Posted on 12/18/2009 7:34:40 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB
When family members decided Monday's burglary of 75-year-old Frank Dusenka's home in Chisago City, Minn., was an inside-the-family job, they didn't wait for police to investigate, according to court documents filed this week. Instead, Dusenka's son, Bradley Anthony Dusenka, and son-in-law, Marcus Lee Clay, allegedly took matters into their own hands. Specifically, they're accused of taking an ax handle and a boat oar into their own hands, kidnapping their 25-year-old nephew and beating him so severely that he spent most of this week in the hospital.
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My brothers would handle things in pretty much the same manner. Maybe without the trip to the hospital, but the point WOULD be made, LOL!
An honor kidnapping?
The Dusenka’s are the largest boat sellers in Chisago, so a boat oar beating seems appropo.
Merry Christmas!
The oar was out of line. Axe handle was fine, but NOT THE OAR!
Wonder if the boat battery and a pair of jumper cables came into play along the way? ;)
They’re all now on an even keel.
I won't defend vigilante justice, but I will say that when people do not trust the court system to render justice, they begin to believe that they need to take matters into their own hands.
I fervently believe that our criminal justice system is almost completely nonfunctional. Looks like lots of folks share that belief.
This happened in the forties.
My Father over sixty, about five feet eight inches tall and about one hundred sixty pounds was getting irritated about some loud mouth drunks that lived across the street.
A neighbor girl about thirteen walked by our house and these drunks said some vile things to and about her.
My Father walked into the house, looked at his old twelve gauge and waled out to the wood pile and got his double bit Axe.
He walked over to the drunks house and hit them each about twice.
Oh, he was nice, He used the flat of the blade.
After they recovered, they got to a telephone and called the Sheriff.
The Sheriff listened to them and then talked to my Father.
He went back to the drunks and told them they were lucky.
The Sheriff was kin to the girl and told them they just got a lesson and it would be better if they moved out of his county right now.
Yeah, that’s how we handle it in our family too.
I won’t tell you what happened to the cousin’s boyfriend who touched her little girl...
Oh, and an aside...
KKK is a TERRIBLE organization, I want to state that up front and glorify them in any way whatsoever, this is just a little history blip.
In Georgia, Alabama and other surrounding states, the KKK wasn’t JUST for it’s racist crap, it was also a type of informal societal police.
My grandfather told me of his brother who lost a wife and instead of taking care of the five kids at home, took off drinking every night (depressed and distraught?). This was back in the 30’s, before welfare, before foster care, etc... these kids were cold (no heat or firewood), hungry (dad sold everything and drank the money) and sick. The KKK did some internal policing and after he healed up, he went to work and found a wife. He said over the years it was the best a**whipping he ever got.
Sometimes a good butt whipping is what ya need. Not condoning violence however. ;o)
A friend of mine grew up with his single mother in the Berlin Germany area during the forties (WWII). She was in the German army.
He said he got a visit every Christmas from a certain uncle. The uncle brought presents for the kids and always took him down in the basement with large belt and had a list of things he needed a whipping for and laid it on!
This seems like family taking care of family business.
We might have less of this kind of thing if more family members disciplined their own, I’m not suggesting that severe of a beating unless the victim is hurt.
Maybe they went Medieval on the boy with a pair of pliers!
The KKK did not generally beat up white people unless they were too cozy with blacks. They did do things like this within their own ranks. But usually they were the muscle for local men of power. Much like Mafia gangsters.
The modern idea of Klansmen riding into the night to attack innocent sharecroppers is bogus. They usually had a reason. But a black man speaking improperly to a white woman really could get someone killed. My Grandfather was a judge in the South. You did not cross the Klan but you also did not treat them as men of honor. They were gangsters, rednecks and criminals.
I usually see him around this time of year so I will ask him.
He said they spent a lot of nights in the bomb shelters while Allied bombers pounded the hell out of the industrial area where they lived. It was some little town where a ball bearing factory was operating.
When the GIs finally marched in they were literally starving, living on grass soup and whatever. He says the black Gis were especially generous with candy bars etc. He rarely talks about it. I met his mom a couple of times, man could she drink the bier!
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