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Idiot mistakes Orthodox Greek Priest for terrorist - Dennis S - 11-11-2009
Tampa police: Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist
TAMPA — Marine reservist Jasen Bruce was getting clothes out of the trunk of his car Monday evening when a bearded man in a robe approached him.
That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.
What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist.
More:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/tampa-police-marine-reservist-attacked-greek-priest-he-mistook-for/1050707
Re: Idiot mistakes Orthodox Greek Priest for terrorist - Don Kiyoti - 11-11-2009
Wow. I had to go and read the comments. Why do I do that to myself? And I thought Arizona was bad.
Re: Idiot mistakes Orthodox Greek Priest for terrorist - Doc - 11-11-2009
Nevermind. Wrong pic. I did some more Googling....
But this is what they dress like:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=%22greek+orthodox+priest%22&aq=o&oq=&aqi=&start=0
And the priest had trouble with English because he was originally from Crete.
Greek... Aaaarab terrorist. Same difference, right? :villagers:
Re: Idiot mistakes Orthodox Greek Priest for terrorist - cbelt3 - 11-11-2009
My initial thought was PTSD, but this fool never saw combat. So it was just native stupidity.
Hope the priest recovers okay.
Re: Idiot mistakes Orthodox Greek Priest for terrorist - Black - 11-11-2009
cbelt3 wrote:
My initial thought was PTSD, but this fool never saw combat. So it was just native stupidity.
Hope the priest recovers okay.
Or he was abused by a little greek priest as a child?
Anyone else having trouble reconciling the "terrorist" claim with the "he grabbed my genitals"
claim? My head hurts.
Re: Idiot mistakes Orthodox Greek Priest for terrorist - Carnos Jax - 11-11-2009
I know I'm kinda making an 'off the cuff' remark here, but what a d1ck!
Most Orthodox priests are gonna look like that (grew up attending Greek and Indian Orthodox churches). Many 'old school' Christian, Islamic and Jewish clerics have similar appearances precisely due to their 'orthodoxy'.
Re: Idiot mistakes Orthodox Greek Priest for terrorist - OWC Jamie - 11-11-2009
Fox News. G.W. are to blame.
Re: Idiot mistakes Orthodox Greek Priest for terrorist - RgrF - 11-11-2009
Fox certainly can be faulted for whipping the flames of hatred and intolerance, it is after all their stock and trade. Where it not for the condition in which he left his country, Mr. Bush would be best forgotten and left to the judgment of history.
Re: Idiot mistakes Orthodox Greek Priest for terrorist - mattkime - 11-11-2009
Ug, one muscle head idiot is not an indication or product of a political climate.
l'd hope the military would drop him.
Re: Idiot mistakes Orthodox Greek Priest for terrorist - Spock - 11-11-2009
Bruce is a sales manager for APS Pharmacy in Palm Harbor. His blog entries tout the benefits of increasing testosterone and human growth hormones. He was charged with misdemeanor battery in 2007 for hopping over the bed of a tow truck and shoving its driver. He pleaded no contest.
'Roid Rage?