Sants is Angry & Comming to GET YOU!!!
Posted on 12/21/2017 7:49:25 AM PST by Red Badger
ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — A Salvation Army bell ringer was attacked in front of Walmart for simply spreading holiday cheer.
We’ve all heard it; the jingle that means it’s nearly Christmas and ringing in sounds of hope for donations.
But not everyone is in the giving spirit.
“I greet everybody, 'Merry Christmas,'” said Rev. Jamie Wolfe, Sr.
Sadly, those two simple words got this bell ringer knocked out.
“He haymakered me, hit me, got me down on the ground and we started wrestling, at that point I’m fighting for my life,” Wolfe Sr. said.
The man wasn’t after the kettle money, but instead, his cheer.
“Definitely unexpected,” he claimed.
It was a savage attack — not even a Grinch could compare.
“Store says they love him and he’s been the best bell ringer they’ve ever had, so an attack that’s unprovoked is very surprising and very unfortunate. It’s not the call we’d expect to get at night,” or ever said Lt. Steve Pavlakis with the Salvation Army.
Pavlakis has been with the organization for 14 years, and this hasn’t happened.
“It’s really saddening that one of our bellringers would be out there working day after day for us that’s met with hate and punches to the face and kicks to the face,” Pavlakis said.
The reverend is shaken up and suffered bumps and bruises, but says this won’t ever take away his Christmas spirit.
“It’s really rewarding,” he said.
And you can bet that bell will keep on ringing.
“I’ll be right back out there doing it again tomorrow,” Wolfe Sr. said.
He was checked out at Kaiser Permanente just in case.
Meanwhile, the suspect is still on the run. Police hope surveillance video can help put that man behind bars.
Now THAT guy is a true psychopath.
A lot of people associate “Merry Christmas” with Trump, now that he’s brought it back to the White House. Thus, the dirty looks and beatdowns.
Maybe the same one that produced this song.
Weird.
It never occurred to the reporter, Jennifer McGraw, to include even the vaguest description of the animal attacker?
Was it human?
Two legs? four? Six?
I was being funny and sarcastic. The guy interviewed on Tucker Carlson who was rabidly pushing the tree killing was a rabid white liberal. He might even have been on the council.
I’m more convinced now he was the Walmart guy.
You lost me too.
Mind elaborating?
Especially when they aren't even handicapped.
One guy pushed the dead motorized cart into the store to charge it so he could use it. That wasn’t easy.
And thus the complaint to Home Depot
Enough is enough from this family
You're a bell ringer for the Salvation Army? How does that work?
They ask for civic groups to help and I’m in Kiwanis. You can call the local Salvation Army group and volunteer.
I’m with you. The SA threw in with the lefties after Charottesville.
Not forgotten!
I've noticed that my local Meijer store has no bell ringers outside. Maybe I should contact management and ask why there is no one outside?
They give the club set days and hours and we fill it in our own way. I do 2 hours tomorrow and 2 on Saturday.
If it's because Meijer doesn't want them then I'm going to flood the Meijer corporate offices with emails as well as embarrass them in the local county newspaper.........
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