Fists Fly at the Hookah Bar (Too stupid to pull off a hate crime)

[Fuzz]

As we've been reporting, there have been a flurry of incidents around the country in recent weeks in which people have tried to intimidate or attack American Muslims or people they believed to be Muslims. But along with these ugly incidents there have been a backdrop of no less unfortunate cases of people who seemed to want to commit a hate crime but were either too drunk, too stupid or too disorganized to pull it off or even give a really clear idea of what they were trying to do.

Meet Kevin Morris, 31, of West Haven, Connecticut.

Last Thursday Morris swaggered into the Fire & Ice Hookah Lounge on Campbell Avenue in West Haven. Just what happened next isn't entirely clear since there appears to be only one press account of the incident -- and that one limited in detail. But after entering the Lounge, in the words of Amanda Pinto of the New Haven Register, Morris began "shout profanities and racial epithets at a group of black and Arabic people."

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/09/as_weve_been_reporting_there.php?ref=fpblg

[MineralMan]

1. Drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.

It's sort of like strolling into a biker bar and flirting with the girlfriend of the guy everyone's toadying to. It can't work out well for you.

[Wilber_Stool]

12. I know a guy that did that.

After another friend picked him off the floor, he said "Can I take a beating or what?"

[mkultra]

2. self owned

[rurallib]

3. No doubt he thought Jeebus would give him the power of a thousand

men with which to smite the unbelievers.
Yet, Jeebus may have been laughing so hard at the idiot he could not help.
The lesson this clown learned is probably not to not do this again but to carry a gun next time.

[Dr.Phool]

8. Sounds like the ass got hit with the jawbone!

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. Verily. n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. lol

[uponit7771]

5. He just go through listening to Becks WhiteStock

[virgogal]

6. Since the article itself says what happened isn't entirely clear

how can any opinion be formed by the reader?

[Doctor_J]

10. Well, I didn't see the sun come up in the East this morning

but my opinion is that it did.

[mikeytherat]

7. I am suddenly reminded of the "World's Greatest Stuntman" scene from Kentucky Fried Movie

mikey_the_rat

[Kookaburra]

11. Yes, he's a big dumbass, but I have to ask

A Hookah bar? Really? Is that like what we used to call "head shops"?

[blogslut]

14. Not really

Hookah bars serve tea and coffee, sell tobacco and furnish humongous multi-user Hookahs. They've become quite popular in the US recently.

[Kookaburra]

16. ah, got it.

I'm so out of touch with trends anymore.

[pinboy3niner]

13. A hookah bar only 75 mi from GZ! Owners shd have been more sensitive.

:sarcasm:

[Bonhomme Richard]

15. How do they get around the no smoking bans? n/t