  Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man Post Number: 508 Registered: 05-2006 |
http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll /article?AID=/20071129/NEWS02/ 71129024 Seems a bit extreme. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 3907 Registered: 10-2003 |
The Bernsteins were all over that one like flies on doodies. | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 618 Registered: 02-2007 |
If this guy would get off his lazy a and get a job like the rest of us, this would've never happened. This claim he's a Vietnam vet is BS, he's too young. He was 15 in 1973. The Vietnam war was long overwith. Another scammer being aided by a scammer. He'll rake in a few Million, Atty's will get the majority of it and the IRS the rest. | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 816 Registered: 01-2006 |
Of all the places to panhandle in this city, I could think of a million better locations than the side door at KFC in HP. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 11038 Registered: 12-2003 |
So KFC is experimenting with Par-Broiled homeless entrees now? Pretty cutting edge, next thing...Soylent Green?! Pretty fucking horrible, if it is true. She should get to fry a wee bit herself, and that man should get the chance and all the corporate aide KFC can provide to turn his life around AND GET HER JOB. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 3280 Registered: 10-2003 |
Zimmerman could not possibly be a Vietnam vet if he is only 50. I am a bit older than that guy, and I just escaped being eligible to go. He would have to be at least 53 or so to have gone to 'Nam. | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 405 Registered: 08-2007 |
How can a 50 year old be a Vietnam Vet? He was born in 1957, turned 18 in 1975 and the US was out of Nam in March 29, 1973. Even if he signed up in 1974 - at age 17 - he never could have served in Nam. The only troops left in Vietnam where in Saigon guarding the embassy. I'm sorry anyone would be burned by a KFC employee, but I don't think we are getting the full story. http://www.vietnamwar.com/time line69-75.htm | ||
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man Post Number: 509 Registered: 05-2006 |
I suspect he's "in his 50's", not 50 years old. Vet or not, 50 or not, nobody deserves that. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 3908 Registered: 10-2003 |
Are you accusing this victim of lying? He's a vet! And he needs forty-nine cents for bus fare to get back to his apartment in Pontiac. See, his friend was spose' to pick him up, but he didn't show up. Usually he'd have change, but he didn't think he'd need to take the bus. | ||
The_ed Member Username: The_ed Post Number: 1259 Registered: 10-2007 |
KFC should give this victim a job, a fat check or all the fried chicken and sides he can stand for the rest of his life. | ||
Iddude313 Member Username: Iddude313 Post Number: 117 Registered: 07-2005 |
^lol. too funny! | ||
Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx Post Number: 822 Registered: 02-2004 |
Am I wrong for the wry chuckle that came out when I read this? Probably.. I'm sowwy. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 3909 Registered: 10-2003 |
If they do end up paying him millions, I think it would make a great TV Reality show. The adventure of Homeless Guy turned Millionaire. I'd like to follow him around and see what he does with all that money. | ||
The_ed Member Username: The_ed Post Number: 1261 Registered: 10-2007 |
I may find this guy and ask him for bus fare! | ||
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56 Post Number: 199 Registered: 05-2007 |
Nice to see Sam Bernstein's kid is following in his daddy's footsteps, chasing ambulances. | ||
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 1116 Registered: 10-2003 |
Hello Sam? They tried to turn me into Spam! | ||
Renfirst Member Username: Renfirst Post Number: 138 Registered: 12-2006 |
All three of his kids have followed in their daddy's footsteps... Have you seen his commercials lately? He's got them all in it... one of his sons looks a little odd... | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 1641 Registered: 01-2006 |
I am really, really sick & tired of panhandlers, but Jesus Christ Almighty, how could anyone do such a thing to another living being of any species. In fact, given the temperatures outside, lately, throwing water of any temp. is cruel. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 11044 Registered: 12-2003 |
I met Sam one night on the way out of a client's home in W. Bloomfield. My client was a doctor who runs a clinic on W. Grand Blvd and Vernor Hwy. When the door opened and Sam and his wife were there...apparently I got all wide-eyed in disbelief because they all got a really good laugh out of it. What a juxtaposition. One of Sam's best friends is a doctor. One of my clients best friends is Sam Bernstein. I couldn't believe it! | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 406 Registered: 08-2007 |
His son Richard is blind and has been blind since birth. He graduated suma cum laude, phi beta kappa from Michigan then went the Northwestern University in Evanston. In 2002 he was elected to the Wayne State University Board of Governors in 2003 and has been mentioned as a possible democratic candidate for Michigan attorney General in 2010. here is his bio from the Disabled Athlete Hall of Fame: http://www.adhof.org/famers/bi os/2006bernstein_richard.html | ||
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56 Post Number: 201 Registered: 05-2007 |
I've seen the commercials. Daughter of Sam gives me the heebejeebees. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 1040 Registered: 11-2005 |
I've seen the commercials. Daughter of Sam gives me the heebejeebees. It was always the Son of Sam who scared me. | ||
Ohudson Member Username: Ohudson Post Number: 294 Registered: 09-2004 |
Renfirst, one of the Bernstein sons is blind. But the other one does look odd! lol | ||
Warriorfan Member Username: Warriorfan Post Number: 846 Registered: 08-2005 |
quote: Someone already did this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt08 38195/ A film director gave $100,000 to a homeless man and then followed him around with a camera to see what he did with the money. The homeless guy pissed it all away and was homeless again within a few months. He did stupid shit like buying cars for all his friends, and even turned down the offer of FREE services from a financial planner and a financial counselor. He refused to get a job and spent all day playing video games on his new Xbox and all night at the bars. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1465 Registered: 04-2006 |
It says h e is a vet, it does not say 'nam, he should have done GHB's war against Saddam, or time in Lebanon. | ||
Gnome Member Username: Gnome Post Number: 407 Registered: 08-2007 |
The Freep edited the piece to take out the Vietnam reference. Their reader comment link is filled with folks that pointed out that there is no ay the guy was a 'Nam vet. That prove that the freep editors actually read their readers' comments. | ||
Jenniferl Member Username: Jenniferl Post Number: 414 Registered: 03-2004 |
The KFC manager shouldn't have thrown boiling hot water on that man, but very, very, very cold water would have sent him a message without harming him. | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 703 Registered: 07-2007 |
i'm sure the customers appreciated the managers response. | ||
Mallory Member Username: Mallory Post Number: 217 Registered: 05-2006 |
When I was going to Wayne State, there was a guy that used to walk through the McDonald's near campus and his standard line was, "got enough for a cup of coffee?" One time, a friend and I were eating lunch and he came up to us and asked his question. My friend looked at him and said, "I don't know, but I think I'll be ok." Totally perplexed the guy. We called him fang, if I remember correctly. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 2027 Registered: 11-2003 |
I have known Sam Bernstein for a good 25 years, maybe more, and have tried lawsuits with his firm many times. He is a good guy and has a wonderful family. There are three generations of Bernstein lawyers now. He occupies two pages on Google! It's his commercials that really turn everyone off. He spends a ton of money on those commercials, both in Michigan and in Illinois and Florida. But they are effective,and therefore he can readily pick out what cases he wants to handle and turn away those that he does not want. If you ask any of the lawyers who did civil defense work as I did for 36 years, I believe that the vast majority would agree with me. I don't think Sam spends a lot of time in the court room, but he has always had a competent group of attorneys on his staff that do the job and do it well. Whenever I finished a lawsuit with Sam and sent him the closing papers, I would always end my letter with: "Sam, you are still the second nicest Jewish lawyer I have ever dealt with". Drives him nuts, even to this day. I saw him down at the WCCC Mediation dinner a couple of months ago and he still wants to know who is #1. I'll never tell. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 946 Registered: 09-2007 |
^^^The #1 Fast Food Company isn't worried about a few mill. from a franchised location. It's just more icing to the cake. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 947 Registered: 09-2007 |
Heck I've heard of worse things happening at KFC's in the city of Detroit. The one on Gratiot and Pennsylvania, the Chef actually came out of the chicken and chased a rat out with his bare hands. That's why the lcoations on Van Dyke and the other one on Gratiot are gone. I'm surprised the one in Pennsylvania isn't gone yet. If these franchised owners and the corporate themselves were worried about profitability at these locations, they would do better to maintain the cleanliness, satisfaction and service. (Message edited by DetroitRise on December 01, 2007) | ||
Eric Member Username: Eric Post Number: 1020 Registered: 11-2004 |
quote: That must've been one big ass chicken | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 949 Registered: 09-2007 |
lol, I meant Kitchen. | ||
Lifeinmontage Member Username: Lifeinmontage Post Number: 29 Registered: 10-2007 |
"Sam, you are still the second nicest Jewish lawyer I have ever dealt with". So where do the gentile lawyers rank on your list, The_rock? | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 628 Registered: 02-2007 |
Quote: "So where do the gentile lawyers rank on your list, The_rock?" There are "Gentile" lawyers too?? | ||
Lifeinmontage Member Username: Lifeinmontage Post Number: 36 Registered: 10-2007 |
lol, I'm sure there might be some Gentile lawyers out there, but neither Gentile nor Jewish lawyers are to be confused with gentle lawyers (I haven't found one of those yet). I just found it odd that The_rock needed to make the distinction to Sammy B. | ||
Yeti Member Username: Yeti Post Number: 14 Registered: 09-2007 |
Thread Hijacking... Anyone know the homeless dude that always outside of the stadiums before the games? The dude that sings "Eat 'em up Tigers, Eat 'em up Lions" and something about "..the wings all the way to the Stanley Cup?" We were talking about the Transformers movie being filmed down there and got him to sing "Eat 'Em up Megatron" | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 1046 Registered: 11-2005 |
He could have been a Vietnam-era veteran, but he definitely was not "in the schitt." | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 51 Registered: 08-2007 |
My guess is that the #1 jewish lawyer would be either Yahweh/God/Jehovah or Moses since they were involved in bringing down the law (10 commandments) from the Mount. The manager at the KFC had no business throwing scalding water on the bum outside her door. Would she do that to a dog? and if she did, what would the public reaction to that be. Bums are a drag but they can be ignored. | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 938 Registered: 01-2007 |
Ravine, here is a photo of a panhandler from one of my travels: http://i148.photobucket.com/al bums/s22/bulletmagnet69/101_79 21.jpg?t=1196636776 This shot only cost a buck. | ||
Johnnny5 Member Username: Johnnny5 Post Number: 654 Registered: 06-2005 |
Isn't there a "Pic of the day" type site with pictures of Detroit's homeless? I don't remember the name, but it was pretty interested. Anyone have a link? | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 6853 Registered: 02-2004 |
The po'folk is getting rich thanks to that KFC incident. | ||
Falstaff Member Username: Falstaff Post Number: 110 Registered: 09-2007 |
WDIV's story on this: Homeless Man Claims Burned By KFC Manager | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 264 Registered: 06-2006 |
Eric, Detroitrise That reminded me of a t-shirt slogan I saw once. It said, "Want to get laid? Crawl up a chicken's ass and wait" | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 1652 Registered: 01-2006 |
Curious as to why Bulletmagnet indicated that the photo was for me to see. |
