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We Finally Know Why Rand Paul's Neighbor Attacked Him
Townhall.com ^ | June 12, 2018 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 06/12/2018 9:47:22 AM PDT by jazusamo

We Finally Know Why Rand Paul's Neighbor Attacked Him

UPDATE: Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) office has provided Townhall the following statement regarding last year's attack.

"Before Senator Paul was violently attacked from behind, he had no conversations or discussions with the attacker. There was no 'longstanding dispute.' This description is untrue. It is impossible to have a dispute when no words of disagreement were ever spoken - neither immediately nor at any other time before the attack occurred. In the decade prior to the attack, Senator Paul had no contact with the attacker.

The attack was a pre-meditated assault that broke six of the Senator’s ribs and was complicated by fluid and blood around the lung and recurrent pneumonia. Any description of this attack that implies a “yard dispute” justifies such violence and misses the point."

ORIGINAL POST

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was left with six broken ribs, including three displaced fractures, and months of intense pain that felt like 1,000 knives after his neighbor attacked him last year. The assailant, Dr. Rene Boucher, attacked Paul while he was mowing his lawn. The senator had just stepped off the lawn mower and was wearing silencing earmuffs and never saw or heard his neighbor coming.

Contrary to original rumors, Boucher's attack on the senator was not about politics. He was upset about yard debris, according to new court documents. From the Associated Press :

It said the disagreement over yard debris dates back to September 2017, when Paul piled a 10-foot-wide (3-meter-wide) stack of limbs onto a spot near Boucher’s property. The pile sat until October, when Boucher picked it up and hauled it away in portable dumpsters.

“Even though this debris was not on Dr. Boucher’s property, he viewed it as unsightly — as it was placed directly in his line of sight from his patio and the back door of his house,” the court record said.

Two more piles of debris appeared in the same month, and Boucher burned the pile on Nov. 2. Boucher used gasoline and suffered second-degree burns that he needed treatment for, the memorandum said.

The next day, Paul used his lawnmower to blow leaves onto Boucher’s yard and then made another branch pile in the same spot, it said.

“As Dr. Boucher has stated throughout, he lost his temper and tackled Rand Paul as Paul was carrying branches from another location on his property and placing them on the property line,” the memorandum said.

Boucher, formally requested to be placed on probation in court on Friday. Special Prosecutor Bradley Shepard had his own request: a 21-month prison sentence. Sentencing is this Friday.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 115th; assault; boucher; lunaticdemocrap; randpaul; randpaulattacked; randpaulneighbor
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To: Reno89519

“Seems like Rand Paul was intentionally baiting the guy. “

nearly everyone in my neighborhood of very large lots has a spot in the corner of their backyard for storing our dead branches until we have enough to haul off ... no one here is “baiting” anyone by using the same spot over and over again because it kills the grass where the branches are stored and makes no sense to kill grass in multiple spots.


101 posted on 06/12/2018 1:16:07 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: Cecily

One word: Bamboo.


102 posted on 06/12/2018 1:20:10 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: jazusamo

Hmmm. I have an OCD neighbor who cut down a strip of weeds in the back alley in back of my privacy fence. Guess I’d better keep a better lookout for them.


103 posted on 06/12/2018 1:39:55 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: jazusamo

My next door neighbor has grass growing up to my knees, when should i physically attack her? when it comes up to my waist?


104 posted on 06/12/2018 1:44:14 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: jazusamo

I guess nice of boucher to keep cleaning up the branches and piles on his neighbor’s property, but wrong to be so hell bent on having an overly immaculate yard all the time and not just talking to his neighbor if he had a problem with some thing.

If he wants a perfect yard and constant beautiful view he should move into a place with fake grass and artificial plants and no dust blowing around - or a room with murals on the walls and maybe make them padded.


105 posted on 06/12/2018 3:14:20 PM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: Mathews

If I have something to say, something will be said, to your face, not behind your back, not on the phone or online either. Face to face


^ This + 1


106 posted on 06/12/2018 4:38:12 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Paradox

Cool Hand Luke


107 posted on 06/12/2018 6:47:46 PM PDT by octex
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To: woodbutcher1963

true, true,he might need to get out of the house if the wife is on the warpath...a lot.


108 posted on 06/29/2018 10:56:59 AM PDT by Boowhoknew
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