Florida man "I'll kick your [butt] if you say another word." victim replied "another word"

[Demovictory9]

https://wgntv.com/news/florida-man-attacks-victim-who-didnt-thank-him-for-holding-open-door-to-liquor-store-deputies-say/

Florida man attacks victim who didn’t thank him for holding open door to liquor store, deputies say


According to deputies, the attack stemmed from the suspect getting upset that the victim didn’t thank him for holding the door open. The victim, who is seen in video released by the sheriff’s office wearing a tan-colored hat, told deputies he walked into the liquor store while the suspect held the door open.

The suspect, who is seen wearing a black and gray shirt and a black hat, then reportedly asked, “you don’t say ‘thank you’ to people who hold the door open for you?” The victim said he responded, saying “thank you.”

“But apparently that wasn’t enough,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. “Because our now suspect, who was originally a gentleman, started jawing back and forth. That’s a Southern vernacular for talking back to each other.”

The two men are seen in the video walking to different parts of the liquor store after the initial confrontation. But deputies say the victim claims the suspect then continued to “express his anger” from another aisle.

According to the victim, the suspect told him, “I’ll kick your [butt] if you say another word.” The victim told deputies he replied by saying, “another word.”

That’s when deputies say the suspect quickly approached the victim and started attacking.

“The previous Southern gentleman who held the door open who’s now the suspect promptly was good for his word,” Sheriff Judd said. “Because he walked around the aisle and started beating him up.”

[oasis]

1. If I hit the lotto, I'll buy the suspect a house next door to Rand Paul.

[Jamastiene]

5. You owe me a new keyboard.

[Chemisse]

7. ROFL! He can lead a gang of fed-up neighbors.

For whenever Rand Paul says yet another word! And you always know he will.

[msongs]

2. southern gentleman smile in your face, stab you in the back, just like

southern gentility. used ta live there, learned that lesson fast

[tavernier]

3. Liquor store... hmmm...

There must be a clue here somewhere about why this kind of behavior could’ve possibly occurred between two otherwise friendly gentlemen.

[madinmaryland]

4. The piece of shit suspect has never been a GENTLEMAN.

[smirkymonkey]

6. I always hear so much about Southern Hospitality.

I suppose this is what they are talking about. How charming.

[cwydro]

8. I lived in Florida for over 20 years.

Very few down there are actually FROM Florida.

Most people I met were from the Midwest and North.

[GemDigger]

9. That Sheriff is a kick.

[struggle4progress]

10. "Who does not long for some old-fashioned Southern gentility now and then?"

[Aristus]

11. Having been born and raised in the South, I can tell you,

it's largely a myth.

Everybody's got a chip on his shoulder, belligerence is common coin, and toxic is the only kind of masculinity.

And I got off easy. I'm white and Christian. I can't imagine how unbearable it would have been if I hadn't had those two things going for me.

[struggle4progress]

12. Ehyup. I've lived over 2/3 of my life below the Mason-Dixon line

[Chainfire]

13. What would have been a happy ending to this story

would have been if, after being attacked, the victim stomped a mud hole in the attacker's ass.

For those of you who aren't aware, the Deep South part of Florida ends on an East/West line at around Gainesville or Ocala.
The rest of the state, the most highly populated part, is below that line. East of the Apalachicola river is more akin to Georgia, and West of the Apalachicola is more like Alabama than the Florida of palm trees and sunny beaches.

Only 36% or Floridians were born in Florida, so when you read a story that starts, "A Florida man" odds are that you may be talking about a native New Yorker.