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| Famous(?) WWII sailor beats off house burglars |
| 2006-09-20 |
| Two stories related to this man--This is the current story: Former U.S. Navy sailor Carl Muscarello, who became famous from a Life magazine photo of him kissing a nurse, thwarted a burglary at his Florida home. The Miami Herald reported that the 80-year-old, whose kiss in New York City's Times Square on V-J Day in 1945 became one of the most famous photographs of World War II, scared off one burglar at his Plantation home last Tuesday and held another until police arrived. Upon discovering two burglars in his house, the former police detective promptly attacked one and restrained him while his fellow intruder ran out the front door. "I jumped on this man's back and put a chokehold on him. I was surprised I could do it," Muscarello said. The intruder was attacking his stepson with a golf club. Yet the former sailor was humble regarding his actions last week and in Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph, a moment he reenacted last year with his wife Shelly for their 60th anniversary. "I often happen to be at a strange place at a strange time," he told the Herald. It's not been established beyond reasonable doubt that he *is* that particular sailor, that's another story however. |
| Posted by:Dar |
| #11 That's the last time I'll loan out my cookie. This reminds me very little of when a doe came limping out of the forest muttering to herself, "That's the last time I ever do that for two bucks." |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-20 23:09 |
| #10 That's the last time I'll loan out my cookie. |
| Posted by: Dar 2006-09-20 16:11 |
| #9 #2, Dar wrote that headline,mojo. |
| Posted by: GK 2006-09-20 15:26 |
| #8 Um, yeah...did he beat them off...um... singlehanded? hehehehehehehehehehehe |
| Posted by: Butthead 2006-09-20 13:03 |
| #7 But, what good's sodomy without rum and the lash? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2006-09-20 12:59 |
| #6 it ain't gay if you're under way (or so the sailors say). |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-09-20 11:43 |
| #5 Well, it is about a sailor... You knwo what they say: 180 sailors leave on the boat and 90 couples come back. /snark |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-09-20 11:11 |
| #4 Arrr! Since it be, or was, talk like a pirate day, belay that! |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-09-20 07:40 |
| #3 Huh huh! You said "Beats off"! Thank you, come again. |
| Posted by: Apu Nahasapeemapetilon 2006-09-20 02:11 |
| #2 Geeze, who writes these headlines. Might've tried "repels boarders" first... |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-09-20 01:52 |
| #1 Huh huh! You said "Beats off"! |
| Posted by: Beavis 2006-09-20 01:33 |