Always a Marine. A 72-year old Michigan man felt someone trying to pick his pocket. The former Marine – who also was a Golden Gloves boxer years ago – grabbed the hand trying to rob him and turned around and beat the tar out of the thief attached to it.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Bill Barnes says he was scratching off a losing $2 lottery ticket inside a gas station when he felt a hand slip into his front-left pants pocket, where he had $300 in cash.
He immediately grabbed the person's wrist with his left hand and started throwing punches with his right, landing six or seven blows before a store manager intervened.
"I guess he thought I was an easy mark," Barnes, 72, told The Grand Rapids Press for a story Tuesday.
He's anything but an easy mark: Barnes served in the Marines, was an accomplished Golden Gloves boxer and retired after 20 years as an iron worker.
Jesse Daniel Rae, the 27-year-old Newaygo County man accused of trying to pick Barnes' pocket, was arraigned Monday in Rockford District Court on one count of unarmed robbery, a 15-year felony.
I just love stories like this. Young thug gets huge surprise when "old geezer" turns out to have never accepted being either old or a geezer! Note to criminal masterminds: there is a lesson here.
Lie Harvey Oswald and John Murtha are ex-Marines. Bill Barnes is a Marine.
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It appears that Mr. Barnes was able to escape the feminist castration that poor John Murtha willingly accomodated.