Old Geezers In Bar Fight (Salad Bar, That Is)

[Brown]

From ABC (USA) News and AP (http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040304_2473.html). This is a serious story, but I could not help but laugh:A dispute at the salad bar turned into a food fracas at an upscale retirement home, with a man taking a bite out of another's arm and other residents suffering minor injuries.

Police said resident Lee Thoss, 62, of the Spring Haven Retirement Community was picking through the lettuce, which disgusted 86-year-old William Hocker, who was standing in line behind him.

Hocker told Thoss no one wanted to eat food he had been playing with. Thoss yelled and cursed at him, Hocker told police, and Hocker called him a nasty name. Then, witnesses said, Thoss then began punching Hocker in the face.

In the buffet melee that followed, Allen Croft, 79, tried to grab Thoss, who bit him on the arm, reports said.

Thoss' mother, Arlene, in her 80s and also a Spring Haven resident, jumped in to break up the fight and ended up with a cut arm. Harry Griffin, 92, was standing at the salad bar and cut his head when he was knocked to the ground.One wonders whether Thoss, after biting Croft, left his teeth behind. According to the report, Thoss has been asked to move out.

[Chad Noles]

:( Bummer,no more Thoss salad.:p

[waitew]

62 is not all that old..While 86 is!!Why no criminal charges?If I (38) punched an 86 year old in the face there no doubt would be!
Double standard?Reverse age discrimination?I think so.If no exceptions are to be made for race or gender or age than so be it!!I agree.That's political correctness & if that's what it means I'd be all for it...But it's the double standards I can't stand.

[Deviant Pixie]

From my observations, I think that being old gives people the impression that they can do pretty much whatever they want. In Australia we have an aging population. So the result is a large chunk of the population taking liberties left right and centre. The result in the next decade will be a kind of mass elderly chaos. A lot of old dudes and dames representing the majority of the population.

Who defines senior or elderly? Here people are classified as seniors if they are 60 or over. How old do you have to be before you can get away doing whatever you like?

I think the revolution has already begun.

On the bus to work the other day an old person peed on my shoes. Now I feel sorry for the old person, but they PEED on my SHOES!

[Krazy Miller]

HA HA HA!

[Deviant Pixie]

Mr. Miller, I hope you are laughing at the bar fight news article and not at my urine soaked shoes.

[Ed]

Originally posted by Deviant Pixie
Mr. Miller, I hope you are laughing at the bar fight news article and not at my urine soaked shoes.

No one on this sophisticated and sensitive board would ever laugh at a gentleman who had his shoes pee'd upon by an old coot. Never, ever. We are (snigger) above (snigger) such purile actions (ha ).

Oh hell...HAHAHAHHAAAaaaahahahahahahahahahaahahahahah ahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhahaahahahahah Australian shoe pee hahahahahahaahahhaaaaaaaaahahhahaah oh god hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhaahahhaaaaaaaaaa maybe he thought you were a shoe bomber HAHASHAAAAAAAAaaaaaahahahahaahahaha

Whew... sorry.

My slight loss of control notwithstanding, you may feel free to share other, like, experiences here with out fear of any untoward derision. Really.

Edit: We really do need, nay, require, more detail concerning this unfortunate incident. Oddly, it did not make the news in the States.:D

[shuize]

Get used to this sort of news. With the greying of America you can expect more and more cranky old people stories. (Although 62 seems awfully young to be in a retirement home)

I say we make them really earn their social security payments by harnessing their crabby nature and having them fight it out amongst themselves in blood-sport gadiatorial contests held for the amusment of the younger, productive generations.

[Hutch]

I'm guessing here, but I wonder if the 62-y.o. was suffering from Alzheimers or some other form of dementia? It would possibly explain his hands in the salad and unpredictably violent response.

[Giz]

Originally posted by Ed


My slight loss of control notwithstanding...

It was you that peed on his shoes?!

[Ed]

Originally posted by Giz


It was you that peed on his shoes?!

HA HAhahahahahahah

Giz, you actually made me laugh right out loud:D