Double Amputee Marine Mugged

[Patriot Heart]

Scumbags.

Double Amputee Marine Mugged Outside Restaurant


POSTED: 1:22 pm EDT August 3, 2006
UPDATED: 1:28 pm EDT August 3, 2006


BUFFALO, N.Y. -- An Iraq war veteran who lost an arm and leg in a roadside bombing was mugged during a night out from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, according to an Associated Press report.


Lance Cpl. Mark Beyers, 27, and his wife were attacked and robbed as they left a restaurant in Bethesda, Md. on July 22.
http://www.local6.com/news/9623442/detail.html

[MSGT]

His family is planning a fundraiser for him on Aug. 12. Watch Local 6 News for more on this story. If you see a follow up on this please post it.<!--stopindex-->

[Wolfcounsel]

As they left the restaurant, five men approached them and asked for a cigarette. --from Patriot Heart's link

Just once, I wish the media would have the balls to print something like, "five cowardly assholes approached them".

COWARDS RUN IN PACKS.:flame:

[Peachdiane]

I saw something like that happen in Atlanta when I was taking a walk. But the difference is, fellow witnesses took care of the thugs right away. Beat 'em to a pulp. Bet they never touched a serviceman again...

[Conserv_Atticus]

*shakes head* thats horrible... wheres my bat i feel the need to beat something

[MSGT]

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</td> </tr> <tr> <td>http://www.buffalonews.com/graphics/2006/08/25/0825beyers.jpg</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News
Mark Beyers and wife Denise are upbeat after receiving a $40,960 check Thursday night from Akron Post 3180, Veterans of Foreign Wars.</td></tr> </tbody></table> Marine Lance Cpl. Mark Beyers of Alden was handed a check for $40,960 Thursday evening from fellow veterans at Akron Post 3180, Veterans of Foreign Wars. "I'm still trying to take it in," he said as the three-hour party was breaking up. "I love the military family, I love the VFW, I love the community."






















http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060825/1068124.asp

[TechnoPrincess]

I love the VFW and the Legion. My grandfather was in both and they have always helped Vets who needed it. :claps:

[Kathy29]

Asking for a cigarette almost always translates into a mugging. It should be actionable all by itself. When some guy tried to break into my house at 4:30 in the morning, when the police arrived he said he was just asking me for a cigarette and I refused to open the door.

The police reaction: I was refusing to be neighborly in refusing to open the door. At 4:30 in the morning.

[Patriot Heart]

Kathy29 I'll say it again, you gotta get out of there woman.
Thank God the VFW did something for this guy. I would have sent money if I'd known where to.

[Rink]

Asking for a cigarette almost always translates into a mugging. It should be actionable all by itself. When some guy tried to break into my house at 4:30 in the morning, when the police arrived he said he was just asking me for a cigarette and I refused to open the door.

The police reaction: I was refusing to be neighborly in refusing to open the door. At 4:30 in the morning.

Well maybe you can use Kaleefornias anti-smoking laws to your favor, and place a no-smoking and no cigarrette mooching sign on your premises that way even the most idiotic with only two neurons will understand you do not loan cigs, you do not want cigarrette moochers near you or asking for cigs at ANY hour of the day on your property and make certain cigarrette smoking will be prohibited on your premises (with the exception being you) only.

(or you can toss the no smoking sign and just say no soliciting, no ciggarrette bumming, no loitering, no tresspassing after 'thus-and-such hours' no banging on doors at any hour of the day)

That way you get all your bases covered and there will be no excuse - also make sure the stupid sign is in spanish as well as English so nobody can say 'no hablas englais' on you when trying to breeak into your home.

[Timberwolf]

Kathy...anyone wakes me up and asks me for a cigarette at 4:30 in the morning will get this response, "If you're still here when I get back, you're dead cuz I'm going to get my gun."

The police can kiss my sweet, little, hairy, white Irish butt if they take offense.

[Wolfcounsel]

"The police reaction: I was refusing to be neighborly in refusing to open the door. At 4:30 in the morning." --Kathy29

Maybe the clown, the one with the badge, wanted you to offer him some Krispy Kremes for his trouble.

[Peachdiane]

There was a guy who lived in Phoenix. An eccentric shadow of a man, if you will. Oddly enough he never begged for alcohol or small amounts of money. It was always cigarettes. If you passed him on the street, he would inevitably stretch out his hand and humbly request, "Please, may I have a cigarette?" He must have begged a hundred cigarettes each day and I never once saw him smoke them.