Posted on 01/15/2011 5:16:42 AM PST by csvset
A man wielding a metal pipe attacked a truckload of beer being delivered to a west side grocery store Friday afternoon, destroying about $2,000 worth of suds, police and witnesses said.
While whacking at the cases of canned beer, the attacker scolded the deliverymen for bringing what he called poison into his neighborhood.
Not everyone walking past Mid-Town Groceries at the time agreed with the man's characterization of the beer.
Several passers-by helped themselves to some of the cases of beer as a deliveryman tried to talk the man into putting the pipe down.
"He beat on the beer for about a half hour," said Nirmal Singh, owner of Mid-Town at N. 27th and W. Wells streets.
"Then he got tired and sat down against the wall and waited for the police," Singh said. "He was breathing hard."
Police said the incident began about 3 p.m. when the 32-year-old man approached the deliverymen and ordered them to stop the delivery.
When they ignored him, the man began swinging a metal pipe, estimated by Singh to be several feet long and about 2 inches in diameter, to smash cases of canned beer stacked on several hand trucks in front of the store.
"The guy just started busting up the beer," Singh said. "It was all over the place.
"Everybody was stopping their cars to watch, wondering what was going on."
It took the deliverymen several hours to clean up after the battered cans of brew. The smell of yeast still hung over the entrance of the store Friday evening.
Police said several people stole beer from the truck. The attacker was in custody Friday night.
"Nothing like this has ever happened here," said Singh, who has operated the store about 13 years and estimated the product loss at about $2,000.
"No robberies, no nothing until this."
"He beat on the beer for about a half hour,"
The cops must have been on lunch break?
Couple of videos at the link.
Just out or curiosity, where did this happen?
Did anyone think to call the police?
MUSLIM
Milwaukee.
That area is known for guns, crack and prostitution.
Beer is the least of its problems.
Milwaukee
Singh is a sikh name - most likely just a nut.
Oh my God! The humanity!
That's against the law in Texas.
That could get you life without parole.
He must have been very thirsty.
Alcohol abuse - most definitely - beating on the cans.....LOL
You have to remember, this is the same Milwaukee PD that found a 14 year old who had escaped from Jeffrey Dahmer, yet they turned the boy back over to Dahmer, laughing about it, thinking that they were gay lovers.
The 14 year old was subsequently killed by Dahmer. The cop was fired , yet rehired and elected head of the Milwaukee Police Association.
Singh was the store owner, not the nutcase smashing the beer.
Sounded like maybe it was a couple of utes at the Sack n’ Suds!
Sounded like maybe it was a couple of utes at the Sack n’ Suds!
If all of what you say is true, it is amazing. Why do citizens sit still for that?
Read again. Singh is the guy who owns the grocery store, not the nut
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