Man Who Attacked 74-Year-Old Guy In Burger King Bathroom Explained, "This Is What I Do To Old People

[RKP5637]

Yet another new low ... like WTF.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/abused-for-being-old-687451

The Californian, 32, was arrested yesterday afternoon after he allegedly assaulted a 74-year-old man in a Burger King bathroom.

Victim Bill Bayless told cops that Rodgers “slammed him in the face with a bathroom stall door, knocking him to the ground,” according to the Red Bluff Police Department.

As Bayless attempted to get up, Rodgers again struck him with the door, noting, “This is what I do to old people.” Before leaving the eatery’s bathroom, Rodgers added, “I knocked you down because you are old.”

Pictured in the above mug shot, Rodgers was apprehended last night and charged with felony assault and elder abuse. He is being held in the Tehama County jail in lieu of $80,000 bail.

[BlueStater]

1. Some people are just stupid and cruel for absolutely no fucking reason at all.

Good riddance, jerk.

[flvegan]

2. LOL! If true, that Rodgers pencilneck has unfortunately found targets that might not fight back.

I'm 41, little man. Please find me to be old.

Hate crime aside.

[Momgonepostal]

3. what an outrageous creep!

And very boy-next-door looking. Drugs or just naturally mean?

[RKP5637]

5. Probably just naturally mean. I was selected for the initial juror process for a guy that had set a

homeless man on fire and killed him. Poured gasoline on him in a park and set him on fire. The guy that did it was good looking and I think many people were stunned when they brought him into the court room. I guess the old saying holds, you can't judge a book by its cover.

[Mothdust]

23. there is a syndrome

Called "the disobedient beauty" which develops when good looking children get away with unacceptable behavior because they're so cute. They learn that they can get away with stuff and are let off more easily because others are charmed by their good looks. In the end their charisma over others impairs their own sense of right and wrong leaving them feeling superior to others.

[RKP5637]

45. Interesting!!! n/t

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

30. Not "boy-next-door looking" to me. More like one of the In Cold Blood

murderers. Look at the eyes.

[99th_Monkey]

4. Wow. Mr. Rodgers is a real piece of work.

I hope they throw the book at him.

[RKP5637]

10. I can see sometimes why some people want concealed weapons. Stuff like this

really freaks me out. ... but then a weapon probably would have escalated the situation and possibly someone killed. I want to walk along long areas of a somewhat remote beach, but then I wonder who I might run across.

[Lightbulb_on]

41. Would it be so terrible if a piece of scum...

... like this stopped breathing everyone's air?

There's no fixing this guy...

[RKP5637]

44. I believe some are just beyond redemption and this crossed into that area for me. n/t

[Lightbulb_on]

50. I have some concern for rounds penetrating...

... a wall but some quality hollow points will help mitigate that.

[RKP5637]

57. Frankly, sometimes, I don't see the alternative, what's someone supposed to do,

dial 911. When?, after they're maybe conscious enough to dial it ... The world has changed a lot in my time.

[Aristus]

17. Put him in jail until he's old.

Then maybe he'll beat himself to death...

[99th_Monkey]

24. lol ... agreed. For me, the apparent lack of remorse is quite troubling.

Chilling in fact. I'm a late-60s child of the 60s, and worry about my own
safety on the streets sometimes. I'm really not into guns much, for the
reasons you touch on, and cannot run, due to an old leg injury.

I always try to keep a good bounce in my step though, so as to not invite
abuse.

[oldbanjo]

35. I'm 67 I do carry a gun where legal otherwise

I carry a cane that I made the handle is a duck head made from a book end and its heavy brass. I can't run but I can and will stand and fight.

[RKP5637]

46. I'm not really a gun type person, but I do think there is a need ... This is not the world I

grew up in where you knew you were in a bad area. Now, trouble comes to you, easily, and in a Burger King bathroom. Off hand, I would think that's a pretty safe zone. I'm scared of growing older, I might eventually do the same. It crosses my mind from time-to-time. I used to carry mace, then later just a stun gun, but somehow they seem ineffective these days. I live in a pretty sheltered area, and feel very lucky, but really, one never knows. It's so creepy that one has to feel uncomfortable like this. Yet another WTF for me.

[malaise]

29. II hope they throw away the key

Scum!

[LeftyMom]

6. I'm going to assume there were drugs involved. Because Red Bluff.

[RKP5637]

7. Is that kind of a drug area? n/t

[LeftyMom]

12. Meth.

Pretty much all of rural Northern California is.

[RKP5637]

13. Such an evil drug. I don't get why people do meth, it's going to destroy them and they do

it anyway.

[LeftyMom]

14. Class reasons. A lot start to get through long shifts or for a cheap recreational high.

Pretty much the same reasons people up the income ladder snort coke.

[cecilfirefox]

70. I just don't know why anyone would do anything other then marijuana. It's all so scary. o_O nt

[Whovian]

8. Karma's a Bitch, Mr. Rodgers. Hope someone treats you the same way when & if you hit 70. nt

[RKP5637]

47. I hope he has a cell mate that likes to beat up on people. n/t

[HiPointDem]

9. "This is what I do because you're weak & can't strike back...cause I'm a cowardly bully..."

[Warpy]

11. May Rodgers achieve the age of 74

in the joint, surrounded by punks just like him.

[Go Vols]

15. old people and kids

,,,don't fuck with them in a menacing way.I get irate over such.

[Honeycombe8]

16. What a little pissant coward. He doesn't attack someone his own age and size....

he's afraid he'll get his ass whupped.

This isn't the only vile, violent thing he does....bank on it. He needs to be in prison.

[RKP5637]

48. Yep, I bet there's a pattern to his behaviour and this is just a glimpse of it ... n/t

[Bigmack]

18. Our Gunny taught us....

... that "Payback is a motherfucker!"

How do dipshits like this know that the old man doesn't have a grandson who would love to "payback"? ... or friends..? or the old man himself?

The asshole's name is now public. People know where he lives.

He's really vulnerable. And so dumb he probably doesn't even know it.

Another thing the Gunny said... "Burn their house.. kill their pets."

He was such a sweetheart.

[Kennah]

19. One of these days ...

... Mr. Rodgers is going to run into an old man who turns out to be a retired beat cop, or an ex Army Ranger, or a martial arts master.

[brokechris]

32. or just has a gun.

I remember when I was a kid, my grandmother lived in a very rough neighborhood--and there was someone going around and targeting the homes where elderly widows lived alone. He would beat them, rape them, tie them up and then rob their homes. One died (he left her tied face down on the bed and she smothered before anyone found her.

Well--his career in crime ended when he broke into the home of this spunky little Italian lady. She was nearly a hundred--and had a loaded shotgun under the bed. She wasn't asleep--and she heard the screen door squeak with this moron opened it. When he came into her bedroom--she was prepared and blew a huge hole through him.

There was talk of prosecuting her--but they ended up doing nothing.

[spanone]

21. somebody should kick his punk ass

[truth2power]

22. There was a video posted here on DU awhile back...some kid on a bus was harrassing

an old guy. The old guy finally had enough and beat the crap out of the kid.

I think most DUers saw it. I wish I had bookmarked it.

You just never know...

[Ken Burch]

25. $80,000 bail is way too low.

This asshole might have relatives that could actually raise the money, get him out, and give him the chance to do more graybashing.

[Ken Burch]

26. He's SMIRKING in the mug shot.

[Raine]

27. Some people never think they'll get old, this guy probably won't because

one day some old person will shove a gun in his face and blow him away.

[catbyte]

28. I'll bet he meets up with somebody in prison with a beloved grandma or

grandpa, then that creep will think twice about disrespecting his elders.

[brokechris]

31. he'll be old himself soon enough.

most people realize that--and are kind to the elderly. Some day I will be there--and I hope the younger people give me respect. If not--I may just move to one of those societies where the elderly are revered

[TorchTheWitch]

33. Holy cow!

What a sick fuck! What the HELL is wrong with some people???

[LiberalLoner]

34. Waiting for someone to post that old people fantasize all the time about beatings

So that means they really want it deep down and it's okay to beat them.

A few people will probably understand what I mean by this post....

[oldbanjo]

37. tThat was good, I understand.

[Le Taz Hot]

39. I got it.

[Chorophyll]

42. Indeed.

I know exactly what you mean.

[Starry Messenger]

43. .

Right there with you.

[Heidi]

49. I wish I could say that it would surprise me to see that here.

And if I did see it here, I hope no jury would let it stand.

[RKP5637]

55. Probably the way he was dressed he was asking for it ...

[Barack_America]

58. I was thinking the same thing.

[lapislzi]

62. Mmmmm....hmmmm.....n/t

[loli phabay]

75. wtf seems that you are mistaking the fantasies some people have and trying to use it

For your own cause. Is no thread now safe from this hijacking.

[LiberalLoner]

85. I'm sorry for hijacking. I was pretty upset the other day and wanted to point out that

it's not fair to blame victims of violence, for the violence done against them. But you are right, I shouldn't have hijacked the thread.

[Nay]

84. Got it. Damn. So true. nt

[hobbit709]

36. May he run into an old man like this

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/26406/

[Ilsa]

38. What scares me is that this sociopath won't be

in jail long enough to be rehabilitated, if it is even possible. My fear is that someone else will be hurt or killed.

[blueknight]

40. i pray i could run into this punk

i'd rip his fucking head off

[bullwinkle428]

51. If "Mr. Rodgers" walked into my neighborhood, it would NOT be a beautiful day for him!

[lonestarnot]

52. Some men are cut from clothe that destine them to inhabit the halls of the private industrial prison

complex.

[RKP5637]

54. Yeah, I really think the same. Some are just simply made for that IMO. n/t

[WI_DEM]

53. the psychopath hopefully will get some prison time

[slackmaster]

56. Hate Crime

[RKP5637]

59. Definitely!!! The book should be thrown at him, and I really get tired of those that

sometimes try to excuse this type of behavior, had a bad home life and all of that. Sometimes, IMO, throwing the book at them is the best solution.

[Initech]

60. What a fucking psycho!!!!

[Spirochete]

61. Hope this guy doesn't get much closer

to becoming an old person. What a vicious psycho douche!

[roguevalley]

63. i thought of my beautiful little dad when I read this. I would shoot him

if that had happened to my dad. What a dismal fuck this guy is.

[RKP5637]

64. This kind of crap gets to me, the creeps that do this. The guy probably had no time

to react. Not sure how you handle this when older ... carry mace?, a stun gun?, a concealed weapon? ... dialing 911 wouldn't help much with this, and no time. What bothers me is getting robbed when using a urinal. Sometimes I travel a lot, so sometimes I just put my wallet in my front pocket. I hate having to worry about assholes like this.

[KoKo]

65. When the new meme out there is hate against Old Guys (particularly Old White Guys)

plus the "Old" in general for taking Social Security and Medicare out of the pockets and wallets of the young (brought to you by the "old guy" who heads the Petersen Foundation)...this is what we get.

We should expect to see more of it. My newspaper a Pete Petersen supporter rag does articles about the "Old" in a derogatory fashion at leas two times a week.

We forget our Elders...because we are told they are taking money out of our pocket books. And with so many broken families in America today (according to statistics) ad it's no wonder that many have problems with their "elders" who maybe didn't turn out to be story book family figures. Still...when we forget to have some compassion for the elders we lose something about our humanity...just my opinion though.

[RKP5637]

68. This country is morphing into a very unpleasant place to live. I think it's only going to get

worse in many ways as the brainwashing and dumbing down of America continues. It's a country wherein the environment is created for acts of violence and conflicts. That's all we hear, and that layered with $$$$$ as the only thing that matters in USA, Inc.

[roguevalley]

69. I agree Koko and I would say so even if I wasn't old. My family lives to be

90-100+ and their wisdom is not ignored. I just found a picture of my little Great Aunt Sadie who came to Oregon on the covered wagon trail. I wish I could tell you how much she is loved among our family. We even have kids names for her.

There is something utterly wrong with this fool but in the end the laugh is on him. Unless he dies before, he will be old too.

[KoKo]

86. Thanks for this post and "Great Aunt Sadie." That's a comforting remembrance...

I love to remember who those people were in my own family...as disfunctional as it is...there are still one or two of us who "remember the Elders and that gives me great pleasure. I still hope to carry on some kind of memory of FAMILY and continuity!

[roguevalley]

87. back at ya, darling. :D

[Liberal_in_LA]

66. he's probably done it before but the elderly victim didn"t call cops

[RKP5637]

67. I wonder how one is supposed to protect themselves when elderly. This seemed a

safe area to me ... but I've never been there. It just seems a Burger King bathroom isn't where one would expect to encounter this kind of violence. Should seniors carry mace, a stun gun, a concealed weapon or what I wonder. We all end up as seniors one day. That's what I think too, this guy has probably done this before.

[AverageJoe90]

72. Asshole.

I betcha this Rodgers doucherocket is gonna find himself being "Bucked" in the nearest prison cell one of these days.....pun intended.

In all honesty, at least Mr. Bayless is seemingly alright; what would drive someone to pick on an old man anyhow?

[frogmarch]

73. Update

http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/Updated-Elderly-Man-Allegedly-Attacked-at-Burger-King-Because-Of-His-Age-Victim-Speaks/-/14322302/17562496/-/g1sue8/-/index.html



Excerpt:

Bayles suffered minor visible injuries and refused medical assistance.

On Tuesday afternoon Bayles said he was feeling better and is surprised by how quickly the story spread.

"There's a lot of people wondering what happened to me."

A regular of the Burger King, Bayles said he's not going to let the incident stop him from dining at the restaurant.

He said he holds no animosity towards Rodgers and wants him to get some help.

"He needs to be put some place where he won't do that to someone again. That's what my main concern is. I don't have any ill feelings against him."

[sakabatou]

74. That's good

Rodgers, the assaulter, needs to have a psychiatric evaluation for what he said.

[tilsammans]

76. I have a strong commitment to nonviolence and forgiveness, but . . .

. . . THIS is testing me, big time.

Whatever happened to empathy?

[amerikat]

77. My 75 year old father was beatin within inches of his life

by someone the police never found. He eventually died because of this beating. I am a very forgiving person
but still hold anger and frustrastion over this.

[tilsammans]

78. Oh, my. I am so sorry.

Words cannot express how sad I am for your loss of your dad, especially since it occurred in such a senseless manner. I think I'd feel the same way as you if I were in your shoes.

Forgiveness IS divine, no question.

[JesterCS]

79. id say " This is what I do to heartless people " *punch* n/t

[RKP5637]

82. K&R !!! n/t

[donco]

80. I'll be 76

next week.I'd like to meet that punk at a Burger King restroom of his choosing.Not gonna sucker punch this ole man.

[RKP5637]

83. K&R !!! n/t

[donco]

81. I'll be 76

next week.I'd like to meet that punk at a Burger King restroom of his choosing.Not gonna sucker punch this ole man.