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grandpa was proly just trying to warn the college-aged party goers about the the state mandate to not group in larger numbers...or the police might come down and get them all of the island and anyone else that might come along in days to come, especially folks living on sailboats

grandpa maybe should not have taken the law into his own hands, should'a called 911







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Pa should just have moved on, kids don't give a sh!t, and they definitely don't give a sh!t if they're being told. The kid with the bat needs busted, or better yet his head caved in. Total loser pu$$y move.

Those young people gathering like that will only spoil it for everyone as boating will be banned. As things warm here in Michigan I sure hope that there are no sandbar parties or raft ups. As of now boating is an approved activity here.

That island sounds like trouble, a lot of homeless people living on the island.

Give it some more time and it will be happening everywhere...

Funny last week I was saying the same thing but it was regarding property crime/theft. I was in a 7/11, very busy part of town but borders the ghetto. Guy comes in, well dressed and stuffs a beer in his pants/covers his with his shirt and walks out. Gets into a newer Impala with temp tags on it and drives off. I was 3 ft from him and first thought this could be a robbery set up (fumbling in his pants, was he pulling a gun to rob the place?). I figured the guy is getting away with a $3-4 beer, I'm not getting shot/thumped in the face for a can of beer.

Same thought should have come to the old man in the keys.......20 kids drinking vs. a 61 yr old is bad odds.

Agree and think there was more than a simple get out of here for them to thump him with a Bat.

Still really, you use a freaking BAT on a old dude? In FL? Lucky they didn't get shot.

Maybe it was a long bat and their way of social distancing. Really a BS move on the kids part and they should be arrested they easily could have killed him or caused a TBI. As I get older I try to make wiser decisions and tend to let things go that really don’t matter.

Totally indefensible. Not only did these cowardly punks hit a 61-year-old with a bat, they (per the news story), hit his 21-year-old daughter with a bat.

I don't care what the man said. The legal penalty for popping off—as far as I know anyway—is not getting assaulted. Anyone justifying this for any reason has lost his mind.

Any follow up to this story?