LAS VEGAS - A racial comment in the restroom of a Las Vegas Strip casino restroom preceded a single fatal punch that left a tourist from Utah dead and a Florida tourist jailed in Nevada on a murder charge, authorities said Wednesday.
Benjamin Gerard Hawkins, 37, of Gainesville, Fla., took offense to John Massie's comment about "a black man in a yellow shirt" while both men were in the restroom at O'Sheas Las Vegas Casino shortly before the fatal 12:45 a.m. confrontation, according to a police report.
Moments later, Massie was felled by a single punch to the jaw.
First of all, what the fuck is up with these whites trying to fight blacks lately? I mean, you've got that kid that Sundance posted about last night stabbing one of them with a bottle, now you've got my boy Johns Massie getting one punched to his death after making a racial slur to the black Ronnie. I want to know if Bennys Hawkin ran around O'Sheas and then up the Las Vegas strip screaming "That's one shot bro!" after he KO'd Johns Massie. Because if he did, that should have exonnerrated him right there. But this is what you get when you're a white guy and you mouth off to the wrong black guy. Hell, I see a group of black guys walking around where I am and I immediately switch sides of the street. I don't even want to chance getting my dome piece caved in by some Ronnie impersonator. I got a little more sense than that.
Benjamin Gerard Hawkins, 37, of Gainesville, Fla., took offense to John Massie's comment about "a black man in a yellow shirt" while both men were in the restroom at O'Sheas Las Vegas Casino shortly before the fatal 12:45 a.m. confrontation, according to a police report.
Moments later, Massie was felled by a single punch to the jaw.
"One punch," police homicide Lt. Lewis Roberts told The Associated Press. "He was out. Never got back up."
Hawkins is black. Massie was white. Massie was pronounced dead less than 30 minutes later at Desert Springs Hospital in Las Vegas
First of all, what the fuck is up with these whites trying to fight blacks lately? I mean, you've got that kid that Sundance posted about last night stabbing one of them with a bottle, now you've got my boy Johns Massie getting one punched to his death after making a racial slur to the black Ronnie. I want to know if Bennys Hawkin ran around O'Sheas and then up the Las Vegas strip screaming "That's one shot bro!" after he KO'd Johns Massie. Because if he did, that should have exonnerrated him right there. But this is what you get when you're a white guy and you mouth off to the wrong black guy. Hell, I see a group of black guys walking around where I am and I immediately switch sides of the street. I don't even want to chance getting my dome piece caved in by some Ronnie impersonator. I got a little more sense than that.
This story hits home for two reasons though. First of all, your boy RBG was swiftly tossed out of O'Sheas like three years ago after making a few questionable comments himself to a blacksjack dealer. Frankly, I thought it was a bit overboard to give me das boot. All I did was through some arbitraty slurs and profanity at the broad for busting me on like 12 straight hands. But after reading this story I'm going to send O'Sheas a thank you gift basket for saving my life. Seriously, if I would have dealt a 15 one more hand I probably would have snapped and been given the same treatment that John Massie did. Secondly, your boys RBG, Catsby, and Toby all got dropped in front of Caesar Palaces two years ago while we were minding our business walking home from Bank at like 5 in the morning. Like 9 Al Qaeda operatives just jumped out of nowhere and beat the piss out of us right in front of Caesars Thankfully though none of these guys had the raw power that Benny Hawkins had or you'd never have this sweet blog to enjoy. Just brutal, and that's still not even close to the funniest Vegas story I have, but we'll save that for another day.
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