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Man Throws Potatoes at Woman in Walmart, Police Say
Herald-Tribune ^ | Thursday, August 11, 2011

Posted on 08/14/2011 3:28:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A 36-year-old man accused of assaulting a 66-year-old woman inside a Walmart remains in the Sarasota County jail today in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Venice Police arrested Steven Renard Grant on a charge of battery on a person 65 or older late Tuesday night.

Officers say that Grant approached the woman inside Walmart, 17000 Tamiami Trail, and claimed to work for God. When the woman told him she did not think so, Grant reportedly told her she was going to Hell, screamed profanities at her, pushed her shopping cart and started throwing potatoes from the produce section at her.

Other customers reportedly came to the woman's aid until police arrived.


TOPICS: Food; Weird Stuff
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
I Do Not Aspire to be funny. Potato are serious.


81 posted on 08/14/2011 7:55:31 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: nickcarraway

I can’t believe no one posted the youtube video People of Walmart for your viewing pleasure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvxNgdFeWqM


82 posted on 08/14/2011 7:58:37 PM PDT by Aunt Polgara
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To: Billthedrill
You get a better trajectory with bananas.

Maybe so, but they have a tendency to boomerang back at you!

83 posted on 08/14/2011 8:00:02 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: nickcarraway; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono
claimed to work for God

And what does Eric Clapner have to say?

84 posted on 08/14/2011 8:03:12 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Lees Swrd
Do not mock the potato grannie. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!


85 posted on 08/14/2011 8:05:26 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: nickcarraway

Did I miss the satire notice?

You know, maybe I’ve become way too serious, and need a vacation...

But, all the “light hearted” comments on this thread really disappoint me. What is happening to people? Suppose this had been your Mother, or Grandmother, or Aunt...would it be as funny?

This nut is lucky. Florida is a CC State, and had it been one of my female relatives, she would have popped a cap on his butt.

Seriously people? I know times are hard, and people are stressed, but no...this isn’t funny. Suppose it had been a baby in a buggy, a well aimed hard thrown potato could have caused serious damage.


86 posted on 08/14/2011 8:06:17 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Billthedrill
You get a better trajectory with bananas.

What about pointed sticks?

87 posted on 08/14/2011 8:06:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks nickcarraway.
Grant approached the woman... and claimed to work for God. When the woman told him she did not think so, Grant reportedly told her she was going to Hell, screamed profanities at her, pushed her shopping cart and started throwing potatoes from the produce section at her.
I know how she felt.


88 posted on 08/14/2011 8:09:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Venice Police arrested Steven Renard Grant on a charge of battery on a person 65 or older...

There's some kind of hate crime enhancement for battery on 65+?

89 posted on 08/14/2011 8:45:50 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: nickcarraway

WOW!! An innocent shopper, minding her business in WalMart gets ASSAULTED by a mental case and all the posters here think its a laugh riot?
Damn- do you people go to crime scenes to laugh?
Was 9-11 the funniest thing ever?
Where are the jokes about the violence in England?
Odd- no one at the scene thought it was funny-not the woman, or the other shoppers, or the police.
Who knew the coming breakdown of civilization is really going to be....A COMEDY!


90 posted on 08/14/2011 8:50:53 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: tarotsailor

Amen.


91 posted on 08/14/2011 9:33:54 PM PDT by WePledge (Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)
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To: cripplecreek

Lol! “Do I Have A Witnesss”?!.....


92 posted on 08/15/2011 12:08:36 AM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: newzjunkey
Venice Police arrested Steven Renard Grant on a charge of battery on a person 65 or older...

There's some kind of hate crime enhancement for battery on 65+?

 

Sadly, because of the increasing levels of brutality and violence directed against older people, elder-abuse laws have become common and many would say necessary in many cities and communities around the world.  They can be in the form of additional or enhanced  charges above and beyond what a similar crime might be charged against the perp when the victim is younger.   This is a completely different situation than the purely political 'hate crime' laws which are so legally problematic because in this case the victims are a more vulnerable population, and so elder abuse laws have come into being in order to recognize that.

It's a profoundly sad commentary on the state of society that will likely increase in severity in the foreseeable future.

93 posted on 08/15/2011 2:03:12 AM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: nickcarraway
Boyle'd Potato


94 posted on 08/15/2011 2:51:14 AM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: ClearBlueSky
If something weird is happening, chances are pretty good it's happening at a Walmart

'Walmart shoppers aren't like us. They're poor, unsophisticated rubes with lowbrow tastes and proletarian problems.

Strange things happen at Walmart not because of it's prodigious size and ubiquitousness; but because of the very nature of it's troglodytic customer base in which low prices attract.

Decent people of discernment (most FR commentators) would gladly pay $87.75 for a locally grown, fair trade, organic sweisburg cabbage at Whole Foods, rather than that uncouth Walmart muck at $0.50 a head; but Walmart shoppers would prefer that discount fare. The barbarians claim it fits their "budget" !!?!!

Why can't those inurbane, loud, loutish, lowbred, oafish, lumpenproles go and get a trust fund like normal people. Then the Walmart blight would disappear.'


95 posted on 08/15/2011 2:55:59 AM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: ClearBlueSky; Daffynition; Slings and Arrows; null and void
Odd- no one at the scene thought it was funny-not the woman, or the other shoppers, or the police. Who knew the coming breakdown of civilization is really going to be....A COMEDY!

Perp was dyslexic.

96 posted on 08/15/2011 3:05:22 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: dfwgator

I would have returned fire with the pineapples.


97 posted on 08/15/2011 3:13:48 AM PDT by linn37
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To: Ezekiel
The Royal Shakespearean Tomatoes!

Potato is the new ice cream.


98 posted on 08/15/2011 3:13:58 AM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I think this is called a “Code Idaho” in Walmart intercom lingo.

The codes go by colors, so it would be a "Code Russet."

99 posted on 08/15/2011 3:14:42 AM PDT by abishai
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

100 posted on 08/15/2011 5:02:59 AM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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