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It was probably like this

When I was young, if my brother was about to beat me at a game that we were playing, I would quit and say, “You didn’t win, I quit first.”  I still can’t stand it when I lose at anything.  I am a horrific sore loser, but at least I’m not like this guy.  I have skin thicker than Nelson Mandela when compared to this guy.

City police charged a 25-year-old Fort Pierce man with four counts of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon — all charges without intent to kill — after he allegedly tried to run down four people with a pickup truck and pointed a rifle at the head of one.

My gosh!  What could have set this guy off?  Did someone kidnap his daughter?  Did someone kill his wife?  Did someone take his grilled stuffed burrito?

According to the arrest report, Erick Lee Blanton was visiting a home in the 400 block of Sunrise Drive early Sunday morning when he challenged another man to an arm wrestling contest and lost. The winner of the match told officers that Blanton then became upset.

Upset.  It’s like the time in Mission: Impossible when Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) just saw his whole team get killed and Kittrich said, “Hunt, I can understand you’re very upset.”  What Kittrich didn’t know -but Hunt was quick to inform him – was that Kittrich had never really seen Hunt very upset. 

Blanton left the house, got in a red pickup and allegedly drove it across the lawn, over a mailbox and tried to hit bystanders.  Witnesses told police Blanton also put the barrel of a rifle against the forehead of his erstwhile arm wrestling opponent.

You see, everyone probably thought that Erick was pretty upset when he stormed off the porch but the thing was, no one had ever seen Erick Lee Blanton get upset before.

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