…every google search is different: so the results I get won’t be the same as everyone else. On the google search the first link goes to a blog, the second to this very thread, and the rest look like spam. Did you want us to read the blog?
Here’s the story on an actual new website:
Owner said this:
OK for those that give a shit, since the OP apparently doesn’t have the ability to copy and paste a few lines of text much less state his own interpretation of the situation I will summarize:
Some douchenozzle named “tank” (Exhibit A) harassed and verbally attacked a Marine and his family at a bar for wearing Dallas Cowboys T-shirts. The argument escalated and the bar employees told the Marine and his family to leave, citing a desire to keep the peace. This probably means they were scared of the fat drunken bastard and figured the marine would be more reasonable about being asked to leave.
The entire thing has backfired on them, their Yelp rating has been tanked by the angry public - down to 2 stars from 5 and falling, and they have deleted their Facebook page in shame as the torrent of negative comments overwhelmed them. The owner is making too-late efforts to ‘reach out’ to the marine and make things right, but chances are the bar will never recover from the outrage against them.
The guy, Josh Tank Watts, is under at least 50000 various online death threats. Some newspapers have actually redacted his name from their coverage of the story for fear that they will be sued if something happens to him. Notice this story now refers to him only as “the fan” instead of by his name. It was revealed that he works as a part time security guard for the NC Bobcats and Michael Jordan, an owner, has so far refused to buckle under public outcry to fire him.
So we’ve got a military hero, an assclown part time security guard and local big guy at the bar, a chicken shit bar owner, chicken shit reporters, and an ex ball player/team owner with very poor decision making skills.
The only one to retain any dignity at the end of this fuck story is the Marine.
Discuss.
OK, in the interest of doing the OP’s work for him and getting the thread moving.
Josh “Tank” Watts is a fan of the Carolina Panthers (which is an NFL football team for those who don’t follow American sports). Watts was at a place called the Moosehead Grill in Charlotte, NC on the evening of October 21.
The Panthers played the Dallas Cowboys (in Charlotte) earlier on October 21 and lost to the Cowboys.
Garrett Carnes, a former Marine who lost his legs in Afghanistan, was also at the restaurant with his wife, their parents, and two friends. Some of the group, including Carnes, are apparently Cowboys fans and were wearing Cowboys jackets.
When the Carnes group had finished their meal and were leaving the restaurant, an argument over football started between Watts and Carnes (it’s not clear who started it, what was said, and who else was involved). It apparently was only a verbal argument. The final result was Carnes and his group were asked to leave. Watts was not asked to leave.
eta: ninja’d as I was writing this.
This is the least interesting non story ever. Sorry.
As far as RO stories go it’s got it all. Go fuck a paper towel tube.
Ya’ see OP? Ya’ see what you went and did?
You got Little Nemo ninja’d!!
Curse you!
/levity
I see what you did there.
Great, yet another October… hmm. 2009. Odd.
Ignoring the whole wheelchair/veteran angle:
What the fuck is wrong with some people? I don’t understand this “team loyalty=must physically assault those different from me” type mentality.
If only everyone would, as both are completely irrelevant.
His girlfriend’s pretty hot.
That’s because your probably a wussie Vikings fan.
Yes folks, that’s sarcasm.
If it weren’t in the latter, I wouldn’t need to do the former.
So a vet trolled a bunch of drunken lunkheads. Got it.
Okay, to begin with, I object to being characterized as a drunken lunkhead. Also, is it really valid to call someone a “vet” when they’ve only been a Doper for three years?
Sports fans acting like stupid louts? Say it isn’t so!
I’m not much of a football fan, but if I was I’d be a Patriots fan. Last year I was in a bar in Jets country. A game was on with Jets versus Pats. It was a very important game. No effin way I was going to self-identify as a Pats fan or even a New Englander. I could definitely imagine the crowd there getting violent.
I can top that one. I went to a playoff game at Rich Stadium with a friend of mine. It was the Bills playing the Chiefs. Most people in the stadium were wearing Bills coats and hats. Some had traveled in and were wearing Chiefs coats and hats (the stadium had wisely created a visitors section).
My friend was wearing his Dallas Cowboys coat. When I questioned him about his choice of attire, he said it was a cold day and he picked that coat because it was warm. I told him he’d be even warmer if somebody set him on fire at half-time.
Fortunately for him, Buffalo won the game so the fans were in a mostly good mood and confined themselves to verbal taunts and throwing snowballs at my friend.
She should be - she cost enough.