Howard Beale has nothing on the patrons at George’s Bar in Claymont.
You might remember Beale, as played by the late Peter Finch, as the mad newscaster in the movie “Network,” who urged fed-up citizens to go to the window and proclaim, “I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!”
The good folks at George’s didn’t have to go the window. They were just sitting at the bar.
When a Chester man and a couple of accomplices invaded their peaceful watering hole in the Darley Road Shopping Center, they must have figured they’d had enough.
Police say an armed Darin Shelton was working his way down the bar, taking money off customers, when he allegedly started accosting the bartender. At that point the customers decided to draw their own little line in the sand.
In the ensuing scuffle, Shelton apparently was whacked with a pool cue. Police say his two accomplices, who had chased a customer outside, fled when they saw the commotion inside.
The bar patrons held Shelton down until police arrived. The other two were picked up later when their car was stopped on I-95.
All three are now being held.
I don’t know if they were made as hell or not, but clearly the patrons at George’s decided they were not going to take it anymore.
Good for them.
You might remember Beale, as played by the late Peter Finch, as the mad newscaster in the movie “Network,” who urged fed-up citizens to go to the window and proclaim, “I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!”
The good folks at George’s didn’t have to go the window. They were just sitting at the bar.
When a Chester man and a couple of accomplices invaded their peaceful watering hole in the Darley Road Shopping Center, they must have figured they’d had enough.
Police say an armed Darin Shelton was working his way down the bar, taking money off customers, when he allegedly started accosting the bartender. At that point the customers decided to draw their own little line in the sand.
In the ensuing scuffle, Shelton apparently was whacked with a pool cue. Police say his two accomplices, who had chased a customer outside, fled when they saw the commotion inside.
The bar patrons held Shelton down until police arrived. The other two were picked up later when their car was stopped on I-95.
All three are now being held.
I don’t know if they were made as hell or not, but clearly the patrons at George’s decided they were not going to take it anymore.
Good for them.
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