82-Year Old Florida Man Resorts To His Army Special Forces Training
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FLORIDA MAN STRIKES AGAIN!
DATELINE – Fort Myers and the Saga of Florida Man Ronald Lucas. In this audio courtesy of WESH, you’ll hear how Lucas said he heard a loud bang at his home. He thought it was the roofers that he had hired who were starting to work. But when he went outside, according to reports, he watched this intruder walk up his porch steps and attempt to enter his home. And that’s when this happened.
“But every time I’d hit him, he’d hit me. On and on and on. This is just what he did.” One thing you should know about Ronald Lucas is he’s not afraid of a fight. “I’ve been like this all my life. I fight for everybody. I don’t care who it is, you or him.”
“Oh, and how old are you?” “I’m 82 years old. I’ll be 83 next July.”
On Tuesday in the middle of Suncoast Estates, during the middle of the day, Mr. Lucas says someone entered his home.
“As soon as I saw it, my wife had had an operation. I knew I had to get to her.”
He said he faced the intruder head on. “I just got in between them and boy, that was it. That’s when I started taking him out. I had to do it. He knows how to fight, that guy. He took on a special forces guy Vietnam and blow to blow, boy. Every time ever I made a move, he knew what I was going to do before I did it.”
And once he got them outside, “I hit him so hard, he fell all the way down the steps and hit the rocks. That’s when I came after him with the cane again. I kept fighting him all the way up to that highway up there. And finally another guy come along, said, you better leave that old man alone. And I said, well, it’s too late. I done been beat the tar out of him.”
Mr. Lucas has bruises all over his arms today, but he protected his wife and his home.
“Were you scared?” “No, you can’t be scared, sweetie. If you get scared, I hear you’re dead. It’s as simple as that.”
And if needed, he says he’ll do it all again. “He might hold a grudge if he ever gets out, but he’s going away for a long time. And if he does, he comes look for. He’s going to find it.”
The sheriff’s office says they did identify the intruder, all thanks to Mr. Lucas.
“But I told him about the flat top and when they brought the pictures, all their bad guys there, I said, that’s him, number four.”
The sheriff’s office says they did identify the intruder and they are currently filing charges with the state attorney’s office.
I love that quote – “No, you can’t be scared, sweetie.”
Somehow I have a feeling that that Florida Man is going to join our Florida Man on Rockturnal as a guest host.
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