ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A man is suing an auto-parts store for assault and battery after he attempted to hold up the business and employees responded by beating him with a metal pipe.

 

Dana Buckman, 46, walked into an auto shop brandishing a semiautomatic pistol July 5, 2005, only to have it turned on him by employees Eli Crespo and Jerry Vega, police said. The men beat Buckman with a metal pipe and held him with his own gun.

 

Buckman escaped, only to be arrested a week later.

 

He pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and was sentenced to 18 years in prison as a repeat violent felon.

 

Now Buckman has claimed the men chased him out of the store and continued to beat him. He is suing the auto shop and the two men for the injuries he suffered and for intentionally inflicted emotional distress.

 

Crespo and Vega could not be reached for comment.

 

 

emotional distress

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A man is suing an auto-parts store for assault and battery after he attempted to hold up the business and employees responded by beating him with a metal pipe.

 

Dana Buckman, 46, walked into an auto shop brandishing a semiautomatic pistol July 5, 2005, only to have it turned on him by employees Eli Crespo and Jerry Vega, police said. The men beat Buckman with a metal pipe and held him with his own gun.

 

Buckman escaped, only to be arrested a week later.

 

He pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and was sentenced to 18 years in prison as a repeat violent felon.

 

Now Buckman has claimed the men chased him out of the store and continued to beat him. He is suing the auto shop and the two men for the injuries he suffered and for intentionally inflicted emotional distress.

 

Crespo and Vega could not be reached for comment.

emotional distress

 

Maybe the store employees should countersue for the emotional distress of having a gun waved in their face. This guy should be taken in the alley and beaten again.

If they beat him outside of the store he might actually have a case..... not saying he should but he could.

exactly how badly beaten can you be from a tailpipe? that seems just slightly worse than say getting beat with a wiffle ball bat...

This sounds like a case a while back where a burglar fell through a skylight while trying to break into a house and cut himself on a kitchen knife that was on the counter and sued the homeowner and because it was in the liberal state of California he won.

This sounds like a case a while back where a burglar fell through a skylight while trying to break into a house and cut himself on a kitchen knife that was on the counter and sued the homeowner and because it was in the liberal state of California he won.

 

 

You have a link to that case? Please tell me that that got overturned on appeal.

Hmmm, so he pulled a gun on two NY Latin guys who had access to tools. Yep, that's a good idea.

This sounds like a case a while back where a burglar fell through a skylight while trying to break into a house and cut himself on a kitchen knife that was on the counter and sued the homeowner and because it was in the liberal state of California he won.

 

This reminds me of a story I heard out of Michigan. A man owned a small general store or something, and kept getting robbed as thieves would enter through the same window each time. One thing this guy sold was spring loaded traps and .... well you can figure out what happened. He got sued by the theif and iirc, lost.

This reminds me of a story I heard out of Michigan. A man owned a small general store or something, and kept getting robbed as thieves would enter through the same window each time. One thing this guy sold was spring loaded traps and .... well you can figure out what happened. He got sued by the theif and iirc, lost.

 

Maybe he should have had OSHA come in and check the place's safety out for theives?

This sounds like a case a while back where a burglar fell through a skylight while trying to break into a house and cut himself on a kitchen knife that was on the counter and sued the homeowner and because it was in the liberal state of California he won.

Sounds like an urban legend. Did that actually happen?