# Five soldiers beat a gay man nearly to death **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 9, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-soldiers-beat-a-gay-man-nearly-to-death/347706 "2006-03-09T17:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-soldiers-beat-a-gay-man-nearly-to-death/347706/241 "2006-03-14T05:14:25Z")
[QUOTE=wring] I graduated h/s in the early 70’s - of course I recognized that line. (bit of trivia, either Peter or Paul, can never remember which, spoke at the graduation ceremonies since they, too, had once graduated from that h/s). [/QUOTE] Too cool! Yet another Virginia high school brush-with-fame story here (I graduated in 1977): my English teacher for one term was a Mr. Holbrook. His brother is he actor, Hal Holbrook. Hal would sometimes speak at length to his brother’s classes. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-soldiers-beat-a-gay-man-nearly-to-death/347706/242 "2006-03-15T04:05:56Z")
[QUOTE=Monty] (I graduated in 1977): [/QUOTE] youngster. (as a mere toddler, I graduated in '72- but I digress). I’m sure **dave** will be here any moment to support his claim about the ‘explosion’ of crime in the past twenty/thirty years due to us bleeding heart liberals who think that assaulting someone (yes, even a thief) is criminal. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-soldiers-beat-a-gay-man-nearly-to-death/347706/243 "2006-03-15T21:17:29Z")
[QUOTE=crowmanyclouds] A legal right? CITE?(snip)When come back bring cites, or pie! CMC fnord [/QUOTE] funny, here I thought that **weirddave** bein’ the stand up kinda guy he is, when asked to support his posts, would be along directly to do so instead of not posting in the thread again, in the hope that it drops off the page and no one remembers it. But - instead of searching the web for support for his “explosion of crime” comment, here he is today, in the PIT, demanding “CITE” from some one else > [@](#): > > Today, 12:48 PM #38 > > Weirddave > Charter Member Join Date: Apr 1999 > Posts: 7,537 > Location: Baltimore. Md > > Cites? from [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=362574) I’m sure he won’t A. continue to ignore this B. come back in, weasling about how he really meant something other than the crime rate in the US “exploding” since some unspecified time, etc etc etc. that he meant something other than > [@](#): > > think it’s pretty obvious to most reasonable people that someone being beaten up when caught during the commission of a crime is to be expected from post 179 that some how or another > [@](#): > > The guy got a black eye and a few bruises and walked out of the hospital without being admitted under his own power and of his own free will (post 181) shouldn’t be a criminal act when the guy in question was stealing, even though every state in the US would define that as a criminal act(especially since your description of his injuries seems to be incorrect - [(snip), Craighead said he opened the door and found Bennett lying on the sidewalk bleeding and wounded badly. “You could tell he took a fist to the right eye,” Craighead said. The police report states Bennett was hit and kicked and was “bleeding profusely from lacerations along his right side, a cut near or on the right eye. He was barely conscious.”](http://www.houstonvoice.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=5465)) and from post 188 > [@](#): > > Otto, I disagree with you, and I see absolutely nothing wrong with what happened. These people are close enough to heros for me, if more people were willing to defend what was theirs than this would be a much better and safer country far from criminal, their actions were heroic. what actions? [5 men beating the guy unconscious’ cause he took a wallet, and he was like, a bad guy.](http://www.wsav.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSAV%2FMGArticle%2FSAV_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137834620603&path=!news!localnews) > [@](#): > > According to police Bennett was unconscious after he was attacked. He was taken to a hospital to be treated but then checked himself out. (snip) Police arrived after the attack and found Bennett bleeding profusely on the sidewalk outside of the bar. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-soldiers-beat-a-gay-man-nearly-to-death/347706.md?page=12)