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33. Your friend should be arrested for assault

Reply to markpkessinger (Original post)

Mon Jun 11, 2012, 01:54 PM

Jun 2012

Pulling people out of trucks and assaulting them for some kind of verbal offense is antisocial behavior in the extreme. Your friend should be arrested and put behind bars.

Frankly, I think you or someone else made this entire thing up. Prove that this even happened.

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A friend gives a gas driller an attitude adjustment... [View all] markpkessinger Jun 2012 OP

Your friend dems_rightnow Jun 2012 #1

No, he isn't -- markpkessinger Jun 2012 #2

If he pulls people out of trucks dems_rightnow Jun 2012 #3

You are assuming this is something this guy normally does ... markpkessinger Jun 2012 #5

So, you think it's ok if people only pull people out of vehicles and pound on them now and then? HuckleB Jun 2012 #9

Ayup. Definitely. nt daaron Jun 2012 #12

That's is, to you, either the only or the most obvious inference you can make? LanternWaste Jun 2012 #30

Yawn. HuckleB Jun 2012 #37

So he doesn't commit assault "normally?" _ed_ Jun 2012 #34

I should add... markpkessinger Jun 2012 #4

I figured that much from the start. Lots of tempers boiling over, I imagine. Zalatix Jun 2012 #35

Awkward FreeJoe Jun 2012 #6

Pardon me for not cheerleading the violence... Earth_First Jun 2012 #7

How does one peacefully create a roadblock? Flatulo Jun 2012 #15

What made him think there was a place in line with his name on it? jwirr Jun 2012 #8

Of course he did. obliviously Jun 2012 #10

When he gets a little time.. Fla_Democrat Jun 2012 #11

Good for him. Tell him thank you for me. Cowardly bullies need not be tolerated, and sometimes jtuck004 Jun 2012 #13

Posts like this raise a red flag for me... cherokeeprogressive Jun 2012 #14

Well said. classof56 Jun 2012 #18

My hubs and brothers are HUUUGH elehhhhna Jun 2012 #38

The Internets are full of stories like this... 47of74 Jun 2012 #26

Indeed-- one may suppose that the only thing in greater number LanternWaste Jun 2012 #32

Mine too. Skidmore Jun 2012 #28

If this had happened in Florida, your friend could have perfectly legally Flatulo Jun 2012 #16

Sounds like your friend likes to tell tales. AtheistCrusader Jun 2012 #17

Cool story, dude... MineralMan Jun 2012 #19

driller guss Jun 2012 #20

Clearly, violence can solve all problems. harmonicon Jun 2012 #21

Maintaining your cool is hard to do. WHEN CRABS ROAR Jun 2012 #22

That's fracked up. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #23

First of all, I call bullshit Orrex Jun 2012 #24

Not a big fan of assault. (nt) noamnety Jun 2012 #25

Nice tale, come back to us when you have the guys name and town he lives in snooper2 Jun 2012 #27

I call bullshit on your friend. Ikonoklast Jun 2012 #29

It's called "battery" and it would get you a mug shot here in Florida. L0oniX Jun 2012 #31

Your friend should be arrested for assault _ed_ Jun 2012 #33

Assault and battery. It's a shame we don't all do it! deaniac21 Jun 2012 #36