retorts. Congrats.
God be with you.
"Whaddya bet this moron attacker is a public school teacher"
And that was necessary why?
As I drove down the street I could see him following me, and he turned into a strip mall. I dropped my daughter off at school and then swung back to the mall to find the van. If I had seen him, I was going to call the cops right then and there. That's when I took the picture of his license plate. Judging from where he parked, I'd say he works at the mall or doesn't work at all. It was after school started for the day 8:30ish when I took the picture. The police report has been filed.
If I had been there, I would have been pounding on him from Olsen Rd all the way to T.O. Blvd : )
Man, why can't that ever happen to me? I'd love to have an excuse to kick ass on one of these fools. Two years ago when I was in college I wrote "Free Iraq, Nuke France" on my backpack, just to see if I could get someone to give me crap. Instead, all I got was a bunch of people telling me how awesome that was.
He assaulted her when he yelled at her and she felt threatened. When he touched her, he added battery to the charge.
Knee in balls next time. Glad you are OK.
Assault and battery (according to some lawyers who I know). Assualt occured when he made her feel threatened and battery ocurred when he touched her.
Regardless, this guy has a flippin' screw loose and the situation could have been worse. Thankfully, she was not injured. Gads, there are some whackos out there.
Kick ass story. Nice use of the terrain too. Of course it was your attitude that made it happen.
That would not surprise me in the least.
One of the large Maglites also does the trick...
If you see him again, ask him what his screen-name is here! And then ask if "Viking Kitties" or "Buckhead" means anything to him. :O)
As you have invoked the Second Civil War and I am co-keeper of the Civil War II ping list, I hereby perform the required CWII ping.
Can I be on the Civil War Two Ping list too?
Civil War II: The Coming Breakup of America
by Thomas W. Chittum
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Hey AAC, good to see you. Maglight between the ears!
Just for the record...
I WAS gonna do it...I was just hoping he wouldn't stand TOO close to my car.....!!!
[hee hee]
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