A friend gives a gas driller an attitude adjustment...

[markpkessinger]

A friend of mine, whom I've known since I was a child and who still lives in the town in PA in which I grew up (an area that is Ground Zero for the Marcellus shale fracking that is going on) posted this on Facebook yesterday:

Just had an interesting experience while getting gas at Sheetz.....One of our inbred "drillinators" pulled up behind an elderly lady beside me ane started screaming obcenities at her for "taking HIS place in line"! Well, the Scot-Irish in me boiled over and I went and confronted the young man. He mouthed off to me and I noticed he didn't have his seatbelt on, so I simply pulled him out of his truck, and needless to say, this old fart has bloody knuckles and knees! A small crowd developed, and someone asked if I wanted him to call 911. For whatever reason I asked the young lad (from Texas....nothing against Texans), who had, by then, blood about his mouth and nose, if HE wanted anyone to call 911. At that point he stood up, brushed himself off, and said "no" then proceeded to apologize to me and the elderly woman, and the people around him for his actions in a very gentlemanly manner. Apparently his momma did something right!

LOL! Love it!

[dems_rightnow]

1. Your friend

.... is a violent ass, and a blowhard.

[markpkessinger]

2. No, he isn't --

He is someone who abhors violence. It just happens that he abhors disrespect even more.

[dems_rightnow]

3. If he pulls people out of trucks

and beats them up for talking rudely...... yeah, he's violent.

But please don't tell him I posted this.

[markpkessinger]

5. You are assuming this is something this guy normally does ...

... I can assure you it is not.

[HuckleB]

9. So, you think it's ok if people only pull people out of vehicles and pound on them now and then?

[daaron]

12. Ayup. Definitely. nt

[LanternWaste]

30. That's is, to you, either the only or the most obvious inference you can make?

"So, you think it's ok if people only pull people...:

That's is, to you, either the only or the most obvious inference you can make from the OP's responses?

[HuckleB]

37. Yawn.

[_ed_]

34. So he doesn't commit assault "normally?"

Is he not merciful?

Sorry, but this is all made up. Post proof of this or stop lying.

[markpkessinger]

4. I should add...

... that there is a bit of a back story to this. Seems there have been a LOT of tensions between the frackers and the folks who happen to live in the area the frackers are destroying.

[Zalatix]

35. I figured that much from the start. Lots of tempers boiling over, I imagine.

Me, if I were a witness, I would say I didn't see your pal throw the first punch.

[FreeJoe]

6. Awkward

I hate rude people, but responding to someone being rude by getting violent and bloodying them is not the answer I'd prefer. I hate to say it, but the "he was mouthing off, so I used violence to get him to behave" meme is something that I associate with the right, not the left.

[Earth_First]

7. Pardon me for not cheerleading the violence...

You and your friend do not sound like any friends of mine.

The friends of mine were at Riverdale TP peacefully creating roadblocks and refusing eviction.

This sounds like the thuggery of the 30's and 40's to me...

[Flatulo]

15. How does one peacefully create a roadblock?

Isn't this denying people the right of free passage? What if a diabetic needs to get to his or her meds and gets sick because of the peaceful roadblock?

[jwirr]

8. What made him think there was a place in line with his name on it?

[obliviously]

10. Of course he did.

[Fla_Democrat]

11. When he gets a little time..

tell him to visit Florida. There's a lot of rude people down here he can snatch out of their vehicle.

[jtuck004]

13. Good for him. Tell him thank you for me. Cowardly bullies need not be tolerated, and sometimes

that is the only language they understand.

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. Posts like this raise a red flag for me...

They just make the needle on my BS meter wiggle a little, ya know? Not questioning your veracity here because after all, this was posted on Facebook. But whoever wrote it definitely left some things open to question. To wit:

How did this self-proclaimed "old fart" know the rude person was an "inbred drillinator"?

Is this self-proclaimed "old fart" in the habit of approaching young men he finds rude and getting agressive with them to the point of INITIATING a physical confrontation? Pretty dumb thing to do in the current environment, don't you think?

How did he know the young man was from Texas?

So this self-proclaimed "old fart" not only bloodied his mouth and nose, but knocked him on his ass ("at that point he stood up, brushed himself off&quot as well? That's a pretty tough "old fart".

Lastly, I surely would have called 911 and reported an assault had I been there. I would have waited until authorities arrived and pointed out the "old fart" who pulled a young man out of his truck and assaulted him without provocation.

[classof56]

18. Well said.

You hit all the points that came to my mind. One of the things that troubles me about this mindset is the fact that the "old fart" felt inclined and even more, justified to engage in what I consider a totally uncalled for reaction. Perhaps the young man's display of anger was also uncalled for, but it's just flat disturbing the number of incidents lately that are in response to fairly benign situations, and the awful consequences. Trayvon Martin comes to mind...

Peace. Oh, and blessings.

[elehhhhna]

38. My hubs and brothers are HUUUGH

and they could pull someone out a car window I'm sure. But they'd just yell "Hey! Apologize!" with their chicago accents, while making their patented crazyface mad guy looks, and it would have worked out nicely.

[47of74]

26. The Internets are full of stories like this...

...usually by idiot teabaggers living in their mother's basement about what big time tough guys they are.

Like I said, the Internets are full of stories, all following the same common theme. The ones about how they beat up on minorities, gays, non-Christians, etc. These stories go on to say the people around him cheered, the police refused to take any action against the guy who assaulted the other person, and so on.

[LanternWaste]

32. Indeed-- one may suppose that the only thing in greater number

Indeed-- one may suppose that the only thing in greater number than the original allegations and stories are the numbers implying disbelief in those allegations and stories.

[Skidmore]

28. Mine too.

BS meter is very high.

[Flatulo]

16. If this had happened in Florida, your friend could have perfectly legally

been shot dead on the spot.

Pulling people out of cars is really, really, dumb.

[AtheistCrusader]

17. Sounds like your friend likes to tell tales.

[MineralMan]

19. Cool story, dude...

[guss]

20. driller

He should of done the non violent way. tazed him, pepper spray him then throw him in confinement

[harmonicon]

21. Clearly, violence can solve all problems.

The next time someone's rude to me or someone I know, I guess I should just hit them. I can't see anything but good coming from that.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

22. Maintaining your cool is hard to do.

It's called self control.

[HopeHoops]

23. That's fracked up.

[Orrex]

24. First of all, I call bullshit

I live in western PA, ground zero for Marcellus shale fracking, and this would have certainly made the news if it had actually happened. But not a peep about it so far, unless you can provide a link. So... Bullshit.

Second, even if it's true, it proves only that your friend is a dangerous asshole who should be locked up. Bad enough that he claims to have assaulted someone without real provocation; he actually seems to derive pleasure from it.

You should pick friends who know how to behave like human beings.



Mind you, I'm not accusing you of lying; I'm confident that you're faithfully relating a story that you read. I'm calling your friend a liar.

[noamnety]

25. Not a big fan of assault. (nt)

[snooper2]

27. Nice tale, come back to us when you have the guys name and town he lives in

LOL...

[Ikonoklast]

29. I call bullshit on your friend.

Never happened, not even close.


But, Cool Story, Bro!

[L0oniX]

31. It's called "battery" and it would get you a mug shot here in Florida.

[_ed_]

33. Your friend should be arrested for assault

Pulling people out of trucks and assaulting them for some kind of verbal offense is antisocial behavior in the extreme. Your friend should be arrested and put behind bars.

Frankly, I think you or someone else made this entire thing up. Prove that this even happened.

[deaniac21]

36. Assault and battery. It's a shame we don't all do it!