Posted on 09/05/2009 2:19:46 PM PDT by Chet 99
An opponent of government healthcare programs had part of a finger bit off during a fight at a pro-healthcare-reform rally this week in Thousand Oaks.
William Rice, 65, of Newbury Park was with a small group of counter-protesters at a vigil Wednesday night organized by Moveon.org when a man bit off part of his left pinky finger during a scuffle, authorities said. Doctors were unable to reattach Rice’s finger.
Sheriff’s detectives Thursday were still looking for the man who bit Rice. Investigators also were sifting through conflicting accounts of the incident, but Rice acknowledged that he threw the first punch.
“When he got in my personal space, I popped him in the nose,” Rice said in a phone interview Thursday. “I felt like I had no choice other than to defend myself.”
The incident was reported at 7:26 p.m. Wednesday at Lynn Road and Hillcrest Drive, where more than 100 people gathered for the pro-healthcare-reform vigil.
About 15 people opposed to President Obama’s healthcare reform stood across the street from Moveon.org’s group. Members of Code Pink: Women for Peace also were there, authorities said.
Rice got involved in a heated discussion with a member of Code Pink, said sheriff’s Capt. Ross Bonfiglio, a department spokesman. After the argument, Rice returned to where his group was standing. An unidentified man then walked from Moveon.org’s area toward the opponents and verbally confronted Rice, allegedly calling him names and acting aggressively, Bonfiglio said.
Rice told investigators he felt threatened by the man and punched him in the nose, Bonfiglio said. A fight ensued, during which part of Rice’s finger was bitten off, Bonfiglio said.
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Chet, would you be up for letting a pit bull have it’s way with that fat bastard?
He's toast!
OK. Mike Tyson’s off the hook.
one look at this pic and you realize there’s no need for identifying the who’s who.
I find it hard to believe that this guy hasn’t been identified by now. What gives?
I hope the victim was tested for HIV.
...and rabies.
no wonder he bit the guys finger off. He’s angry because someone cut his feet off
One guy is short by a fonger, the biter is short by a foot...
One guy is short by a finger, the biter is short by a foot...
Cable Guy: I once had no shoes, and felt bitter ‘til I met a man with no feet. So I told him, listen, feller, seein’ as you ain’t got any feet, maybe you could spare a pair of shoes, and he up and gave me his’n and I thanked him kindly (’til he bit my pinky off:-).
So when an A$$-hole gets in your personal space what are you supposed to do, kiss him? It should be a case of self-defense, the guy had no business leaving his side and getting in the face of the people on the other side, so since this is all over the news, why doesn’t the ‘honest’ liberal (no such thing) turn himself in rather than wait for the authorities to find him?
Why not?
Carry your rifles to demonstrations.
Looks like ol’ Alec Baldwin has put on a little weight.
Maybe it's Rhea Perlman?
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