EAGLES UP! Middle Eastern Man tells US Army soldier on leave: "You aren't welcome here!" [HOAX]

Alkhin

[Alkhin]

Happening in Houston

Reported on KSEV, Houston, The Voice, Jon Matthews show...

A soldier on leave from the US Army stopped off in a Conoco station to fill his vehicle and is told by the Middle Eastern man running the place to leave because he is a murderer.

Houston FReepers, if you have the information about the address of the station and the number to Conoco, please spread around. Houstonians are already calling into Conoco demanding the oil company take the franchise away from the man who did this to our military.

If you live in Houston, please fill this thread with more information. I am doing my usual stuff in getting my daughter ready for school and am unable to sit and listen for more pertinent details.

Make that Middle Eastern man feel the wrath!

EAGLES UP!

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

It's less suspect than someone calling in a radio show and then getting his Mama and Daddy to call in to vouch for it.

I have no idea how things are in North Carolina, save your stupid flag is upside down, but in Texas we do not make disparaging remarks about peoples mother and father UNLESS we are looking to have out rears kicked.

I too ALWAYS wonder about calls to talk shows but I assure you it will be sorted out today, without your help. If we tar and feather the wrong guy first, we will give him a Christian burial and serve ham steak, and pork ribs after the service.

Thank you for your wimpy input.

[humblegunner]

whimpy probably will dispute that the accident ever occurred

No sense in ruining someone's hand or chest merely on hear-say..
I think you should substantiate these type of things before going off
half-cocked.. exploding Garand, indeed... ;-)

[RGSpincich]

Shame, shame, shame. Don't you know that nobody would lie about something like this.

[wimpycat]

Figures you would put lick and half cocked in the same sentence...go away you Tar heel troll....

Take your pitchfork AND your torch and shove them both where the sun never shines.

And don't worry, I won't be there at the lynching to spoil your rip-roaring good time.

[Caliban]

YUMMMY Ham and pork ribs...

Will the ham have cherries and little spikes of clove? Or can we have the whole damn pig with an apple in it's mouth?

Hey Humblegunner can you work up a recipe for a whole pig on your BBQ pit?

[LibertyGirl77]

Excuse me...as long as this guy is an American citizen, what he did isn't illegal, much as you may like it to be. He's entitled to his opinion, no matter how wrong, and he reserves the right to serve or refuse to serve whomever he chooses at his PRIVATELY OWNED business.

The same crap happened when soldiers came back from the Vietnam War. It may not have been right, but it was perfectly legal. No one is under any compulsion to morally support war. That's why we HAVE the conscientious objector clause in the first place.

You are free to boycott this man's business and encourage your friends to do the same. But to pressure corporate headquarters to take a man's livelihood away because YOU don't agree with his viewpoint is unconsciable.

Now, if this guy is NOT an American citizen, by all means, deport his a$$.

[Eaker]

The soldier's name is Shawn Sykes. I am not sure of the spelling.

Stay safe; stay armed.

[LibertyGirl77]

Oops...make that "unconscionable." I haven't had my coffee yet this morning.

[LibertyGirl77]

Oops...make that "unconscionable." I haven't had my coffee yet this morning.

[Caliban]

ALL Military personnel in uniform - FREE GAS at 322 Rayford CONOCO...wear your UNIFORM and fill up!

[LibertyGirl77]

Wow--double posting, too. Get me to a Starbucks!

[Alkhin]

Okay, you wimp, here's what I was able to gleen...understand that I am among many who lurk here who hve REAL lives and are unable to spend every early morning seeking out posters to bomb with snide remarks for the fun of it. I have a family, i have a life to attend to...as such when I am listening to the radio, I can only deal with what I hear at the time I hear it with the resources I have. In the middle of getting a little girl ready for school, I do not have the ability to sit and wait for information.

However, Jon Matthews is a former Marine, and I trust his judgement in discerning what is real and what is not as far as reports.

The young man who called in GAVE HIS NAME. Executives from Conoco called in to say they are looking into this. The last thing in the world they want is to piss off customers, and would never sit still for treating US military personnel with the disrespect.

I would far more believe a young private in the Army over an ugly MEasterner. I am quite sure that military personnel know the consequences of making this kind of thing up.

I did not get a chance to get the address. I am in the process of getting this.

I can already see who is supportive of the military and who is not.

HoustonCurmudgeon, am sorry that you dislike Jon Matthews, but appreciate you tuning in. Perhaps you can help give us the details??? Would appreciate it. I am listening right now to commercials, so I am still on 'standby.' >

Okay, here as reported once again by Jon Matthews: about 6:30 this morning a woman by the name Barbara S. called in VERY upset. Her son, Sean S. who is 18 and in the Army and is on leave for Christmas after finishing basic training, was on his way for a morning run, wearing his PTS emblazoned with the Army logo, stopped in at the Conoco station 322 Raeper (mspelled?) Road to fill his gas tank. He went into pay and the clerk, who was Middle Eastern, asked if he was in the military. "yes sir," was Sean's reply. the ME man told him "Get out! Get out! You are not welcome here. US Army are murderers." Sean said "Let me pay for my gas." The ME man said "NO! Get out. Your money is not welcome here."

This was inexcusable.

Now the people at the gas station are denying it happened.

I'd sooner believe this young man who has VOLUTARILY agreed to defend my fat lazy butt than that puke in the gas station or any of you who whimper that its all just made up.

[Republic of Texas]

The freedom to pressure Corporations is also American, unless the Constitution's changed lately.

[thackney]

I thought it was illegal for a public business to discriminate. If he was chased out of the store because of his race, would you say the same?

[Alkhin]

BECAUSE PEOPLE SPIT ON OUR MEN WHEN THEY CAME BACK FROM VIET NAM IS WHY I AM UP IN ARMS ABOUT THIS!!!

IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN!

Look, I'm just a civilian. I dont have any experience in the military. I never could. So I have to trust that others will take up the call.

They ARE boycotting...They are expressing their opinion. Who else but the corporation are you going to make it known that use of their product and logo are being used to intimidate and criticize someone who protects this country.

It takes one little stone to start an avalache. If this isnt responded to, others will do the same.

Haven't you got that through your head yet?

[john316]

There's a saying that have seen posted "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.."

I am NOT defending this a&&hole, but I don't think what he did was illegal. Stupid, yes, illegal no.

[Caliban]

Yea Sean (Shawn) Sytes? (Sykes), fathers name is Tim mother's name is Barbara...18 yr old decided to take a run, drove car to a jogging path...he wore his PT garb...was running in the glorious weather we had yesterday...after the run went to get gasoline...when he went in to pay, the male behind the counter asked if he was in the military, Sean replied "yes", the man behind the counter told Sean to leave, Sean said I haven't paid fom my gas, the man replied, "I don't want your money".

Sean went home told his father what transpired, father went to the store and asked man behind counter...man behind counter got defensive and denied the events.

So it is down to the 18 year old who is most likely about to go overseas and fight in a war against Militant Islamists...and as I recall yesterday we had a LARGE round up of ragheads across the US, seems to me, that the gasoline raghead had a "chip" on his shoulder because some of his "breathen" were rounded up yesterday and put behind bars, and maybe, just maybe, he is "guilty" of shady behavior, maybe his actions against the 18 year old was his protesting a little bit too much.

Will be interesting to see the round up that is about to take place here in Houston...the rumors among Federal Agents is that something big is about to go down here in Houston.

[RGSpincich]

The story is evolving and may be credible. The tapes will contain the truth. The store employees know this and they still deny it happened? APB Rosemary Woods?

[Hank Kerchief]

Excuse me...as long as this guy is an American citizen, what he did isn't illegal, much as you may like it to be. He's entitled to his opinion, no matter how wrong, and he reserves the right to serve or refuse to serve whomever he chooses at his PRIVATELY OWNED business.

I generally agree with this. In this case however, if the report is correct: A soldier on leave from the US Army stopped off in a Conoco station to fill his vehicle and is told by the Middle Eastern man running the place to leave because he is a murderer.

If the clerk actually called the soldier a, "murderer," that is not legal, and could actually be prosecuted for a number of things including, "verbal assault," "defamation," (that would be civil I believe), and possibly, "descrimination," or "hate-something."

Frankly I am dissappointed an American serviceman handled this in such a wimpy way, calling a radio talk show. Good grief!. If anyone had said anything like that to any of my buddies, they would have gotten the "in-your-face" answer, "That's right! I'm a paid American assassin and you better be very afraid, and very fast with the service. We're trained to kill people for less than this, and we enjoy doing it." Then, a nice big grin.

Hank

[Red Jones]

I can see where you got your name