Man beaten with squeegee after gas pump argument

Now here is a story By Joe Lamb a story you can see how dangerous a squeegee can be in the wrong hands.  I find now humor in hurting some, but you have to admit this is really strange.

 

A Conway man was arrested late Tuesday afternoon after allegedly using a gas pump squeegee to bludgeon a man in his mid-60s after an altercation over who was first in line for gas.

According to a Conway Police Department incident report, the victim reported that he had been waiting in line at a gas pump at the Murphy USA fuel station at 2164 Harkrider St. when a man identified in the report as 21-year-old Hector Chavez of 475 East Robins St. “cut in front of him.”

An officer working off-duty security at the nearby Walmart store was the first to arrive, finding Chavez pointing to the man and saying “he hit me!” and that he didn’t know why, according to this officer’s account. This officer then spoke to the man, who said that after Chavez “whipped into the space” he had been waiting on, the man “got out of his vehicle and told Chavez that he had been waiting in line … and that Chavez should move.”

The man told the officer that Chavez began to yell and curse, and at one point pushed him and continued to walk towards him, at which point the man grabbed the squeegee “and swung it towards Chavez … not close enough to hit Chavez, but (he) had just wanted him to stay back,” according to the report.