09.14.07
A Phillies-Related Tale Of Violence And Asshole Behavior Sans Any Mention Of Brett Myers
(Myers – in no way involved in the item below)
“I was wondering what Walewander and the Dead Milkmen were up to!” writes Repoz, forwarding the following story of (beer) muscles, as penned by South Jersey Online’s Pete McCarthy. Supply your own chants of “ECW, ECW”.
Rich Riskie Jr. was going to the Aug. 10 Phillies game to celebrate his one-year anniversary with his girlfriend.The two were outside the stadium in a parking lot listening to some music and drinking a couple of beers before the game when Riskie said he was confronted by a fellow Mantua Township resident he knew from a prior run-in a year earlier.
The accused, who was with at least three others, asked for a beer. The assailant “stuck his head in the window … had some pretty rude comments to say to me and my girlfriend,” Riskie said.
“I was going to confront him verbally,” Riskie recalled on Thursday. “Before I had a chance to say anything, he just punched me in the face. All of his little buddies came over and joined in.”
That’s all Riskie remembers from that day.
“Once they got me on the ground, I don’t remember anything from that point to two days later,” Riskie said. “I don’t remember being in the ambulance. I was out.”
Riskie, who turned 22 on Aug. 29, spent three days in a medically induced coma and another week at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia before being released.
He suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. A shoeprint mark was also visible on his face after the attack, police said.
James E. Sprinkle, 19; Stephen Lare Jr., 18; Michael D. Redrow, 21; and Frank J. Landolfi, 20, were all charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and conspiracy. Charges of simple assault and reckless endangerment were also filed.
Phillies spokesman Michael Stiles said he had no knowledge of the alleged event.
The alleged attack on Aug. 10 was described as “very rare.”
Ya know, I know getting both sides of any story can be tough when reporting a story such as this, but I gotta tell ya. First off, most of the charges have been dropped because the young man who recieved the ass beating can not tell the truth if he wnted to. Secondly, his criminal record is disturbing. And lastly, all though no one deserves to get jumped in the manor he did, I believe he would have gotten his ass handed to him one on one anyway. Look at this kids record, a real scumbag. Also take a look at his myspace page. It tells an interesting story. Thats all.
“the young man who recieved the ass beating can not tell the truth if he wnted to”
well, medically induced comas don’t usually help with the sort term memory.
I believe this is the first time CSTB has been graced with a suggestion that persons with criminal records / distasteful myspace profiles deserve to be beaten brainless.