He's sitting on a bench. Let's beat the shit out of him!

The BBQ Pit
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-Hey, Jimbo.
-Yea, Biff?
-You hear about that little twerp on a bench?
-What the fuck you talking about, man?
-There’s some little fuck sitting on a bench.
-Huh?
-He’s, like, sitting on a bench, dude.
-He’s sitting on a bench? What is he, retarded?
-Shyah, I dunno. What kind of fucked up reetard sits on a bench?
-Yea. It’s like he want’s to be different or something.
-What the fuck is up with that?
-The fuck should I know? Little faggot doing something completely harmless and fun I’ve never heard of before? What the fuck?
-Fuckin A. We should beat the shit out of him.
-Yea, let’s go beat the shit out of him. Teach him a fuckin lesson.
-Not to sit on benches.
-Fuck yea. Little fucker. We’ll teach him not to do harmless fun things for the hell of it.

Some hours later…

-Fuckin showed that little punk, didn’t we?
-Yea, he won’t be sitting on any benches anytime soon.
-Fuckn right. Think we broke something?
-Hope so. Better than the little fag deserves for doing something out of the ordinary.
-Hey, I hear there’s some Canuck cocksucker in Montreal who’s taking pictures of, like, subway stations or something.
-Shyeah, right.
-Naw, really. And he speaks French.
-Fuck. Let’s waste the faggot.

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Jimbo and Biff are fucking dicks.

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matt, thanks. That pretty much sums up what I was thinking, in the thread in question.

Assholes.

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That makes me fucking sick to my stomach, fucking sick! Because Im sure you are NOT very off of the truth if at all. My brain cant even begin to contemplate why someone would do that. :angry:

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What a bunch of fucking assholes.

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When I hear of things like this, I want to give in to the base nature, that little reptile curled around the base of my mind.

How 'bout, when he’s all healed up, clayton does it again… and we get owlstretchingtime, and any other “hooligan-ish” dopers to go stand watch.

Bastards.

Karma will kick them, assuredly, in the nutz.

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Ooh, can I go? I like smashing things. Especially stupid people.

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The beauty of this post is that I can’t quite tell which side Mudshark is on; whether (s)he gets it or not.

Anyway, matt_mcl, you rule. Though you’re one of very few dopers who could get away with using “faggot” that many times in one post.

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Matt, Tristan, could you please count me in on the uh, visit? I’m all for teaching a lesson on why people should not abuse people who appear weak. Besides, my Wiccan friends tell me I have a certain affinity for the Rule of 3.

No, damn it, no! I wish people would understand that they do not have the right to beat up someone who is weird or different from them! I have and will continue to help out with the educational process.

CJ

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Stompin’ boots on. Let me know when Revenge of the Bench opens in theaters.

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Frankly, I think a few of us should write letters in to the local paper.

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I’d second that, Cranky. If someone could post an address, I’d be more than willing to let my fingers do some talking.
Clayton, if you check in here at all let us know how it’s going with the cops… Any hint that they’re going to be able to catch these guys?

bella

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I don’t know how to link, but ABCNEWS.com has an article about a gay kid who was continually beat up in three different schools in a Nevada school district. They went as far as putting a noose around his neck and threatening to drag him. Then the brilliant administrators sent him home on the same bus as the assholes.

ANYHOO, said district fuckheads settled and the school district now has rules specifically protecting homosexuals and their right to be out of the closet. WooHOO! (and the kid got some college money – double wooHOO). The sad stat is that almost no schools have rules to protect gays, and almost every school has rules to protect racial minorities. Wha…?

'Tis a long road, with few victories…

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Just to clarify, the above is not meant to make any statements about clayton_e’s sexuality, a subject about which I am quite ignorant… just trying to depict the way that big dumb assholes who beat the shit out of people for sitting on benches probably talk.

Glad you liked my little dialogue. Hope Clay’s feeling better. :frowning:

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Matt:

I’m glad you said that, nonetheless I am troubled by the way you characterized this thing as if it were a gay bashing, and implied that you were next.

From the pics I saw on his site, he doesn’t appear to look especially stereotypicaly gay (and isn’t his girlfriend hot?)

You paint a pretty strong picture of a couple of rednecks perpetrating a hate crime, and I don’t think it’s such a good idea to make such assumptions.

I know quite a few Jimbo’s and Biffs in real life, and most of them are the sort that if they saw some guy getting beaten up on a bench they’d be wading in with fists to stop it with little or no regard for their personal safety.

We don’t have any idea what happened or why, and polarizing the situation along stereotypical lines, does not help.

I’m pretty angry myself, as I was following the bench thing with amusement, and a little admiration at the panache with which it was being pulled off.

For what it’s worth, Clayton has my support, and I hope he’ll give us more details.

I’d urge one big thing out of this. A request really. Don’t let this incident ruin the experience.

When you feel better, bo back to the bench (with some big friends) at the same time you were forced to leave, and complete the 24 hours.

Chronicle the whole thing for us, the beginning and end, the good and the bad.

I think you can do something special and worthy with it. I knew it started off as fun and frivolous, and you got thrown a curve, but take a shot at greatness and see if you can put it all together somehow.

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Thank you all for your support. I’m ok, just sore, mildly pissed off right now… But I havn’t let this ruin the last few days for me.
I’ve been reading books for relaxation (but the doctors dialated my eyes so yesterday wasn’t exactly a reading day) and just generally I havn’t been doing too much.

And although this did happen, although a few people decided to mess everything up, It wasn’t all bad. Only about 2 minutes out of the 20 hours were really bad, everything else was good. I met some of the greatest people, some people I would have never met had I not decided to do something like this.
A guy brought me coffee every two hours, a guy drove 20 some miles to bring me something to read and to talk to me for a few, someone gave me a hat, gloves and another coat, someone gave me a sleeping bag, a pen, food… People were so nice. I talked to so many great people.

And I’m not letting this get in the way of similar things I will do in the future (although I will take precautions). This particular project I won’t attempt again anytime in the near future, at least not until next summer. But there is no way I’m letting this stop me. There will be more strange weird things I’ll be doing (and posting to give you guys a laugh) for quite some time.

Thank you all for the support. (and matt, I’ll be at the next dopereal)

-Clay

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Matt, for what it’s worth, I get it. It’s obvious to me that you weren’t characterizing this incident as a gay bashing. That is exactly the way Jimbo and Biff talk to each other, and you did a great job with the dialogue.

I would be very surprised if the word ‘faggot’ wasn’t uttered repeatedly while poor clayton was getting beat up.

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Yes. In the cartoons.

To me, it sounds as offensive as if someone were imitating black street dialect, or trying to talk “gay” and just as presumptuous in this context.

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Methinks he doth protest too much…

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I’m a little confused as to who you think is being stereotyped, Scylla. Violent people? People named Jimbo and Biff?

It is presumptuous in the context of a rant against two guys who beat someone up because beatee was sitting on a park bench? Who are you offended for?