by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
We've all seen the people who take some sort of twisted pride in wearing their face mask wrong, more often than not as a way of showing their disapproval of having to cover-up and their contempt for the whole COVID situation, something they often try to minimize as a "hoax." Refusing to wear a mask, or wearing it wrong, becomes their political statement, a definition of who they are.
Last November there was an incident over the correct wearing of a face mask at an eye-wear shop in Des Moines, Iowa, that is just now getting resolved. Shane Wayne Michael, 42, was shopping in the store and wearing his face mask below his nose when another customer suggested that he wear the mask properly. Michael, who was not happy with the suggestion, followed the other man outside to his car where he knocked him to the ground, gouged his eye, kneed him in the groin, and then coughed and spit on the man and then said, "If I have it, you have it." The victim admitted to biting his attacker after Michael kneed him in the groin.
Michael claimed in court that he was acting in self-defense, but witnesses stated that he was the aggressor. He reportedly turned down a plea deal that would have given him two years of probation - and was convicted last month of "willful injury causing serious injury."
Last week a judge sentenced Shane Wayne Michael to ten years in prison, a place where he is unlikely to cough or spit on anyone.
1 comment:
If only maskholes would just leave people be. Anyone who approaches another person for wearing a mask or not wearing a mask is the initial instigator. Everyone doesn't think like you. Time to start respecting (or at least leaving alone) those who don't agree with you.
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