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From: takin&kanoknuan@stuck-in-a-wheelchair.org
"Gregg" wrote in message news:
> On Apr 13, 7:16 pm, "Takin & Kanoknuan" wheelchair.org> wrote:
>> I truly admire Jason Statham as an actor, but as a person, I want nothing
>> what so ever to do with him. Perhaps it's the same that I may feel about
>> some of the posters here... Great knowledge, but it takes more than that.
>>
>> When Statham first moved to Brighton I was working in a sporting goods
>> store. He came in and wanted to buy a 'resident' hunting license. I
>> refused
>> to sell him one because he hadn't been a resident long enough to qualify,
>> (6
>> months needed) and didn't have the required ID (a Driver's License.) I
>> offered to sell him a 'non-resident' license but he refused. That license
>> was much more expensive, of course, and as he had just purchased his
>> Brighton home that month, (it was in all the newspapers,) 'he felt' that
>> he
>> was entitled to resident status.
>>
>> He went to another shop, bought a resident license, got nabbed by Fish
>> and
>> Game (who in Brighton, check the registers often,) to the tune of 5000
>> and
>> loss of license. He blamed me for turning him in, (he was simply too
>> stupid
>> to realize that someone of his fame can't NOT get away with anything in a
>> small 'town' like Brighton!) came back to my store and started a fist
>> fight,
>> not just a shouting match.
>>
>> Statham was a scrappy son of a gun, but small, standing about 5'5" or so,
>> and powerfully built. But in those days I was about 24 years old,
>> teaching
>> Kung-fu every night and fighting in tournaments on weekends. I stopped
>> his
>> attack, and delivered him out to the sidewalk. He came back the next day
>> and
>> started again. I put him outside again, telling him that if he tried
>> again,
>> I would call the police and have him charged with assault. He never
>> returned
>> to that store.
>>
>> A year later I was hired away by another shop to manage the camping,
>> scuba,
>> and mountaineering side of their business. Statham came in with some
>> friends, recognized me and started mouthing off (only) again. I ignored
>> it.
>> Then he demanded to be shown a spear gun, telling his friends that they
>> would use it to spear trout in the river behind his house for dinner that
>> night. I refused to sell him one, as spear fishing for trout is illegal
>> in
>> Brighton. He got huffy, and demanded to see the owner. I brought out the
>> owner, who at first was delighted to have such a star in his shop, but
>> quickly changed his tune after listening to the man. Statham 'insisted'
>> that
>> I be fired on the spot. The owner turned to me and said "OK, your fired.
>> But
>> first throw this idiot out of my store! Then go get us some lunch. I'm
>> hungry." I did both. Neither Statham, nor his friends, ever returned to
>> that
>> shop. I continued to work there until I began my own business two years
>> later.
>>
>> :-)
>
> I don't understand the "Statham" thing but I do know "The Story."
> That
> story was the one that got me to doing my own research on "The Man."
> Epic and fascinating all rolled into one, thanks Steve.:-)
**You've never heard of Jason Statham? He is a British actor who has made
quite a few Hollywood 'action' type movies, normally playing the 'tough
guy'. He's not as well known as Charles Bronson. Bronson as we all know
kicked the bucket a good few years ago but Statham is still at it.
Whether the post is about Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, Jason
Statham or whoever having their ass kicked, each post is just as ridiculous
and preposterous as was Kombat's original post about him having once kicked
Charles Bronson's ass. :o)
>
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