I'll say it again: our criminal class just isn't what it used to be. This story out of Palm Beach makes me wonder what are we coming to as a nation if one of our young homegrown punks can't even lick a shrimpy middle-aged Guatemalan:
[Craig] Mack approached Mateo Perez, 45, in his yard as the Guatemalan immigrant returned home from an exhausting 12-hour day of landscaping and cleaning buildings. Police said Mack likely assumed Perez would be an easy mark.Not so.
Perez called out for his family, who rushed from the house to help Monday.
Perez's wife, Candelaria, beat on the man as 13-year-old daughter Imelta hit him with a chair and son Juan, 10, whipped the attacker with a stick, the family said. Perez continued to wrestle the man on the ground.
``I smacked him, and he went silent,'' Imelta said.
The final indignity? They tied him up with the little girl's jump-rope.
Posted by floridacracker at July 20, 2006 03:30 PMHow long do you think it will be before he decides to try to sue the Perez family for physical and emotional distress?
Posted by: marybeth at July 20, 2006 05:11 PMBeing tied up with jump-rope alone should be worth a chunk of change.
Posted by: Donnah at July 20, 2006 05:16 PMIn Ft.Myers the city is racially segregated.
The hispanic and black area share a lot of the same space. Unfortunately, folks like the Guatemalians are often robbed because they don't use a bank and carry large sums of cash. Also, their size suggests easy pickens, or maybe they're illegal and fearful of calling the law.
Anyway, I'm glad this working man and his family ruined the slacking, lazy, punk, basturd's plans.
That's what I'd call a good, old-fashioned Guate-maulin'!
Posted by: mike at July 21, 2006 01:29 PM