Retiree attacks woman over poolside chair

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[NormsRevenge]

BERLIN (Reuters) - An elderly German grew so attached to a poolside deckchair that he attacked a woman who moved his towel to another lounger, police said Tuesday.

When the 76-year-old pensioner returned to his favorite spot at a pool in the central town of Bad Endbach, he was enraged to find the woman, 29, had moved his towel to an unoccupied lounger so she could lie down next to her mother.

The other chair was just the same "but he didn't want to use that one," said a police spokesman in nearby Marburg.

When abusive language failed to shift the woman, the furious senior citizen got physical. "He tipped the chair over and her with it," the spokesman said. "She couldn't believe he went so far over such a trifle."

[NormsRevenge]

I think he wanted to lay next to her mom is my suspicion.

[tubebender]

Retirees can be real grouches (So says my wife)

[NormsRevenge]

well, at least he didn't toss the chair in the pool like some certain folks might. ;-)

[Kryptonite]

Without bosses anymore, some of them see no reason to hold back.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hey! Tube! Glock! *someone's* accusing you of wrong-doing.

NOT I. I'm just alerting you to him. :)

[Quinotto]

And I thought this happened in Boca Vista, where Jerry Seinfeld's TV parents lived :)

[NormsRevenge]

I know nutzing!

[JoeSixPack1]

Yeah man!! Good thing we had bosses!
If we didn't have bosses to hold us back,

we might have killed somebody!!

Now we're just uncontrolled old guys.....


oh the horror!!!

[msnimje]

What can you expect in a town called "Bad Endbach?"

[Kryptonite]

Sarcasm is better than turning over a pool chair, I guess.

[Reagan is King]

Hmm, maybe it was this guy:

[NormsRevenge]

Bad Endbach Loosely xlates as 'Bath final brook'

[ApplegateRanch]

Keep your hands to hell off of other people's stuff.

She should have moved the "unoccupied" chair to which she moved his towel, to the other side of her mother...or similar.

I wouldn't be physical about the lounger, but the dumb, rude, pushy broad would get an earful about private property.

Essentiazlly, she occupied an already occupied seat, instead of taking the unoccupied, without asking. "Ask, and ye shall recieve."

[dk/coro]

C'mon guys -- this sort of thing happens at the pool in our "over 55 complex" all the time...and it gets even worse.

Some young brat -- unsupervised of course by his mom and dad -- grabbed my pool ball the other day and unwittingly tossed it over the poolside fence and down into the canyon, far below.

My reaction was an easy one! I grabbed the little monster by the scuff of the neck and tossed him over the fence as well.

His mother looked a bit surprised -- but under her breath mumbled something like: "good riddance".

Works for me. *S*

[taxesareforever]

I guess asking mother to move was asking too much. Since when did a towel on a chair not mean "saved"? Kind of like a coat on a chair.

[monday]

This is kind of funny, but honestly, it must be a seriously slow news day for something like this to make the papers.

[theFIRMbss]

>it must be a seriously slow news day for something like this to make the papers

In their follow-up,
they'll blame Bush for cutting back
on the guy's med plan . . .

[Paulus]

Yes. However, Germans are the worst tourists. They are famous for this little trick in vacation areas. They take a chair, put the towel over it and then leave for several hours going shopping, sleeping, etc. It is not about the towel or the chair but the location.

[AppyPappy]

We used to go to big condo resort for spring break. Women would always go early(7AM) and reserve lounges with towels and then promptly go back to sleep, eat breakfast and show up at 11. Being guys, we took the towels for a swim and piled them in a corner. When the women showed up, we blamed a bunch of little kids who had since disappeared.