The Greatest Justification For Drinking Beer

February 24th, 2010 (7) Posted By Erik Wong.

beer-belly

The Sun:

A PUB boss cheated death in a knife attack — when his BEER BELLY protected his vital organs.

Doctors told Snaz Martin, 43, he was “almost certainly” saved by his midriff after a boozy customer stabbed him with a three-inch blade.

The tubby landlord, who runs the Britannia Inn in Gillingham, Kent, said: “The doctor said I could have died but my organs were protected by a bit of extra fat.

“I’m not massive by any stretch of the imagination – I only weigh 13 stone.

“But I do have a beer belly and they’re saying that’s what saved me.

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“I couldn’t believe it when he said my beer belly saved me – all I could do was laugh.

“I was laid up for three days in hospital – the knife just missed my spleen and other organs.”

The married dad-of-two was rushed to hospital after the bloody attack last January.

He threw customer Paul Whibley, 24, out of his boozer after the thug pulled a knife in a row with another customer.

Minutes later Whibley returned with the knife and stabbed Snaz.

Snaz said: “I just got between them and kicked him out of the pub.

“I told him I wasn’t going to have knives in my pub and to just get out.

“It was around closing time and so I then started to lock up.”

Livid Whibley started to kick down the pub door to get at the landlord.

He said: “He just came at me so I pushed him back out the pub and followed him out.

“He hit me and although I didn’t feel anything at first I then noticed the blood pumping out.

“The next thing was the ambulance came and I was on my way to hospital.”

Whibley, from nearby Snodland, was given a four year prison term last week after pleading guilty to wounding with intent at Canterbury Crown Court.

The thug — who hid his knife under a coat — was branded a “dangerous offender” and “significant threat” to the public by cops.

Detective Contable Sean Wareham, who led the investigation, said: “Whibley showed a clear intent on causing an injury by carrying a knife.

“We are pleased the judge has recognised that Whibley is a dangerous offender and poses a significant risk to the public.”

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  • David Ross

    I guess it’s time British ban pocket knives.

    • Frontier Justice

      Exactly. For every story about someone gunning down a perp over here there’s three about someone being killed or wounded by one over there. :roll: Beware of :gun:

    • TerryTate

      They’ve already tried to ban kitchen knives, so it can’t be far behind.

      Doctors’ kitchen knives ban call
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm

      Working so well, isn’t it.

      If the Bar Owner had been able to own a gun, he could have solved two problems with one bullet, but alas, the British aren’t allowed to defend themselves, so it’s off to the hospital or the morgue…

    • Sully

      Hospital… Morgue…. Pretty much the same in Socialized medicine.

      Reminded me of Monty Python….
      “But I’m not quite dead yet.”
      “Shut up. Yes you are, you just don’t know it.”

  • LechWalesa

    @ Terry Tate

    if the bar owner had only had a baseball bat, the things would have turned different

    • Frontier Justice

      Dear Europe,

      We are concerned about your rampant hoplophobia. As a nation of free men, possessing the God-given unalienable right to keep and bear arms, it is confusing to us. We would like to help you resolve this issue and one day develop into a mature and responsible society. And don’t worry, next time you are crushed under the heel of a ruthless totalitarian regime because you were unwilling and unable to defend yourselves, we will still air drop weapons to those brave few among you who still possess a shred of human dignity, honor, and other manly qualities so vitally necessary to maintaining independence, liberty and security.

      Your friend,
      America

    • LechWalesa

      Dear Frontier Justice,

      You can’t imagine how your words warmed my heart, in saying that you would still drop us weapons in spite of our many bickerings and different appreciations of your policies. It obviously witnesses of your innate generosity to take care of your elder defenceless Europe mother nations.

      But, you see, this time our ennemy has no visible heel. Some call it terrorism, jihadism, Wall Steet… socialism… fabianism !

      And as worried you are about our surviving, I can tell you that we feel the same for you.

      Until now we managed that no soldiers were killed by an armed muslim in their barracks. Our effel tower is still arrogantly pointing the sky, in spite of many jihadists’ attempts to eradicate it.

      We managed that our economy still escaped from the greedy Wall Street etablishments

      Our fabianism is in trouble, their promoters are fleeing out of the camp and enroll into the “supposed” responsible one.

      Well, to sum it up, we are dealing with aggressive entities rather than with aggressive people.

      Now a good baseball bat is useful in certain bars !
      My son saw the result when he was doing some student jobs in Paris, his boss has a bar in some difficult quater, and could regulate his drunk customers and or aggressive ethnical ones with his “matraque”.

      Also, my father had a few riffles, and my brothers too, though they mainly used them for rabbits. So we still are allowed to possess arms if they are decleared.