Elderly Minnesota man suffers facial fractures in beating after road rage incident

Fox News ^ | March 4, 2018 | Robert Gearty

[familyop]

“Had enough?” the much younger attacker asked the victim after pummeling him for more than a minute, deputies said. The victim, who was not identified, sustained multiple face fractures and several lacerations requiring many stitches in the Friday evening attack in East Bethel. AmyJane Johnson, of St. Paul, Minn., identified herself on Facebook as the victim’s daughter-in-law and said he was 71.

[TXnMA]

“More often” doesn’t cut it. If you can carry, ALWAYS carry. (Advice from an armed, trained, and practicing octogenerian...)

[Does so]

many seem to have strength much longer than other attributes, like agility

Yeah? Watch us run...

:-/

[mewzilla]

Haven't caught him yet. Description at link, FWIW...

Help Sought Finding Road Rage Suspect Who Attacked Elderly Driver

The perp followed the vic home? You'd think surveillance cams along the route would have picked up the car and possibly the perp...

[mewzilla]

And, sounds awful, but since the attack took place at the vic’s residence, I’d rule out the vic’s family...

[Does so]

self driving ( level 4 ) cars can’t arrive soon enough

Agreed!

[OldNukeDaddy]

Generally true, but I read that the actor, and marine, Gene Hackman dispatched two young bucks in a road rage incident when he was in his seventies.

[Shane]

Excellent advice!

[carcraft]

When I was about 17 we had an old guy move to town, he was in his late 60’s. Still liked to fight and he could hand out a hot dish of whop ass in a heart beat. Got black listed in most bars. He had been a professional wrestler, boxer etc. some wise guy would start in on gramps trying to look good. Gramps would have enough at some point and that was it.

[Sooth2222]

self driving ( level 4 ) cars can’t arrive soon enough

That's likely to increase road rage incidents, since self-driving cars obey any and all traffic laws exactly.

How often do you find yourself being tailgated by some doofus because you're only driving 5 MPH over the speed limit?

Imagine what happens when our self-driving cars are always driving 1 MPH under the speed limit.

[Bryanw92]

>>That’s likely to increase road rage incidents, since self-driving cars obey any and all traffic laws exactly.

Maybe the self-driving cars will obey ALL the laws and keep right except to pass.

[Mopp4]

I hear you. At my age I ain’t risking “figuring it out”. Shoot until the threat is eliminated. Then we can figure it out.

Well said! I'm old enough too that the jury is going to hear how I feared for my life and didn't have any choice.

[\/\/ayne]

Gene Hackman's fender bender leads to fisticuffs

On busy Sunset Blvd., Hackman rear-ended a Volvo station wagon whose driver cut him off (or so Hackman’s spokesman claims). The other driver got out of his car and into Hackman’s face. They exchanged heated words until the other driver used an anti-gay epithet. That’s when the 71-year-old actor slugged him, getting in a half-dozen blows before the Volvo passenger kneed him in the groin, dropping Hackman to the ground.

[rlmorel]

Heh, we have had a woodchuck tearing up our yard, and I don’t have a dog and can’t shoot it where I live, so...I planned to ambush it with a wrist rocket slingshot.

Frikking thing is so wily and surprisingly quick for such a flat, blubbery looking creature, though, getting myself in a position to get off a shot involves making a mad dash to get line of sight on his exit route and shoot just as he gets there.

Kind of a “Head em’ off at that pass” approach!

Well, my wife was watching me through a window, and when I opened the door and sprinted to the point where the woodchuck was going to squeeze under the fence, my wife’s mouth fell open!

It had been many years since I have run full speed, and I didn’t stop to think if I could do it...she just said “I had no idea you could run that fast!”

[Ambrosia]

Why not use a rat trap? Or is it too large?

[\/\/ayne]

The police could stop a lot of road raging before it starts by using unmarked cars to film road rage drivers. Then just identify by license plate and send them a ticket. Stop light cameras are a scam but human controlled are legit in my opinion. The officer can show up to court and testify as to what he filmed.

Road ragers get away with freaking out on the road so often some eventually take it a step further to attack.

And road ragers are not always a "bad person" in other situation. Seems like getting in a car changes perspectives. I know one that was a pillar of the community and my friend at church. I prayed for his driving specifically and was shocked one day to see he got rid of his fast car and changed his driving habits. I shouldn't have been shocked that prayer worked.

[mewzilla]

Self-Driving Cars Will Kill People. Who Decides Who Dies?

[polymuser]

Surprisingly, purple MN has straightforward CC, clear bg check and be trained.

Going to be more CC permits after this. Thug punks are going push things to lead solutions.

[Vaquero]

In my early 20s (early 70s) I was on a 2 lane 30 mpg road. Me on a 350 Honda. Middle of the lane. Right turn signal on. A car blasts past me on the shoulder of the road at around 50 almost creaming me. I followed him up to the next light…planted my right foot on the ground and repeatedly kicked the passenger door with my left, till it dented in. I then popped it into gear and drove off to a cacophony of a horn blowing. F

[Vaquero]

Mph not mpg.

[dp0622]

Lol great story. I’m not a bat guy :-) Any guy coming to me with fists, okay. I see a bat and I lock the front door LOL. And even with fists, I have to remind myself that I am not a twenty-something boxer anymore but a 49 year-old donut eater LOL