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Post by gobblerfreak on Jan 6, 2007 23:40:11 GMT -5
![>:(](https://www.indianagunowners.com/images/smilies/woot.gif) I'm a nice guy, and usually keep my opinions of foreigners to myself, but I do have my breaking point. Take this evening for example. I stopped at the local Village Pantry on my way home from hunting to get a Pepsi, as I was walking out the door a middle aged middle eastern man in a suit and tie, walked twards the door and proceeded to throw a bag of trash on the ground about 2 foot from the trash can. I was shocked by this display of laziness and disrespect so I proceeded to say "Hey Buddie, I think You missed" to which he replied "So What!", I told him "So why don't ya pick it up" to which he replied " (4 letters) You RACIST hillbilly!" This guy looked like he had just stepped off the plane, and his broken English was just barely even understandable. That was it!! I don't put up with people who litter. I laid into Ol' Hodgie, and he returned in Arabic or some language I couldn't decipher. Anyway when it was all said and done he picked up his trash and got into his Saab and sped away! Was I wrong to confront him? Should we allow foreigners to come here to Our Beautiful Country, and disrespect it? I wasn't being "Racist" I would have said the same thing to anyone, but he had to throw Racism in my face as many foreigners do. I just have one question, If they hate Americans so much why don't they go back to wherever they came from? My apologies if this post has offended anyone.
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Post by deerdude on Jan 7, 2007 6:36:10 GMT -5
way to go my friend,you can find the same rude foreigners ,which are probably illegals at your local wal-mart store every day.you done good and i agree with you 100 percent.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 7, 2007 8:26:33 GMT -5
Sounds like to me he was the racist in this. White Americans are not the only people that can be racists.
However, there are way too many rude people in the world - whether they come from a foreign country or not. There are different cultures in the world and some are just naturally that way..
No excuse for him to act that way.
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Post by duff on Jan 7, 2007 8:28:34 GMT -5
Laziness doesn't know race, drive around any rural area and look at all the trash, especially next to a steep hill.
A sad story of a foriegn guy I used to work with. He was a PhD working in the environmental field, he was using an aluminum lawn chair and when it broke he threw it into the bushes. An intern who was working with him went and picked it up. He asked her why she did that. He really thought it was OK to throw trash like that. Like I said, the man had a PhD, lived in America for 20+ yrs, he should have known better.
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Post by raporter on Jan 7, 2007 10:21:31 GMT -5
Don't you just get sick of racists playing the race card? Vent away you have friends here.
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Post by shinglemonkey on Jan 7, 2007 10:28:47 GMT -5
What if you hate everyone equally....thats ok right?
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Post by solohunter on Jan 7, 2007 10:48:53 GMT -5
What gets me is seeing a car/truck with "enviroment" plates and they throw their cig butt out the window...throwing trash ANYwhere sux...I think you did the right thing by calling him on it.... Solohunter
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Post by steiny on Jan 7, 2007 11:54:15 GMT -5
Should have thrown that bag of trash inside his car.
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Post by dbd870 on Jan 7, 2007 11:56:46 GMT -5
Yep: Then they'll come back with only whites can be racist; hypocrites.
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Post by tusti on Jan 7, 2007 12:08:33 GMT -5
You don't have one thing to apologize for Cobbler. Had it been me, I would have told the SOB <EDIT>to go back to what ever crap hole country he came from and stay there. GRRRR!!!
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 7, 2007 12:22:14 GMT -5
Fellers,
Let's be careful that we don't use our own racial slurs here.
The man was rude and crude, but no race has a lock on that.
Thanks..
WW
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Post by tusti on Jan 7, 2007 12:58:06 GMT -5
Sorry for the slur as you put it Woody, but the way I look at it, they started it by invading us then having the gaul to come over here and disrepecting us the way they do.
Racist??? Well damn it maybe I am....and what made me that way??? If the truth be told, if everyone of us looked deep in their souls, I think we could find a touch of racism there some where.
Nobody said the truth was pretty!!!
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Post by gobblerfreak on Jan 7, 2007 14:38:10 GMT -5
![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I appreciate the words of support guys, However as was stated before, the fact that the guy was a foreigner is beside the point. He should have known better than to litter. Please don't turn this into a Race issue, I was kinda afraid this would happen and thats why I didn't put it on the NWTF forum, there are several Close Minded types there who would have had a field day with this issue. It would have had to be deleted by the moderators after a day or 2. I thought the members of this forum would be more mature, please don't prove me wrong. Thanks Guys.
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Post by hunter480 on Jan 7, 2007 15:17:25 GMT -5
Kudos to you gobblerfreak-
As has been said several times here, there are hillbillys from every race and country, and the guy you called out was a hillbilly from where ever the hell he came from.
And I believe it takes courage to call anyone out on something like that-it`s way to easy to just mind your own business as it were, and keep walking-and that solves nothing.
I have my own opinion of Middle Eastern folks anyway, and I`m probably as close to a racist on that front as I`ve ever been, but that`s another thread-probably on another site.
But kudos man-you did good.
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Post by kevin1 on Jan 7, 2007 17:09:13 GMT -5
Littering is littering no materr where you come from , I'd have called anybody on that one .
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Post by nodog on Jan 7, 2007 18:25:34 GMT -5
![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I appreciate the words of support guys, However as was stated before, the fact that the guy was a foreigner is beside the point. Please don't turn this into a Race issue, I was kinda afraid this would happen and thats why I didn't put it on the NWTF forum, there are several Close Minded types there who would have had a field day with this issue. Guys. I think you need to reread your post. No mention of his possible middle eastern descent needed to be mentioned.
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Post by hunter480 on Jan 7, 2007 21:22:45 GMT -5
![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I appreciate the words of support guys, However as was stated before, the fact that the guy was a foreigner is beside the point. Please don't turn this into a Race issue, I was kinda afraid this would happen and thats why I didn't put it on the NWTF forum, there are several Close Minded types there who would have had a field day with this issue. Guys. I think you need to reread your post. No mention of his possible middle eastern descent needed to be mentioned. While that MAY be true, neither does it imply anything that the man`s race was mentioned. Don`t try to read something into a situation that wasn`t there. ![>:(](https://www.indianagunowners.com/images/smilies/woot.gif)
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Post by ActionPoint on Jan 7, 2007 22:01:09 GMT -5
I think you need to reread your post. No mention of his possible middle eastern descent needed to be mentioned. While that MAY be true, neither does it imply anything that the man`s race was mentioned. Don`t try to read something into a situation that wasn`t there. ![>:(](https://www.indianagunowners.com/images/smilies/woot.gif) I've read the original thread several times over and I don't see how you can honestly say the thread didn't mention or imply anything about the man's race. If the fact about the guy being a foreigner was "beside the point" or if Gobbler didn't want it to be a "Race issue" then there were better choices of wording to use. I certainly understand Gobbler's frustration with the littering and the accusations of him being a racist hillbilly, but if you're going to post a thread calling the culprit "ol' Hodgie" and describe his broken english and saying he looked like he just stepped off of the plane, what direction do you expect the thread to take.?
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Post by jstalljon on Jan 8, 2007 8:15:21 GMT -5
Littering is littering no materr where you come from , I'd have called anybody on that one . Exactly...I would have done the same thing no matter what race or creed. Well done gobblerfreak.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Jan 8, 2007 10:26:10 GMT -5
Good job gobblerfreak.
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