Posted on 01/13/2009 11:01:53 AM PST by Michael.SF.
When 26-year-old Edward Pluhar Jr. decided to walk past the people waiting in line at Walmart's customer service desk over the weekend, he probably didn't expect one of the men he dissed to confront him over it. What he and his father really didn't expect, however, was for the guy to be an off-duty police officer who doesn't appreciate being threatened.
The police officer [Chris Kirby] told Pluhar Jr. he needed to wait his turn, but the Frankfort man purportedly refused.
[His father, 61-year-old Edward R. Pluhar Sr.,] then allegedly approached the off-duty officer, told him to mind his own business and asked whether Kirby wanted to take the dispute outside.
When Kirby asked Pluhar Sr. what his intentions were, the Frankfort man purportedly said he would kick Kirby's posterior and also suggested he might shoot him.
Kirby then informed the father and son that he was a police officer and called emergency dispatchers to send an on-duty officer to the scene.
SCROAT n. (skrōt) Sth. Pacific Eng. A pejorative term describing a filthy, low and despicable person of criminal and immoral inclinations. (Origin unclear, likely an abbreviated variation on scrotum, used to describe that most unflattering part of the male anatomy. Usage most common in Australia, New Zealand and to some extent in England.)
Queue jumpers deserve nothing but the harshest measures in my view as an Englishman. In fact, if there was any justice, these men would then be taken from a lawful prison, to a place of execution were they shall be hanged by the neck until they are dead. Following which their remains shall be divided into quarters and hung in chains in queues all around the country, as a warning to others who would dare to commit this disgraceful crime....
“Scrote” is a very popular word used amongst police officers in the UK to describe some of the ‘customers’ they deal with. Obviously, not in the presence of their bosses.
Then again, half of them seem to be making plans to relocate to Australia and New Zealand anyway, so maybe they’re just practicing the lingo....
Guilty!
I understand deceptive headlines, but I hate them anyway. They are necessary to make a nothing story something big. "Father and Son Threaten Man and are Booked and Quickly Released" would not be interesting at all.
Actually, ........oh, forget it - you would have had to be there.
Rules are for only the people that follow them. I have seen internet videos of people that have tried to intervene and they were beaten by the gorillas/scroats and people around just stoodby watching.
a greeter put his hands on an off-duty cop who didn’t submit to an illegal bag search. so the cop pushed the greeter from what i understand.
Great job Officer Kirby.
Punk got PUNKED!
“...mind his own business ...”
“Sir, your attempt to take advantage of my good nature IS “my business”!
I’d have sized up my odds before determining whether to “detain” him, or call for back-up.
We need more stories like this.
People are too afraid to confront bullies nowadays.
Congrats Officer!
Someone buy that man a donut!
Idiot used the “S” word, he had it coming.
I would have guessed the English part, just for the, "queue jumpers".
I think their redneck got them in trouble.
I wish he had shot the hell out of the old bastard and tazed the bastard son he schooled to be an a**-hole. Low-lifes like this give WallyWorld a bad name.
Reap it Pluhar boys. Reap it
I actually did this once...
Some guy (looking like some tough, gangbanger wannabe saggy-pants punk) in a crowded grocery store cut 2 people ahead of where I was. Quite loudly, I called, “End of the line’s back there. Would ya mind not cutting and wait in line like all of the REST of us have been waiting?”
This alerted all in our line, the next lines and everyone within earshot to what was happening, and they all started saying the same thing to him (Strength in numbers).
Eventually, he left and didn’t purchase a thing.
Might’ve stolen something, though...
(grin!) “Scroat” or “Scrote” is one of those wonderfully descriptive abusive terms which really requires no further explanation once used: I probably didn’t need to define it for anybody to know that it isn’t a very nice thing to call anyone. It certainly is never used as a compliment, not even amongst — well — Scroats.
While not a swear, it is actually quite a bit more abusive than most swears — in fact, the only swear that trumps it is the C-word. And even then, not really...
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