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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat May 20, 2017, 02:46 PM May 2017

Florida Man strikes again

MAY 20, 2017 10:00 AM
Bible-quoting whip-its fan attacks musician with whipped cream container, cops say
BY GWEN FILOSA

Three weeks after Terry Backus allegedly stomped a homeless man while inhaling “whip-its,” he used a commercial grade metal container to strike a 76-year-old man in the head, police say.

Backus, a self-styled Bible-quoting preacher from North Carolina, admitted to Key West Police Officer Carter Sims he indeed struck Mustafa Abadal-Khallaq Tuesday afternoon while in a small park at 200 Front St. in Truman Annex. Backus was booked on a charge of felony aggravated battery.

“He spoke of God and how he was a holy man, etc.,” Sims wrote.

A witness said Backus struck Abadal-Khallaq in the head with the container and was “ranting about Jesus Christ the savior and how this was his world,” Sims wrote.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article151702022.html#storylink=cpy

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Florida Man strikes again (Original Post) n2doc May 2017 OP
Jacksonville Man here calls Bullshit. That guy's from North Carolina. NightWatcher May 2017 #1
What the hell is wrong with some people??? Stuart G May 2017 #2
it's part of the onethatcares May 2017 #4
surprised bystanders didn't beat the shit... dhill926 May 2017 #3
inhaling whip-its,".....???? dixiegrrrrl May 2017 #5
Please read the article GulfCoast66 May 2017 #6

Stuart G

(38,427 posts)
2. What the hell is wrong with some people???
Sat May 20, 2017, 02:57 PM
May 2017

Why?...If the bible says..."Thou Shalt Not Kill"....then why does this fellow so called "holy man" hit someone else in the head with a container...and rant about whose world it is...(oh, if we could talk to Jesus, I doubt that he would approve of this kind of behavior...


dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
5. inhaling whip-its,".....????
Sat May 20, 2017, 10:08 PM
May 2017

That's a new one.

edited to add: google to the rescue:
Small canisters of compressed nitrous oxide intended for cooking and baking purposes, which are inhaled for a momentary high.


"They're cheap, fun, and increasingly popular. They can also give you frostbite on your face or even kill you"
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/22/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-whip-its

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