The Shameless Conduct of the Elderly!

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Shameful! What are they teaching oldsters in Britain these days? Acting like hooligans!

'SCHOOLBOYS BROKE UP ROAD RAGE PENSIONERS'

A 74-YEAR-OLD motorist stamped on a fellow OAP in a Polegate road rage attack which was eventually broken up by two 14-year-old schoolboys, a court heard.

John Kenton-Page, of Cranborne Avenue, Eastbourne, allegedly kicked and stamped on disabled James Russell, 72, after failing to connect with a right hook. Mr Russell ended up with a broken rib following the brawl that started after the two men pulled up at traffic lights on the A22 at Willingdon. Kenton-Page's Honda accelerated ahead of Mr Russell's automatic Ford Focus before deliberately slowing down to block his progress, the court heard.

When Mr Russell, who was returning home from the Royal British Legion, overtook the defendant he was met with V-signs and shaking fists from Kenton-Page, it was claimed.

Both men turned off the main road down different side streets but came bumper to bumper moments later in Church Road, Polegate, where the alleged attack took place.

Prosecutor Sarah Porter said, "Mr Russell got out of his car and went up to Mr Kenton-Page's car. He accepts he had a walking stick with him which he needs to assist his mobility which he then tapped on Mr Kenton-Page's window to try to get his attention to find out what was going on."

"There was some sort of verbal altercation and Mr Russell says the defendant then took a swing at him but missed because Mr Russell ducked. Not being terribly steady on his feet he fell to the floor. He then says Mr Kenton-Page proceeded to stamp on him and kick him while he was down on the floor. By this stage two young boys were on their way home from school. They witnessed the incident and tried to intervene.
While Mr Russell was still on the floor the defendant got in his car despite attempts to stop him and simply drove away."

Giving his evidence Mr Russell, who served in the Royal Army Service Corp, shook his stick as he pointed to Kenton-Page in the dock when asked who had shot past him at the traffic lights.

He said, "That man there. If you call him a gentleman? He cut in front of me and kept giving me the V-signs and fists. "He slowed right down and kept waiting and stopping so I would go up the back of him. It was a 40mph road, not 25mph, 20mph or 15mph. I had to overtake him. I turned right and he went past me on the left. He gave me two fingers again."

Mr Russell, a retired self-employed decorator, then told how Mr Kenton-Page approached him in the opposite direction.

He said, "I said to my wife 'Look at this bloke, the speed he is going'. He had the right of way so I pulled in behind a parked car. He drove up the road like greased lightning and pulled up about a foot from my bumper, completely blocking the road. I saw through my windscreen that it was him and I believe he got out of his car door and said something. It finished up with me going up to him, opening his door and telling him exactly what I thought of him as a driver. He opened his door, got out, as I went across to him and swung a right hook at me, which I ducked. I saw it coming and fell over the car which was parked and hit my back on his back bumper. He jumped over me and started kicking me. Two boys started shouting 'Stop kicking that man'. I remember rolling over into a ball and he kept kicking me."

Kenton-Page later went to the police where he made a statement saying Mr Russell had been driving erratically, which made him feel nervous. He said they met each other in the side street by chance where Mr Russell got out of his car with his walking stick and struck his windscreen with force. Mr Russell then tried to strike him with the stick but fell over when Kenton-Page tried to grab it, the defendant claimed.
Kenton-Page denied punching, hitting or stamping on Mr Russell, saying the disabled man was the aggressor.

Kenton-Page denies assault and the trial at Hove Crown Court continues.

 

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Q_C

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

You can't trust the eldery, you know. No one knows what's going on inside their demented minds.

Some still thing FDR is president. (Actually, the Prez thinks so too.)

 

[colddiesel]

I suppose their faculties for forgetting (with ref to another thread) rather than forgiving may be enhanced??

 

[TE999]

This sounds like a sketch on 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'.

'Hells Grannie's' maybe?

ROFL!

 

[Just-Legal]

Heheh, I'm using this as ammunition next time an "older lady" tells me my generation is going to shit.

Its the lip ring. I swear.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Good Lord! What has the "Greatest Generation" degenerated into?

 

[3113]

Yes, well, I was thinking of how nice it might be to send my elderly dad off to retirement in Britain. You know, peaceful lawn bowling and chess playing, or so I thought! But now that I read this! (shakes head). What is it with this older generation?

 

[MagicaPractica]

Yes, well, I was thinking of how nice it might be to send my elderly dad off to retirement in Britain. You know, peaceful lawn bowling and chess playing, or so I thought! But now that I read this! (shakes head). What is it with this older generation?

Too much sugar in their diet.

 

[rgraham666]

When you get old you stop caring. The game's almost over so why pay any attention to the rules?

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Good Lord! What has the "Greatest Generation" degenerated into?

If AARP's lobbying against Medicaid and Social Security reform are representative (and the indications are mixed on that), the've turned in the the Greediest Generation.

Trust no one over 70? Not quite - but don't take it for granted that they're harmless, either.

 

[Just-Legal]

If AARP's lobbying against Medicaid and Social Security reform are representative (and the indications are mixed on that), the've turned in the the Greediest Generation.

Trust no one over 70? Not quite - but don't take it for granted that they're harmless, either.

Rox? This example is from England.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Just to satisfy the curiosity of someone on the left side of the pond, what's an OAP? Best I can come up with is "Old Age Pensioner."

A 74-YEAR-OLD motorist stamped on a fellow OAP

Rumple Foreskin

 

[3113]

When you get old you stop caring. The game's almost over so why pay any attention to the rules?

There's time for you yet, Rob! You're a troublemaker now, but if you turn your life around you may not end up like these guys when you finally reach your 70's, fighting and calling each other names and making rude gestures while you drag-race about the countryside. You don't have to end up like that! Just stop listening to the Rolling Stones! I know how influential those old bastards are on the elderly, with their rock music and all....

 

[slyc_willie]

This story reminds me of the South Park episode in which all the elderly left the AARP meeting at the same time. Not exactly the same topic, but it's close.

BWAHAHAHAHAH!