This story, about two bartenders who stopped a potential date-rapist in the San Francisco Bay area, is worth checking out.

This article appears in Mar 15-21, 2007.

15 replies on “My Heroes”

  1. Okay. Red Star will try to play nice. Disclaimer: I have not clicked on or read the story.

    The tease says, “My Heroes” and is followed by, “This story (link), about two bartenders who stopped a potential date-rapist in the San Francisco Bay area, is worth checking out.”

    The problem being the word “potential.” I suppose everyone is a potential redlight-runner (and hence a potential killer). Should I tonight let the air out of everyone’s automobile tires in order to stop potential killers? Would I then be a hero?

    The editor Boegle’s blog entry needs a relevant brief “what” and especially a “why” in order to justify heroic stature and a read. Something more compelling than, “Because I said so.” Would only have required an additional sentence or two…or do you disagree?

  2. I consider a short blog entry as similar to a personal entry: it’s expressing an opinion, not acting as a news source per se. So I would say it’s fair. He just wanted to share.

  4. Red Star, why comment if you can’t be bothered to actually read the article?

    Potential date rapist is the appropriate term because the gentlemen in question (who the two bartenders observed spiking a woman’s beer not once but twice and thwarted both attempts to drug her) did not actually get to attempt to rape her. He clearly intended to drug her, but perhaps he wanted to just wanted to win at bowling later in the date. Stopping a man from drugging a woman FOR WHATEVER REASON HE ATTEMPTED TO still seems pretty heroic to me.

  5. Red Star’s way little sister, an actress, once answered her doorbell and there he was again: Marcos The FedEx guy with an overnight. So she signed for it, then he nervously, shyly like a boy handed her a FedEx refrigerator magnet and said, “For chew, senora.” She reflexively accepted it and Zorro scampered back to the truck. Fortunately Ditzter had the sense to throw the magnet away without attempting to chew on it.

    Now THAT’S a blog entry bros…!

  6. Red Star: Um, no, that’s not. That’s borderline fodder for deletion, seeing as it has nothing to do with the thread at hand.

  7. Great story… thanks for posting. Those bar employees are definitely heroes in my book. I just wish the guy who tried to drug his date got a longer jail sentence. Creep.

  8. #6: So sorry to be overly subtle in #1 and #5 — Red Star thought the underlying thing was to beware of gifts from strangers and hence notorious posts/”fodder” #1 and #5. But, of course “threads” are dynamic if allowed to be.

    At any rate, perhaps someday women will be their own heroes in such unfortunate situations.

    Delete as you wish…it’s yur paper.

    And you’re getting close, almost there, to getting me to click on the link…

  11. Blog posts are teasers. Is this the first blog you’ve ever read? Do you simply not understand how they work? Sheesh. The post had enough information to get other people to read it.
    Meanwhile, what is up with the racism in your FedEx anecdote?

  13. History is being made, right here, now!

    Red Star hereby coins the newest internet term: “Blogtender”

    And yes, Jimmy Boegle is trending, so far, to heroic status for his tolerance and apparent appreciation of the dramaturgy of these things.

    Fortunately, it’s just a blog…not real life, maybe?

    Jimmy Boegle rules!

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