# Zimmerman makes the news again. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222 "2013-07-22T18:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/41 "2013-07-22T22:59:12Z")
I’m sure he was out hunting children when he found the overturned truck. No doubt it had some sort of marking which indicated it might contain minorities, maybe an Oakland Raider’s license plate frame? Fish in a barrel, my friend. Fish in a barrel. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/42 "2013-07-22T23:13:13Z")
The guy doesn’t call a news conference or even tells his attorney. He just helps a family get out of a wrecked car and quietly goes home. Class. > **[Zimmerman helps family out of overturned SUV | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/22/us/florida-zimmerman-vehicle/index.html?hpt=hp_c3)** > > Four days after he was acquitted of murder, George Zimmerman stepped out of seclusion to help a family get out of an overturned vehicle in Florida, authorities said Monday. > [@](#): > > Shawn Vincent, a spokesman for George Zimmerman’s legal defense team, said when Zimmerman spoke with his attorneys on Friday, the car wreck didn’t come up. > > The defense team, Vincent said, first heard of Zimmerman’s involvement when media reports surfaced Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/43 "2013-07-23T00:11:13Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > This just in, the kid was trying to kill him and Zimmerman successfully defended his own life. You must have missed that part. Getting out of his car (against dispatcher advice) & following TM sounds more like “Advance your ground” than “Stand your ground” to me. While it may have been legal in FL, his actions definitely escalated the situation to the point where he needed to defend himself. There was a time that Prohibition was thought to be a good law, too. ---
**Author:** ![Werekoala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@Werekoala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Werekoala)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/44 "2013-07-23T00:23:49Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > Of course, it is hard to take seriously a report that says “the vehicles was burning”. Ms. Jenteal found a job with the AP already - that’s impressive. … too soon? ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/45 "2013-07-23T02:37:39Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > If only Zimmerman stayed in his truck instead of getting out… Shouldn’t he have? According to posters here we must never get involved, make one call with our cellphone and head to Starbucks. Leave the bad stuff for the police. The rule is: never help anyone. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/46 "2013-07-23T02:57:12Z")
911 call reporting the car wreck and asking for assistance. Not Zimmerman calling, but CNN reporters briefly discusses the story. > **[Zimmerman helps family in Sanford | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2013/07/22/erin-intv-blackwell-zimmerman-wreck-911.cnn)** > > A family says they were helped from an overturned vehicle by George Zimmerman. Hear the 911 call. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/47 "2013-07-23T03:01:51Z")
He’s a hero! Superhero, even. Last year he rids his neighborhood of a thug/ burglar. This year he rescues a family from a burning vehicle. Can’t wait to see what 2014 has in store for Captain Zim, Superhero. ---
**Author:** ![hmarvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/858c86/32.png) [@hmarvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hmarvin)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/48 "2013-07-24T02:57:19Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > NBC has an update. The crash was even worse than initially reported. > > I would stop for a burning vehicle. No matter how much I was hated. > [U.S. News: Latest Breaking Stories, Video, and Photos on American Politics, Economy, and Society | NBC News](http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/22/19618495-zimmerman-emerges-to-help-family-escape-overturned-car-in-sanford-fla?lite) A hero twice. Once for saving someone’s life, his own, from a brutal thug, and now this. Should give him a medal. ---
**Author:** ![hmarvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/858c86/32.png) [@hmarvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hmarvin)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/49 "2013-07-24T03:07:39Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Getting out of his car (against dispatcher advice) & following TM sounds more like “Advance your ground” than “Stand your ground” to me. While it may have been legal in FL, his actions definitely escalated the situation to the point where he needed to defend himself. > There was a time that Prohibition was thought to be a good law, too. Didn’t you listen to the trial? The dispatcher never told him to get out of his vehicle. How could he? Zimmerman was already out of his vehicle when the dispatcher suggested he not follow. Than the wind noise stopped, no heavy breathing, just a casual conversation with the dispatcher, indicating Zimmerman was just standing in one place. There were two hidden minutes . after the phone call ended, before the confrontation, but multiple witnesses claim the confrontation begin west of the T, than moved south. Zimmerman said he was returning to his vehicle, which would have been mere seconds away, if the witnesses were correct. not minutes away, if he was chasing after Trayvon. There never was any evidence presented that Zimmerman continued to follow Martin, just speculation. . ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/50 "2013-07-24T11:17:00Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > He just can’t mind his own business, can he? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/51 "2013-07-24T11:24:20Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > Tonight: Obama recalls his car accident from 35 years ago… I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![hmarvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/858c86/32.png) [@hmarvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hmarvin)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/52 "2013-07-24T15:59:33Z")
> **[Another Obama Success Story... Family Rescued by George Zimmerman Scared to...](https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/07/its-an-obama-world-family-rescued-by-george-zimmerman-scared-to-death-of-trayvon-mob/)** > > Another Obama Success Story– Mark and Dana Michelle Gerstle, the Florida family rescued by George Zimmerman, said they do not want to talk publicly about Zimmerman for fear they will be accused of portraying him as a hero. The people who George Zimmerman rescued are now scared for their safety, thinking the mindless rabble will attack them for having anything to do with Zimmerman, even if George potentially saved their lives, since an overturned vehicle can leak gas and catch on fire. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/53 "2013-07-24T16:06:33Z")
Ok, so they are idiots? is that the point of the article? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/54 "2013-07-24T16:21:00Z")
The threats are all to real. Even the Seminole County Sheriffs dept is receiving death threats. [http://www.ksfo.com/common/more.php?m=58&ts=1374492902&article=B2976FADF2AB11E286DEFEFDADE6840A&mode=2](http://www.ksfo.com/common/more.php?m=58&ts=1374492902&article=B2976FADF2AB11E286DEFEFDADE6840A&mode=2) A retired 78 year old minister (Zimmermann) is getting the same death threats. Some on his answering machine. Some idiot actually thinks the guy he hates is in the phonebook? And his name has an extra “N”. But he’s still being threatened. > **[Preacher Gets Death Threats Intended For George Zimmerman](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-zimmermann-death-threats_n_3641773)** > > Preacher Gets Death Threats Intended For George Zimmerman [http://www.clickorlando.com/news/78yearold-volusia-county-man-gets-death-threats-over-george-zimmerman-trial/-/1637132/21100230/-/14cvka9z/-/index.html](http://www.clickorlando.com/news/78yearold-volusia-county-man-gets-death-threats-over-george-zimmerman-trial/-/1637132/21100230/-/14cvka9z/-/index.html) I’ve never seen this level of hate and insanity before. People get acquitted after shootings every month and never get this kind of abuse. Social media has made it far worse than even OJ suffered. > [@](#): > > Lori Tankel’s life has been a living hell since a jury acquitted George Zimmerman of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Trayvon Martin. > > Although she wasn’t remotely connected to the case, Tankel, of Winter Park, Fla., has received numerous death threats since the verdict. > > It seems her phone number is one digit away from the number Zimmerman used to make his call to police just before he fatally shot Martin on Feb. 26, 2012. > > That call and the phone number were played repeatedly during the trial, and Tankel says someone posted her number online thinking it was his. > > Right after the verdict, Tankel said her phone began to “blow up” with calls that essentially said, “We’re going to kill you, we’re going to get you, watch your back.” > > Meanwhile, Tankel said the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office was little help because “they were averaging 400 death threats per minute on social media outlets and so what I was getting was just a drop in the bucket.” 78 year old Preacher Zimmermann (2 n’s) got this call. > [@](#): > > “Hey [expletive] you’re the one who killed Trayvon Martin, when your [expletive] get out, you’re dead,” said one caller. “Wherever you go, you’re dead. Wherever you’re trying to hide, you’re dead. Watch your [expletive] move. You think you’re free. You’re not. You better get ready to dig a 6-foot hole. Cause you know you’re fixing to go,” the caller added according to WFVT. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/55 "2013-07-24T16:41:01Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > He’s a hero! Superhero, even. Just wire Zimmerman at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/56 "2013-07-24T16:53:13Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Just wire Zimmerman at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco. :rolleyes: Showing your age! (As am I, by showing I get the reference.) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/57 "2013-07-24T19:20:55Z")
And of course now there are people claiming that the whole story was manufactured. Ain’t the internet wonderful? ---
**Author:** ![hmarvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/858c86/32.png) [@hmarvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hmarvin)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/58 "2013-07-24T23:17:25Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And of course now there are people claiming that the whole story was manufactured. Ain’t the internet wonderful? Don’t know if you can mention another site, but on Talkleft they showed the outlay of the area. It took Trayvon 40 minutes to walk a distance of seven tenths of a mile, from the 7-11 to the development. Most people who tried it could walk it in ten to twelve minutes. if Trayvon had gone to the right, in his alleged return, instead of back, and to the left, to get to the mail area, George Zimmerman would likely have never seen him that evening. Why Trayvon would actually waste time to get to the mail thing if he was going home is problematic. It would have been almost as fast to go right and than south, and be home. It’s understandable why some people doubt Trayvon was returning home, but had something else in mind. Too many people are looking at this case with their own emotional baggage. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/59 "2013-07-25T10:18:29Z")
I meant the car crash story. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/60 "2013-08-23T21:02:22Z")
he visits the factory of his favorite firearm. > **[Lawyer: George Zimmerman should not be visiting gun factories](https://news.yahoo.com/lawyer-george-zimmerman-should-not-be-visiting-gun-factories-174609071.html)** > > The attorney who helped murder defendant George Zimmerman win a controversial acquittal last month was frustrated to learn his client toured a gun factory on Thursday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222.md?page=4)