Fun With Guns: Whoa There Grandpa Edition
In Miami, Florida, an 83 year old man was driving his Volkswagen Beetle down the road, going God only knows where.
Another driver in a white Acura was going the same direction as the 83 year old and tried to get in front of his car.
All hell ensued.
According to Miami Police, Mario Perez-Tano, 83, was stopped at a traffic light in his red Volkswagen Beetle at the intersection of NW 12th Avenue and 7th Street in Miami. Another driver in a white Acura was going the same direction as Perez-Tano and tried to get in front of Perez-Tano’s car.
Police said Perez-Tano blocked the other car and then got out of his vehicle with a .38 caliber handgun and shot at the Acura. The bullet went through the driver’s side window and grazed the driver on the arm. Then he took several more shots at the car while the driver was trying to get away.
The police caught up with him and he’s been booked in jail for attempted murder.
There’s 83 year olds with guns out there. Have a nice day.
Well, it WAS Florida.
1I hate to say it, but there are days when we fear my dad will do the same thing. Or get himself shot. Either way it’ll be a great loss because he’s not an idiot, just short-tempered when dealing with idiots.
2As Cheryl says. People in Florida are more or less accustomed to ducking.
3I’m not sure which scares me more…the fact he has a driver’s license or a gun.
4This sure takes “Get off my lawn” to a whole new level. My grandaddy was 93 driving around Florida, he was unarmed, but had an amazing array of mirrors mounted on his dash.
5I worry about my mothers husband who is 85 as well, his driving skills, his irritability–his Fox News certainty….it’s a tough world out there–I’m not sure if he has a gun, but the driving is frightening all on it’s own!
6Lorraine in Spring –
That he has a driver’s license & a gun scares me too.
I’m guessing in Florida he may have a better chance of getting his driver’s license taken away rather than the gun – – now that would be even scarier.
7@Rick
I was hit while parked twice. Once while waiting for the rain to let up before getting out and once while loading groceries into my trunk. Both times it was by very old white men wearing thick eyeglasses, raincoats and hats. It’s like I’m a magnet for them. Because of that, I have a severe aversion to men who dress like Jack Abramoff.
I also have an aversion to Florida for obvious reasons.
8Lorraine in Spring –
9Maybe you’re right, it is possible the driver’s license COULD be the scarier of the two!
Before we got to the gun part, I was thinking about all the times on trips when I would try to pass some old man driving a great big Cadillac. As soon as I got alongside him, he would step on the gas and make sure I couldn’t pass. Thank God none of them waved guns at me.
10I think he’ll get off using the stand your ground defense; after all the audi driver was trying to steal the space in front of him.
11They don’t even need guns. Some years ago there was a case in MD of an elderly man who would drive to get his paper and coffee every morning, and maybe he wasn’t that fast. Another man, not content with honking behind him, rammed his back bumper repeatedly, got out at a red light, dragged the old man out, and beat him to death with his bare hands. An off-duty cop who drove up and saw this got out with a gun and told the killer to stop. When the killer charged the cop, the cop shot him dead, and was soon exonerated.
I thought of this when some loony who thought I’d offended his driving manhood blocked me (and the cars behind me) and got out of his car to swear and dance. I locked my doors, wrote down his license number in case, and was glad that he didn’t have a gun, because he would have shot me.
People kill people. Guns just make it a lot easier, even if you’re not a huge brawny maniac.
12A lot of years ago, I was told that if someone is tailgating, you should slow down. Well, I used to do that until one day a friend of mine told me about her daddy who used to ram cars going to slowly. I also was told by a truck driver that sometimes they CAN’T slow down, so now i make my political statements some other way.
13The court will require a competency test, X-rays, MRI’s etc. They used to ask the old geezers who the president was and if they were correct, they actually got jail time and/or a fine. At least that was the way where I once lived up North.
14Ok, but the Acura driver–if the old guy was stopped at a stop sign, why was the other guy determined to get in front of him? Granted the old guy was wrong. But whoever was in teh Acura was probably as rude as the people who try to run over me when I’m going the speed limit, and honk when I don’t jackrabbit away from a rolling stop at stop signs.
15Wish me luck folks – I’ll be gong to florida this weekend to visit my parents – they are both in their late 70’s and my dad still drives (scarryyyyyy). However I get behind the wheel once my dad picks me up at the airport and stay there until he drops me off. As my dad says “sometimes driving gets a little too exciting”
16My Dad, who was never a good driver, the older he got the longer it took him to make up his mind to pull onto the street from a store. By then of course he was pulling right in front of a car.
The best was probably when a policeman directing traffic had to jump out of the way. I say “best” advisedly. I’m glad the traffic cop was nimble and alert.
At some degree of feeling unsafe as a passenger with him driving, I finally made it a rule that if we were in the car together, I drove.
17Hmmm. The more I read of the comments here the more I am remind of an incident I witnessed some 60 years ago in Detroit on one of the main drags. An elderly gent had stopped for a red light at an intersection. A much younger man stopped behind him, walked up to his car, yanked open the door, dragged him out and beat him, then went back to his own car and drove away. Damned if I know what inspired that and I am pretty sure from the way the victim acted that he didn’t know either. And, of course, not a copy in sight.
18Standing your ground is a relative thing. It’s all in the mind of the ‘stander’ and his or her sense of common sense!
19I stopped driving at age 70. That was 5 years ago. I’ve never regretted it. I now use public transit. I realized my vision was not getting any better, and my reaction time was not what it used to be. Sometimes another elderly person in the retirement community will offer me a ride. I just tell them I’m waiting for the bus. I appreciate the offer, but somehow the bus seems safer. My neighbor uses a walker, and can barely walk with that, but still drives his pickup like a bat outta hell. Most older people should not be driving a vehicle.
20loose lips sink ships / aiding & abetting terrorism / Way ta go general Perry.
21In the best interests of an unsuspecting public, we took Mama’s keys away from her and gave the cars away 6 years ago. It wasn’t fun, but it was necessary, and Mama really didn’t want to be responsible for someone else’s dath. When I put it to her that those were the stakes, she accepted it with as good grace as she could muster. She has never owned a firearm that I am aware of, I thank God fasting!
22I got nothin’ on this 83yo knucklehead, but a one liner ..
23“When I die, I want to go like my grandpa did, peacefully, in his sleep. Not screaming in terror like the other passengers in his car.”
Great one-liner, Micr. My grandfather, of blessed memory, spent his later years in FL. His driving was truly frightening. He never had a gun.
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