War veteran's behavior continues to unnerve neighbors

Xorcist [USA] · **War veteran's behavior continues to unnerve neighbors -** 06-27-2003, 10:41 AM

Just found this today while looking for Vietnam pics. I really don't have any words for this. On one hand I am sympathetic for this man. On the other, he needs some serious intervention from a state service.

"A bunch of us tried to confront him one morning when he was doing his 'landscaping,'" said Armstrong, adding that Barnes is often seen burying landmines in his front lawn. "As soon as we got inside his gate he started walking toward us yelling about Constitutional Rights and such. We just booked. [Neighbor] Hillary [Goddard] said she swore he was carrying a grenade with the pin pulled out, but I didn't see anything like that. I was too busy getting the hell out of there."

http://www.recoilmag.com/news/war_veteran_unnerves_1002.html

Vance · 06-27-2003, 10:42 AM

YOu have to make the url a normal color or it won't work

Xorcist [USA] · 06-27-2003, 10:58 AM

Or you could copy and paste it, but here ya go.

http://www.recoilmag.com/news/war_veter ... _1002.html

06-27-2003, 11:00 AM

this guy needs professional help and I think the government should pay, it wasn't his own idea to escalate a war in Vietnam.

Simo Häyhä · 06-27-2003, 11:05 AM

[img]http://www.recoilmag.com/news/grfx/war_veteran_unnerves_b_1002.jpg[/img]
Barnes mowes his front lawn before installing several landmines and a foxhole.

lol this guy is f'ing crazy. but he looks like he has seen alot of shit in vietnam. he needs help and i feel also sorry for him.

Vance · 06-27-2003, 11:43 AM

This is so fake it's funny.

pest · 06-27-2003, 01:11 PM

A lot of solidiers were crazy before they went to war.

I used to have this one regular when I was bartending that when he had too many would always start talkig about vietnam and how horrible it was and the problems he had from it. I felt sorry for him until I found out the he was stationed on an aircraft carrier for 6 months during the war and the worst he saw was a shot up jet or planes that didnt make it back.

I am not dismissing all claims from that war, but I hate when people use it for a lifelong crutch.

Zap. USMC · 06-27-2003, 01:18 PM

It's true Pest, most Vietnam vets use the war as a "crutch". My brother-in-laws Step-Father was a Vietnam vet and whenever he did something wrong, he would automatically say "THE WAR FUCKED ME UP!!", etc. It's sad to see abuse the War and use it as a "back up"...

Tripper · 06-27-2003, 05:56 PM

I'm sure I've seen like 3 different comedy movies with a minor character like that.....It's almost Cliche...The crazy old Soldier that lives next door and yet never left the battlefield.

But this.....

[quote:d0d5d]"Sometimes on weekends and holidays when the neighborhood has lots of people hanging around outside, he'll roll his television out onto his porch and play Saving Private Ryan over and over again all day long with the volume cranked," said Armstrong of Barnes. "We would call the cops on him except that he actually walks to each end of his yard with a decibel meter to make sure he's not over the legal sound limit for disturbing the peace. I'm really not sure what he's trying to accomplish with all that."
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......I don't know what to say. I want to laugh out loud, but I feel sorry for this guy.

Innoxx · 06-27-2003, 08:02 PM

Well, if I were running things I'd do the following to him.

I'd get all the asian looking cops and servicemen I can find, put 'em in black pajamas and khaki uniforms. Give them prop AK47's and old french weapons, along with a real sidearm that cops usually carry (in case he gets too dodgy too quickly). Hundreds of VC looking motherfuckers. Then I'll get them to dig trenches and tunnels around his yard. At this point we get all the cops to scream scripted vietnamese insults and him through megophones.

Now, he's probably wetting himself by now knowing that he's massively outnumbered by what appears to be, victor charlie. In the event that he's still not shitting himself, we put a few rockets through his home.

Then he'll either do two things: #1, find the nearest window and start opening up on the entrenched cops or #2, give up himself. If it is the former option that he chooses he will be gunned down immediatly. If it's the latter, the cops escort him out of his home and when he gets far enough from his aresenel, all the cops take off their costumes, exposing their cop uniforms and we publically humiliated him.

Of course this article is probably faked, so it wouldn't make a difference.

Tripper · 06-27-2003, 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Innoxx

Of course this article is probably faked, so it wouldn't make a difference.

It did look kind of faked.....Those photos look as though he had posed for them, and If he really is how he is described in the article, I'm sure he wouldn't jump at the chance to pose for some photographers.

Sergeant_Scrotum · 06-27-2003, 08:48 PM

its weird, all you ever hear about are crazy nam vets. iv never heard of a crazy ww2 vet or a crazy desert storm vet (not that their arent any) but you just hear about the nam vets. BTW a guy who fought in nam came into my auto class to get some work done on his van. real nice guy, very funny, he was about 5' tall but he was super well built & we got him to tighten all the bolts up when we were done. that guy was strong! ed:

06-27-2003, 08:59 PM

some people have pointed out to me that if the guy is 47 as the article said, he would only be able to join the army in 1974, by which time we were pulling troops out, not putting more in.

Innoxx · 06-27-2003, 09:01 PM

Yeah, most nam vets are in their late 50's. I call bullshit on this piece of news.

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Unknown_Sniper · 06-27-2003, 09:12 PM

could be real could be fake. And most vets are not in their late 50's MY dad wen there hes in his late 40's.