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Title: 78-year-old Tequesta man accused of punching, choking fellow golfer
Post by: bijou on October 27, 2008, 11:49:31 AM: Quote
TEQUESTA â€” A 78-year-old man was arrested Friday after he attacked a fellow golfer on the Riverbend Golf Club course, according to a Martin County Sheriffâ€™s Office report.

John Paul Flanagan of the 9200 block of Southeast Riverfront Terrace was charged with battery of a person over 65 after he struck and choked a man near the 18th hole, according to the report.

Witnesses said Flanagan first hit a golf ball directly at the victim and then approached him holding a golf club in his right hand. Flanagan then hit the other man in the right eye, according to the report.

He then went into his condo just off the practice green and, after a few minutes, went back over to the victim and began choking him, according to the report. ...
link (http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/oct/26/78-year-old-tequesta-man-accused-punching-choking-/)

What a surprise, Tequesta is in Florida! :-)
Title: Re: 78-year-old Tequesta man accused of punching, choking fellow golfer
Post by: Chris_ on October 27, 2008, 12:00:09 PM: Maybe the victim tried to steal the old man's balls. :-)
Title: Re: 78-year-old Tequesta man accused of punching, choking fellow golfer
Post by: Splashdown on October 27, 2008, 12:11:18 PM: That golfer must have been teed off about something. :banghead:

What would drive someone to do that? :thatsright:
Title: Re: 78-year-old Tequesta man accused of punching, choking fellow golfer
Post by: Chris_ on October 27, 2008, 12:12:49 PM: Quote from: Splashdown on October 27, 2008, 12:11:18 PM
That golfer must have been teed off about something. :banghead:

What would drive someone to do that? :thatsright:

He needs to cool off...maybe go home and putter around for a bit. :-)
Title: Re: 78-year-old Tequesta man accused of punching, choking fellow golfer
Post by: Thor on October 27, 2008, 12:42:35 PM: After living in a couple of Golf Course Communities, I understand this mentality completely. One community I lived in, was a mixture of townhomes and single family homes. The whiniest & most assholish people in the association were the townhome owners. They even voted themselves to be a 55 and older community. (Much against the original covenants of the entire HOA). I don't know why, but when a bunch of elderly people get together, they're as bad as a bunch of hoodlums. (Hoodlums with a lot of life experience). Needless to mention, they would often drive their golf carts in the yards of the single family homeowners.

One question I have would be, "what fact of law affects a man of 78 beating up another man over 65" ?? I could more understand it were it a 21 year old kid that beat up an elderly person. I think that the DA is grasping here. Assault and battery is STILL assault and battery......
Title: Re: 78-year-old Tequesta man accused of punching, choking fellow golfer
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on October 27, 2008, 01:46:41 PM: Quote
...charged with battery of a person over 65...

What the hell does that mean?
Title: Re: 78-year-old Tequesta man accused of punching, choking fellow golfer
Post by: Chris_ on October 27, 2008, 05:05:58 PM: Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on October 27, 2008, 01:46:41 PM
What the hell does that mean?
Yeah, isn't that everyone in Florida??? :uhsure:
Title: Re: 78-year-old Tequesta man accused of punching, choking fellow golfer
Post by: Thor on October 27, 2008, 05:11:14 PM: I think we are getting too many "protected classes".