Askshully Mr. Facts, a semicolon is used to separate two complete sentences. The second half is a fragment. :)

And I never said it was wrong, I said I didn't agree with it. That iz diffurnt.

Point of clarification, and I really mean this impartially. Yes, truck driver was yelling faggot, I think the term is overused, and shouldn't be used as an insult, in general. But at what point between getting out of the truck, and punching Brad, did this truck driver ascertain he was gay?

Maybe I'm missing something, and if I am I'll have no problems saying so, but how do you call something a hate crime, when there is no way for the offender to actually know who or what the offended is? Barring an explanation about how the driver knew Brad was gay, this is a standard assault, not a hate crime.

Also, um, its a delivery route. Stand on the same corner next week around that time and wait. All commercial trucks have a name and address printed on the door by law in NYC. Although the police really should be doing this for you.

And if they aren't how about 311 for the city councilman, or a local news station. Believe it or not there exist channels for this sort of thing that should be explored before intentionally trying to harm a business that isn't responsible for the actual act, because they are not investigating a crime that the police should be investigating.

Yuengling really has nothing to do with this; it's akin to blaming an advertiser in the the newspaper cause someone carrying the New York Times punched you. Sure, it was wrong you got punched, but you would do FAR better, figuring out the distributor, then asking Yuengling to withdraw their business from the distributor, if you even wanted to bring them into it.

It sucks what happened to you. Ultimately, your beef is with the truck driver and no one else. Best of luck to you.

#59 Funny retort, but there is nothing wrong with that sentence. The semi-colon is appropriate.

BINGOSBUDDY: can you read, or do you just pick out a few words here and there? I didn't stereotyoe anyone. I'M NOT THE ONE WHO PROFILES PEOPLE BASED ON THERE RACE AND GENDER EXPRESSION- YOUR BUDDY BINGO IS THE ONE WHO DOES THAT.

AND WHAT YOU CALL "LOUD," IS ACTUALLY EFFICACY AND BEING MOBILIZED. SOUNDS LIKE YOU'D RATHER BE A STEREOTYPE IN ORDER TO NOT HAVE TO EVER GET LOUD WITH ANYONE...

It's sad when people hate themselves.

Brad won this battle anyway. HATERZ.

correction: "I have stooped very low by and deserve punishment..." should be "I have stooped very low and deserve punishment"

Even if the driver was provoked, violence is not an appropriate response. If I'm walking down the street, and someone taunts me and ridicules me with words that practically beg me to hit them, it is my personal responsibility to choose how to respond. If I ignore them, I stand on higher ground and deflate their perceived power over me. If I assault someone, I have stooped very low by and deserve punishment for attacking someone. It doesn't matter that they wanted me to - I am an individual making choices. Self-defense is a different issue - if I am physically attacked, of course I can fight back - but we can all rise up above mere words or gestures that are hurled at us by simply walking away.

@pinnacle,

there's way more of the thuggish homophobes here then in philly. you're just salty philly beat your mets once again.

"What is it with the Grammar Police all the time on this blog?"

Packs of school teachers have over-bred in the wild and are now roaming the internet, ready to unleash their terrible skills on an unsuspecting public.

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Pennsylvania is busting at the seams with these blatantly thuggish homophobe, racist blue collar types even in places like Philly, where they're so content with their mediocrity that they'd find a way to justify this kinda behavior. priceless.

@eyekantspel,

You may be right, but we don't know how often these situations occur with this distributor and its drivers, Yeungling's awareness of these incidents and their own culture. The idea is to wake up the Marque's owner, Yeungling and let the shit roll downhill. There may be a lot of misdirected anger here, but ask yourselves how well directed that truck driver's anger was. And how well his bosses and their corporate accounts directed him.

BINGOSBACKUP:

a)You are so obviously full of sh*t. Your political agenda is "stop police brutality against people of color and beat the mess out of white people and anyone in the GLBT community." Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

b)EVERYONE THROWS UP THEIR HANDS WHEN SOMEONE ALMOST RUNS THEM OVER. WE'VE ALL DONE IT A MILLION TIMES. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE PROVOCATION. AND THAT BITCH ASS DRIVER WOULD NOT HAVE DONE THE SAME TO SOMEONE WHO APPEARED TO BE MORE STEREOTYPICALLY MASCULINE.

c)By the way, when a person of color is assaulted/killed by the police, half of the first and loudest protesters are typically white and gay, so shut your dumb ass up.

Respectfully submitted by a gay ass "Yuppie/Hipster/Butterfly" who was born and raised in Flatbush in the 80's

yeah great. more violence. thats what we need. i guess i can at least take comfort in all of those valiant racist cops out there protecting us from colored racist dickslaps like bingosbackup.

"This is clearly a terrible incident, but everyone is directing anger at the wrong place. That isn't a Yeungling truck. Beer distributors typically get some type of kickback, discount etc. to paint a companies logo on the truck, but don't have anything to do with the company legally, other tha re-selling their products. This would be akin to boycotting Brooks Brothers because some yuppie in one their suits attacked you"

emilydickinson (#26) is correct. there is a lot of misguided anger surrounding the incident right now. it is, as many other commenters have noted, a police matter. the pressure for answers should be directed at them. as others have noted, there doesn't seem to be sufficient information available regarding the incident, either.

how unfortunit.

bxbrian

humer is dead to.

Smells like major bullshit to me. If the driver pulled over and beat-down every pedestrian who looked at him angrily, he wouldn't have time to make deliveries! How much can I bet the gay guy is one of those auto-phobic Streetbloggers?

I'd love to hear the driver's side of the story.

#2 writes, "He should sue the driver, sue the distribution company, and sue the manufacturing company."

I'll give you three guesses as to this person's ancestry, but you'll probably only need one.

I don't blame Yuengling for anything other than selling fermented panther piss. Why would they get involved? The queer has the license plate number. Work with the fucking cops, dummy, and stop trying to act like Yuengling is the problem because they have the deepest pockets.

1. the make it work comment was hilarious

2. the comment about AB becoming belgian and thereby negating the american beer=piss equation was top notch

3. man up

4. yuengling is america's best beer.

If Walsh had been as FIERCE as his boyfriend, maybe he would have hit the guy back.

all american beer = piss

So does that mean that all Anheuser-Busch beers will not taste like piss anymore because they're about to be officially Belgian?