"Hands-On Life"? Yah, that's what the people he beat up and robbed say

Our beloved Noise and Disturber is at it again.

http://www.newsobserver.com/1419/story/519960.html

To read the articles about him, you'd think Peyton Strickland was the greatest mechanic, welder, restorer, shipwright, and humanitarian who ever lived. He moved to Wilmington with "a cast of buddies" becaused he loved to build things and "Cape Fear Community College's welding program was top-notch." Yeah, well Bladen Community College's welding program is even better, and we win more competitions. It seems that Peyton was "a peacemaker" who "built a chopper motorcycle from scratch after watching people do it on television" and had a delightful childhood and would do anything for anybody and was "always surrounded by friends" and "his care for people didn't fade as he grew older" and helped out pregnant neighbors and some homeless guy in Paris, and of course "learned by doing, always trying to figure out how things worked."

Wow, if we had TWO of him, the world would be perfect.

Now we don't have even one of him, the N&O wails, because a New Hanover County deputy shot the poor unarmed boy and his German Shepherd when serving a search warrant for only a couple of stolen PlayStation 3s. The poor boy died for absolutely no reason. Donations are being accepted so his face can be added to Mount Rushmore.

Hey, fool, Peyton Strickland was A HOOD, A THUG, AND A CRIMINAL who needed to sit in prison at least until he grew out of it. How he got that PS3 was find two other college kids who waited on line for over a day and paid money for it, and then he beat the tar out of the rightful owner and took what didn't belong to him. This is BAD. And he was up on other assault charges too.

Why is the liberal media in sackcloth and ashes? They love to hose the police at every opportunity, but I have never seen the likes of it. I guess the major reason is that Peyton Strickland is WHITE. If this had happened to a black man similarly situated, they would have run an article or two, and an editorial about institutional police racism, and that 's it.

Unfortunately, the decedent's dad is a big-time personal injury lawyer, so there will be a huge settlement whether or not the police were doing anything wrong. Notice how I haven't passed judgment one way or the other about the officers involved, because I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH TO DO THAT. Liberal media, that is what you need to admit.

Hands-on life? Thug life.