Bar Patrons Beat Would-Be Robber to a Pulp With His Own Shotgun
- Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:16pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Not only did John Columbus Beane leave penniless after two armed robbery attempts on November 7, his shotgun was reduced to pieces by patrons at a bar he held up who allegedly took the weapon from the would-be robber and clubbed him with it repeatedly.
The Charleston Gazette reports that Beane had first attempted to rob a Pizza place, but after the cashier fled through the back exit the rober was unable to open the register. After that, Beane hit the bar where patrons hit him:
“‘I thought maybe he was a weirdo,’ Harman said, at first not realizing that Beane was there to rob the place. ‘Halloween’s over.’
Beane pointed the shotgun at Harman and in a near-whisper told her to hand over whatever was in the cash register. That’s when local drifter Steven Thaxton, one of the two patrons in the bar at the time, stepped in.
Thaxton laughed, and according to Harman, said, ‘You’re not going to try and rob us with a BB gun, are you?”
Thaxton, soon aided by Gary Hall, began struggling with Beane and eventually wrested the weapon away and dragged him outside to the parking lot.
‘Him and Steven just started fighting with the gun,’ Hall told the Gazette. ‘I knew if it went off it was either me or the bartender who gets shot. I didn’t have any choice but to help.’
Hall would not comment on what had transpired once the men were in the parking lot, but according to Giggenbach, Thaxton and Hall beat Beane with the shotgun until it broke apart.”
The Daily Mail reports that Beane appeared in a West Virginia county courtroom Friday admitting to two charges of first-degree robbery in November, which if running together will put him behind bars for a minimum of 20 years.
If sentenced separately he faces at least 10 years.
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Comments (185)
banjarmon
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:50amDAMN!!!! This would be robber is going to live 10 or 20 years off our tax dollars….something ain’t right!!!!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:50amBut the 10 to 20 years of being someones Beeeyatch in the showers, I think I would rather work at Mac Donalds before going through that. It sounds like this guy just didn’t think this through, or maybe he should of taken that Mac Donalds job, at least the fryer doesn’t make you squel like a pig.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:42amRepeat offenders see it as easy street three squares and a cot plus welfare for the babies momma and the only place you can get guaranteed health care.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:06pmIt’s ok. Looks like lot’s of people are going to get to live off our tax dollars. What’s one more?
Report Post »discus02
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:44amStupid is as stupid does. Talk about a dumbass.
Report Post »Freedom from liberals
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:00amThis guy kind of reminds me of a guy I met around 1998. He was a construction worker and a severe alcoholic. He went to the bars every night He had 9 DUI’s, obviously couldn’t drive and spent many nights sleeping outside. He told me his retirement plan was to rob a bank. He wanted to go to jail where he would have a roof and 4 squares a day. If they let him out before he died, he would rob again. This guy kind of looks like him.
Report Post »georgepatton
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:32amFamous last words from Jethro “hold my beer, give me my shotgun and watch this”!
Report Post »A MERICAN
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:31am“When you ride the bull, sometimes you get the horn”!
Report Post »potica69
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:31amMr. Beane should have read “Armed Robbery for Dummies.”
Report Post »txwheels
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:30amDang it! they should have hit him a few more times on the left side so his eyes would match..
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:28amThe term “poetic justice” seems oh so appropriate here.
Report Post »hochnessmonster
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:28amAgreed. I’m happy that they got the gun away from him. However, when they took it upon themselves to beat the guy till the gun broke apart they became the criminals.
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:06amYou are absolutely right. They should have shot him and saved the shotgun.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:34amI disagree the beating might be the only justice he receives …90% of the crime in my area is committed by the same repeat offenders..who serve short jail time for there crimes..you can tell when their released from jail because the stealing starts again..our justice system does little to reform these low life’s
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:11pmGrow up. He was robbing them. What were they supposed to do? Offer to help him carry the money to his car?
Report Post »Beauacadian
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:28amlooks like robbery isn’t your game Johnnyboy. Maybe you should try your hand at being a self propelled punching bag? You seem to have a talent for that.
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:27amWell good for them! Glad to see it, we need more of this. However now will come the police who will tell us how we should not get involved leave it to them, and some such bologne like that. I hope these guy dont pick up a charge for doing the right thing, it is possible they will since from some over zealous Pros or cop wanting to be large and incharge.
Report Post »hochnessmonster
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:54amWe need more of this? Really? What we need more of is peaceful resolution, not violence. It was a peaceful resolution when they got the gun away from the individual and at that point, stopped a crime from potentially turning tragic. When they decided to be the judge and jury and find this criminal deserving of a horrendous beating, that’s when they went too far. If we “need more of this” as you put it then so be it. But I warn you, when someone doesn’t like the way you discipline your child in public…they’ll be made out to be a hero when they rip the child from your hands and beat you senseless. We’ll get to read about it on the sites like this.
And yes…I’m going to throw a scripture in here since we supposedly live in a Christian nation. However I believe we’re a Christian nation by title only, not by what we do.
“The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.”
Report Post »(Psalm 11:5 ESV)
NeoKong
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:01amFinally. Somebody restores the good reputation of local drifters..
Report Post »Female
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:55amExactly, sometimes the kindness of the business owners such as a bathroom or food can have profound results. Plus, drifters are very territorial…could be a turf war!
Report Post »Discarded Virtues
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:56pmIf you point a firearm at me during the commission of a crime, I will not wait to find out if you plan to shoot me; I will immediately kill you. Logical consequences. I think this idiot got off easy.
Report Post »waspanglosaxon
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:48pmThey‘re just lucky that this was a White guy who’d tried to rob them. If they’d beaten a Black robber this way, ZOG would have charged them all with ‘hate crimes’. (When the government starts outlawing emotions, we’re all in big trouble!)
Report Post »Plan B
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:27amI totally agree. I was just reading a story about a 9 month old infant that was killed in Detroit by someone who was angry about there not being enough chairs at a baby shower.
Just holding someone till the cops come is not always the correct answer. Had they just disarmed him and waited for the police would not face any justice for this crime. The courts will lower the charge, then give him time off for good behavior, so he will only do about 3 months. That is nothing compared to the 12-20 he should get for armed robbery. I can guarentee he will think twice about commiting another crime with that beating he took.
If criminals had something to fear, maybe that 9 month old baby might still be alive.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:31amI’d like to know how you can guarantee that.
Report Post »Plan B
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:39amOK Adams,
Report Post »You are right, I can not guarentee that he would think about it. Only a person with common sense would think about it and of course this guy doesn’t have any, so I stand corrected.
TORCH9
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:48pmIt’s a perfect response to a criminal! Grow a pair.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:44pmI don’t know man, I hate seeing petty white theft criminals like this guy. He gives the left ammo and he’s like .00001% of the Caucasian element. He deserved a good ‘be a white man’ beatdown, but not shotgun whipped.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:38pmIt as probably one of those cheep foreign knock-offs so that pissed them off even more..and of course, being an original-U.S.A., they had to get it of the street and destroyed…LOL!
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:41pmAwesome. This is all part of postpartum 911 when ‘America Fights Back’. And this is what the left can expect if they push the envelope any further than OWS when the spring comes. I read more and more of these everyday, especially handgun ‘fight back’ stories, and it’s great to see. :)
We‘ve become a passive nation and we need to get our ballz back because there’s an epic battle up the road with someone coming up. WE need to be as ready as we can be for whomever it may be.
Report Post »DennisHand
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 3:24amOne Man, I live in the county north of Tampa. I can only imagine what is going to happen come august and the Republican National Convention. I think its going to make the Chicago 1968 riots look like a cake walk.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:37pmGood; I do not want to know what happened in the parking lot. Sounds like he fell down a lot.
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:49pmLOL!! Good way to look at it!!
Report Post »bigdaddyt46
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:08amif it had been me(with sad puppy dog eyes):
no officer i am not quite sure what happened. he came in to rob the place and i reacted by grabbing his gun. next then i know there was a big BANG and the person trying to rob us was laying on the ground with smoke and blood coming out of the black hole in the middle of his chest
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:52pmI’m sure he was escorted outside and schooled on how guns are not allowed where 50% or more of the sales come from the sale and consumption of alcohol… lucky for him the subject of “lead poisoning” did not come up.
Report Post »OutOnTheTiles
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:36pmLiquid Courage……gotta love it!!!
Report Post »mcgrawactor1
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:31pmExcellent!! I love it when bad guys are beat up by real cowboys!! And with his own gun, no less!!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:27pmBwahahahaha! This should be a daily headline with potential victims standing up to such vermin. It does tend to happen more down here in the south though.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:26pmLove it .. when people refuse to be a victim … and turn the tables …
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:25pmOk, the economy is in ruins, millions of people are out of work and struggling financially, and a person walks into a bar where some of them are drowning their sorrows, and demands what little they have left?……that was a bit of a brain f@rt.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:42pmJust a warm up for when our dear lil OWS crowd invades a local grocery store…lol
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:23pmYahHoo!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:23pmbest news and funniest mug pix we have seen all day. good for the bar patrons. enough waiting on “911”, America needs to start defending itself with full force everywhere.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:19pmNo kidding! I read the headline and said to myself….Man, this has gotta be Down South….lol :)
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