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Rejecting A Fist-Bump Could Get You Arrested

100510bump.jpg Say you're minding your own business on an early-Autumn Sunday evening in lovely White Plains, when a man you've never met before approaches with raised fist. Do you meekly submit to whatever he intends to do, or defend yourself when he starts thrusting said fist at you? In HUSSEIN OBAMA'S AMERIKA, rejecting an unsolicited terrorist fist jab could land you behind bars, as 30-year-old Ethan Stewart discovered the other night.

The Journal News reports that an unidentified man walked up to Stewart, a Mount Vernon resident, around 11 p.m. and went in for a fist-bump with his left hand. It's unclear whether it was the left-handed bump that offended Stewart, but the unrequited bumper claims Stewart took it as a sign of disrespect, allegedly responding by grabbing the man's right fist and trying "to chest bump him." Because that's how it's done in Mount Vernon? (Fists bumps are so 2000-late.)

This odd tale gets weirder; according to the report, the nameless fist-bumper believed Stewart was going to punch him, and in the ensuing struggle the two men fell to the ground. The bumper, whom the Journal News is describing as the "victim," believed Stewart had a weapon in his jacket pocket, so he pinned Stewart to the ground and waited for police. They came! Stewart was arrested and charged with third-degree menacing, a misdemeanor. The mystery man with the overly-friendly fist was not charged, and set free to go out and bump again and again, until he gets a Congressional Medal of Honor.

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  • hotstepper

    fist bumps are for little boys, real men shake hands.

  • Spirit of 76

    Real men salute each other. Can't get much more respectful than that. In many parts of the world, raising your fist at someone would get exactly the same reaction as this.

  • jibbly

    You are so ripe for a stink palming.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfVVjpVZP8I

  • hotstepper

    ha! i guess that's less painful than a stink fisting.

  • jibbly

    So the real question is, do real men stink fist?

  • Bill

    Unless they are germophobes.

  • patsw

    Don't blame Obama, blame Bush.

  • longacre

    No, blame Congress. And Bush. And Obama.

  • Potty Boy

    Never liked that fist bump Obama and his wife did on stage. So unladylike.

  • freddynyc

    Yes, I don't think Miss Manners would have approved. BTW what planet are you from?

  • jonathan

    Funny thing is, some idiot's going to read that snarky little line and feel like he's been justified.

  • Fuck Obama

  • SP's Ghost

    "HUSSEIN OBAMA'S AMERIKA"

    flashback to JDS's alter ego, HUGO_MEGO, whom he used to great effect in driving up comments during the election season two years ago.

  • pierrevonbaron

    Haha, so true. Gotta love the scandal mongering JSD!!!

  • Rocknrope

    "In HUSSEIN OBAMA'S AMERIKA"

    Ha, nice use of Gothamist troll lingo, who was that commenter again?

  • Detex

    What the hell does "In HUSSEIN OBAMA'S AMERIKA" even mean?

    I am a little lost but maybe I just need more coffee... What is this from the Drudge or something?

  • John L

    Nah, you don't need more coffee. This story is so stupid it had me thinking the same thing. It's a stupid story involving two idiots made even stupider by some stupid reporting.

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