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."
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Years ago I read a book about Dahmer and this particular killing was infuriating as the cops turned the boy back over to Dahmer.
The boy, Konerak Sinthasomphone, was a Laotian immigrant. Do a search. The details of the cop's failure to save this boy are gut wrenching.
A few years ago, out in Oakland , California, there were several incidents of "Black muslims" rampaging through liquor stores, spouting the same "poison" rhetoric.
I've looked at Milwaukee TV stations coverage of this incident, somehow none of the "news outlets" have reported the name of the can smasher. Odd.
Have you tried to read the thread????
That is the owner.
definately a hanging offense
Odd, eh?
I just tried scanning it all too....NOTHING.
How odd is right...They have the guy, he just had sat there until police picked him up. They can say ‘alleged”..and yet, nothing..its not a juvie.
Guess he wasn’t wearing a Tea Party or Sarah for Pres T shirt, huh? We then would have 24 -7 national coverage.
Must have been the beer that made Mal Famey walk us.
There are truly some evil people among us..............
That was my thought.
I think its funny passers bt were grabbing beer and not controlling the situation.
That’s a Grolsch waste!
Well, in one way it was funny, but in another way it was sad.
Sorry - if Singh is the owner, then this is just a case of run-of-the-mill inner city racism.
In California, the “disadvantaged” targeted Korean store owners - in Milwaukee, the “disenfranchised” target Sikhs.
hope cams caught the perps in action, theft is theft.
ps... if it was Hauenstein or Old Milwaukee,, I may have joined in with a stick of my own. ;-)
They didn't exactly "sit still" for it, according to the article, they were busy stealing beer.
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