a small restoration of faith

Posted by Chris on December 5th, 2008 filed in Crime, General, Why is this guy still alive?

In the dark dreary world, every so often something happens that reminds you that amongst the self centered selfish masses, there is some good in the world.

Meet Fred Louis Ervin. Now it stands to reason that Fred has had a hard time in life. When you spend your days trying to avoid work and listening to rap cd’s, you’re not going to very successful. So what to do? I know. Carjacking! That’s a good career. And robbing gas stations! That will bring in some money!

So good old Fred heads on down the street looking for some free cash. He walks into the BP on ten-ten road and holds the place up. Now Fred isn’t too bright. He did all this without having a getaway car. What to do? Hey, let’s carjack a 53 year old woman. He heads across the road where he runs into Irene Moorman. He beats her up trying to get her keys from her. She’s pretty feisty so he wrestles her to the ground. While on top of her, other shoppers decide “No more” and circle him and try to get him to stop. A woman tries to hold him to stop him from getting away and a man cold cocks him repeatedly with a frozen turkey. None of the witnesses can recall exactly how many times the guy nailed him, but it was bad enough that when he finally stole the car, he couldn’t drive very straight. He nailed 5 cars on the way out of the parking lot.

The police arrested him and booked him so he won’t have to worry about how to get cash for a while. Unknown people stepped up and helped a stranger being attacked by a thug. They didn’t care whether or not he had a gun. They saw wrong and stepped in. None of them were named in the article so for those anonymous strangers, here’s to you. You make the world a better place and Irene may have been killed had you not stepped in. Thank you.

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7 Responses to “a small restoration of faith”

December 6th, 2008 at 4:55 am
GlenF says:

Dang Chris, now there’s going to be a call for a ban on “assault turkeys”. This is why we can’t have nice things.

December 6th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Eileen says:

Stupid is as stupid does.

December 6th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
joemel says:

its nice to know that people were actually putting their lives at risk just to help others, hoping everyone had the courage to do it.. thanks for this inspiring article..

December 7th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
RickKF says:

+1 :)

December 8th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
~ShyAsrai~ says:

now if the sane populace could/would do the exact same thing to our government. cold-cocking the government with a turkey - how symbolic (and apropos) that justice would be.